Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Author:Clay McLeod Chapman [Chapman, Clay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2022-09-20T00:00:00+00:00
going away
Poeâs is packed. Apparently Iâm at a going-away party? Only Amara could pull something together like this with twenty-four hoursâ notice. On a Monday night, no less. Amara would host her own funeral if she could, just so she could get plastered with her pals.
Sheâs telling everyone else sheâs leaving for New York within a week but I know whatâs really happening.
Sheâs running away. Amara saw something in the house and it scared her enough to finally leave Richmond. But you canât outrun what haunts you, I think. Your ghosts will find you.
âWhatsup, bitches!â she shouts every time someone she knows arrives. She tipsily shrieked it at me as I entered with a group of strangers. Or I thought she did. She hugs the others, so I make a beeline to the bathroom. Her squeals follow me. Iâve known Amara long enough to know when sheâs trying too hard. Sheâs keeping a brave party face on, wearing a high-necked, pink floral-print cheongsam that demands attention. All eyes are on her. The belle of the ball.
I thought our circle of friends was the universe and Silas was our sun, but Amara has this entire other reality of work pals.
I wasnât going to come. Not after Dadâs birthday party, but the idea of goingâ
home
âback to my apartment and being alone terrifies me. Now that Iâm here, I know I should leave. I donât think I can do this, but I want to be around familiar faces. Even just one.
I need to get Amara by herself. Iâll ask if sheâs seeing them, too. Why else would she be surrounding herself with so many people? Why else would she be leaving so suddenly?
I need to talk to someone, anyone, whoâll understand whatâs happening to me. This nightmare. Tobias isnât picking up his phone. His roommates havenât seen him since last week. Heâs still out there. In Hopewell. In the house. I donât know for sure but Iâd bet my life on it.
Everyone here gives me a wide berth. I havenât looked at myself in the mirror in a hot minute, but I can imagine the strung-out vibes Iâm giving off right about now. Iâm repelling every living soul while all the dead ones canât seem to leave me alone.
The bathroom walls are covered in the scabs of stickers for local bands and graffiti. Even I contributed a little something to the walls. Youâd never know I was there unless you knew where to look for me, which is exactly the way I like it.
There I am. Itâs the little things that remind you youâre still alive, only now it says:
ERIN WAS HERE
Someone changed it, like all the others, editing my graffiti so that I exist in the past tense. This isâ¦this is insane. Whoâs doing this? Why are they acting like Iâm not here? Like Iâmâ
dead
Itâs beyond fucked. Nobody else even knows about these tags but me and itâs not like Iâd do this to myself.
Itâs the drug. It has to be the drug.
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