Only You by Cathryn Grant

Author:Cathryn Grant [Grant, Cathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ARC provided by Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op

21

Geneva

Geneva stood on the front porch, waiting for her mother. Her parents still wouldn’t let her ride her bike because of Alice getting murdered. More than ever, she couldn’t wait to get her driver’s license. Only seven more months. It was stupid that she had to be driven to and from dance classes, to and from her friends’ houses, and even to babysitting jobs two blocks away. She felt like a prisoner, some overprotected girl from the nineteenth century who had to have a chaperone. It was embarrassing.

Everyone knew about the murder, but other parents didn’t keep their kids locked up. She hadn’t even mentioned her gap-year plans since Alice died. The way her mother was behaving about going from point A to point B in Flagstaff, Arizona, one of the safest places in the world, she would flip out if Geneva tried to talk about traveling around the world.

Something caught her peripheral vision. She turned and saw Kenny walking toward his garage. It seemed strange he wouldn’t go into the garage through the house, but people were hard to figure out sometimes. They did a lot of strange things. She waved, even though her mother had told her over and over to stay away from him. She was far away; it was fine to wave. It seemed rude not to, which was normally something that concerned her mother.

She called out to him: “Hi, Kenny.”

He stopped and stared at her for a moment, then began walking toward her.

She stepped off the front porch and met him halfway. If her mother was going to take forever finishing up her emails, coming close to making Geneva late for her class, then she could at least spend her time doing something interesting instead of just standing on the porch.

“What’s up?” Kenny said.

“Not much. Are you going out?”

“Why? Do you need a ride?”

“No. My mom’s taking me to my dance class.”

He scowled.

“What’s wrong?”

“I won’t be around here much longer, thanks to your mom.”

“What?”

“She’s been talking shit about me to my mother, to everyone on the street, telling people I killed her sister.”

“She didn’t exactly—”

“She even told the detective.”

“Yeah. But why won’t you be around? They aren’t going to arrest you, are they?”

“Nope. Not getting arrested. But she told Deborah all kinds of lies, and now she kicked me out.”

“That’s awful. Can’t you make her understand?”

He circled his finger by his left ear. “My mom isn’t all there. You can’t explain anything to her.”

“She seems fine to me.”

“You have to be around her on a regular basis before you notice. But after a while, it’s obvious—she says the same things over and over. It drives me mental. Maybe it’s good I’m leaving. Hopefully, she’ll be okay without me to help out. But your mom didn’t think about that. Some friend.”

“Where are you going?”

“Back to Phoenix, probably. Maybe I’ll go to California and check out LA. There’s more going on in California.”

She nodded. “It’s pretty quiet here. Unless you count murder.” She laughed.

Kenny laughed with her.

She liked that she’d made him laugh, but she felt a stab of guilt.

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