Wonder Never (The Fairytale Diaries #2) Read Online Free PDF

even recall the last time she attended church and she had no desire to be in one of them, for any reason.
    After all, Clementine enjoyed every moment of her heathen ways without the slightest intention of reforming. The idea of getting worse seemed just fine to her.
    So, when a text chimed on her jewel encrusted iPhone, from a friend asking her to hang out, she did not think twice about blowing off her post. She slipped her phone back into her pocket and fixed a pitiful look on her face. Then she slowly turned to face Ms. Talbot.
    "I'm not feeling so well," Clementine whined, clutching her belly.
    Ms. Talbot pursed her lips and arched one eyebrow. "Oh?" she skeptically inquired.
    Clementine stuck her lip out and nodded sadly, all the while resisting the bubble of laughter building inside her. "Yep," she said not at all convincingly. "I don't think I can stay the rest of my shift. I need to go home."
    "You were just fine a second ago, Clementine," Ms. Talbot said sternly.
    "Thanks for understanding!" Clementine answered in a sugary sweet voice as she rushed toward the door. She burst out laughing before she was even out of the office. She ran through the corridor beneath the massive stained glass windows ignoring Ms. Talbot calling at her back.
    Soon she was free and running down the street where her friend waited in a car to pick her up. She spent the evening engaging in delinquent activity and snuck in after curfew.
    ***
    Not only did Clementine blow off her shift that day, she didn't return the next day either. Or the next. Ms. Talbot didn't contact her and her dad didn't say anything so she knew he didn't know. She got to spend every afternoon after school with her friends doing whatever she wanted. She knew she had to return to her volunteer post soon, but at that point she didn't know when she would.
    It was Friday night when she discovered her credit card was maxed out. She'd attempted to purchase booze for her friends, boyfriend, and herself. She'd managed to pick a remote convenience market that wasn't diligent about asking for I.D. But when she swiped her card for the forty dollar purchase, it was declined.
    Clementine's face reddened in fury. She scathed the cashier with rude comments. Her friends ushered her outside so they wouldn't lose their shot at scoring underage booze, and somebody else paid.
    Because of her anger and embarrassment, Clementine spent the evening getting extra hammered on someone else's dime. Lord knows they've all drank on me enough times, she thought bitterly. If she were honest with herself, she'd realize the only reason anybody tolerated her was her willingness to throw money around.
    Because she was extra drunk, she was extra loud, extra obnoxious, and extra risky. Around midnight, Clementine's big mouth was exactly the thing that drew the police to their party locale which was the Enchantica Elementary playground.
    As soon as the flashlight flipped on, Clementine's friends scattered while she remained lying upside down on a slide. She heard their whispered explicates and cries of alarm as they fled the silhouette that approached with angrily stomping feet. But Clementine laughed as she often did; right in the face of authority.
    When he came up alongside the slide, placing himself almost eye level with her, she saw it was Police Chief Truman Darling. His angry face fell slightly into a disappointed frown.
    "Clementine, what are you doing here?" he demanded.
    "Just hanging!" she confessed cheerily.
    "Young lady, do you have any idea how much trouble you could be in right now?"
    Clementine giggled. "You're not going to arrest me!"
    Chief Darling groaned. "Get down from there. I'm taking you home," he snarled.
    Clementine slid herself upside down the slide. At the bottom she executed an awkward somersault which left her sprawled in the mulch laughing and dizzy.
    "NOW CLEMENTINE!" Chief Darling yelled.
    Clementine scrambled clumsily to her feet and the chief had to reach out to steady her. He