Surviving High School by M. Doty

Author:M. Doty [Doty, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: english eBooks
ISBN: 9780316220163
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Published: 2012-09-04T05:00:00+00:00

That night, Kimi came by for their monthly sleepover. She unpacked her never-to-be-mentioned-to-anyone-on-pain-of-death Hello Kitty sleeping bag as Emily sorted through her friend requests on Facebook, trying to figure out which people she actually knew. Kimi kicked off her shoes and flopped facedown on Emily’s bed.

“Uh, so, sorry about last night,” said Kimi, avoiding eye contact.

“No problem. I got a ride home from Samantha,” said Emily as her cursor hovered over Zach Reynolds’s friend request. They had played Never Have I Ever together. Technically, that qualified as a kind of friendship, right? She hit Accept.

“Kimi, I know this might sound weird, but have you ever heard any rumors? Like, about my sister?”

Kimi sat up and looked over at her.

“About Sara? No. I mean, I doubt anyone would say anything to me. They know you and I are friends. Honestly, though, I don’t think there’s much to say.”

“Yeah,” said Emily. “You’re probably right. Sorry I brought it up.”

It doesn’t matter, she thought. I’m pretty sure I know who I need to talk to anyway.

She imagined what it would feel like to confront Cameron Clark, to ask him if he and Sara had secretly dated. A shiver went through her as she turned back to the computer.

“Let’s talk about something else,” she added after a few seconds. “Something fun.”

Kimi flipped onto her back and let her head roll over the edge of the bed. Her hair hung down like thin black icicles as she arched her back like a contented cat and looked expectantly at Emily.

“Okay,” she said. “Ask me about my night.”

“Huh? What about it?”

“Emily! Try to keep up with me on this,” she said. “I mean, I disappear from a party with one of the hottest, most popular guys in school, who also happens to be totally nice and who also has an awesome car, and you’re not even curious?”

“Okay, so, what happened?” asked Emily, swiveling her chair to look at Kimi.

“Oh, I don’t know,” Kimi said. “I’m not one to kiss and tell.”

Emily shrugged and turned her attention back to the computer.

“What are you doing?!” asked Kimi. “Don’t you want to know about me and Phil?”

Emily turned back to her. “But you just said—”

“I can’t just tell you what happened. It would be—unladylike. But maybe if you begged me a little, and promised never to tell anyone, and offered to reveal all your darkest secrets, and threatened to torture the information out of me—”

“Fine,” said Emily. “Tell me what happened or I’ll—I’ll tell everyone at school that you have lice. And a fake leg. And that you have an entire wall of Justin Bieber posters in your room.”

Kimi put a hand over her mouth in mock horror.

“You wouldn’t,” she said.

“Oh, I would.”

“Well, then, I guess I’ll have to confess,” said Kimi. “But I want it noted that anything I tell you is entirely off the record, and that I shared it with you under duress.”

“Noted.”

“So maybe Phil drove me to the lake, and maybe he and I kind of sort of made out in his car.

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