Down to the Liar by Mary Elizabeth Summer

Author:Mary Elizabeth Summer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

The Shutout

We’re winning. I think. It’s hard to tell in baseball. There are runs and outs and strikes and fouls and everything is statisticized to within an inch of its life. I don’t really do numbers. They’re not as predictable as people.

Take Garrett, for example. Easy to crack. Winning is everything to him, so the badger scam is the quickest way to tear him down. It’s not even a scam, really, since I have actual dirt on him. Murphy thinks I should wait to confront him, but I think the field is the perfect place. It’ll remind him of all he stands to lose if I take this public.

After an interminable length of time, the game finally ends. Which means it’s time for my game to start.

“Garrett.” I keep my smile amiable as I approach. Amiable like a piranha. “Great game. Good…what do you call it? Hustle? I’m not super into sports.”

“Thanks.” He looks shifty. And superhumanly attractive, with the artfully mussed black hair and the cheekbones. But mostly just shifty.

“Bet you’re wondering why I’m here. Or maybe you’re not. Maybe you have a pretty good guess.”

“I don’t, actually,” he says. But he doesn’t look confused. “Is Skyla okay?”

“See, that’s the thing, Garrett. I think she could be okay. If she weren’t dating a psychotic, abusive loser like you.”

“What are you talking about?” Garrett’s expression is a perfect hybrid of pissed off and confused.

“I’m talking about this.” I hold up the Whois IP address entry I printed out. “Oops. Didn’t think you’d get caught, did you? Well, you did.”

“You think I posted all that crap about Skyla?” he says, disgusted. “I love her. Why would I do that?”

“I’m sure we could spend hours delving the deranged depths of your twisted psyche. But let’s jump to the salient point, shall we?”

“I didn’t—”

“Stop. Just stop. Delete your Facebook accounts. Otherwise, I’ll be forced to take this issue to the dean. Do you really want something so scandalous on your permanent record? I can’t imagine Cornell accepts many pre-med students convicted of harassment.”

He snatches the paper out of my hands and skims it. “Just because someone used my IP address to post doesn’t mean I did it. Someone could have cracked our wireless account. Someone could be trying to frame me.”

“Why would someone want to frame you?”

“To throw suspicion off themselves? I don’t know. But it sure as hell wasn’t me.”

Much as I hate to admit it, he has a point. I can’t prove it’s him. It could be someone in his family. Or, less likely, somebody trying to frame him. If I get it wrong, the attacks will continue. And even if it is Garrett, as long as he has deniability, he can continue posting as long as he likes without repercussion.

“Where were you last night when the most recent posts went live?”

“I was at home.” Aha! “With Skyla.” Damn.

“All right, fine. You’re off the hook for now. But you’re still on my list. And the best way you can prove it’s not you is by keeping this conversation to yourself.

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