Linger (Shiver, Book 2) (The Wolves of Mercy Falls) by Maggie Stiefvater

Author:Maggie Stiefvater
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2010-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

• GRACE •

Eventually, the wolves left me.

I sat there, alone, trying to feel every cell of my body, trying to understand what was happening inside. The phone rang — Isabel.

I answered. I had to return to the real world, even if it wasn’t as real as I wanted it to be.

“Rachel was very happy to point out that you’d asked her, not me, to pick up your homework and copy notes for you,” Isabel said after I said hello.

“She’s in more of my cla —”

“Save it. I don’t care; I didn’t want the extra work of picking stuff up, anyway. I was more amused by the idea that she’d think that it was a status symbol.” Isabel did sound amused; I felt a little bad for Rachel. “Anyway, I was calling to find out how infectious you are.”

How could I explain how I felt? And to Isabel?

I couldn’t.

I answered her truthfully by making it a narrow truth.

“I don’t think I am infectious,” I said. “Why?”

“I want to go someplace with you, but I don’t want to get the bubonic plague if I do.”

“Come to the backyard,” I told her. “I’m in the woods.”

Isabel’s voice managed to convey equal parts disgust and disbelief. “The. Woods. Of course, I should’ve known; that’s where sick people always go. Personally, I would rather go someplace and let off some steam with some good nonproductive retail therapy, but I guess the woods would be a rewarding and socially acceptable alternative. All the kids are doing it now. Should I bring skis? A tent?”

“Just you,” I said.

“Do I want to know what you were doing in the woods?” she asked.

“I was walking,” I told her. The truth, but not all of it.

I didn’t know how to tell her the rest.

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