Counting to D by Scott Kate

Author:Scott, Kate [Scott, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Elliott Books
Published: 2014-01-28T04:00:00+00:00

The next day in physics, I crept toward Lissa, wondering if she’d let me work with her anymore. “Hey?”

She tucked a lock of blue hair behind her ear. “Hi.”

“Do you totally hate me now?” I slid into my seat, hoping she wouldn’t make too huge a scene.

“I don’t hate you; I just feel used. You’ve been prancing around for the past month acting like God’s gift to everything, and now I find out it’s all a lie. I thought we were friends, Sam.”

“I didn’t really lie. I just withheld a few small — and one kind of huge — details about myself. There are lots of things I don’t know about you.”

“You don’t know that I’m allergic to shellfish. I don’t know that you’re illiterate. Somehow, these omissions don’t feel the same. You totally led me on.”

“You’re allergic to shellfish?” She sighed and turned away from me. “No, Lissa, that’s a big deal. What if I brought crab cakes to school for lunch and offered you some? I could totally kill you on accident.”

“That’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever said. I’m smart enough to know not to eat crab cakes. You couldn’t accidentally kill me.”

I shrugged. “Yeah, well I’m smart enough to pass hard classes without knowing how to read. We’re both self-reliant. And neither of us feels the need to over-share. So what do you say? Can we still be lab partners?”

She let out a long breath. “Fine. Your memorizing-the-textbook thing is sort of helpful. You can stay. But that doesn’t mean we’re friends.”

“Okay.”

Lissa read me the lab instructions, and I carefully set up the equipment. Maybe if I hadn’t lied, Lissa wouldn’t have gotten so mad. I wanted to believe we could become real friends, ones that didn’t have to keep deep dark secrets from each other. But for now our roles were set. She was the lab partner who knew how to read the directions, and I was the one with the textbook memorized. Maybe we weren’t friends, but at least we were something.

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