Hold Your Breath by Caroline Green

Author:Caroline Green [Green, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Supernatural, Teen & Young Adult, Mysteries & Thrillers, Mysteries, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9781848121706
Google: wMKPmAEACAAJ
Amazon: B00DW6HG5Q
Publisher: Piccadilly Press
Published: 2013-05-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

SALT

That evening, she found herself endlessly replaying the conversation with Leo over in her head and forensically analysing it for meaning.

He really didn’t seem like someone who would cold-bloodedly knock someone over. And what reason would he have to do it anyway? Just because he didn’t like Will? If Tara knocked down everyone she didn’t like, it would be a full-time job.

Anyway, what did it matter? Leo wasn’t interested in her. He felt bad about her foot, that was all. He’d prefer girls with poise and oozing confidence, not tomato-headed freaks like her. And hadn’t she promised herself to stay away from boys for a while? Or even, for ever?

The way Jay had made her feel still felt like an open wound.

Was it ever going to scab over?

She’d taken a while to go out with him, knowing his reputation as a player – someone who used girls up and threw them away when he was finished with them. When he’d first started to notice her, she’d enjoyed the heat of his gaze as she walked by, but didn’t think anything of it. So she had ignored him for a while and worked on her withering put-downs, which he seemed to find incredibly funny. She’d felt it was like when she rubbed Sammie’s head really hard with her knuckles: it was surely just this side of painful, but seemed to provoke a glassy-eyed sort of gratification too. Rough love, you might say.

After a while Jay began to fall into step with her. He made her laugh. He was genius at voices and could mimic everyone from his own mates to people off the telly. Her defences quickly started to crumble after those stolen kisses at the pool party, when he’d whispered that he could feel himself falling for her. She’d realised she felt the same and a couple of perfect weeks followed, which even now in her memory seemed bathed in a sort of Hollywood golden light. Then he’d started to push her, wanting more than she was prepared to give. One night, at a Sixth Former’s Christmas party, she’d ended up locked in a cupboard with him. He’d been drinking vodka and kissed her too roughly, too insistently. It had shocked her, his unwillingness to listen. They fought. She went home, and that night she debated whether she wanted to stay with someone like that. She wasn’t the sort of girl who behaved like a boy’s possession. If Mum had taught her anything, it was self-respect.

But when she went into school, she discovered Jay had been spreading ugly rumours about her, which seemed to float like smoke around the school for weeks. She never spoke to him again. When the whole Tyler thing exploded and people at school found out she was the ‘schoolgirl psychic’, she’d caught him whirling a finger to the side of his head and rolling his eyes to signify madness, prompting hysterical laughter from half the school.

She’d loved Jay and he’d humiliated and hurt her. She couldn’t let that happen again.

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