Prep by Jake Coburn

Author:Jake Coburn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group

A tremor ran through the field hockey player’s right leg, and I felt a beeper in her jeans pocket. I pulled away from our kiss—my eyes struggled open. I had no idea how long we’d been kissing.

“It’s my friends,” she said, checking her pager. “I’m supposed to meet them.”

“Oh, shit.” I looked at my watch. “I’ve got to go downstairs for a sec.”

“All right.” She kissed me on the cheek and reached for her purse. “I’m going to go find a phone.”

As soon as I stepped out onto Central Park West, I knew something was wrong. Hoods were piling into the street and stopping traffic. Car horns were barking at each other. I noticed a group circling the park side of the street, but I didn’t have a clue where Greg and Kodak were.

I walked in between two parked cars and headed for the crowd. A girl ran away from the group, crying into her cell phone, and bumped into me. I caught her as she fell. She looked up at me. “Call the cops,” she gasped.

I stepped past her and sprinted across the street toward the crowd. I shoved my way to the center of the circle.

Kodak was pressed up against the body of a taxi. Two hoods I’d never seen before slammed his forehead into the windshield—I froze. Greg grabbed one of them by the collar, but three other hoods threw him to the ground and smacked their Timberlands into his side. Greg’s body convulsed, and he curled into a ball of obscenities.

I tried to shout something but my throat clenched. Stomach acid burned the roof of my mouth. I couldn’t move. What the fuck was wrong with me?

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