She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

Author:Jordan Harper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

She looked at the gun. She looked at the girl. Her anger ebbed away. The fear too.

“Tell me what you want to know,” she said.

“Everything,” the man said. The girl didn’t say a thing. She had a teddy bear in her arms and murder in her eyes.

22

POLLY

HUNTINGTON BEACH

While her dad questioned Charlotte, Polly took notes with a pencil pebbled with tooth marks. She’d found the pencil at the bottom of her school bag, and the notebook too. She tore out the pages filled with division problems and facts about South America. She dropped them crumpled to the floor. She wrote aryan steel at the top of the page. She drew a line underneath it. She numbered the different places.

Charlotte talked to Polly’s dad, sneaking peeks at Polly, looking away, touching the claw marks on her face where Polly had gone after her. Polly liked the way Charlotte looked at her, like Polly was a monster wearing little girl skin.

Some of the words Charlotte used, Polly understood. Some she didn’t. She wrote them down anyway. She figured her dad knew or he’d ask. She wrote down things that seemed important. Like this:

CHOP SHOP—mechanic on Alverado s. of McArthur park. Close to chicken place. Peckerwood Nation.

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