wtf by Peter Lerangis

Author:Peter Lerangis [Lerangis, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: young adult, contemporary
ISBN: 9781439160626
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2009-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

23

11:48 P.M.

“Jimmy?” Cam couldn’t believe how happy he was to see a familiar face. “Dang, Jimmy, I can’t believe this shit.”

“Me neither,” Jimmy mumbled. “You okay?”

“Do I look okay, asshole?” Cam managed a weak smile. He felt his voice cracking and turned away. “You seem all right. I’m glad. How’s Byron?”

“Fine. Both of us are fine.” Jimmy was sweating. His clothes were ridiculous, even for him—a plaid button-down shirt and khaki pants that seemed to belong to a fourth grader. He glanced fitfully over his shoulder at the door. Just outside, the nurse and Dr. Wexler were conferring with a cop. “Cam, I’m … um, really happy you survived. For a long time I thought …”

“You know what they told me?” Cam said. “They said I was in the driver’s seat. Incompetent bastards.”

“Um, they said that?”

Cam eyed the cop. “They’re not going to think I was driving, right?”

“I don’t know….”

“I mean, maybe the deer, like, pushed me across the seat?” Cam frowned. “Only that wouldn’t make sense. You tell me. You were in the driver’s seat.”

“I—” Jimmy cast his eyes downward and let out a deep sigh. “Um, well, it wasn’t the deer. It was me.”

Cam didn’t know whether to take this as a joke. Jimmy had a weird sense of humor. “Right.”

Jimmy began pacing. “Oh, God, I’ll be saying this in confession the rest of my life if I don’t say it now. I did it. I dragged you over, to make it look like you were driving.”

“You what?”

“So I wouldn’t be caught driving without a license.”

“I thought you had a license!”

“I lied.” Jimmy finally stopped and faced Cam. His hands were shaking.

“That is one sick fucking thing to do, Jimmy!”

“Cam, it was dark, and there was this huge deer—I was panicked. I wasn’t thinking straight. I thought you were dead!”

Cam sprang up on his elbow, fighting back the head pounding and chest ache. “You did it because you thought I was dead, you sick motherfucker? So you wouldn’t get in trouble for driving?” Jimmy’s eyes were tearing up, and Cam turned away in disgust. “I don’t believe this. And that scumbucket Byron didn’t stop you? Where the fuck is he, anyway?”

“We went to the p-p-party,” Jimmy said, wiping his nose. “Afterward. We walked there. We were too scared to face the cops, so we hid in the woods—”

“You left me all alone in the car? Left me for dead behind the steering wheel?”

Jimmy nodded. “I’m sorry, Cam. We were scared. I was an idiot. Anyway, Byron told me I’d be thrown in jail if they caught me.”

“What else did Byron tell you?” Cam pressed.

“Nothing. We were running. It was raining. We got to the party and this guy gave us dry clothes. We got separated. Then the cops came. They’d found my cell phone. I must have left it in the car. They took me away. At the station house I told them what had happened—”

“Except the one tiny detail about you being the driver!”

“I will straighten that out, okay? Give me a chance.

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