The Girl Who Wasn't Dead by Samantha Boyette

Author:Samantha Boyette [Boyette, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FF, Fiction, Glbt, lesbian, Mystery & Detective, Thriller, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781626399501
Google: WxfnswEACAAJ
Amazon: 1626399506
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Marissa

Seeing Jenny again was strange. After she’d disappeared, Marissa had expected to see Jenny around every corner. The summer after senior year had been awful. She couldn’t go anywhere without people giving her gross sympathetic looks or whispering to each other as she passed. The longer she went without breaking down in public or walking around like a depressed zombie, the more people talked. They called her an ice queen, a bitch, a heartless snob, and a dozen other things. Whatever. In her heart she knew Jenny wouldn’t have wanted her going around like a total sad case.

All the same, she had only just started to come to terms with what happened. LA had been the saving grace. Out there, she didn’t find herself expecting to run into Jenny. No one knew her best friend had died, they only knew the version of Marissa that she projected.

Yet, here was Jenny, alive and well. It was almost like a dream. She kept thinking she would wake up back in California to find it was all some sort of guilty nightmare.

Marissa unscrewed the cap on the bottle, staring at Jenny. “Thank God you have this or I don’t think I’d make it through the night.”

Jenny shook her head. “You still drink way too much.”

Marissa shrugged, licking her lips after she swallowed. “Too much is relative.”

“Not really,” Kyla said. “There are health recommendations for how much to drink.”

“Okay, if you want to be all goody two-shoes about it.” Marissa rolled her eyes. The girl was annoying, but not as annoying as Ally. She frowned, considering that. “Hey, so are you and Ally getting it on?”

Jenny winced. “Wow, you always know how to put things delicately.”

Marissa shrugged and raised an eyebrow at Jenny. “Are you?” Across the room, Kyla was watching Jenny, waiting for an answer as well. She probably wanted to know even more than Marissa did. She’d spent the whole night casting lovesick puppy glances at Jenny.

Jenny sighed and sat on the end of the bed, shaking her head. “No, we’re not. Never have.” She winced. “Well, not really.”

Marissa sat the bottle on the table and leaned forward. She let one heel dangle from her foot, shaking it as she spoke. “Not really?”

“What does that mean?” Kyla looked ready to gnaw a hole through her lip.

Jenny got up and went to check out the window. Apparently, no one was heading back toward the room because she spoke in a rushed, quiet voice. “You remember your eighth grade graduation party?”

“Yeah?” Marissa drew out the word, wondering where this was going.

“We made out that night. And a bit more.” Jenny cast an apologetic look at Kyla. “Sorry I never told you.”

“Sorry you never told her?” Marissa looked shocked. “What about me, you know, your best friend? The one who’s house it happened in?”

“You were already distancing us from Ally. I was grateful you were dropping her.” Jenny looked out the window again. “I just wanted to forget it ever happened because it freaked me out.

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