Crash (Visions (Simon Pulse)) by Lisa McMann

Author:Lisa McMann [McMann, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2013-01-08T06:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Three

I’m staring at Sawyer’s dead face for the zillionth time when I hear people coming up the steps. Rowan and Trey jostle each other in the tight entrance, taking winter gear off. I push play and wonder what TV show I’m actually watching—what they’ll see and hear. To me, the crash scenes loop as usual with no sound. I guess this means I won’t get to watch anything again until this is all over.

Rowan and Trey come in and see me. Rowan glances at the TV and frowns. “You must be very sick to watch that crap,” she says. “Sheesh. Turn it down. The customers will hear.”

I shrug. Curious, but too lazy to try and figure it out, I turn the TV off. “I’m feeling a little better.”

“Good,” Trey says. He has a new, concerned look in his eyes, and he’s trying not to be obvious about monitoring me. I wonder what he’s thinking. I smile at him like we share a secret, and I think that reassures him.

“So, school tomorrow, maybe?” he asks.

“Maybe.”

“Hey, are you, like, pregnant or something?” Rowan says out of the blue.

“Oh my gosh,” I say, giving Trey a look. “Where would you possibly get that idea?”

“I heard Mom and Dad whispering last night.”

“Great. Can one of you please hurry up and assure them that I am not pregnant? I have never even kissed a boy.” I hesitate. “No, don’t tell them that. Mom’ll tell everybody who walks in the door.”

“You don’t have to be kissed to get pregnant,” Rowan says. She pulls a piece of gum out of her backpack and shoves it in her mouth.

“I’m aware of the process, thank you,” I say.

Trey laughs. “Apparently, so is Rowan.”

Rowan blushes furiously. “Shut up.”

Trey pushes her shoulder and she pretends to fall over. “I’m heading down in a minute,” he says to me. “I’ll make sure everybody in the restaurant knows you are not pregnant.”

“This is all really embarrassing, you know,” I say. Trey leaves and I call out after him, “How is it that everyone in my family thinks I’m out having sex? I don’t ever leave this place. There’s no time to get pregnant around here!” I look at Rowan.

She’s watching me, grinning.

“Go,” I say. I point to the door. “Don’t you have to work or something?”

“Somebody around here has to. Lazy butt.”

“Go!”

She leaves to change clothes, and I sit here again to stew over what to do. I look outside in the waning afternoon light on a cold, snowless day and again feel relieved that I’ve got a bit of time on my hands to work with.

I’m just not sure how to tackle the next thing on my list—convincing Sawyer that something bad is going to happen, and watching him look at me like I’m nuts, all while avoiding threats from his father that could make my father kill himself.

This is where the whole love-and-pain thing comes in, right here. But I’m newly determined, and I can’t let my heart stop me from totally alienating the boy I love .

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