Modern Monsters (Entangled Teen) by York Kelley

Author:York, Kelley [York, Kelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thirteen Reasons Why, mystery, E. Lockhart, teen romance, Love Letters to the Dead, Jandy Nelson, We Were Liars
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-06-02T03:00:00+00:00

It’s five in the evening before I talk to Brett. He’s been texting me all day with questions, confused by the one lone message I sent him. While Autumn is inside cooking us dinner, I step out onto the back porch to call him. He dislikes talking on the phone, but he answers on the second ring anyway.

“Are you dead?”

I roll my eyes. “N-no, I’m not dead.”

“Good, because I was beginning to wonder if she locked you in her trunk and drove her car into the lake.”

“Alive and kicking.”

“Okay. So what’s going on?”

I didn’t plan out what I was going to tell him, but the question sparks a silly grin to plaster itself to my face. “Um, I’ve been hanging out with Autumn.”

Brett pauses. “Seriously?”

“Yeah.”

Another pause. I can tell he’s trying to gauge what he’s supposed to say, what this means. “Okay. Why?”

“We were j-just hanging out. We’re friends, that’s what friends do, isn’t it?” This time, Brett is sighing and I get the feeling it’s one of those sighs that suggests he wants to say something I won’t like. “What?”

“I don’t know, Vic. I mean, it just seems like…” He hesitates. “Are you sure she’s not like…playing you?”

“Why would she?”

“Because just the other week, she thought you raped her best friend and now she’s wanting to hang out with you? Sounds suspicious to me.”

I try not to let the comment sting or take away the slight cloud I’ve been floating on all day. No one is going to ruin this for me or make me question it. He sounds genuinely worried, and that only bothers me more. “She’s not like that.”

“Considering she put you flat on your back and treated you like shit the first few times she met you, how do you know?”

“B-because that was different. She thought—”

“And what makes her positive that you didn’t do it?”

The question rubs me in all the wrong ways. As my best friend, I thought Brett would laugh and congratulate me. Never did I think he’d act like he can’t believe I’d have someone to spend time with other than him.

“Y-you know what, I have to go. She’s making us dinner.”

“Vic—”

I hang up without saying good-bye. There’s never been a moment when I haven’t supported Brett and encouraged him. He’s had a total of three actual girlfriends in the last few years—not counting casual hookups—and every time he’s been with them, I got nudged to the background while he was busy taking them out on dates and buying them lavish gifts. I went along quietly with it because he was happy, because he still tried to include me even though I always felt left out, and he still found time for me if I needed him.

So maybe I expected more support than this. Maybe he really is concerned given how Autumn and I met, I don’t know. But I refuse to dwell on it. Especially when I turn around and see Autumn standing at the stove, balanced on one foot while she scratches her calf with the other foot.

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