The Good Girls by Shepard Sara

Author:Shepard, Sara [Shepard, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-03-31T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAC PULLED into the school parking lot and grabbed her phone. She’d been thinking about a certain song the whole drive here—a remix of Rossini and Rihanna, her favorite composer and her favorite guilty pleasure music—and she wanted to watch the YouTube clip again. But when she finally found the email that contained the link, she realized why she might have been thinking about that particular song: Blake had sent it a few weeks before, when they were sort of seeing each other. Thought you’d like this, he’d written, punctuating the email with an XO.

“Stop!” she said to herself aloud, slamming her hands onto the steering wheel for good measure. She had made up her mind that she wouldn’t give Blake another chance, and she had to stick to that. Why was it so freaking hard?

But maybe there were other reasons she was feeling a little shaky this morning. She’d met with Dr. Rose, the psychological profiler, late yesterday afternoon. Twice Mackenzie had to sit on her hands to keep them from shaking, and three times she’d caught herself humming a Dvořák piece, something she did when she was nervous. Dr. Rose had asked a bunch of benign-sounding questions about Mac’s self-esteem, her involvement with Nolan (which she’d totally downplayed), whether she’d liked Granger’s film studies class, and why she’d felt the need to follow her friends into his house the night he was killed. Mac couldn’t even remember what she’d said, she’d been so nervous.

And then, strangely, Dr. Rose had asked her about the other girls. Ava seemed very tightly wound, the doctor commented—did she seem traumatized about her mother’s death? Same with Caitlin—she lost her brother, that sort of thing had to make her angry, right? And Julie had her troubled homelife, and Parker, well . . . “Sounds like you’re involved with some friends who have some serious baggage,” the doctor had concluded. “And you know, people who have . . . issues, well, they can act out in other ways.”

Mac had stared at her. “You mean by killing people?” she’d asked.

The doctor just blinked. “Of course not,” she said. “Unless that’s what you think.”

Mac didn’t know what to think. Should she suspect the others? In some ways, it made sense: They’d all been right there for that conversation in film studies. And if one of them killed Nolan, of course she would kill Granger to shut him up—and involve the other girls as unwitting accomplices. Caitlin hated Nolan more than any of the rest of them. Or what about Ava? Nolan had started those awful rumors about her, and Granger had hit on her. Maybe she had a secret violent side.

But then Mac shook off the thought. These were her friends. They weren’t killers. Her only hope was that they could get through the interviews without raising more suspicions and questions about their involvement. The last thing she wanted was for Juilliard to find out she was being questioned or for her parents to worry any more than they had to.

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