Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2007-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

47.

I followed her down the stairs. I was worried about her tripping, but it wouldn’t have mattered because she would have fallen on piles of bodies. A couple hundred people had crammed inside. The party had turned into a tsunami of teenagers floating on noise, smoke, and beer.

I lost her in the crowd.

I could have stayed right behind her, I guess, but my stomach felt like she had just stomped on it with combat boots, and my hormones were ready to rip my brain out of its skull. I should have followed her because she wasn’t thinking straight, and she looked innocent and vulnerable and she didn’t know what she was saying or doing. But I didn’t.

Yoda saw me wandering and had me follow him to the room where a bunch of guys were playing video games. I kept my eyes on the screen, but I wasn’t really watching. He asked me what was wrong. I told him, for a change.

“Wow,” he said.

“Exactly,” I said.

“Do you want to get drunk?” he asked.

“Wouldn’t help.”

We turned to the game. Half an hour later, some girl I didn’t know asked me if I had seen Bethany and I told her no. A few minutes after that, Hannah turned up.

“You need to talk to Bethany,” she said.

“No way.”

“She said you guys had a fight. She’s upset.”

“Good.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Never mind. I’m not talking to her. You shouldn’t, either. Let her solve her own problems.”

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