Frenzy by V. J. Chambers

Author:V. J. Chambers [Chambers, V. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHATPTER SIXTEEN

Jill was lying face down on her bed, her face buried in her pillow. She was groaning.

I was struggling into my coat, still wearing my pajamas. “Come on, Jill, we’re going to miss lunch at the dining hall if we don’t get up and go now.” The dining hall served only two meals on the weekends: brunch and dinner. Brunch ended at two o’clock, and it was 1:30.

“I can’t move.” Her voice was muffled.

“I moved my car down,” I said. No one checked parking passes on the weekend, meaning that freshman could park where they liked, even behind the dorm if they needed to. “All you have to do is make it down to the parking lot.”

She lifted her head. “You moved your car?”

I nodded.

“Oh, you are a saint, Molly. You are the best thing that ever happened to me.”

I laughed a little, but it wasn’t easy. I felt like death warmed over. Between the ecstasy comedown and Levi being an ass, I wasn’t having the best day ever. In fact, I’d spent the hour that I’d been awake contemplating how pointless everything was.

Levi was right. There was no reason to try to find Cori’s murderer. I wasn’t a detective. I couldn’t do anything even if I did figure it out. There was no reason to bother. I was going to give up on all of it.

Hell, I felt like giving up in general. It was Sunday, and I still had some reading to catch up on for classes tomorrow, but I didn’t think I was going to get to it. What was the point?

Jill crawled out of bed. She handed me the bottle of 5 HTP. “Here. Better take some.”

I obliged her, but I didn’t really care very much if I got more serotonin or not.

She shook out three pills into her palm and then popped them into her mouth to dry swallow.

“You’re taking that many?”

“I feel like dog poop,” she said. “I feel so bad, I don’t even want to say the word ‘shit.’”

I grabbed the bottle from her. I took two more of the pills. “You think this stuff even works?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. I know we’ve been rolling too often. This is the way I always get when I do it too much.” She made a face, reaching for her coat. “Let’s go to the dining hall.”

I opened the door.

Together, Jill and I shuffled down the steps and out to the parking lot. When people passed us, they quickly looked away. We didn’t look so good.

Idly, I contemplated the fact that just a year ago, I would never have been caught dead going out like this in public. As a high school senior, I would have made sure to shower and blow dry my hair and apply makeup. It was an hour-long process. Now, as a college freshman, I saw nothing wrong with going to the dining hall in my pajamas at 1:30 in the afternoon. I’d pulled my hair into a sloppy ponytail on top of my head, but that was as far as I’d gone in my attempt to groom myself.

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