I Know It's Over by C. K. Kelly Martin

Author:C. K. Kelly Martin [Martin, C. K. Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Canada, Divorce & Separation, Divorce, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, General, People & Places, Dating & Sex, Health & Fitness, Emotional problems of teenagers, Realistic fiction, Schools, Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues, Love & Romance, Teenage pregnancy, Canadian, School & Education, Family & Relationships, Marriage & Divorce, First person narratives, Love, Family, Emotional problems, Sex, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Teenage fiction, High schools, Pregnancy
ISBN: 9780375845666
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2008-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

twelve

I climb into Dad’s car and stare past the windshield wipers. The snow’s coming down heavy and it looks like magic in the air. The way Christmas is supposed to look. For a second I think everything will be all right now that Dad knows, but by the time he opens the back door, the feeling’s already fading. He hands me my backpack and gets into the front seat. “We’re taking Nicholas back to Courtland,” he announces, not looking at Bridgette.

“What’s happening here?” Bridgette asks.

“We’re taking Nicholas back to Courtland,” Dad repeats sternly.

“Yes,” Bridgette says in her stupid clipped voice. “But why?”

I don’t answer. I’m not there in the car with them, not really. I close my fingers around the backpack straps and think about Sasha waiting for me. It’s us in the situation. Her and me. Everybody else is on the outside. That’s the way things are.

“I’m dropping Nicholas off at a friend’s house and we’re not going to discuss it any further at the moment.” That’s Dad’s don’t argue voice and Bridgette doesn’t argue, but she gapes at me in the backseat, frowning so hard that the line between her eyebrows deepens into a crevice that begs for a plastic surgeon.

“You have something to say to me, Bridgette?” I ask, my voice full of attitude.

“Nick, don’t,” Dad says. “That’s the last thing we need.”

So what’s the first thing we need? A truck to ram into the side of Dad’s car and kill me instantly? Things like that only happen when you don’t want them to.

I let go of the straps and stare numbly out the window. The car is quiet all the way to Courtland. Dad remembers the way to Sasha’s and when we get there, he steps out of the car with me and plants his hand on my shoulder. “What happened, Nick?” he asks. “We had that talk.”

Yeah, I remember. I still have the fifty-dollar bills to prove it. “That’s not the cure for everything, Dad.” I laugh under my breath. “Sorry to disappoint you.”

“I didn’t say you disappointed me, Nick.” Dad’s green eyes flicker. He looks so much like me that it’s like staring thirty years into my future. “Is there anything I can do?”

“I don’t know.” My nose is running from the cold and I sniffle like a kid who’s played too long outside. I feel like I should be wearing wet mittens or something. It’s crazy. I can’t keep my head in one place long enough to form a sentence. “I want to talk to her first.”

“You two should do that.” Dad nods and I nod along with him. “And I assume you’ll be going back to your mother’s tonight?”

“I guess so.” My shoulders drop. “I guess I’ll miss Christmas.”

Dad sighs and tries to smile. “Well, don’t worry about that, Nicholas. We can catch up on that later.”

“Yeah.” I laugh again. It’s impossible to imagine the next three minutes. Tomorrow seems like science fiction.

Dad clutches my shoulder harder. “Are you going to be all right? Maybe we should stay.

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