Inexcusable by Chris Lynch

Author:Chris Lynch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

BESIDE MYSELF

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Rollo’s limo was all the best of life, on wheels. There were two televisions inside, and a stereo with enough wattage to shoot me through the back window if I cranked the volume up all the way. There were two couches, burgundy velour, running up alongside either side of the backseat. And there was a bar, a full wet bar, complete with fridge and sink and ice and little wedges of lime, and onions and olives and a mini blender and cans of crushed fruit and a basket of uncrushed fresh fruit for mauling in the blender to make any kind of exotic drink you wanted.

It was all the best of life, on wheels.

And it was my plan to make the best of the best of life while I had it. I was going to be silly and drive through the drive-through just for a snack. I was going to drive up and down the main streets and the quiet streets just showing off. I was even going to make Rollo go down Byner Street, which is a dead end and too narrow, just to make him have to U-turn and have all the neighbors gawk that much longer. All the while I was going to keep the smoked windows up, the air-conditioning humming, the music honking, and the bar open.

I was going to do all that. But I didn’t.

I did something else.

“You know where I’ve always wanted to visit, that I have always heard about but never got to visit?” I shouted to Rollo.

He rolled down the glass partition between us. “Say the word,” he said.

“The middle of nowhere. You know how people are always saying they were in the middle of nowhere? Well it sounds cool to me, and I would really like to have a look.”

Rollo said nothing for a few seconds, just kept driving straight up the main road out of town. Then, “Don’t think I could locate it, Keir.”

“Then we could get lost on the way to the middle of nowhere. Nobody’s ever done that before.”

Again he paused. “Ah, yeah,” he said. “Any other ideas?”

Look at me there. Look at me. Conditions could not have been better. I had the damn world on a plate. I had paradise on wheels on this, my high school graduation day. No limits, no curfews, no cares about where or when or how to get my jollies or how much it was going to cost or who was going to tell me no, because nobody was. Ray wasn’t going to, and Rollo wasn’t going to, and the only people who might even raise an eyebrow were my sisters, and as we all knew my sisters weren’t coming, goddamn it. So no girls, nobody says no.

And Rollo wanted to know if I had any ideas.

I was in the very top of conditions at the top of the world on the top day of top days, of course I had ideas.

And I wished they would go away.

That feeling

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