Frayed by Kara Terzis

Author:Kara Terzis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2016-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Part of me had always wondered what it felt like to be bad. To do terrible things. To lie or steal or break someone’s heart. It must have felt good, Kesley, if you did it so often. Was it a matter of power? Were you tired of being that golden girl, the girl everyone wanted to be? Maybe popularity wasn’t enough for you. Maybe being beautiful still wasn’t enough. Maybe having people around you who loved and adored you grew tiresome and boring. Maybe being that girl—neat, tidy blond hair, fashionable clothes, commendable grades—weighed you down like stones in your pocket.

I will probably never fully understand the things you did or why you did them. Or if, even for a heartbeat, you regretted it all. Was there a tipping point, a moment, where you’d just had enough? When being the perfect daughter made you want to scream and tear yourself from the inside out, where the scales finally tipped from good to bad?

Was I part of that moment? Could I have stopped that moment?

Sometimes, I felt cocooned by being good, by being the sort of person people expected me to be, not the sort of person I wanted to be.

What had that felt like, letting go?

What had that felt like, knowing that what you did and the things you said could break another human being? Look at what you’ve done to me. Are you proud, Kesley?

Sometimes, I hated you.

But other times, as much as I never wanted to admit it to myself, I wanted to be like you. Not the polished Kesley, not the sweet Kesley. The cruel one. The bad one. The one etched with shadow and hate, the one only a handful of people in Circling Pines had seen. Because sometimes, it was just so damn hard to be good. Being good could break a person from the inside out, even if everyone around them couldn’t see.

And besides, Kesley, after everything, didn’t I deserve to be a little bad…

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