Bad Girls with Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten

Author:Lynn Weingarten
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Xavier

Xavier had forgotten what it was like when Ivy disappeared. Forgotten what it was like to have a plan with her and wait, and wait, and wait, have her just not show up, stop returning texts, stop answering her phone. But two weeks and five days after she became his girlfriend again, it all came rushing back.

They were supposed to see a movie, the one Steph had been talking about at the diner, starring that dumb comedian who neither he nor Ivy were even into. The comedian had this signature move thing that he would do after he made a joke. He’d go “Oh oh oh” and hold up one hand, like he was waiting for a high-five. It was supposed to be ironic and not ironic at the same time. A lot of people at school loved him. Ivy thought he was horrendous. “He is obviously a sociopath,” Ivy had said. “You can see it in his eyes. I’m not even kidding. He’s probably killed people.” And then she would do a spot-on imitation of him that was both cutting and hilarious.

Not a lot of people knew that about Ivy, how funny she could be when she wanted. Except she usually didn’t bother. “Being funny is mostly a waste of time,” Ivy had told him once. “I don’t really give a fuck about funny.”

But the movie was her idea. She said she was excited to go and hate it.

Only, instead of picking him up at 8:30 the way they’d planned, she just didn’t. And she hadn’t answered his texts or his calls. And now it was 9:17, and the movie had already started and where was she?

When they were a couple the first time around, she used to do this pretty regularly, just vanish without warning. And he would worry so much, feel absolutely certain something horrible had happened to her. By her third disappearance, he’d understood this was just this thing she did—she’d vanish for a day or so, then come back with a fake-sounding excuse, or no excuse at all. But always completely fine. And yet, somehow, when she did it the next time, the same fears always came back. Even though the reasonable part of him knew she was safe, some other part of him would think, but what if this time is different?

And that’s what was happening now.

There was the gnawing in his stomach and pounding in his chest, his itchy fingers checking his phone over and over.

He tried to tell himself it was actually insane to worry. But if nothing bad had happened to her, it meant she was just messing with him. Again. And it seemed impossible she’d be doing that now, considering everything, considering how she mostly seemed to be trying very hard to fix things.

So where did that even leave him?

There was a knock on his bedroom door. “Xavier?” It was his mom.

Xavier jumped. “Come in!”

“I’m getting ready to head to Aunt Kay’s for the night,” his mom said. Aunt Kay

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