Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey

Author:Sara Hosey
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2020-01-17T16:06:54+00:00

Chapter 24

“Oh my god, he was totally checking you out,” Corinne squealed in my ear as he walked away.

“Shut up,” I hissed.

“No, for real! And he’s totally hot. You should hook up with him, Iffy.”

“Corinne,” I said, exasperated. “Shut up!”

“What?” She gave me a little push. Angel saw that we were playing and started leaping around, feinting and darting away.

“You two!” I laughed and complained. “Corinne, I have not had a real shower in, god, I don’t even know how long.”

She wrinkled her nose. “No kidding. I do think this is something you might want to remedy, Iffy.”

“Whatever. He’s probably just gonna steal our book.”

“Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe he’ll become a famous musician and he’ll take us both away from all this.” She pulled a face. “He’s looking for something, you know.”

“Stop it, Corinne,” I groaned. “Don’t be mean.”

I got up and started putting things away just to have something to do.

“I’m just kidding,” she said, rising too. “He’s just so … earnest. I guess that’s how they grow them upstate. And you!” she cackled. “With the glasses!” I didn’t look at her, feigning ignorance. “And I’ve never heard you say so much since I met you!”

“That’s not true,” I protested.

“It is so true!” she laughed. “I just thought you were quiet. Now I find out that you only talk to boys. You were saving all your energy to be a flirt.”

“Please, stop.” I was trying to frown but smiling all the same.

“Iffy, I think that’s awesome,” Corinne was suddenly sincere. “I think he’s cool.” She poked me, and when I looked she was smiling. “Lucky,” she said. “Lucky Iffy.”

I pretended I didn’t want to talk about it anymore, but I could have talked about Anthony—what he looked like, what he said, what he meant when he said whatever he said—I could have talked about those twenty minutes for the next twenty hours. He was just so cute. So cute.

And I didn’t have my hopes up or anything, but I felt something when I looked at him and he looked at me. Recognition or something. Whatever, I knew it was crazy. But I had a vague sense that I would now better understand all sorts of lyrics that I used to sing along with but never really got.

Of course I knew there was no way he could actually like me. I was literally a bum. A homeless person. A bag lady.

Corinne mused, “Crazy days, huh? Henry, that lady, now this guy. Who knew we weren’t invisible, am I right?”

I smiled.

“Or maybe we’re still invisible,” she added. “But they can smell us coming?”

“That bad?” I scrunched my nose.

“Not good,” she replied. “Why not go over to McDonald’s? Stop at that Rockbottom while you’re there and buy yourself some cosmetics. You need to clean this up,” she said, flapping her hand up and down at my face. “Angel will protect me ’til you get back.”

“You sure you’re okay?” I suddenly felt guilty. I had completely forgotten about her run-in with Henry.

“I’m fine. Just need to keep my head down is all.

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