I'm Pretty Sure You're Gonna Regret That Darcy Pistolis by M.J. Padgett

I threw myself off the roof without a second of hesitation, tucked my legs tightly against my chest, and landed with a cannonball in the deep end of the pool. I calculated the distance from the roof to the deep end of the pool, one hundred percent sure I could make it without falling on my face and breaking every bone in my body.ĭon’t you even think about it, young lady! my mother screamed. I shifted my focus from them, back to the situation at hand-getting off the roof. My neighbor, Hazel, and her boyfriend had just pulled into the drive, back from D. I had a motto- if you’re not living, you’re dying-and I did all I could to live in accordance with it, even if it meant giving my mother frequent heart attacks. If she wanted me down, then down I would go. I looked down at my petite mother from the roof of our family home, wondering why she still hadn’t learned to be more specific about what she wanted when it came to me. copyright law.Ĭover design by MJ Padgett, images licensed through Shutterstock Contentsĭarcy Elizabeth Pistolis, you come down from there this instant! My mother’s panicked screams were commonplace in the Pistolis household, but our neighbors scarcely paid her a moment’s notice after all these years, knowing full well there was nothing they could do to help her or to dissuade me from whatever stunt I was prepared to execute. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. When the identity of the sender is revealed, the adventure that follows sends Emily into a tailspin she won't see coming.I'm Pretty Sure You're Gonna Regret That Darcy Pistolis M. At first, she assumes it's a mistake, but soon, she realizes it was meat for her deceased brother. On the first day of senior year, Emily receives a mysterious text message. It's the only way he knows to cope with his guilt over his best friend's death. Adam's plan is a little different-wallow in self-pity, anger, and frustration until he explodes in a sensational display of emotional overload. It's the only way she knows to escape the onslaught of memories that seem to pop up everywhere she goes. It's simple-get out of her small hometown and never look back. There was no way Adam Norcross intended to text Emily Waters-his best friend's sister, his arch-enemy, his nemesis… Okay, maybe that's going too far, but Adam never liked Emily, a fact made perfectly clear on the day of Patrick's funeral.Įmily has a plan for her future. The text message was clearly meant for her brother, Patrick.

I'm Pretty Sure You're Gonna Regret That Darcy Pistolis by M.J. Padgett