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Mia the Melodramatic
Book: Mia the Melodramatic Read Online Free
Author: Eileen Boggess
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fix.”
    Eric winced.
    “Don’t tell me you forgot my coffee?” the guy said.
    “Uh, I forgot your coffee.”
    “How could you forget? I asked you only a half hour ago.” He held his hands out for me to see. “Look at me. I have the shakes. If I don’t get some caffeine soon, my head is going to explode.”
    “All right, Henry, I’ll go get you a cup of coffee. But first let me introduce you to Mia. She’s going to be working with us this summer.” Eric turned to me. “Henry is a junior with me at Harrison High. We’ve been friends for years.”
    Henry sized me up. “Tall vanilla frappucino.”
    “Um, excuse me?”
    “I said you look like a tall vanilla frappuccino.” Henry crossed his arms over his slender chest. “You see, I have an amazing talent for guessing how people take their coffee. I don’t miss very often. So, am I right?”
    “Uh, I don’t drink coffee,” I stammered, not wanting to tell him my parents won’t let me have any caffeine because they think it will stunt my growth. Personally, I think a little stunting might be a good thing. If I keep growing as I have been, I could be close to seven-feet by the time I’m twenty.
    “You don’t drink coffee?” Henry shook his head and sighed. “You don’t know what you’re missing.”
    “Henry has a little addiction to caffeine,” Eric said. “We’re planningan intervention soon.”
    “Very funny, iced caramel mocha.” Henry put the headphones on his ears. “Now, don’t come back until you’ve brought me my espresso macchiato.”
    Henry turned the music on and Eric motioned for me to follow him through the backstage curtains. We walked to the center of the stage.
    “Isn’t it awesome?” Eric took a deep, cleansing breath. “There’s nowhere better than center stage.”
    I shook my head. “I can’t imagine anywhere worse.”
    “I bet you’d love acting if you ever tried it.”
    I shuddered at the thought. “There is no way anyone will ever get me to be in a play.”
    “That’s what I used to say.”
    “Trust me.” I walked to the edge of the stage and looked out into the rows of empty seats. “It’s scary enough for me up here now. I’d get sick if the room was full of people watching me.”
    “You’d be surprised at what you can do, Mia,” Eric replied.
    “Hey, Eric,” Zoë said, appearing from the lobby, “if you’re done making inspirational speeches to Preppy here, I still need her help stitching up those mermaid fins.”
    I looked to Eric to rescue me. I did not want to go with Vampira. Who knew what she would do to me once she got me to her lair?
    Unaware of my unspoken plea for help, Eric said, “Sure, she’s all yours, Zoë.”
    I sighed with defeat and trudged down the stage stairs feeling like I was being led to the gallows.
    “But before you go, Mia” Eric said, “I wanted to ask you something.”
    I stopped, grateful for the reprieve. “Sure, go ahead,” I said, hoping whatever he asked would be very complicated so I could spend the next few hours answering it.
    “Do you want to get some dinner tonight?”
    “Me?” I was totally stunned. This was the last thing I was expecting.I mean, Eric had only spent fifteen minutes with me and he was already asking me out? Wow, my animal magnetism must have tripled in the past few months. I’d never had a guy fall for me so fast.
    Eric shrugged. “It’s all right if you have other plans.”
    “No,” I said, looking at Zoë out of the corner of my eye and lowering my voice. “It’s just... I’m dating someone.”
    Eric laughed. “Did you think I was asking you out on a date?”
    “Um, no, well,” I stuttered, wishing with all my might there was a trapdoor I could fall through.
    “Oh, man, I guess I didn’t quite phrase that right,” Eric said, his face turning even redder than mine. “I meant to say that Henry, Zoë, and I were planning on going out for some pizza tonight at Nick’s, and I was wondering if you wanted to come with
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