Need by Joelle Charbonneau

Author:Joelle Charbonneau
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Young Adult, Thriller
ISBN: 9780544416697
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

NETWORK MEMBERS—686

NEEDS PENDING—683

NEEDS FULFILLED—218

Bryan

BRYAN GLANCES at his watch, then back at the house he’s been staking out for the past half-hour. NEED’s requirement is clear. For Bryan to get what he asked for, this task has to be completed tonight. But it’s cold and windy and the snow is getting heavier with each passing minute.

This sucks. It all sucks.

Everyone Bryan talked to, including Jack, gave him the same information about tonight’s gathering. Technically, Bryan was on the invitation list. He’s supposed to be inside talking about Amanda. Exchanging stories and sharing tears. Remembering her. As if forgetting who she was, what she meant, and what he did is even a possibility. The only way to forget is to get the gun that NEED will provide.

So Bryan stays crouched in the bushes, shivering against the wind, waiting, watching, hoping. For what, he doesn’t really know. Doing this seems wrong. But doing nothing seems equally wrong. He wants to talk to someone, but the only person who knows what Bryan is up to is Jack Weakley, and Jack isn’t exactly the type to have insightful conversations. Bryan hadn’t thought Jack was really capable of holding a conversation at all until he called.

Thinking about Jack, Bryan pulls out his phone and types: Where is he?

A few seconds later, the return message reads: I’m working on it. Hold your ass and wait there.

Hold your ass? Yeah, Jack’s a mental giant. “Wait there.” Easy for Jack to say. He isn’t the one in danger of getting frostbite. Although maybe his part is worse. After all, Nate is his brother. Betraying family has to be worse. And for what? What does Jack want that he’s willing to go so far to get it? An iPad? A computer? Some sort of sports junk that he’s always showing pictures of online?

A gust of wind makes Bryan shiver, or maybe it’s his disgust. Not for Jack, but for himself. Because as pointless as Bryan thinks the stuff Jack probably asked for is, what Bryan has requested is no better. Sports equipment isn’t a need. Neither is a gun. Suicide isn’t noble. Bryan knows that. Killing himself won’t bring back Amanda. Dying is easy. It means he no longer has to face what he’s done. And using a gun is the easiest method of leaving his guilt behind. He’s always believed suicide is for wimps who don’t care about anyone but themselves. He’s talked to his parents about it. His friends. The annoying school counselor when his mother was worried that he was depressed and stressed.

He was offended by the concern then. But somehow, in a matter of days, Bryan has become the thing he most despised. A coward. It’s why he’s out here in the freezing cold instead of inside where he used to belong.

One thing. He did one careless thing and now he no longer belongs anywhere.

His phone vibrates and he struggles to remove his glove so he can swipe the screen. Even with his glove off, it takes three tries.

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