Izzy + Tristan by Shannon Dunlap

Author:Shannon Dunlap
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2019-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

THE QUEEN

THE HUMAN EYE HAS ONLY THREE TYPES OF COLOR-SENSING cells, but the eye of the mantis shrimp has sixteen kinds. Scientists speculate that, because of this, they can see a far wider spectrum of colors than we’ll ever be able to see, like Dorothy in Oz compared to Dorothy in Kansas. I don’t know what it’s like to be a mantis shrimp, but I feel like the closest I’ll ever come to finding out was during those first few days with Tristan, when the world around me seemed to crackle with hues I never knew existed. I looked at a blackberry the morning after the party, with its vibrant, perfect cluster of juice-filled spheres, its purples and reds and indigos, and was fairly certain I could sense the divine in it.

“Isn’t it beautiful?” I asked, holding out the berry to my mother, who was sketching a jewelry design at the kitchen counter, and she agreed, though not before looking at me with surprise. We both knew that it was the kind of thing she would say, not me.

Tristan told me he needed time, only a little time, to figure out how to tell Marcus, and since it was so important to him, I acquiesced and agreed to keep quiet. Temporarily, at least. I steered clear of Marcus—turning a cold cheek to his affectionate greetings at school, never picking up his phone calls—and when pressed, I mumbled vague statements about not wanting to be in a relationship. I remember thinking it was a little amusing, how bewildered Marcus looked by all of this. He wasn’t accustomed to being rejected. If I’d paid attention, I might have seen that I was hurting his feelings.

But I probably wouldn’t have cared, anyway. I sailed through those days not caring about anything with which I had previously been consumed—my brother or my parents or my grades or becoming a doctor or what anyone thought of me. One singular thing had replaced all of that. It was a certain brand of insanity, the kind that anyone who has ever fallen rapidly in love will recognize.

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