Best Friends & Other Liars by Heather Balog

Author:Heather Balog [Balog, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781796925548
Published: 2019-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

LEAH

The door closes behind me with a quiet click. Glancing at my watch, I see it’s close to lunchtime, but I’m not even remotely hungry. In fact, I’m the opposite of hungry. I feel nauseated by the thought of eating. Hell, if I’m going to be honest, I feel nauseated by the thought of anything right now.

I can’t believe Vi really thinks I’m a slut, I muse as I wander aimlessly down the labyrinth of hallways. I have no idea where I’m headed, but I know I can’t be in the room when Violet gets back.

Vi and I have had fights over the years, but they’re usually about something stupid like whose turn it is to pay for lunch, or which teacher at our high school had been the one having affairs with all the senior girls. (It totally was Mr. McKay, the hot shop teacher who drove a Harley—I saw him making out with Kelly Parker with my very own eyes. Violet insists that it was Dr. Vickers, the physics teacher with Clark Kent glasses. She’s totally wrong—like who would have an affair with a physics teacher?)

We’ve never fought about anything that’s ever upset me this much before. The fact that my best friend thinks so little of me is enough to make me want to jump off the side of the ship.

Just like that chick in Titanic. Well, she didn’t actually jump. Jack saved her before she could jump. Maybe I’ll get lucky and some cute guy will save me—yikes! Do you hear yourself, Leah? No wonder Vi thinks you’re a slut. Every single, solitary thought you have ends up being about men or sex!

I realize I have walked straight out to the viewing deck and am standing at the rails at the back of the ship. It is freezing out here (so much for a tropical Caribbean cruise) and I am still wearing my gym clothes, which aren’t exactly December apparel. I rub my arms to warm myself, goosebumps erupting on my exposed skin.

The ocean is beautiful from where I am standing, despite the fact I’m chilled to the bone. I gaze down at the path the boat is leaving behind—the wake—mesmerized by the rise and fall of the waves. It’s so peaceful. I imagine the world underneath those waves—hundreds of thousands of creatures going about their lives, completely unbothered by the craziness that is existing in the world above the sea. The fish aren’t worried about relationships, the dolphins don’t care what their best friends think of them, the sea turtles don’t give two shits about their biological clocks ticking down like a bomb waiting to be detonated. No, those creatures just go about their lives peacefully, gliding from one end of the sea to the other is blissful harmony.

“Don’t jump!” a voice suddenly calls out, interrupting my thoughts of peace and tranquility. With my heart hammering from the sudden interruption, I whirl around to face a grinning older man with light blue eyes and white hair.

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