Joanne couldn't help but think about Roy all weekend, despite what Flo had told her. He was handsome and talented, and more than anything, she just wanted to go out with him once, just to see what it was like!
The weekend seemed to drag by, and she felt as if she spent the whole time doing nothing.
"Quit moping, Joanne," Her mother told her sternly on Saturday.
"I'm not moping," Joanne defended, though she knew she probably was.
"Then why don't you help me with the housework?"
Joanne helped her mother with housework all day Saturday, but even so, she could not get her mind off Roy DeSoto.
Sunday after church seemed to go even slower because no chores were done on Sunday.
"If Roy liked me," Joanne thought, "I wouldn't be alone on Sundays. He'd take me out driving in his jalopy." Flo always went out driving with Jimmy on Sundays, and Joanne envied her. She always thought maybe she was too plain.
Flo was glamorous and had gorgeous red-gold hair she always had swept up in a bouffant. She had dark, full eyelashes that curved in all the right places, rouged her cheeks, and wore lipstick. Joanne, on the other hand, had plain blonde hair that she sometimes had up in a ponytail. She never bothered with mascara, and her mother said she didn't need lipstick or rouge.
Joanne was plain, and she figured Roy didn't like plain girls. Whenever she saw him in the hall, he seemed to be talking to beautiful, sophisticated girls, the type that Joanne didn't like and that didn't like Joanne.
She decided that maybe, just maybe, if she tried to be more like the other girls, Roy would notice her on his own accord. Maybe Flo would go shopping with her on Saturday.