Page 118 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

Prince. Once again. And all the guests and all her relatives were applauding and laughing, and in each of their eyes, Clara read victory, relief, sheer joy and envy that she, Clara Stahlbaum, had been so lucky to win such a prize.
Clara wanted to puke.
I mean, she really wanted to puke, all-over the Prince if she could arrange it, for puking had suddenly become Plan E. Clara figured, if she couldn’t stay away from a Prince, then the next best thing was to make sure he wanted to stay away from her.
And puking was the only thing she could think of – except that Clara was finding it harder to puke on command than she ever thought possible. Now that she thought of it, she realized she wasn’t the puking kind, and she knew that Plan E was out the window before she even had much time to try it.
Which made her feel like puking.
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