Twisted Love: A Dark Romance by CM Wondrak

Author:CM Wondrak [Wondrak, CM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-01T06:00:00+00:00

Lunch rolled around, and Aubree was glum and morose, sighing every ten seconds and not eating anything. I even went to the vending machine and got her some chocolate, figuring she would at least eat that, but she didn’t. She was so out of it, so broken-hearted and depressed about what happened to Kyle that she was hardly acting like herself. This Aubree… I wondered if this Aubree was anything like the Aubree that used to cut herself.

Not that I was assuming she’d go straight back to the habit, the habit that had almost killed her years ago, but without being inside her head, I had no idea where she was mentally. Not good, that much I knew.

I didn’t know if I should tell her about the police questioning me this morning or not, but I decided to anyway. “The police were here this morning. I got called down to the front office,” I said, shooting a look at her. Around us, the cafeteria was quieter than it usually was, less merriment to be had. Fewer conversations and a lot less laughter, and it had to be out of respect for the one this school had lost.

Out of respect, or out of fear, because what if the officers were right? What if Kyle’s death wasn’t a suicide and it was a cold-blooded murder? If someone could go after the high school’s star quarterback, any one of us could be next.

Death. It wasn’t something high school kids thought of, other than me. But I knew I wasn’t normal in that respect; it’s where my not-like-other-girls thing shined through. It could be that everyone else was scared they’d be next. If there was one thing I was told us teenagers felt, it was invincible, that nothing could ever harm us.

I never believed that, but I think I was more pragmatic and cynical than most of the others around me, Aubree included. Even though my past was mostly a blank blur, I just knew I’d seen more, witnessed what this world had to offer so much more than anyone else here.

Aubree snapped to attention once I’d spoken, blinking as she looked at me. “They were? You did? What… what did they say?”

“They just asked me about last night,” I said.

“And you told them everything, right?”

I blinked. I didn’t know about telling them everything, but I did answer their questions. “All they did was ask me if I thought Kyle was acting strange last night and if he has any enemies.” I shrugged, much like I did to the policemen. “I didn’t know Kyle that well, so I didn’t really know what to say.”

Aubree quieted, staring at me, the frown tugging at her lips a truly sad one. “You know what that means, right?”

Truthfully, I had absolutely no idea what it meant. I didn’t know what any of this meant, nor what it meant that my mind kept going back to my parents and what happened to them. All I could say was a quiet “No.

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