Oblivion by Sasha Dawn

Author:Sasha Dawn [Dawn, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60684-477-9
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2014-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

“Yeah.”

“With who?”

“I don’t think she goes to our school.”

“He sleep with her?”

“I didn’t stick around to see.” I bite into the sucker, crack it in half with my molars. “I um … I ran.” Crunch, crunch, crunch. “To the Vagabond.”

“Why didn’t you come get me? Dude, I would’ve …” Her eyes soften. “Are you okay?”

“I don’t think it’s hit me yet.”

“Is that why …” She licks her lips and refuses to break eye contact. “Is that why you spent the night with Jon? You needed someone to talk to, and I was out of it?”

Her eyes are pleading with me to give her an explanation she can buy.

I don’t want to lie to her. I know a lie is only going to delay the inevitable, and when the truth eventually comes out, the consequence will be far worse if I lie now. But I can’t heap more onto my already overflowing plate. Double, delayed insult is better at the moment than being tossed out of the Hutches’ home. I’ll deal with the fallout of a half-truth later.

“I didn’t spend the night with him,” I say. “I spent the night with you. In your bed. Ask your dad. He came in, saw us there.” I tell her about John’s carrying her inside, about her parents coming home in the middle of it. I explain that I was trying to protect her. She was drunk, I remind her, and half clothed. There was a boy in her room, and his car was in the driveway. What choice did I have?

“So when you and Jon came out of your room this morning, it was only because you just woke him up to get him out of the house.”

“Yes.” But flashes of hooking up with him play like a movie in my mind.

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