On The Fence by Kasie West EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Kasie West
- ISBN: 978-0062235671
- Language: English
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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- Page: 304
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The engine whined against my attempt to go faster. The
yellow lines of the road went by on my left in a blur. The
ocean on my right didn’t seem affected at all. It created the
illusion that I wasn’t going fast enough. The gentle curves on
this road begged to be taken at high speeds. I pushed down
another inch on the gas pedal and the car lurched forward. My
heart picked up speed and I couldn’t keep the smile from my
face. Wind whipped through the cabin, sending my hair flying
and drying the sweat on my forehead from my last practice of
the school year.
Red and blue lights flashed in the rearview mirror. I
pointlessly lifted my foot off the gas pedal, as if that would
help. I looked for a place to pull off the road, already coming
up with my story. By the time the cop reached my window,
pad in hand, I’d thought of two great possibilities.
When I saw his face, all my excuses were gone. I sighed
and rolled down the window.
“Charlotte Reynolds, we meet again,” he said.
“Hi, officer.”
“What is this, the third time?”
“Is it?” Crap. What were the odds the same cop had to pull
me over three times? “My dad says hi.”
He laughed. “Your dad is a good cop, but his name isn’t
going to get you out of it this time. Not when you were going
fifteen miles over the speed limit.”
“Really? It couldn’t have been fifteen.”
“It was. I need your license.”
“Can I look at your radar, make sure you read it right?”
He raised his eyebrows at me and I grudgingly handed over
my license. My dad was going to kill me.
I walked in the front door and threw my bag under the
entryway table, still angry about the stupid ticket. “Where is
everyone?” I yelled out. I followed the sounds of laughter into
the kitchen. A blender sat in the middle of the island,
surrounded by a bottle of Tabasco sauce, ketchup, and
eggshells. Gage looked up and caught my eye.
“Charlie! Just in time.”
I could smell from the doorway whatever awful smoothie
they had just created—it smelled like rotten tomatoes. “Oh
no.”
“Oh yes.” Nathan snaked his arm around my shoulder and
pulled me up to the counter. “Grab another glass.”
A glass was added to the others on the counter. “On three
we down it,” Gage said, pouring some of the soupy concoction
from the blender into five glasses.
“Why are we doing this?” I asked, looking at the four guys
around the kitchen island. Three of them were my brothers—
Jerom, Nathan, and Gage—and the other might as well have
been—Braden. He’d been our neighbor for twelve of the
sixteen years of my life and was always around.
“One, to prove we can. Two, to toughen our stomachs for
the pounding they’re going to get in football tomorrow.”
“So, in other words, just to be idiots.”
“That too,” Gage said, holding up his glass. “Ready?”
“Losers have to wear it,” Braden said.
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