Fans of the Impossible Life by Scelsa Kate

Author:Scelsa,Kate
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Published: 2015-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

The only thing that really happens with a bomb threat is that everyone gets to go home early. The police come with special bomb-sniffing dogs and search the entire building. That’s it. So really everyone should have thanked me.

The problem was that there was one other person home from school that day, one other student with a reason to make a prank call like that. Tommy, who had muttered under his breath about me in class, who had been at school for sports practice over that weekend, who had already been under suspicion for the spray paint on my locker, and had spent the previous week defending himself in the dean’s office. But Tommy was a scholarship kid. And there was only so much that the school was willing to take from a scholarship kid. And unfortunately for him, Tommy had called in sick that morning. So when they traced the call to a pay phone near his house, and Denise in the office said she thought that the voice on the phone had sounded vaguely like his, that was a good enough reason to expel him for good.

Maybe I thought that if Tommy had been the one to deface my locker, then he deserved to be expelled anyway. But I didn’t know for sure that it was him. If I had turned myself in I might have been okay. There would have been consequences, but I wouldn’t have been expelled. My parents paid full tuition, after all. It wouldn’t have ruined my life. Any more than it was already ruined.

After that I knew that I was someone who was capable of doing something shameful and then running away. And I didn’t like knowing that about myself. And I didn’t like myself much at all anymore.

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