Fireball by Tyler Keevil

Author:Tyler Keevil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
ISBN: 111-1-11-111111-1
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 2015-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

32

In the week leading up to the riot, Chris got in a fight nearly every night. Karen was just too fucking hot. Insanely hot. That was the problem. Guys hit on her constantly, and Chris couldn’t help how he reacted. She loved it, too. Like most girls, she pretended she didn’t but underneath all that – where it counted – she couldn’t get enough of it. She loved the fighting and she loved calming him down afterwards.

She also loved teasing him.

‘How many girlfriends have you had, Chris?’

Karen asked him that on the way back from Esplanade. She was driving us for a change. We’d all gone to see a movie – this movie about a bunch of scientists who create some super smart sharks. Then the sharks escape and eat the scientists. Totally lame.

Chris shrugged. ‘None, really.’

She knew he hadn’t had any – she’d just wanted to hear him say it.

‘What about you two? Any girlfriends?’

Me and Jules looked at each other. We couldn’t lie. Neither of us had ever had a real girlfriend. We were kind of losers, in that way. In a lot of ways, I guess.

‘Huh,’ Karen said. ‘I bet you’re all virgins, too. What a lucky girl I am. I get to chauffer around a carload of virgins.’

We didn’t say anything. She had us right where she wanted us.

‘Don’t worry, boys. It’ll happen soon. And then everything will be different.’

When she said that, she was kind of smirking. Later I found out why. She’d decided it was about time her and Chris got around to doing it. He would never have made the first move, so she had to take matters into her own hands. When we got back to the Cove, she dropped off Julian at his house, then drove me to mine. Chris was supposed to get dropped off last.

‘Bye, Razor.’

‘Yeah – see you guys tomorrow.’

I shut the door and watched them pull away. Karen was driving her dad’s Jeep – this sleek blue Cherokee that would probably cost most people their liver. Karen’s parents trusted her completely. Her dad was a real estate agent and her mom was a nurse, and she was their little princess who made the honour roll and acted in all the school plays. She would ask if she could use the Jeep and her dad would say, ‘Princess is taking her carriage out tonight.’

If only they knew what went on in that carriage.

Instead of driving Chris home, she headed towards Parkgate. When he asked where they were going, she just said, ‘You’ll see.’ The way he explained it was pretty funny – as if she was kidnapping him. She drove straight to the lookout near the top of Mount Seymour. That was the same place he’d told her about the fireball, actually. It was totally deserted. Karen parked, yanked on the handbrake, and told him to get in the backseat.

I heard about all this the next morning.

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