Crazy Horse's Girlfriend (9781940430447) by Wurth Erika T

Author:Wurth, Erika T.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perseus Book Group
Published: 2014-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

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“So, what’s the plan for tonight? It’s Friday. We survived another week in this town. Therefore, we deserve a little party-poo,” Jake was saying. I had gone downstairs after dinner to find him sitting on the futon, his long, dark body sprawled out, McDonald’s wrappers on the old coffee table in front of him. He was finishing a burger and fries.

“Want one?” he asked, holding the sleeve of fries out.

“Nah, I just had dinner.” I sat down on the bed. “We have to have a plan?”

“Margaritte, you know I always have a plan.”

I laughed. “OK, so what’s your fantastic plan.”

“Well, by plan, I mean party.”

“Oh, God, I don’t know,” I said, putting my hands in my hair and looking at the old, beat up basement floor. There was something so cold and depressing about the painted concrete under my sneaks.

“Margaritte, you need some fun. Some distraction.”

“Normally by that you’d mean booze.”

“Well, yes. No. But… well. When’s your appointment?”

“In a few weeks,” I said.

Jake looked at me, his face radiating pity. “Has he called again?”

“No.”

“OK, now I know you need a drink. That is, if you were drinking. Why aren’t you drinking?”

“I can’t explain it, but it just seems wrong. Creepy. I’m sure I will… after. But I’ll go to the party if you really want me to. I could even call the moron twins up to see if they wanted to join us. Julia got a little pissy with me when I was with Mike, but I’m sure she’s heard that we’re not together anymore. I mean fuck, I’ve been trying to call her for weeks, but the foster kiddies always tell me that she’s out and about.”

Jake handed me the phone. I dialed and asked for Julia at her house, but the kid who answered told me she wasn’t there. I looked at Jake and shrugged. I tried Treena’s number but her mother, her voice heavy with years of cigarette smoking, told me she wasn’t there either. That they had gone out together. I thanked her and hung the phone up. It was an old, red rotary style that had been in my parent’s bedroom for years.

“Both of them aren’t home. So, maybe they’ll be at the party.”

“I doubt it. This crowd is older,” Jake said.

A few hours later, we were sneaking out the window. We started my car and pulled out of the driveway with the headlights off. The town went by in a near blur, and I felt pretty happy to be getting away from the house. Away from myself. I rolled the window down and let the smell of the green, wet season in. I turned the radio up and found that I still had one of Mike’s mixtapes in the deck. One that he had made for me after the first time we’d been together. My throat tightened and I thought about ejecting the tape but I stayed my hand. I let the heavy, staticky, painful music into me and thought of Mike. His hands on me, his eyes closed, listening to the thrum of my heart as it sped up in response to his body.

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