Blind by Rachel Dewoskin

Author:Rachel Dewoskin [Dewoskin, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780142424551
Google: i5xCBwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0142424552
Publisher: Speak
Published: 2014-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

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Logan showed up at my house at one o’clock the next afternoon and forced me out of bed, where I was listening to Alice in Wonderland, still in my pajamas. I had my clay head on the nightstand next to me and Mr. Hawes’s pen and a valentine Zach Haze made for me in third grade under my pillow. Zach made one for everyone, of course, but I spent hours poring over mine, hoping to find a clue in it that mine was extra special in some way. And now it is, because I’ve kept it a million years and it’s definitely the only remaining one in the universe. Normally I kept these treasures in my desk drawer, but lately I’ve been putting them under my pillow. Maybe because things, including parts of me, can disappear without warning, and I want to keep them close. Maybe I’m going crazy.

“What happened last night?” Logan asked.

I didn’t say anything. She went and got me a hoodie and basically pulled me out of bed.

“Come on,” she said. “We have our second meeting and you can’t miss it. Everyone is counting on you.”

“Yeah. I’m such a pillar of strength.”

“No one said anything about you leaving, Em. That Ouija board thing sucked, and everyone blamed Amanda. But it got better after. We—”

“Yeah, Lo? I don’t really want to talk about last night. Maybe we should just—”

“Okay, fine.”

I got dressed in silence and then we breezed by the kitchen to the mudroom to put on boots and a parka. As we left the house, I called back to my mom, who was cleaning up lunch, that we were going on a walk.

“But you haven’t eaten, sweetie. And it’s freezing!”

“We need fresh air,” I said. “And I’m not hungry.”

It was so cold that I could feel the steam coming off me. I could almost see our breathing, but neither Logan nor I spoke until we were halfway to the Mayburg place, when she brought up Deirdre’s again. “So, Em, I know you don’t really want to talk about last night, but I just thought, in case it came up or whatever, that you might want to know that some of us snuck out for fun. It was no big deal, we just wanted to see if we could do it, so—”

“You guys snuck out of Deirdre’s? Who’s ‘some of us’?”

“Me and Blythe and Nicole.”

“Wow. Where were Amanda and Deirdre?”

“Asleep.”

“Don’t you think it’s kind of rude to sneak out of Deirdre’s house and risk getting her in trouble?”

“I wanted you to come, Em,” she said, “but you had already left—”

I said, “I didn’t mean me, okay? Forget it.” And we walked the rest of the way without talking.

The Mayburg place was so cold it felt like a cave, and I imagined icicles coming both up from the floor and down from the ceiling. But in spite of that, and the fact that our first meeting had been a disaster, there were twenty-one of us by three o’clock, fifteen

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