Little White Lies by Brianna Baker

Author:Brianna Baker [Baker, Brianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61695-516-8
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2016-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

He hung up on me.

Karl hung up on me.

That just happened.

My cheeks were on fire. If I were lighter-skinned, I think you’d see that I was blushing. My throat had a grapefruit in it. My stomach left my body. What was I going to do? How was I going to fix this?

I stared at my computer and waited for the server to respond. As I watched the refresh wheel continually spin, I talked myself down. It was going to be all right. As soon as the server came up, I would simply take down the post, and it would be fine. Shit happens, right? Right. Maybe I could make up something. Like I was hacked. On the other hand, lying about being hacked didn’t turn out so well for Anthony Weiner aka Carlos Danger. Like me, he was another disgraced person my parents had once admired.

My cell phone started ringing. It was one of the Skool twins. I don’t know which one, because when they gave me their numbers, I put them in as “Skool 1” and “Skool 2.” Truth be told, it didn’t matter. Both were equally terrifying in this situation. I did not pick up.

My phone filled up with voicemails.

Listening to the messages was not an option. I could not face them. What would the Skools say? What did they know? Why were they still calling? You left a voicemail; stop calling!

I closed my eyes, my phone still buzzing, and pictured my life swirling down the toilet.

There was only one thing to do. I told my mom I was too sick to go to school, then went back to bed and slept for nine hours. I woke up in a fog. Then I remembered my horrible morning. I had to call Rachel. Even with all of the resentment festering between us, the state of our friendship didn’t compare to the shit storm that I found myself in. I needed a safe place. I needed a safe person. I couldn’t go to my parents about this, not yet. It was too embarrassing. I declined another incoming call and dialed my friend.

R: Umm … hello? (She sounded bored. She really did not want to be talking to me right now, if at all.)

C: Rachel (sniff, sniff)… It’s Coretta.

R: I know. Don’t worry, your number is still in my phone.

C: I, I’m sorry, and I will get into all of that, but I need your help … I mean, I need your help again, like, right now—

R: Whoa, slow down there, girl. You’re hyperventilating.

C: Did you see the blog this morning? I have a TV show thing, and I know I should have told you, like, months ago … Anyway, these twins are calling me, and they are, like, Vikings, but from the future, and I don’t know what to do. This guy, the guy your connection set me up with, he helps me write. Umm, he is mad at me, and he messed it all up, and I, I, like, can’t think—

R: Shh.

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