Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Author:Megan Abbott [Abbott, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

THEN

Can you imagine what it might feel like for someone to confess a murder to you? What it means to hear it, to know it, to carry it with you? You have been made an involuntary accomplice. Accessory after the fact. What would you do? Go to the police? Urge repentance? Offer words of understanding? Pray?

Or would you run?

At first, all I could do was hide. I skipped AP Chem, which pained me, so close to news about the Severin scholarship. But even avoiding my locker, our shared classes, I couldn’t escape her. She knew my beats. Finally, she found me in the library, on the floor behind the tall stacks, curled over my overheated, sticky-keyed laptop.

She found me anyway.

I saw her feet first as she prowled the stacks like the monster in a movie. Those black flats, shiny as soldier boots.

“Kit,” she said. “I don’t understand.”

I told her I couldn’t see her. I didn’t ever want to see her again.

“But the AP exam is coming,” she said, kneeling down next to me. “We need to study.”

“Diane, we’re not study partners anymore,” I said. I just said it. “We’re not anything anymore.”

She looked at me, a notch of pain over her brow. It was as if she’d had her first one-night stand without knowing it. She’d shared something with me, something as intimate as if she’d let me between those long, locked legs of hers, and now I was pulling away.

“Oh,” she said, nodding almost to herself. Rising slowly, brushing the dust off her knees. Then adding, softly, “I ruined everything.”

Watching her walk away, wending through the stacks like a pale ghost, I felt something awful inside, even if I couldn’t name it.

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