What Kind of Girl by Alyssa Sheinmel

Author:Alyssa Sheinmel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2019-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Two

Junie

We drive in silence for so long that I don’t think Maya and Hiram even realize I’m in the back seat. But I wasn’t about to wait for an invitation. I mean, I couldn’t let Maya just drive off with the (apparently) violent class burnout, even if the only violence I’d see him actually commit was against the guy who hurt Maya.

“You okay?” Hiram asks finally. He takes his eyes off the road to look at Maya.

“You didn’t have to do that,” Maya says.

“Yeah, I really did.” Hiram pauses. “Anyhow, I wanted to.”

Maya smiles. “I could tell.” She leans across the seat and takes Hiram’s left hand off the wheel. His knuckles are still pink.

Hiram takes his hand back. “You didn’t answer my question.”

“What question?”

“Are you okay?”

They’re talking like old friends. I can’t remember the last time Maya and I talked so easily. I tuck my hair behind my ears. It fell out of its ponytail when we were rushing across the school parking lot.

“I’m fine.”

“I’ll take you home.”

Maya shakes her head. “I don’t want to go home.”

“You want to go back to the beach?”

Back to the beach? That makes it sound like they’ve been to the beach. Together, I mean. But since when does Maya hang out with Hiram? I only pulled her toward his car because I didn’t have my keys, which made his car the closest available getaway.

I remember the way he asked how she was doing when he gave me the pills. He sounded so concerned, but I didn’t think much of it because everyone cares about Maya. I mean, even before all this happened. She’s the kind of person people care about even when they don’t know her well because she’s the kind of person everyone wants to know well.

I slide my hand into my pocket before remembering my phone isn’t there. It’s in my bag, which is in the school parking lot because I dropped it when I ran after Maya. Someone will pick it up for me, but what if that person looks inside and sees the pills? At least you can’t tell what they are and how I got them just from looking at them. I mean, we’re not supposed to bring medicine to school, but for all anyone knows they could be for allergies, or maybe my therapist did prescribe me real antianxiety pills. Not that I’d want anyone to guess that I have problems with anxiety. Crap. I really wish I had my bag because then I could take another pill so I wouldn’t be scared to be sitting in Hiram’s back seat. Better yet, I wish I had my bag and my car keys had been inside it instead of back in my locker, because then I wouldn’t be sitting in Hiram’s back seat at all.

What beach is Hiram taking us to? I mean, sure, we live in California, but it’s not like the beach is our backyard. I think Hiram is driving toward Sausalito, toward Marin Headlands. There are beaches there, but it’s more than thirty minutes from school.

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