The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate

Author:Meredith Tate [Tate, Meredith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2020-02-10T18:30:00+00:00

AUTUMN

My knee bounces against my hand. With each passing second, I’m closer to slipping into darkness. And I’m stuck sitting in a diner with Ivy and her annoying friends.

All six of them are crammed into this tiny Friendly’s booth meant for four people. The guys are on one side and the girls are on the other like they’re in middle school.

This place smells like french fries and grilled cheese and it’s making my stomach growl. There’re so many weird things that pop into your head when you’re dying. Like, what if I never eat another grilled cheese?

“I don’t know what I want.” The girl with the short black hair and glasses has spent the last century staring at the menu. She’s half sitting in her girlfriend’s lap.

“Hurry up,” I groan. The sooner we order, the sooner we leave, and the sooner Ivy can get over to Liam’s house, and that’s one step closer to finding me. I hope.

I keep trying to convince myself that Ivy’s plan is a good one, that just because Liam is in jail doesn’t mean his friends weren’t involved. I mean, maybe there is a clue at his house. But it feels like we’re grasping at straws. Liam’s friends are like stoned sheep, following their shepherd—and currently their shepherd is behind bars. Plus, I’ve seen every corner of Liam’s house, and there’s no tiny wooden room anywhere. I really hope this whole thing is worthwhile and Ivy doesn’t end up arrested.

“Alexa,” Ahmed says, “what should Sophie get to eat?”

The purple-haired girl shrugs, midtext. “I don’t know. Whatever she feels like.”

Jason and Kevin snicker.

Sophie ignores them. “I can’t decide between the strawberry sundae and the Reese’s Pieces sundae.”

“Alexa,” Ahmed says again. “Should Sophie order the strawberry sundae or the Reese’s Pieces sundae?”

Alexa lowers her brows. “Why are you talking to me like that?”

“Oh, for fuck’s sake. It’s that Amazon thing,” I mutter, even though no one can hear me.

Jason and Kevin fall over themselves laughing.

Ivy rolls her eyes and slaps down her menu. “Wow, did you make that joke up all by yourselves?”

“Are you guys seriously making an Amazon joke at me?” Alexa says. “You’re, like, five hundred bajillion years late to that party.”

Jason laughs. “Alexa, explain the joke.”

“Okay,” Ivy says. “You’re so not as funny as you think you are.”

Sophie deadpans, “How about, ‘Alexa, let’s go find a different table, because our friends are idiots’?”

“My parents got an Amazon Echo,” Ahmed says. “Every time they address it as Alexa and tell her to do something, I can’t stop laughing.”

“I wanna come play with it,” Jason says.

“That’s what she said,” Alexa adds.

I cross my arms. It feels like I crashed a party and now everyone’s ignoring me. It’s like I’m on the brink of sitting at this table, being part of this group, but not. I hang out with people all the time, but it never feels like this. I’m always on guard, always thinking about how I’ll be perceived. No one here seems to be worried about that.

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