The Replacement. by Brenna Yovanoff by Brenna Yovanoff

Author:Brenna Yovanoff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781847388391
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-10-01T04:30:23.428000+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CONFESSION

I got through school in a daze the next day. I was running on very little sleep, but the analeptic made things manageable. Roswell wanted to know what had made Tate so upset, and I told him a completely worthless story about feeling carsick, which he didn’t believe, but he left me alone after that.

I’d spent the morning preparing myself for another encounter with Tate, but she wasn’t at school. It was the first day she’d missed since before the funeral, and on the surface, it was way overdue. Even so, I couldn’t help thinking that after telling me all that stuff about her sister, or maybe because I’d kissed her, she was avoiding me.

The idea was more relieving than I would have expected. In the last few days, my life had gotten kind of unmanageable and Tate was a complication I didn’t know how to handle. Still, throughout the day, during lectures and homework reviews, I caught myself going back to kissing her.

By the time I got home, all I wanted was to do was sit down in front of the TV and turn off my brain.

When I walked in the front door, Emma was laughing. She came out of the living room as I was scraping my shoes and peeling off my wet jacket. She smiled in that wide, helpless way, like even if she wanted to, she couldn’t stop—it was just that funny. She was wearing a floppy black rain hat.

“It’s Janice’s,” she said, yanking the hat off and trying to flatten down her hair. “We were just messing around.” She reached for me with a worried expression, catching my face between her hands and pulling me down to look at her. “You look exhausted. Are you sure you’re okay?”

I nodded and was a little suprised to realize that I was telling the truth. The only reason I was exhausted was because I’d been out all night. “Just tired.”

Emma gave me a doubtful look and walked out again. I got an apple from the kitchen, then went into the family room to see what the deal with Janice was.

She was on the couch, leafing through a textbook. Her hair was down around her face and she was back to looking kind of plain and unfortunate.

“What are you doing here?” I said. “I gave you what you wanted, so quit harassing Emma.”

Janice flipped to the index, then back through the chapters. “I’m not harassing Emma. We’re doing homework. And not to be pedantic, but she came to me. I wasn’t out looking for pretty musicians, I was just attending classes.”

I sat down across from her and watched as she made notes in a little leather-bound book. “Why is someone like you even going to school? I mean, what’s the point?”

She ran her finger along the caption under a color diagram of a cell, then looked up. “The point is to learn everything I can about my field.”

I raised my eyebrows. “Your field?”

“Pharmacology, they’re calling it now.” She closed the book and leaned back.

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