Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia by Jason Pargin

Author:Jason Pargin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Twenty minutes later, Zoey was staring at the ceiling of the trailer’s cramped-but-still-bigger-than-her-old-bedroom bedroom and Aviv was saying, “I swear I didn’t come here to do that.”

“Why are you here? At the festival, I mean? Are you planning a stunt?”

“I had tickets. All-access pass. I wanted to see you.”

“So you did come here to do this. You can get anyone you want, girl or boy, was it really so amazing last time that you had to come back to me?”

“Yes? But just to talk, I swear.”

“I would ask how you got in here unnoticed, but the more important question is, what’s your plan for getting out? Do you even have one?”

He sat up. “Before we talk business, I want to ask: Was that good for you? Just now? Normally I can last longer…”

“It lasted exactly as long as I wanted it to last.”

“This may seem like a strange question,” he said as he pulled on his pants, “but have you had, like, classes in this? In Kama Sutra stuff?”

“Maybe you’ve just been screwing beautiful, boring women up to now. Get dressed.”

“I feel like I’m getting mixed messages here.”

“It’s not complicated, Aviv. I know you’re bad for me but the hungry, grunting pig-monster that lives inside me doesn’t care. It’s in charge of my diet, too. It feeds on vice and poops regret.”

“Oof.”

“And you’re changing the subject,” she said as she sat up and looked for her bra. “Tell me your plan. Your whole plan. We need to be on the same page or people can literally die. This trailer is parked next to a powder keg, a quarter of a million kids out there who’ve decided this music festival is the front line of a culture war. This isn’t a joke, it’s serious.”

“What if I told you I think jokes are very serious business? This election is already ridiculous, all I’m doing is pointing it out.”

“Well, your serious joke is going to get Leonidas Damon elected.”

“If I’m working in his favor, why is he the only candidate who wants me dead?”

“You can’t judge your life by whether or not you’re making the right people mad,” she said as she headed for the bathroom. “If you didn’t sneak in just so we could hook up again, why are you here?”

“Well, I thought I would have some information for you, but it hasn’t come through yet.”

“What information?” she asked through the closed bathroom door.

“I’ll tell you when it comes through. There’s no point until then.”

“Uh-huh. And this isn’t all just part of the setup for whatever you have planned?”

“I promise I don’t have any stunts planned for tonight.”

“Tomorrow?”

“No, no stunts.”

“The day after? Election day?”

He paused. “My election-day shenanigans are no more dangerous or chaotic than what the candidates themselves are doing.”

“Aviv…”

She emerged from the bathroom and tried to look stern as she dressed, which actually wasn’t easy, considering the contortions that were required to stuff herself into the jeans.

“No chaos,” he said, “I promise. I mean, I won’t do anything to stop people from voting.

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