Last Girl Lied To by L. E. Flynn

Author:L. E. Flynn [Flynn, L. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1250158133
Amazon: B07BFCDQSG
Publisher: Imprint
Published: 2019-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

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MAYBE YOU WERE the one with negative body image, because you were obsessed with the size of everything. Your ears were too small. Your nose was too big. Your toes were too skinny and your kneecaps out of proportion to your body.

Morrison Beach didn’t fit.

“I’m done here,” Trixie said one day when we were walking from my car to the school. “Don’t you think we need something bigger?”

I thought everything was big enough already. If anything, I wanted to shrink. Shrink myself and shrink the world down to just the two of us, where nobody expected anything of me and I expected nothing back from them. I wanted our world to become a bubble we could draw curtains around, a snow globe immune to the outside.

“What do you mean?” I said.

“I mean,” she said, slinging her arm around my shoulder like she did when she got especially amped up, “New York City big. What do you think?”

I stopped, and she kept walking. “Are you asking me to move to New York with you?”

“Of course I am. I’m not going by myself, silly.”

The idea kind of scared me. I always figured I’d end up at UCLA, like I talked about with my old friends. I had even gone to visit the campus last summer with Jenny and Alison, and we stayed in a dorm room, picturing how awesome life after high school would be.

“Okay,” I said, because maybe New York would be the scene of my awesome life after high school. What was anchoring me in California anyway? Or who?

“They have the best cheesecake,” she said. “And bagels. And snow, Fiona. Plus, you love fashion. I picked up some brochures about NYU. It’s the perfect place for us.”

I nodded along with everything. I had gotten rid of my sewing machine and didn’t talk about clothes anymore, so I was surprised she even remembered. She was so excited about the possibility of New York that I got excited too, started to feel like maybe I really would have an awesome life after high school, that I could become myself again. Maybe getting away from everyone would be the best way to get back to that girl.

I never considered that if I had an anchor in California, in the form of a boy I wished I didn’t love, Trixie might have had a magnet, pulling her farther and farther away. Toby.

How far did she go for him?

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