Rebecca Rocks (22 page)
Authors: Anna Carey
Anyway, it’s the next day now, and Cass and Alice have gone home, and I am writing this in the back garden because it is lovely and sunny (for once). And even though I am all on my own because Cass is off with Liz and Alice is off with Richard, I am quite happy. It’s nice to just laze around on your own sometimes, and I’ll see them both on Monday at practice anyway. And, after what’s happened recently, I’m not so worried anymore about my lack of love life. Daisy was right, everything else in my life is actually pretty good at the moment. And I’m sure I’ll meet someone eventually. I mean, if my dad can turn out to be poetry in motion and Small Paula can turn out to be a noisy musical genius and Karen can turn into a heroine, then, really, anything can happen.
Anna Carey is a freelance journalist from Drumcondra in Dublin who has written for the
Irish Times, Irish Independent
and many other publications. Anna joined her first band when she was fifteen and went on to sing and play with several bands over the next fifteen years. Her last band, El Diablo, released two albums and toured all over the country. Her first book,
The Real Rebecca,
was published in 2011, and, to her great surprise, it went on to win the Senior Children’s Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. To the delight of many readers, Rebecca returned in the critically acclaimed
Rebecca’s Rules,
which was shortlisted for the same prize in 2012 (she didn’t win this time, though).
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My name is Rebecca Raff erty, and my mother has ruined my life. Again. I didn’t mind her writing boring books for grown-ups. But now she’s written one about an awful girl my age and everyone thinks it’s me! Including the boy who delivers our newspapers, aka Paperboy, aka the most gorgeous boy in the whole world. Oh, the shame!
And if that wasn’t awful enough, the biggest pain in my class wants to use my ‘fame’ to get herself on the reality show ‘My Big Birthday Bash’.
I’ve just got to show everyone the REAL Rebecca. But how?
1. My boyfriend has moved to Canada. Canada!
2. I have annoyed my best friends Cass and Alice by going on about him all the time.
3. I am going to a crazy girl’s mad birthday party and I am not sure why.
Things have got to change. So I’ve made some new rules.
No moping.
No ignoring my friends’ problems.
Find something exciting for me, Cass and Alice
to do so our friendship gets back to normal.
Something fun. Something new ….
Something like joining the school musical.
