Recovery Road by Blake Nelson

Author:Blake Nelson [ Nelson, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-33297-2
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

11

And so I go from two friends, to one friend, to zero friends.

I am back to where I started, back to the library at lunch, back to eating baby carrots at my locker.

I think about what Martin said, of course. But I don’t feel capable of doing anything about it. Maybe someday I’ll be able to apologize to people in situations like this. Maybe someday I won’t even get into situations like this.

But that someday is not now.

Then, as if to fill the friendship void, Emily Brantley starts sniffing around me again. She says hi to me a couple times, once in the bathroom, once in the hall.

After school, as I’m walking through the parking lot, she sees me and calls me over to her and her friends. This includes Amanda Davidson and Petra Brubaker, two popular juniors.

I’m a little nervous, but I let myself be called. I walk over to Amanda’s car and we all stare at each other. Emily tells me they’re going to a party on Friday, it’s people from Bradley Day School. Do I want to come?

I hesitate.

“Don’t worry. We’ll protect you,” she says.

Amanda and Petra have no comment. Then Jake and Alex and Raj drive by in Raj’s car. They slow down and talk to us.

“Hey, Maddie,” says Jake. “Where’ve you been hiding?”

“Nowhere,” I tell him.

Everyone sort of chitchats for a minute. They talk about parties they went to last weekend. People they hung out with. Fun they had.

As I stand there, I think of Trish going into the ground. I think about the dirt covering her up so she never has to hear about someone else’s awesome party weekend ever again.

Lucky her.

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