Emily and the Priest Read Free

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    “I guess y ou’re right. But I think Eve was just influenced by Jenny’s evil. It’s like she’s crossed over to the dark side or something. ” Alexis sat on her bed, watching as Emily started making her bed. “Do you like American Idol? ”
    “Is that on tonight? ” Emily spread her rainbow crocheted blanket out over the sheets. “ I usually go down to the common room to watch.”
    “ We don’t have to.” Alexis rolled over her bed with a grin and lifted a box off of something in the corner. “We’ve got our own TV.”
    Emily blinked in amazement. “But… that’s against the rules.”
    Alexis held her finger to her lips. “Shhhhh.”
    “Won’t Eve tell on you?”
    “She threatened to, if I didn’t agree to switch roommates.” Alexis snorted as she flipped channels. “But I told her I’d tell Father Mark about her vibrator collection.”
    “ Her… what?” Emily sank down onto her own bed, wide-eyed.
    “Why do you think she and Jenny wanted a room together ?”
    Emily blinked at her new roommate. “What are you saying?”
    “Don’t be naïve. ” Alexis rolled her eyed. “ They’re lesbians. They’re a ‘couple’ now. ”
    “They are?” Emily asked, although suddenly things made so much more sense. “Are you sure?”
    “ Trust me.” Alexis smirked. “ It takes one to know one.”
    “ Oh. ” Emily blinked at her roommate, surprised by this new information. “Wait… were you and Eve…?”
    “For a while. ”  Alexis shrugged. “Then Jenny came along and got her to join the axis of evil.”
    “ Oh wow.” Emily was just now beginning to understand the scope of what had really happened in the roommate switch. “I’m so sorry. ”
    “ I’m over it .” Alexis settled on a re-run of TMZ, clearly not over it at all. “ You really didn’t know Jenny was gay ?”
    “ No.” Emily grabbed the edge of one of the boxes and pulled it nearer, starting to pile books onto her desk. “ But she never talked to me much. She didn’t like me. I think she was the one pulling all those pranks .”
    Alexis nodded knowingly. “Oh it was definitely Jenny and Eve.”
    “How do you know?”
    “ Julia told me that Ellie told her that she over heard Eve and Jenny talking about it in Spanish class . ”
    “ I guess t hat should n’t surprise me.” Emily sighed, lining her books up in the shelf built into the side of the desk. She found a pack of Twizzlers in the box and held them up, grinning. “Score! Want one?”
    Alexis took the offered strand of licorice, chewing thoughtfully, her eyes narrowing. “ We could plan a little revenge, you know. We still have the keys to your old room, and all Eve and Jenny ’s stuff is in there.”
    “Nah.” Emily shrugged. “The best revenge will be you and me being the best of friends, I think.”
    Alexis smiled. “ Want some help? ”
    Together they finished unpacking and then settled in on Alexis ’s bed to watch American Idol, and when Jenny and Eve came to switch keys, they were surprised to find the two of them singing bad karaoke into a hairbrush and laughing hysterically.
    * * * *
    St. Mary Margaret’s went all out every year for the Halloween carnival, and this year was no exception. Emily had volunteered to work the face painting booth because she had a flair for it, and she preferred to do something where everyone walked away smiling, instead of watching kids toss a ping-pong ball at a goldfish bowl all day and rarely , if ever, win.
    Unfortunately, she was right across from t he kissing booth, where Jenny and Eve were flirting shamefully, teasing all the boys from St. Luke’s. The good news was that her new roommate had joined her at the last minute, so she didn’t have to deal with the long line of waiting kids all by herself. Although Alexis , she noticed, wasn’t as artistic as she was, but she could handle the easy things like hearts, balloons and pumpkins , and leave the dragons and birds and more difficult things to