At First Touch by Dunman Mattie

Author:Dunman, Mattie [Dunman, Mattie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mattie Dunman

Chapter 11

Two weeks passed without event. It was a strange sensation; every morning I woke up wondering if today was the day Thrasher would knock on the door and tell me I had to come with him for questioning, or one of the Coalition’s agents would be waiting at the kitchen table when I got home from school. But each day passed and nothing happened.

That is not to say nothing happened; V.J., Carey, Jared, Mark, and I spent an increasing amount of time together, at lunch, between classes, after school. I became less reserved in their company, even finding without meaning to I could make them laugh. Aside from nasty but impotent remarks from Chasisity and her crew and vicious looks from Preston, I was easily accepted into the day to day world of Shank High, no longer a novelty or oddity. People stopped asking me about my wardrobe and began interacting with me like I was normal.

I even allowed myself to excel in my classes, earning respect from the overworked teachers. Dad had developed a tentative camaraderie with several of his co-workers and had a standing invitation to Monday night football games. Apart from a single phone call from Agent Thrasher stating that the information I provided was useful and he would contact me if he needed anything further, we heard nothing more about Fitz or my involvement. We settled into a state of uneasy contentment, and I started going whole days without looking over my shoulder.

Carey and I still hadn’t gotten to have our date; Dad was leery of sending me out alone with him. I think he thought that I would spill the beans if I had too much time alone with my ever-present hero. That, or maybe he was just being a cautious father. At any rate, most of our interaction was at school or when we went out as a group to see a movie or grab milkshakes at Mickey’s. He called me, too, nearly every night to talk for half an hour. I avoided looking into his file, for lack of a better term, in my head so that I could hear what he wanted to tell me from his own lips, not from my little quirk.

It was the Thursday three weeks after my arrival in Pound that things started to change.

I had noticed throughout classes that morning that there had been an increase in the giggling among the girls and knowing snickers from the guys. I had attributed it to some new rumor circulating, or maybe an announcement for a dance that I had somehow missed. It wasn’t anything that particularly concerned me, so I didn’t make any real effort to discover the source and headed into gym blissfully unaware, simply looking forward to another period spent with Carey.

It was in the locker room that I overheard what must be the cause of all the whispers and laughing behind hands.

“And then apparently he just…couldn’t! And poor Jessie tried everything, and I mean everything, but it just wouldn’t work.

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