Vivian Divine Is Dead by Lauren Sabel EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Lauren Sabel
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Parents
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MY NAME IS VIVIAN DIVINE. I have a secret. I know how I’m going to die.
No one would believe me if I told them. Not that I would. Or could.
Someone’s always watching. Sometimes I see the tip of a gray head in my
window, or an eye behind a fish tank. They’re always there: a silver sedan
pulling out of my driveway, a glimmer of gold in a dark room.
My dad says he doesn’t see anything. I know he doesn’t. He doesn’t see
me.
Since my mother died six months ago, he’s lost himself in his work.
Now the only time I see him is behind a camera. He’s the most famous
director in Hollywood, and that means he’s busy all the time—too busy for
me. But he still finds time to go to all the right parties, make all the right
appearances. Last month, he skipped my sixteenth birthday party to go to
another honorary memorial for Mom. We’re talking caviar and champagne,
everyone forgetting to be sad in their designer dresses. When he got home, I
said, “You missed my birthday again.” I almost added, like the last five
years, but I stopped myself.
“I was working,” he said, as if he’s ever not working. At least, in the
Before, he had a reason to come home, a reason he cared about. Now he’s
out every night, drunk on his own misery.
In my life, there’s always a Before and an After. In the Before, when I
was an Oscar nominee for best actress, as one of the youngest stars in
history, Mom and I wore matching heart necklaces to the ceremony. In the
After, when I was voted Etv!’s Teen Actor of the Year, my mom was dead
and my heart was broken.
I don’t remember much about the morning my mom was kidnapped, but
I do remember that she wasn’t wearing makeup. For a woman who’d been
voted Hollywood’s most beautiful woman three years running by Celebrity
magazine, that’s a big deal. She didn’t even go to bed without putting on
lipstick first. But that day, she dropped her lipstick and didn’t pick it up. We
all forgot about it. Dark red melted into the carpet by my room.
Three days later, when the police found her facedown, a knife through
her back, an Etv! Memorial Special was broadcast on her life—and every
gruesome detail of her death. I saw it only once, but Dad watched it over
and over, whiskey glass in one hand, gun in the other.
So when I found a DVD of Mom’s Etv! Memorial Special in my fan
mail this morning, I couldn’t bring myself to watch it, but I saw the note. It
wasn’t typed on a typewriter, or in cutout newspaper letters, like you see in
movies. It was just Times New Roman font, like a business letter. It said:
This is how you die.
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