And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Rebecca Barrow
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Parents
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“Meredith. Meredith. Miss Bloom. Are we boring you, Miss Bloom?”
Harlow stays slumped over her desk, chin propped up on one hand, eyes
glazed.
Somewhere beneath the hum of her brain she registers words, noise, but she
doesn’t actually hear anything. Not until the girl next to her kicks her worndown Docs against the leg of the desk and Harlow’s hand slips from beneath
her, jolting her awake. Only then does she become aware of Mr. Thompson at
the front of the class, staring at her expectantly.
“Well, Miss Bloom?”
The girl to her left hides behind her hand and mouths something. Just say no.
Harlow reaches to tug at hair that is no longer there. She keeps forgetting
about the clippers she took to it almost a month ago now, her soft dark curls
falling around her, drifting through the bathroom air like dandelion seeds.
“No,” she says, like heraccomplice told her to. And then, because she has learned
that men like Mr. Thompson, with their power trips and overinated egos, really
only want one thing, she makes her voice small and adds, “Sorry, Mr.
Thompson.”
The teacher raises one eyebrow, a look Harlow imagines he’s practiced in the
mirror of his studio apartment a thousand times, modeling it with his carefully
rumpled shirts and skinny ties. He probably tells women in bars that he teaches
high school English and waits for them to sigh. Teachers are so amazing. You’re,
like, so important to those kids. He probably saves the other part for later, when
they’re all three pretentious cocktails deep: I teach, but I’m a writer, too. A poet,
really. He probably takes those women home and pretends not to notice their
college IDs in their tiny bags.
Up front now Mr. Thompson still watches her like he’s so disappointed.
“Try to stay awake in my class, Miss Bloom.”
Harlow nods, keeps nodding as he goes back to the board, starts running
through whatever chapter they were supposed to read this week. It’s been a long
time since she forgot her name.
She can’t do that. She has to remember that here, in this classroom, in this
town, in this particular time, she is Meredith Bloom, new girl, quiet girl,
inconspicuous girl. She is not Harlow Ford, whoever that really is.
When class ends, she packs up fast, senses the girl with the beat-up Docs
hovering. Really Harlow should say thanks, but she doesn’t have the energy.
She
picked out the kids she would target on her rst day here, and this girl wasn’t
one of them. No: Harlow had seen three girls laughing at something on a phone
as they sat on the wall by the parking lot, all wearing short skirts in some kind of
pastel, but with tights that meant they weren’t technically breaking dress code,
and decided she could be one of them. It’s important, she’s learned, to ingratiate
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