The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Gigi Griffis
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If this were a horror movie, Elle would be the first to die.
Sweet sixteen, the innocent preacher’s daughter, the nicest girl in
school, the kind of pretty that makes us all sinners without her even trying.
She’s the perfect sacrifice, standing there in her burnt-yellow sweaterdress,
at the edge of the cemetery, the night after Halloween, lit only by the
dancing orange flames of the campfire.
It’s the dimples, I decide. Or the eyes, open and secretive all at once. Or
the way she listens with her whole being, facing me, leaning in. This is only
the second time I’ve met Elle, and already I’d sell my soul to hear her
whisper my name.
Which is exactly why the inevitably all-male writers’ room wouldn’t let
her live past Act One. The campfire. The timing. The accidental sexiness.
It’s too tempting to kill her off.
There are three other kids from school who’ve shown up to my socalled Halloween bonfire (read: campfire), and we look like monsters
against the stabbing flames, our eyes hungry, shadows twisted, flickering
with the pop-crash of the fire. But Elle is even prettier in the flickering
light. An angel holding back the night.
I don’t say any of this, though. My family only moved to this town a
week ago, but already I know my obsession with horror movies is unlikely
to play well here. In a town of less than a thousand people that somehow
needs seven churches. (Yes: seven.) Where the public high school has The
Ten Commandments hung up on the walls (I guess the separation of church
and state is overrated), and I got sent home on my first day there because
purple nail polish is devil worship, apparently.
Tonight I’ve repainted my nails bloodred, with a coat of purple
underneath as a special fuck-you to that teacher. Because, as Mom always
says (with an edge of pride in her voice that I can’t help but love), Audre,
you never do things the easy way.
I run my polished fingers through my new pixie cut and shift in my
combat boots. I’m normally not this nervous. But, then again, I’ve never
moved to a new town before. Never had to make new friends like this. Let
alone in a town where I stick out like a pizza rat in a prairie.
“Anyone have a scary story?” I ask after we’ve all traded hellos.
When no one speaks, I glance at David, the one person here I can
tentatively call my friend. And the only one who might get my horror
movie references. I’ve been sitting with him at lunch ever since I heard him
cursing in Spanish under his breath.
Curse words! Spanish! My body
beelined for him before I even knew what I was doing. It was like being
back on my block in Brooklyn, in my best friend Elisa’s backyard, home.
Where making friends was easy because we all grew up together and played
dodgeball in packs and screamed “Cabrón!” at each other after we heard her
uncle say it, finding the word tasted even more satisfying than her mama’s
fried plantains or my mom’s homemade caramel.
“Is it just me, or is this school like that Stepford Wives movie—white,
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