All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab

Author:Anna Jarzab [Jarzab, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89407-7
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Sophomore Year—Spring Semester

It was the Friday night before finals week, and we were celebrating with the Force, Carly’s favorite party drink. On paper, it’s pretty much the most disgusting thing that’s ever been invented—beer, vodka, and a can of frozen pink lemonade concentrate. In actuality, though, it tastes sort of okay. We mixed up a batch in her bathroom and filled two water bottles, taking them into her bedroom to play a drinking game to the movie Glitter.

“Okay, here’s the rule,” Carly said as she pressed PLAY. “Every time there’s an aerial shot of New York, we take a drink.”

Fun fact: Glitter has about thirty-seven thousand aerial shots of New York in it, so we were pleasantly buzzed by the time the movie was over. When the credits began to roll, Carly turned off the TV and turned on the radio.

“I love this song!” she said, flopping down on her bed.

“Me too! What is it?”

“I don’t know. Adam will—get me my phone, it’s in my bag.”

I was still sitting on the floor near her bed, so I leaned over and dragged her schoolbag toward me. My head felt like it was stuffed with cotton and my arms were heavy, as if I had on those weight cuffs that runners wear. I practically dumped the contents of the bag into my lap to find her cell.

“Here,” I said, tossing the phone up to her. Carly dialed Adam and had him listen to the song over the phone. I was slowly putting everything back into her purse when a small square plastic bag filled with white powder fell out of her cosmetics case. I picked it up between two fingers, my mind scrolling through everything it could be besides drugs. All my fuzzy brain could come up with was flour, but I didn’t think Carly was doing any impromptu baking at school.

Carly hung up, laughing. “He was like, ‘I can’t even hear what you’re playing me, but if you like it, then it must be horrible.’ What an asshole.”

“Carly,” I said, holding up the bag. “What’s this?”

“Hey,” she cried, grabbing it out of my hand. “What are you going through my stuff for?”

“Is that cocaine?”

“No! Yes. I don’t know. It’s not even mine. Adam told me to give it to Jamie Pierson in trig and I forgot.”

“You forgot?”

“Yes, and don’t tell Adam, he’ll kill me. I told Jamie I’d drop it off at his house tomorrow morning. Unless you want to come with me tonight?” she proposed, grinning.

“No thanks,” I snapped. “If you want to let your boyfriend turn you into a drug mule that’s your business, but don’t you dare even think about getting me involved!”

“Aren’t you a saint,” she said. The look on Carly’s face infuriated me. She was clearly dumbfounded by my reaction, as if I were the one being totally irrational. I stormed out of her room and went right to Cass’s house, but he didn’t respond as I’d expected.

“I wouldn’t worry too much about Carly,” he said with trademark nonchalance.

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