Men and Dogs by Katie Crouch

Author:Katie Crouch [Katie Crouch]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408809914
Google: zYiHrix61TYC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-06-05T14:00:00+00:00

After the party Warren drove Hannah back to town, windows open, cool spring air roaring sweet and heavy into the car. Before dropping her off, he took Hannah around the Battery so slowly it felt like they were idling. She stared out the window happily. She loved this boy beside her. She wanted to turn into smoke and drift into Warren Meyers’s pores.

The next day, the Class of 1991 filed back into the cinder-block halls of Charleston Prep—tan, nervous, slightly sheepish. The administration was annoyed, but it was no different than the problem they faced every year. There was no way to suspend eighty-six students. Just in case, Hannah had DeWitt write a note. From the start of the marriage, she’d learned to go to DeWitt when she needed things like money and notes to get out of class. At 10: 43 in the morning, she had seven precious minutes left in her midmorning break, just enough time to deliver the note to the principal’s office and find Warren to say hi before AP History.

The office was down a long hallway, but she saw immediately that Warren was standing in the breezeway just outside. He had to be the only person she could recognize at that distance: the thin, slouching silhouette, the olive smudge of a flannel shirt.

Even after two years of dating, the sight of Warren at the end of the breezeway caused Hannah to hurry. She threw her books into her locker and walked down the hall, slowing when she got close. He was talking to a girl. Hannah saw blond hair, a pink polo shirt tucked into a khaki skirt. Jenny White.

Jenny was not a particularly nice girl in high school. She had a reputation for being kind of dumb, although Hannah had long suspected she was smarter than people gave her credit for—her pearls of ignorance just a bit too perfectly timed, her clueless stare a tad too adorable. She was also inarguably the most beautiful girl in the Class of 1991, and while Hannah had never doubted her own ability to wear jeans well enough to disarm any boy who might walk behind her, Jenny’s obvious beauty, paired with her bitchy friends and her snobbish attitude (“Ew,” Hannah once heard Jenny whisper to Bitsy Ravenel when Hannah walked by wearing one of her father’s old shirts), made her impossible to like.

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