Very Bad Things by Susan McBride EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Susan McBride
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Friendship
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KATIE
“ ‘The moon is distant from the sea, and yet with amber hands, she
leads him, docile as a boy, along appointed sands.…’ ”
Katie Barton stopped. “C’mon, think,” she told herself. She had to
recite the Emily Dickinson poem for a lit class the next morning. It
was almost midnight, and she was having a hard time staying
awake. Her brain felt like mush. She wished she’d smuggled in some
coee, even if it was the rank stu from the cafeteria. Trying hard
to focus, she squinted at the sputtering light over the metal desk,
buried in the midst of the library’s upper stacks.
The stained-glass windows above the bookshelves had gone dark
hours ago. The Whitney Prep library stayed open till midnight
during midterms, and Katie was often the last one out the doors.
She’d tried to study in her dorm, but she couldn’t escape the noisy
girls at Amelia House. Besides, she liked the quiet and the smell of
dusty old books.
It’s hopeless, she thought, and laid her head on her arms, closing
her eyes. Forget Emily Dickinson.
Instead, she pictured the big grin on Mark’s face when the hockey
team had clinched a spot in the state championship. He’d grabbed
her hard and kissed her right in front of all of Whitney. “I’m the
king of the world!” he’d said, and laughed. Katie had gotten chills.
She was almost afraid someone would pinch her and she’d realize
she had imagined it. Everything about being with Mark felt too good
to be true. When it was still pitch-dark this morning, he’d texted her
to meet him behind her dorm. Despite the risk of getting caught,
Katie had snuck out. They’d huddled together on the bench in the
shadow of Amelia House, shivering as they’d held on to each other.
For a few hours, they’d whispered and kissed until the sky was
streaked with pink.
It was no wonder she was so tired. She could hardly keep her eyes
open.…
Kay-tee.
Did someone say her name? The oor made the tiniest creak,
creak.
“Mark?” she said groggily.
The soft tread on the old oors stopped. She heard quiet breaths
behind her. Then something brushed her hair with the lightness of a
moth. She jerked around in her chair, her heart thudding.
Katie blinked into the darkness, hearing hushed footsteps, as if a
mouse were scurrying across the wood. The bulb above the desk
ickered and dimmed. She touched the pad of her laptop, waking
up the screen to give herself more light, but her cozy niche in the
stacks was still cloaked in shadows. She peered around, sure that
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