Blindsided by Kyra Lennon

Author:Kyra Lennon [Lennon, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781291611489
Google: GLn0nQEACAAJ
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

In the time leading up to Isabelle getting to the hospital, I talked to nurses about how I was feeling, told them about my knee and got an X-ray arranged for later in the afternoon, and tried really hard to remember what happened at the party. When the police questioned me, I searched every bit of my brain for something that would help me figure out how my drink had been spiked. It was like someone had reached into my mind and removed nine hours of my memory. There was nothing but darkness between me dancing with Isabelle, and when I woke up. I was lucky my friends were around me, and in a weird way, I was glad it was me who took that glass. The outcome could have been a whole lot different if one of the girls had taken it.

I didn’t mention Leon to the cops. I asked Hunter not to mention him either. Just because he was high on my list of suspects, there wasn’t enough evidence to make me send the police after him. Maybe that was too generous of me, but I’d seen first-hand the damage done to people who were falsely accused of something. I needed to be sure, though how I was going to do that, I had no idea.

By the time Isabelle arrived, I was really stressed out, but seeing her walk through the door made everything seem a little less terrible. Janet and Hunter left us to have some privacy, and Isabelle perched on the edge of the bed. She looked exhausted, like she’d been crying all night, and I reached for her hand.

“Hey, beautiful,” I said, softly.

A tear slipped down her cheek, and I hated that I’d made her cry. Again. Her brown eyes sparkled with moisture and she was trembling.

“Are you okay?” she asked.

“Kind of. I’ll know for sure later. How about you?”

She shook her head. I couldn’t stand to see so much sadness in her eyes. I wanted to hold her close, to kiss all the unhappiness away and pretend that the night before never happened. I released her hand from mine and drew her in to me.

“This is all my fault,” she said. “I never should have made you go to that party. Neither of us wanted to go, and now you’re in hospital with a messed up knee. All because of me.”

“No. Not because of you. You didn’t do this.”

“But you didn’t even want to go to Mischa’s, we should have-”

“Isabelle,” I interrupted, stroking her hair, “stop. The only person to blame is the scumbag who spiked my drink.”

Isabelle stilled in my arms. I could still feel her tears seeping through my shirt, but her sniffles stopped and she tensed up.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

She answered too quickly.

“Isabelle. Do you know something?”

Slowly, she raised her head. “I don’t think I should tell you.”

“Tell me what?” I asked. “What do you know?”

Her tears began to fall faster and she shuffled away from me, rising to her feet. I’d only known her for a couple weeks but she’d never been anything but open and honest the whole time.

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