More Like Her by Palmer Liza

Author:Palmer, Liza [Palmer, Liza]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Chick-Lit, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780062007469
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

In

Thank you for making sure I got home,” I say, closing my front door behind us. I spent my entire ride home on the phone with Jill. By the time we spoke, she and Martin were already safely tucked in bed. The only time she perked up was when I told her I was with Sam. That’s my girl.

We’re all going to meet at the hospital first thing in the morning; Grady should be alert by that time. Well, second thing in the morning. I have a dog to adopt first thing. Friday we have to attend and work the most morbid, sullen and tragic fund-raiser in the history of fund-raisers. I hope it will be healing and not just plain awkward and shitty. I hope. I’ve also decided not to call my parents just yet. My dad will question me like a suspect and my mom will just worry. I can’t handle either of those things right now. I’ll call them tomorrow. I’ll need errands tomorrow. I’ll want something to do on our official day of remembrance, a day when the last thing I want to do is remember.

I’ve been floating through these last few hours like someone who’s whistling past a graveyard in an effort to keep the ghosts and flashes of blood at arm’s length. Arm’s length, football field length, China … pick one. I’ve held other things at bay for a lot longer. Rejecting my true self for decades is good training to keep me in denial about how horrific tonight’s events were. I’ve turned into a single-celled amoeba who wants only two things: a long hot soak in a tub and a warm bed. That’s it. I can’t handle anything else. And yet, I feel this buzzing inside that has me worried. I’m either going to fall asleep or explode. Or vomit. I’m hoping it’s the former. I need this day to be like an Etch A Sketch: one shake and it’s a clean slate. I need a do-over. We all need a do-over.

Emma.

“We both need showers and we need something to eat,” Sam says, walking through my apartment. I wish I’d cleaned it up a little. My apartment is always relatively clean, but I didn’t know I was going to have company. I didn’t know a lot of things about today. It’s a good sign that I’m worried about something as trivial as dirty panties on the bathroom floor at a time like this. Although in a moment of rebellion against everything Emma died for, I kind of wish there were dirty panties on the ground. I’m not perfect, Sam Earley. What do you think of that? Oh god, I’m going to be sick to my stomach. I lunge into the bathroom.

“I’m in agreement so far,” I say, scanning the bathroom floor. Nothing. We’re clear.

“We could order a pizza,” Sam says. I decide that I’m going to wait and see if he brings it up. The it. The shooting. His shooting. The four shots that stopped the madman and saved us all.

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