The Friendship Pact
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The two people Tracy loves most are Rabbit O’Shea, a smooth-talking bad boy, and Ross Perlman, an innocent young man with a golden voice. She could never choose between them, and she’ll never have to, because Rabbit is a TV character, and Ross is the actor who plays him. When Ross announces a concert in Tracy’s hometown, she pledges to do whatever it takes to meet the real-life Rabbit—a decision that could cost her everything she holds dear.
She and her best friend, Andrea, make a pact that they will meet Ross together or not at all. But when one of them gets the chance to meet him alone, it threatens to tear their friendship apart. Suddenly, Tracy finds herself longing for the days when Ross Perlman was just another poster on her wall.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Susan Beth Pfeffer is the author of many books for teens, including the New York Times best-selling novel Life As We Knew It, which was nominated for several state awards, and its companion books, The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon. She lives in Middletown, New York.
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The Friendship Pact - Susan Beth Pfeffer
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For the past two years, I have been hopelessly, completely in love with Rabbit O’Shea. And for all my life, I have hated to sew.
As far as love goes, I’m also every bit as much in love with Ross Perlman. And up until last Friday, I wasn’t sure which one I loved more.
Of course all the pictures I have up on my walls of Rabbit are pictures of Ross, too, since Rabbit’s the character Ross plays on Joyride, my favorite TV show. Only Ross really isn’t anything like Rabbit, so I have lots of pictures of just him on my walls. Ross, after all, went to Dartmouth, which is the only thing my father likes about him. Not that they ever met. But Dad went to Dartmouth, too. He didn’t like it very much, but he has a sentimental feeling about other people who went there. Anyway, I didn’t love Ross because he went to Dartmouth, although I admit it gave me a little thrill to realize he went there and not to Harvard or Yale. The thought that Ross was in the same buildings, the same dorms, maybe even the same room as my father, made me feel almost as though I knew him.
But I loved Rabbit, too, and Rabbit never went anywhere to college. My father hates Rabbit. As a matter of fact, every time Joyride is on the air, my father leaves the room, after saying all kinds of insulting things about it. I just let him talk. I love Joyride. It’s my absolute favorite show in the whole world, because of Rabbit. He’s sort of the main character. There are other characters who are very important, but nothing would happen on the show if it wasn’t for Rabbit. Rabbit talks tough and he gets into trouble a lot, but he always straightens things out. That’s how his character got his nickname; Rabbit is always hopping in and out of jams. And lots of times, Rabbit gets a chance to sing, too. That’s practically my favorite part of the show, when Rabbit gets to sing. But basically Joyride is a comedy, and I always laugh when I watch it. So does Scott, my brother. He’s fifteen (I’m twelve), and he says Joyride is just for kids, and he can’t understand why I love Rabbit so much, but he watches it, too. So does my mother. Whenever Dad acts like he’s mad that Mom watches it, she just shrugs her shoulders and says, I can’t help it. Rabbit’s kind of cute.
And that from a mother.
My best friend Andrea Todd and I were sitting in homeroom a few weeks ago when Caroline Earle came in and sat down with a flounce. Caroline does everything with a flounce, and she doesn’t even care when the boys make fun of her, which they do all the time. I don’t blame them. Caroline acts like she’s royalty. That’s because her father is mayor and her mother is this big shot who plans every cultural event that takes place in our town. We have about eight cultural events a year—concerts or plays that are on tour—so eight times a year Mrs. Earle is a real big shot, and all year round Mr. Earle is. And that’s why Caroline flounces.
This time she flounced with more excitement than usual. I have something fabulous to tell you,
she whispered in my general vicinity.
Caroline likes me. I don’t have the slightest idea why, since she must know I don’t really like her. She’s my friend, though. We’ve been friends since kindergarten, she and Andrea and Mary Kate Donahue and I, and I haven’t liked her all that time. Caroline doesn’t seem to care.
What?
I asked. Caroline always has something fabulous to tell me. Usually it’s about some dumb law her father signed, or some big present her parents bought her. My mother, who doesn’t like Caroline either, says she’s spoiled rotten.
Rabbit is coming here to give a concert!
she whispered, loud enough for me and Andrea to hear her.
I nearly fainted. "Not the Rabbit? I said, trying to sound cool.
Not Ross Perlman?"
What other Rabbit is there?
Caroline said. He’s going to give a concert right here, in our auditorium.
Our school has the biggest auditorium in town, so all of Mrs. Earle’s cultural events take place here. Still, Rabbit didn’t exactly seem like the string quartets she usually brings into town. Did your mother arrange it?
I asked. If Caroline’s mother had actually talked to Ross Perlman, I thought I would die.
Caroline shook her head. I guess she didn’t much like the question. No,
she admitted. Mr. Thomas arranged it all. It’s a benefit for hemophilia.
Ross Perlman’s cousin has hemophilia, so Ross gives benefits for the National Hemophilia Foundation. All the articles said so. They said not only was he multitalented and very cute, but dedicated to eradicating the evil of disease. I made sure my parents gave some money to the National Hemophilia Foundation the year before, without telling them why. I guess they figured I was dedicated to eradicating the evil of disease, too.
Mr. Thomas is very important in the National Hemophilia Foundation, so it was probably no big deal to him to ask Ross Perlman to give a concert here. But it made me feel weak in my knees. I was awfully glad I was sitting down. If I ever fainted because Rabbit was coming to town, the boys would never let me live it down.
When’s the concert?
Andrea asked.
Three weeks from Friday,
Caroline said. Let’s all get tickets together.
Me, too,
Mary Kate said. She sits two rows down, so I could tell Caroline’s whisper was traveling pretty well. My mother says Mrs. Earle knows how to make a lot of noise just being quiet, and Caroline’s like that, too.
I was about to agree with everybody, when the first wave of my wonderful idea hit me. It wasn’t like I thought about it, the way you work out an arithmetic problem. It just struck me, and I practically gasped when I thought of it. Only I couldn’t say anything about it until I had a chance to be alone with Andrea.
Everybody loves Rabbit, but