Brat by Gabriel Smith
Author:Gabriel Smith [Smith, Gabriel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2024-06-04T00:00:00+00:00
I rode in the back seat. The boy and the girl sat up front. I did finger guns at the deer field as we drove away from it. The rain on the soft top of the car was making a good sound. My wet clothes were making the tan leather seats dark.
We took the bridge over the estuary, past the strange birds and electricity pylons that lived there. The bad neighborhoods at the edge of the town. A roundabout with drive-through restaurants and a bowling alley. Then we drove through the forest, to the ocean. The infected hole in my leg hurt through my saturated jeans.
They stopped the car in a car park that faced the ocean. The boy leaned back and opened his hand at me. Inside his hand was a blue circular pill. I took it without saying anything. I crunched it up in my teeth.
I said, âThanks, Felix.â
âThatâs not my name,â he said, âthatâs a cat name.â
âAnd I suppose yours isnât Joanna,â I said, to the girl. She didnât say anything. We sat listening to the rain for a moment.
âHowâd you fuck your face up this time?â Felix said, through the rearview mirror.
âI got in a fight. With an estate agent.â
âYouâre selling the house?â the girl said.
âYou need to not do that,â Felix said.
âI donât want to,â I said.
âIâm serious,â Felix said, âlike really fucking serious.â
âYou need to take better care of it,â the girl said. âItâs important.â
âRight,â I said.
Then I said, âHey, Felix, did all your skin ever peel off?â
âAll my skin?â he said.
âYeah. Like a reptile.â
âUh,â he said, âno.â
âYou sure?â
âYeah.â
âMaybe when you were a child? And you were too young to remember.â
âMaybe that happened to me.â
âYou canât remember now. Because you were a child.â
âMaybe,â he said.
The wind was picking up and making the rain come sideways. The blue-gray sea was so full of movement you couldnât even see the rain land.
I closed my eyes and listened to the sound of it.
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