Death Do Us Part (2006) Mystery Writers of America Anthology by Harlan Coben

Author:Harlan Coben [Coben, Harlan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

SESSION #2 DATE: 10/17

CONNECTED: 9:01 P.M.

TERMINATED: 9:49 P.M.

[email protected]: You there, Suzy Q?

[email protected]: Hi, Little Boy Blue.

LBB: Again.

SQ: Yeah, again. What’s up?

LBB: Do you really want me to answer that?

SQ: Very funny. Not! I wasn’t sure you’d be here tonight.

LBB: That makes 2 of us. So here we are.

SQ: Yes, here we are. Have you had dinner yet?

LBB: Sure. Mac and cheese, like always. I’m not—my mom’s not into cooking, you know?

SQ: Yup. I had meat loaf. Did you go to school today?

LBB: Zzzzzzz. Yeah.

SQ: Ditto. We had an alg. exam. Ugh! I did okay, I think, and so did my girlfriend Jane. Our friend Johnny totally flunked it, but he’ll get a good grade anyway. The teacher is hot for him.

LBB: What, she wants to date him?

SQ: It’s a him. The teacher, I mean. And yeah, he wants to date him.

LBB: Is Johnny gay?

SQ: Metro.

LBB: Oh. That’s cool. Is he gonna get together with the teacher?

SQ: Maybe. Did you ever date a teacher, Mike?

LBB: Nah. How about you?

SQ: I’d have to know you better to answer that. But I’m not from the Virgin Islands, if that’s what you mean. I bet you aren’t either. You sound like a man of the world. Where is this school of yours, anyway?

LBB: You and your trick questions, Suzy Q! You’ll find out soon enough. What else did you do at school today?

SQ: Cheerleading practice. You should see our new uniforms! My mom’ll have a hippo when she sees! I hope she lets me wear it.

LBB: I’d sure like to see you in it.

SQ: HYH! We’re still chatting, remember?

LBB: Okey-doke, I’ll hold my horses. Barely. I think we should meet somewhere.

SQ: Would you like that, Mike?

LBB: Totally, Suzy.

SQ: Hmmm. I told Jane about you at practice today. She says you’re probably some DOM, like 40 or something, who wants to hook up with little girls. Is that true? Are you a DOM, Mike?

LBB: Oh, ha ha. I’m a DYM, a Dirty *Young* Man. 16 in my stockinged feet. 6′1″ and still growing. In all directions.

SQ: And you’re blond. I like the goat.

LBB: It may have to come off. The principal took me aside and said no facial hair. I told him to GFH.

SQ: You did not! I bet you said, “Yes, sir, right away, sir!”

LBB: Yeah, I did. Have to be nice to the authority around here. My stepper’s been talkin military school.

SQ: Eek! Are you that big a problem, Michael?

LBB: Not really. But my bud Josh and a couple other guys and me were caught at a club with X last month. So I’m minding my Ps and Qs.

SQ: You still do X?

LBB: Sometimes. When I want to party.

SQ: Cool. It makes me feel sexy.

LBB: I’ll bring you some.

SQ: We’ll see, Michael.

LBB: I like you calling me that. Michael, I mean. Nobody else calls me that.

SQ: You’ve had girlfriends before, right?

LBB: A couple.

SQ: What did they call you?

LBB: A-hole. Joke! They called me Cas.

SQ: Cas? Why?

LBB: Casanova.

SQ: Oh, I see. You’re the BMOC?

LBB: I’m the *extremely* BMOC.

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