Machete by Nicole Thorn & Sarah Hall

Author:Nicole Thorn & Sarah Hall [Thorn, Nicole & Hall, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Burning Willow Press, LLC
Published: 2019-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

We Can Pretend for a Night

Becket

I ‘woke up’ the next morning groggy and dazed. My eyes felt gritty, and I laid on the dining room floor. I was halfway under the table, and my legs were tangled with the chair legs. My head hurt like someone had bashed me with a vase, and my body ached with a similar kind of beaten down feeling.

After crawling out from under the table, I looked around. The table was set, and food had been left out overnight. Seeing it brought memories of the day before back. My father had been furious with me for doing something so stupid and potentially disastrous to my future. I had apologized profusely but it didn’t seem to matter to him. I couldn’t say that I blamed him either. I could have seriously hurt those other students, and all because I didn’t like what they were saying?

It seemed dumb now but at that moment, it hadn’t felt dumb. It felt like the only logical response. They had treated Manny so terribly, and I needed to make sure that they never did something like that again.

Yesterday, my father told me that I wouldn’t be going to school again until he could be certain that I wouldn’t act so foolish a second time. He told me that I needed to mellow out, and then he had given me something. I wasn’t sure what that something was, and for the first time that bothered me.

Sometimes, after being medicated, I did and thought strange things. Things that I couldn’t imagine Manny would tolerate for very long. He had left me upstairs in my room, and I had just... floated. For the entire day, I had laid there floating, looking around at everything. It all seemed so vital but impossible. Nothing could be touched but yet my hands had moved things around. Like I needed to figure out the perfect place to put them.

Then Manny had called and talked with me. I remembered that clearly. She wanted me to go somewhere with her in a tux. I didn’t own one but my father would take me to get one if I asked politely enough. If he wasn’t angry with me anymore.

Which he might’ve been. At dinner, we had sat silently across from each other. I hadn’t been hungry, and I couldn’t focus for long enough to eat anything. When Dad got up, he told me to clean the dining room and do all the dishes. The kind of thing that our maid normally did but he was upset with me.

After that, I wasn’t entirely sure what happened. I must have passed out or gotten extremely tired. Either way, I was still sitting on the floor when the door to the dining room swung open. My heart leaped into my throat, convinced that my father would be standing there. It wasn’t him, though. We had the maid service come in once or twice a week, and this must be Aggie’s day.

She peered down at me on the floor and sighed.

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