Beautiful Disaster by Kylie Adams

Author:Kylie Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MTV Books
Published: 2006-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

From: Max

Jap, if you get this, PLEASE text back. Paulina, if you happen to be reading, let me go on record as saying that you’re a smelly cunt with the maternal instincts of a piranha.

11:19 pm 4/22/06

Chapter Eight

Mississippi was beautiful, tranquil…and suffocating to the point of being almost deadly.

The view from Christina’s window revealed a sea of tall pines. She sat on the twin bed inside her small private room at Salvation Pointe and gazed out, marveling at nature’s handiwork, imagining ways to kill herself.

But Christina planned to wait until she returned home, because the end game was to have Paulina find her body and live miserably with the horror and guilt. Being told that her daughter had committed suicide at Salvation Pointe would be too easy on her bitch of a mother.

Thoughts about how to do it consumed her. She wanted the discovery to be particular grisly. The importance of creating an indelible image of death was key. Perhaps that’s why the option of slitting her wrists seemed to be the enduring method of choice. The blood flow alone would make the scene unforgettable.

Three fast knocks rapped the open door.

Christina turned around to see Zack Webber.

“Time for afternoon therapy,” he sang. “Wait. That sounded gay.” He tried to imitate the voice of Darth Vader. “Time for afternoon therapy.” One beat. “Is that butch enough?”

Christina laughed.

Zack was her favorite resident/patient/inmate at Salvation Pointe. He had been dispatched here from Granite, Utah, by order of his father, a syndicated talk radio personality.

Zack wanted to be a ballet dancer, he lovedGilmore Girls , and he lacked any interest or acumen in team sports. For the fifteen-year-old son of a conservative who hosted a show calledMan to Man with Dick Webber , those telltale signs of potential homosexuality were apparently grounds for aggressive intervention. So here Zack was.

He stepped over to Christina’s desk and inspected a beaded bracelet she had made in one of her craft classes. “This is cute.”

“Boys shouldn’t wear jewelry,” Christina scolded him jokingly.

“Sorry, I forgot,” Zack replied with snide alarm, dropping the delicate piece immediately. “A bracelet could mean that I’m gay.” He sighed. “Do you want to know the most ironic thing? My macho dad sent me to this awful place, and he hosts a show calledMan to Man with Dick Webber , which is thegayest sounding title I’ve ever heard!”

Christina cackled.

Zack rolled his eyes. “Oh, well. We’ve only got one more week, right?”

She gave him an upbeat nod, even though the time left loomed like an eternal torture sentence.

“It seems like we were just in group,” Zack grumbled.

“That’s because we were,” Christina said. “And there’s still evening group after this.”

He groaned. “Did I tell you that I got assigned to private counseling, too?”

Christina shook her head.

“Apparently, the ‘pace of my progress’ is troubling, so Chet Hobbs is working with me one-on-one.”

“In addition to group?”

Zack nodded.

The news made Christina wonder if she might be targeted for private sessions, as well. Of course, the more important question was this:

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