A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

Author:Malinda Lo [Lo, Malinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2022-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

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When we were sitting in her truck looking out at the water, eating our burgers, I told her about Haley and Tasha, which somehow led me to show her the video from the Fourth of July. And then I told her how I was supposed to be spending the summer on Martha’s Vineyard, but I had been uninvited because of the Tumblr photos. She didn’t look shocked and she didn’t interrupt, and I realized I hadn’t told anyone about this before. I had been embarrassed and angry, but now the embarrassment had faded and my anger had dissipated. The photos were probably still on Tumblr since you could never entirely delete something from the internet, but with every passing day they got buried under more posts. It wasn’t a funny story—not yet, and maybe it never would be—but it didn’t hurt anymore.

When I finished, Steph said, “Now I understand why you seemed so down when you first got here.”

“I did?”

“Yeah. I’m sorry that happened to you.”

She reached over and put her hand on my knee. She squeezed it very lightly, as if to comfort me, and then she moved it away and picked up her Diet Coke. It happened so fast I almost thought I’d imagined it, but I felt her fingerprints on me, as if they’d been tattooed on my skin.

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