Unfriended by Katie Finn

Author:Katie Finn [Finn, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-38924-2
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Song: Carve Your Heart Out Yourself/Dashboard Confessional

Quote: “Love is for unlucky folk, love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; and that, I think, is worse.”—Dorothy Parker

I had made it home and gotten back inside seemingly undetected. If the quiet stillness of the house was anything to go by, my father was still sleeping. I headed into the kitchen and retrieved the note I’d left for him, crumpling it up and throwing it away. Then I headed up to my room, taking the steps slowly, leaning on the railing.

I had stopped crying on the way home, mostly because I had concentrated hard on the mechanics of driving, putting on the poppiest, happiest songs I had on my iCar, cranking the volume, and letting the lyrics wash over me, trying to lose myself in their upbeat choruses about finding summer love. A curious sense of numbness had settled over me, but I had a feeling that it was just temporary. It was like I could see a whirlpool swirling just under the surface of a placid lake. Everything might seem okay on the outside, but I knew that, before long, I would be pulled down into it. It was just a matter of time.

I didn’t even turn on the lights when I reached my bedroom. I kicked off my flip-flops, dropped my bag in the doorway, and walked across my dark room. I headed directly to my desk, where my laptop was. I opened it and it whirred to life, making me wince a little as the brightness of the screen lit up the dark room. I logged on to Constellation and immediately clicked past the home page, but not fast enough to avoid seeing that I had forty-eight new messages. I went to the settings page and pulled up my profile.

I looked at it for a long moment, especially at the very last line—my relationship status. I couldn’t stop myself from remembering when I had changed it from single. Nate and I had done it together, back in April, sitting in the back of his truck with our laptops. He’d logged into his Friendverse and changed his status, which sent a notification to me, asking me to confirm that I was, in fact, taken by Nate Ellis.

“Taken with, is more like it,” I’d said to him then, and he had smiled suddenly, happily, like I’d surprised him, in the best way. And I’d confirmed that I was dating Nate, and had watched the screen as my status changed from single to taken, and I’d immediately gotten a barrage of congratulatory messages from my friends.

I looked at the line on my profile that I hadn’t thought I’d ever change. I gave myself just a moment longer to read the proof of who I’d once been—Nate Ellis’s girlfriend—and now would no longer be. Then, trying to do it fast, like ripping off a Band-Aid, I brought up the CHANGE SETTINGS menu. I made my changes, pressed SAVE, and waited for the small moment it would take for everything to become official.

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