No Accident by Laura Bates

Author:Laura Bates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2022-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

Day 8

Of course, nobody admits to anything, Even when May wakes up with a horrible hangover the next morning and swears blind she had no idea there was vodka in her drink. “Yes, I knew it tasted weird,” she snaps at Brian when he questions her. “But that damn coconut stuff always tastes disgusting. I just thought it was grosser than normal.”

They look at each other, the accusation hanging heavily over the camp.

“Was it you, Brian?” Jessa blurts out directly.

“What?” His voice is squeaky with indignation. “Why are you accusing me?”

Jessa squirms. “I’m sorry, it’s just…it seems like the kind of prank you might play. You did put dish soap in half the team’s water bottles during the second tour game…”

“Yeah, for a joke!” Brian sputters. “And don’t pretend you weren’t laughing when Tom Allen started spitting bubbles, Jessa.”

“So was this just another joke?” she persists. “We won’t be mad if you tell us. It’d be much better to own it.”

“No. Jesus. I wasn’t even the one who filled up the bottles. That was Elliot.”

“And why would I want to get May drunk?” Elliot asks. “Besides, if whoever did this was also the person who pushed me, then that puts me in the clear, doesn’t it? I wouldn’t exactly give myself a serious head injury on purpose.” Hayley watches him closely, the tense drawing together of his full, dark eyebrows, the cut on his cheek that has all but completely faded now, the bruise on his temple that’s now a faint yellow, trying to sense whether or not he is lying.

“But you were the one who filled the bottles,” Shannon says slowly, narrowing her eyes at Elliot. “How did the vodka get in there if you didn’t put it in?”

“We were all rushing around getting stuff ready,” Elliot protests. “I left the bottles under the trees to keep cool, so anyone could have slipped something in while we were getting wood or going to the bathroom. We all had the opportunity.”

“But who wanted to?” May whines furiously. “If you’ve got a problem with me, say it to my face!” she shouts defiantly.

But nobody says a word. And eventually they fall into a dissatisfied silence.

Hayley can’t stop thinking about the party on the last night of the tour. The more she tries to connect the dots between what happened to Elliot and May, the more convinced she becomes that the party is the key to unraveling it all. And though she wouldn’t admit it, there’s a part of her that feels energized, almost buoyed, by finally feeling that there’s a role for her on the island. So she wasn’t cool under pressure in the first days. And she doesn’t have any particularly useful survival skills. But uncovering the truth? Getting people to reveal more than they intended? This is Hayley Larkin’s wheelhouse. If anyone can figure out what is going on, she can. Ideally before anyone else gets hurt. The only problem is, none of it adds up. The only person with a clear motive to hurt Elliot is Jason.

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