What Goes Around by Courtney Summers

Author:Courtney Summers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

monday

I wake up, and the bruises on my arms have turned really yellow and brown, so I have to wear long sleeves, even though fall is doing its best impression of summer and the air is sticky and hot. Anna decided we’ll all wear tank tops and miniskirts for as long as the weather holds—before winter confines us to less revealing outfits—and I agreed, so I don’t know what I’ll tell her when she sees me today and asks what my deal is.

And I’ll have to tell her something, because I can’t tell her the truth.

I debate various lies over breakfast, a pale pink antacid with coffee. I’m a pretty good liar as long as I’m talking to an easy sell, but Anna is not an easy sell. If she finds out I’m hiding something, she’ll want to know what. Maybe she’ll be mad. Maybe she won’t give a damn. Anna is funny like that.

I decide to tell her I’m having a fat day.

“Little warm out for that shirt, isn’t it, Regina?” Mom asks, setting a plate of eggs and toast in front of Dad. Her comment draws his eyes up from the paper.

“You’ll melt,” he says.

I shrug and drain my coffee. “Whatever. I’ll see you later.”

Halfway to school, I feel like I’m going to throw up. I fan my face with my hand, and the air that meets my skin is hot. My shirt clings to my back, pressed uncomfortably into place by my book bag. A pay phone looms on the horizon, the closest thing I’ve got to a cell phone, because my parents kind of suck. I drop my bag and rifle through my pockets for change until I find a quarter. I use it to call Josh.

Pick up, Josh. Pick up. I imagine the song that plays when someone calls his cell, exploding from his pocket until he picks up, but he never does, which is weird because Josh always picks up, and he’s always good for a ride. He’s my boyfriend.

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