The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci

Author:Carol Plum-Ucci [Plum-Ucci, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So there it was: the reason Alisa had stayed until three in the morning. I just felt myself kind of float and drop as the concept of incest started coming clear. I wondered suddenly if all this eavesdropping was a good idea. I had my sister to think of, and listening in seemed more productive than sitting in the back lobby with the gossip squad. But I had never known an incest victim. A molestation victim? Probably. You hear things like that around school secondhand, and you think of it when you see the person floating around the corridors. But there's some sort of big bad leap from molestation to incest—from the guy up the street to your dad. I couldn't quite describe it any better than a leap—and it's simply not something you'd want leaping out of books and television and onto your podunk island.

I glanced at Drew, but he was just watching. We'd heard all kinds of shit tonight, and I wasn't sure he was as awake as I was.

"After the pregnancy test came back positive, twice, Stacy told me she wanted to go see a shrink, but a special kind of shrink—the kind that can hypnotize you and, after a few weeks of it, maybe pull out a repressed memory."

She looked at Lutz, and despite his being deadpan, she put her palms out as if to apologize. "I know this sounds totally crazy. But it seemed less crazy than some alternatives. Here's one thing about Stacy people don't know: She's scared of the dark. She can't walk the beach at night by herself, and in her grandparents' huge old house? She tells me she lies awake at night, like, listening for spooks. I know that old house creaks and groans all night long; I've slept there. But at this point she started talking about ghosts. Like she was having moments of wondering out loud if the ghost of Eddie Van Doren got her, or if she was carrying the spawn of Satan ... I was all, 'Okay! Time for a shrink, Stacy! Good idea!'"

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