Everyone's Favorite Girl by Steph Sweeney

Author:Steph Sweeney [Sweeney, Steph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00K114GBW
Published: 2014-04-28T23:00:00+00:00

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Five minutes. The longest, most terrifying five minutes of my life. I lay there, limp, twitchy, eyelids fluttering, mouth slightly agape, mimicking everything I could remember from the video, and everyone sat in silence, observing me.

Not even Kate spoke.

I knew it was at least five minutes because I distracted myself by counting the seconds. When I lost count, I rounded back down to the nearest full minute and started over, so what I’m calling five minutes might really be seven or eight.

Finally, like someone holding her breath or trying to withstand a tickle, I couldn’t take it anymore. I opened my eyes and lifted my head, feigning alarm, but only until I made eye contact with Mr. Shriver.

Then I smiled.

“Hello,” I said. Amiable confusion.

“Hello,” Mr. Shriver said. “How do you feel?”

I wiggled in the chair, looked at my arms as though I were just discovering I couldn’t move.

“Feeling a little tied down,” I said, generating a soft wave of chuckles. I yawned. Not intentionally. It was coming on four in the morning. I had to go with it. “Are you going to drug me soon? I don’t know how much longer I can stay awake.”

“You remember?” Judy asked, grabbing her clipboard and scribbling something on it.

“Remember what?”

“Everything that just happened.”

“Um…yeah. Am I not supposed to? When are you going to drug me?”

“We already did,” Mr. Shriver said.

I turned to him. “Just now?”

He nodded.

“Well it must not have worked then,” I said.

Mr. Shriver crossed his legs and leaned to one side, peering at me. “This is interesting, I must say.”

“What’s interesting?”

Judy took a few steps forward. “Melissa, I predicted that with repeated overexposure to the Love Drug, its effects would eventually rewire your brain circuitry, making you susceptible to new ideas, new personality traits, and new behavior. We’ve been conditioning you this past month.”

“Should you be telling her all this?” Sean barked. He was back to his foul mood. Something told me it had to do with Mr. Shriver and James walking in together like best buds on the last day of school.

“If the results are as anticipated, it doesn’t matter what we tell her.”

“Can you guys untie me now?” I asked. The impatience I expressed was not pretend.

Judy awaited Mr. Shriver’s instruction, and when he nodded she began unhooking the straps.

Suddenly a thought occurred to me, and I decided to share it. I addressed Judy. “How much Libido Drug did it take to spike the city’s water supply?”

Judy looked shocked. When she spoke, her voice quivered.

“Thirty gallons,” she said.

“That’s all?”

“It was a high concentration. It takes very little.”

“Same with the Love Drug?”

“Yes.”

I turned to Mr. Shriver, who listened intently. “You know what you should have done? Before you killed that water district guy, you should have sent him back with an equal amount of the Love Drug and spiked the water again—just what Brian was trying to do. You’d stop the rape and murder and chaos instantly, and everyone would forget what happened.”

As I spoke, Mr. Shriver

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