Beauty Queens by Libba Bray EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Libba Bray
- Language: English
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
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“Are you all right?”
The voice was tinny in Adina’s ears. Her head ached, and she was wet.
She remembered the plane pitching and falling, the smoke and screams, the
panic, and then nothing.
“Am I dead?” she asked the face looming over hers. The face had apple
cheeks and was framed by a halo of glossy black curls.
“No.”
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“Are you dead?” Adina asked warily.
The face above her shook from side to side, and then burst into tears.
Adina relaxed, reasoning that she had to be alive, unless the afterlife was a
lot more bipolar than she’d been led to believe. She pulled herself to a sitting
position and waited for the wooziness to subside. A gash on her knee was
caked in dried blood. Another on her arm still seeped. Her dress was ripped
and slightly scorched and she wore only one shoe. It was one half of her best
pair, and in her state of shock, finding the other became important. “Can you
help me find my shoe?”
“Sure. I saw some in the water. I hope they’re not leather,” the other girl
said in an accent flat as a just-plowed field. She had huge, blue, animeworthy eyes. “I’m Miss Nebraska, Mary Lou Novak.”
“Adina Greenberg. Miss New Hampshire.” Adina cupped her hands over
her eyes, looking out toward the sea. “I don’t see it.”
“That’s a shame. It’s a real nice shoe.”
“Roland Me’sognie2
,” Adina said, and she honestly couldn’t figure out
why. She didn’t care about the stupid brand. That was her mother’s
influence. Shock. It had to be the shock.
“If I can find my suitcase, I’ve got an extra pair of sneakers in there. I’m a
size eight.”
“Thanks.”
“You’re welcome. I like to be helpful. It’s sort of a Nebraska thing. My
pageant sponsor says I’ve got a real good chance at Miss Congeniality this
year.”
“Miss Congeniality represents the true heart of the pageant,” Adina found
herself repeating from the Miss Teen Dream manual. She vaguely
remembered that she used to make a gagging motion at that, but she was too
dazed for snarkiness just now. Dazed because, yes, when she’d been looking
for her shoe, she’d seen bodies in the water. Lifeless bodies.
“Miss Congeniality is an ambassador of smiles,” Mary Lou said in a
choked voice.
“It’ll be okay,” Adina said, even though she was pretty sure that this was
the textbook definition of so not okay. “I think we should find everybody
else.”
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