Henry Hamlet's Heart by Rhiannon Wilde (Author)

Author:Rhiannon Wilde (Author) [Wilde, Rhiannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

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The rest of camp is a blur after that. We’re surrounded all the time.

I pretend—through breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I pretend to care when Jess dumps Ged, and when she takes him back again after he finds her some questionable-looking flowers.

I pretend to be responsible while delegating tasks with Martin, and when Vince gets caught smoking in the shower block.

But at night the thoughts slip in, uninvited. X-rated flashbacks that wash through me like the moment when you turn on a tap but forget to adjust it, and the water’s so hot on your skin it’s ice. I don’t think I sleep more than a few hours the entire trip.

I put on my best-mate face when Len comes first in the swim challenge on the last day. I holler the blokiest cheer I can muster.

(I watch him, though. His wet collarbones. His school bathers. Did he always have such good…thighs?)

It doesn’t feel like a phase.

It feels like alive.

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