Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry

Author:Katie Henry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2018-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

17

IT TAKES SOME wheedling, but I convince my parents to let me take one of the cars to the HA party tonight. Dad’s rummaging around in a file cabinet upstairs for proof I’m on the insurance for Mom’s car, and Mom is helping Sophia explore the research database she got for Christmas when my phone vibrates. Avi’s sent a group text to everyone.

Avi: so we didn’t talk about this before but people are going to have to provide alcohol if they want it tonight bc i checked my cabinets and there’s not a lot

Eden: totally OK, I can bring some

Lucy: Should we say a bottle from each of us? That seems fair, right?

My heart stops for second. I hadn’t even considered Lucy might be drinking. It seemed like one of those things she wouldn’t do, though I know Catholic Jesus can’t have much problem with alcohol, since his blood’s made out of it. But I also know drinking can be dangerous, and not just because you could drive drunk or throw up or eat an entire Carvel ice-cream cake and then throw up. Alcohol makes you impulsive and honest, and I’m scared of what impulsive and honest Lucy is like, but excited, too.

She might say she secretly hates me.

She might kiss me.

I need a drink.

My parents are both upstairs, so now is my best chance for getting the alcohol. Creeping over to the cabinet next to the dishwasher, I forage through the dozen or so bottles of liquor as quietly as possible.

My phone buzzes in my pocket, but I ignore it. I also ignore the wine at the front of the cabinet, because my mom will notice it’s gone, and I also hate the way it tastes. Ditto with Dad’s scotch. I settle on the dusty bottle of vodka way in the back. Neither of my parents like vodka, so it must have been some gift my mom felt too guilty to throw away.

I stow the bottle behind the potted plant on the back porch, where I can pick it up before I leave tonight. My phone buzzes again. There are a couple texts from Eden and Max agreeing to both bring alcohol, then a few from Avi.

Avi: cool sounds good

Avi: any alcohol is fine but NO WEED bc my mom has a supernatural sense of smell

Avi: MICHAEL

Tell someone once that reading Latin might be more fun if you were high, and they act like you’re running your own personal growhouse.

Everybody knows you’re not supposed to show up to a house party right on time. This is a universally accepted fact. The problem with befriending members of a secret society, though, is they don’t know anything about parties. Which is why, when I show up at eight thirty, only a half hour after Avi said, Lucy opens the door to Avi’s house and says, “We were wondering where you were.”

“Is everyone else already here?”

I think about the last party I went to, before we moved. It was at Becca Conover’s house on the Fourth of July.

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