The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

Author:Allison Larkin [Larkin, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781982171292
Google: ehQ3EAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B08LDWKSWC
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2021-08-02T23:00:00+00:00

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Carly parks in front of Adam’s house. We have the heat cranked. My hair is still damp, and the back of my neck feels like a muggy afternoon in August. I don’t want to leave our warm bubble. I don’t want our night to end.

“You want to stay?” I ask. I know Adam wouldn’t mind.

She shakes her head. “I’m going to crash so hard in my own bed. I’m going to take up the whole damn thing. And then when I wake up, I’m going to eat cereal in my underwear and watch cartoons and laugh with my mouth full.”

I picture Carly and her octopus sleeping large and happy.

“The question is,” Carly says as I collect my bag from under the seat, “are we tough enough to do this in January?”

I laugh. “I will if you will.” My cheeks are dry and hot, my eyelids heavy.

“If there isn’t ice,” Carly says, “I think we’ll have to.”

She hugs me before I get out of the car, and waits for me to unlock the front door, flashing her lights before she drives away.

I climb the stairs, avoiding the squeaky spots, and open the door to Adam’s apartment, pulling the handle up as I push in to keep it from creaking. I shed my clothes in the bathroom and wrap my hair in a towel so I won’t get Adam’s pillows wet.

He wakes up when I climb into bed. “You smell like a campfire,” he says.

“We had a campfire,” I say.

He wraps his arms around me, and he is so warm, and my eyes are so tired, and when I close them I can still picture the water lapping at the shore, and the way we were wild. Nothing about me feels wrong.

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