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Grace Under Pressure

Melissa Schroeder

Dedication

To the Lakehouse Girls: Darese Cotton, Mary Beth Lee, Karen Kelley,

Sheila Curlin and Shelley Bradley. Your enthusiasm, support, and love,

not to mention the homemade pizza and wine, make it so much easier to

brave the publishing world.

Grace Under Pressure

Chapter One

“And what did you say to your class after you substituted the word

erection for election ?” Grace’s best friend, Julia, asked during their

lunchtime phone conversation.

When she’d awoken thirty minutes late that morning, the sun

burning holes through her eyelids because she’d forgotten to close the

blinds, Grace had known it wasn’t going to be a good day. When she

sprayed the hairspray under her arm, then deodorant on her hair, she

figured things couldn’t get much worse.

“First of all, I did not substitute the word,” she said. “You make it

sound as if I did it on purpose. It’s not my goal in life to embarrass

myself in front of a classroom full of college freshmen.” A classroom of

freshman that happened to include Chad Albert, the college president’s

son. The muffled sounds she heard over the phone made her suspicious.

“Stop laughing! It’s not funny.”

“I’m sorry, Grace. I really didn’t mean to laugh, but you have to admit

it’s funny.”

“I will do no such thing.” She winced at the prim sound of her voice.

She had noticed that spinsterish tone creeping in more often over the

last couple years. If she wasn’t careful, she was going to end up adopting

twenty cats and yelling at kids who stepped on her lawn. “It was just so

humiliating. Thank the Lord it was close enough to the end of class that I

could just dismiss them. Unfortunately, I have to give the same lecture to

my five-thirty class.”

“Just block out the memory,” Julia suggested. “You know, like you

did when you had that unfortunate incident at graduation.”

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