A Flicker in the Clarity by Amy McNamara

A Flicker in the Clarity by Amy McNamara

Author:Amy McNamara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-04-05T16:00:00+00:00


Need You

MY PHONE BUZZES ON THE LEDGE next to me. It’s Em. At seven a.m.

“Hey,” I answer, happy despite the time. She’s calling to hear how it went, and finally it’s my turn to have a night to report on. Every perfect detail—Theo walking me across the bridge, then all the way home. Sitting out front, shivering and kissing, until almost one in the morning.

“I was going to call you in a bit. What are you doing up?” I rub the sleep out of my eyes and double-check the time.

“Can you come?” Her voice is scratchy and raw, like she’s been up all night screaming lyrics into a mic and smoking hundreds of cigarettes.

“What’s wrong?” I do a whole-body stretch that’s so thorough my feet twitch and wake Marcel at the end of my bed. He’s so fat he’s hard to hoist up here every night, but if I don’t he whimpers on the floor beneath me.

“Nothing. Can you just come?”

I kick off the covers and sit up.

“I need you.”

I scramble down with Marcel and start looking for clothes.

“Sure, I’ll be right over,” I say, ready to hang up.

“Wait!” she says. “I’m not home.”

“Where are you?”

“Tompkins Square Park.”

When I hustle out of my room and into the hall, there’s a noise in the kitchen, like my mom’s already up. Maybe she never slept. Between my mom and Em, this is a bizarre Saturday. I hesitate by the kitchen door but don’t let her know I’m awake. She’ll be all questions if I do. I leave a note on my bed instead.

Ran out to meet Em. She needs me.



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