Poison Ink by Christopher Golden

Author:Christopher Golden [Golden, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Tattooing, Social Issues, Young adult fiction, Art, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, General, Horror & Ghost Stories, Best friends, Popular Culture, Fiction, Friendship, School & Education
ISBN: 9780385734837
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-07-07T23:00:00+00:00

All through psych class Sammi felt like she was in a fog. The teacher’s voice droned into gibberish like all the adults in the Charlie Brown holiday specials. By the time the bell rang, she’d retained nothing from the class except the assignment the teacher had given for the next class—which wasn’t until Monday, thankfully.

The rest of her day consisted of a study hall and then math, which allowed her to put some strategy to use. Why bother doing her trig homework at home when she could do it right before class? That strategy had worked in the past, but somehow she had a feeling it would be very difficult to focus today.

And that was before she heard Letty’s voice in the stairwell.

The stairs were packed between classes, flowing in both directions. Sammi reached the second floor and turned to keep going up to the third, where she’d have study hall in Ms. Ostergaard’s room. But as she started up the stairs she heard that familiar, flirtatious laugh, and looked up to see Letty and Katsuko standing next to the window on the landing between the second and third floors.

“Come on, Josh, stick around. Free show,” Letty said to a skinny sophomore passing by.

The kid blushed deeply, head hanging in humiliation. Sammi recognized him right off as a boy who’d had an enormous crush on Letty the previous year, and who’d been teased mercilessly by his friends when they learned she was gay. From the look of it, Sammi had to assume the taunting had started earlier, maybe in the third floor hallway. But now Letty and Katsuko had stepped aside on the landing to let Josh pass.

Letty wore a belly shirt and a daringly short skirt with striped stockings that came up to her thighs, drawing even more attention to the inches of bare leg between the top of the stocking and the hem of her skirt. Katsuko had probably come to school that day with a shirt underneath the gray vest she wore, but if so, she had shed the garment. Her pants rode so low that her hips barely kept them from falling down, and if she wore underwear, it must have been so tiny it didn’t show. On top, all she had on was the vest, which left little to the imagination.

Sammi froze on the steps and stared at them in disbelief. She wasn’t a prude. In fact, Letty and Katsuko had both given her a hard time more than once about the way she dressed. But the line between attention whore and just plain whore could be perilously thin, and to her mind it was all about how you presented yourself.

“What the hell?” she whispered.

Someone jostled her and she dropped her books. Sammi swore and knelt to pick them up as the flow of traffic on the stairs parted and swept around her.

“Come on, Josh,” Letty pleaded as the red-faced sophomore continued down the stairs. “I know you want some. You know you want some.”

Sammi bristled with disgust.

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