The Life List (The List Trilogy) by Chrissy Anderson Read Free Book Online Page A

my garbage can for all the shit life dumps on me. So why is it so hard to tell them I screwed up, that I turned my perfect little life into a total cluster fuck? Probably because I’ve been trying to shed my role of the clusterfuck queen since high school…
     
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    May, 1985
     
    “C’mon Court, we’re cutting fourth period and driving to Nicole’s house to watch One Life to Live !”
    “Uhhhh… .Earth to Chrissy! We don’t have our driver’s licenses yet! Shit, we don’t even have a car, you fool!”
    “We do now. I told my brother I forgot my bio book in his car.” I take the keys out of my pocket and dangle them in front of Courtney’s face, as Kelly grabs her arm to drag her to the parking lot.
    “It’s no biggie! Kelly’s almost done with drivers-ed, she knows what to do!”
    “No way! Besides, I’m still grounded from the vodka that CHRISSY put in my hair spray bottle.”
    “Well, you’re the dummy who let your mom borrow your hair spray!”
    “Amen to that Kelly. C’mon though Court… you have to admit it’s a genius way to get buzzed at the movies. A little spritz here and a little spritz there and voila!”
    “Yeah Chrissy, you’re a rocket scientist. You and your genius ideas already have me grounded for the rest of my life. “
    “Please come, Courtney, it won’t be the same without you. Please, please, please!”
    “No way! Later.”
    Five minutes later, with Kelly in the driver’s seat, we’re cruising down
    Fremont Blvd. having the time of our lives with hamburgers and fried zucchini from Carl’s Jr. Ten minutes later, we get pulled over by a cop. An hour later, we’re sitting in the principal’s office, and thirty minutes after that our parents arrive to beat the crap out of us.
     
    April, 1986
     
    “I wanna wait outside of Kurt Gibbons’ house and follow him when he goes out.”
    They’re staring at me like I’m a total stalker freak.
    “ What !? You asked what I wanted to do tonight, and that’s what I wanna do!
    Can you three think of anything better?”
    Obviously not, because fifteen minutes later we’re filling up Kelly’s tank at the Gas-n-Go in preparation for “Operation KG.”  Just as the three of them are piling back into the car, I run out of the bathroom and breathlessly tell them the greatest news ever.
    “Omigod, you guys, there’s cases and cases of beer just sitting in there!”
    “So?”
    “What do you mean so?! Let’s drink some of it! How the hell will they know who took it?”
    “Omigod, that’s such a good idea, Chrissy!” Nicole always has my back when it comes to alcohol consumption.
    Before Courtney can talk us out of the plan, Nicole and I yank her into the bathroom, while Kelly parks the car. Once she arrives, we let her in, lock the door, and immediately get to work on the beer, laughing and burping like sweet little sixteen-year-olds do. After slamming beer number two, there’s a loud bang on the door.
    “Hey ladies, you don’t think we have cameras in there? When you get out, I want to see some driver’s licenses and some cash.”
    After contemplating making a run for it, we give ourselves up to Aabdar Muhammed Abdallah who, after taking a quick glance at our licenses, calls our parents. That was the end of anyone driving anywhere for a month.
     
    May 1987
     
    “Ahhhh…C’mon guys, this could be the last really stupid thing we do together before we go to college.”
    “Chrissy, I’m NOT hopping on a plane to go to Los Angeles to be on The Price is Right ! You’ve had a lot of stupid ideas, but that’s the stupidest one by far!”
    “Shut up, Court, it’ll be fun! Think about it. We’ll leave Sunday night and fly home Monday after the taping of the show. We might get caught for skipping school on Monday, but who cares? We graduate in like three weeks! Seriously, what could possibly go wrong?”
    It took thirty minutes to talk Courtney into the idea and ten minutes to plot out what we were gonna tell our