The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

Author:Bret Easton Ellis [Ellis, Bret Easton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2023-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

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AND I WAS standing in the courtyard of the Pavilion the following morning while the campus cheered when Thom Wright and Susan Reynolds were announced Homecoming King and Queen of the senior class. They walked up to the mic and thanked everyone who voted for them and Thom was beaming obliviously, as if nothing had happened the night before, and Susan had reverted to her dreamy and numb self, alluring as any girl at Buckley, her cleavage clearly visible, the hem of the skirt near the top of her thighs, an almost slutty idealization of teen-girl sexuality. I looked over at Ryan Vaughn, who was clapping, and then got distracted by Robert Mallory, who wasn’t clapping—he just stared at the couple behind the mic at the top of the stairs below the shadow of the Pavilion, a gaze tinged with what I imagined were sadness and rage. He turned to look at me and stared back, as if I was a reminder for him to start clapping, which he then did. There was, however, a feeling in the courtyard on that Friday morning before Homecoming that the night before, on Gilley Field, was the beginning of the end for Thom Wright and Susan Reynolds’s reign as Buckley’s golden couple. And only a few of us knew that the beginning of the end had happened far earlier than that.

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