Everyone Knows How Much I Love You by Kyle McCarthy

Author:Kyle McCarthy [McCarthy, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781984819758
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2020-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

As soon as Leo said yes, we began. I sensed it was important to move quickly, before he changed his mind. Mr. Cowan said we could use his room, and that Thursday, after carefully tacking Lacie’s red scarf over the door, I turned to my two actors, who were sitting side by side, hands folded, waiting.

Back in February, Mr. Cowan had announced extra credit for anyone who entered a one-act in the Young Playwrights contest. A day later, he added that anyone who performed at Art Night would earn extra credit too—not only the writer but the actors as well. Leo had a C in English; I’d heard him talking to Lacie about how he still hadn’t finished his Beloved paper. True, it had taken some wrangling, but once I had gotten Lacie hyped about a new project, Leo had fallen in pretty easily.

To say I was glad is an understatement. By junior spring they were nearly mythic in my mind. Their names—Lacie and Leo—sounded so good together, like an indie rock band, and they were weirdly, seductively twinned, both long and lanky and sleepily hot. But it wasn’t just their beauty; it was also that they were leaving me. Sure, now they were careful to include me—Lacie, especially, made sure I was invited to every party and hang—but I knew it wouldn’t last forever. That’s why I had concocted my plan, had lured them, with extra credit and the promise that they wouldn’t have to do anything, to this classroom after school.

But somehow in all my fantasizing about putting on a play, I had imagined only the camaraderie: goofing off during rehearsals, laughing at the costumes, huddling in the hot, bright wings. I had not imagined the first rehearsal, or their blank, expectant gaze. I was used to studying them for clues about how to behave.

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