The One That Got Away with Murder by Trish Lundy

Author:Trish Lundy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

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I work on the Common App during lunch. I make a dent in the personal essay, trying to milk surviving a fire for all its worth. Make them think I’ve overcome my trauma. I’ve learned enough catchphrases in therapy to make it sound convincing. Maybe if my subpar GPA can’t win them over, my life story will. At least part of it. I’m leaving out the part where I hook up with a guy whose family is such a mess I can’t tell where the lies end and the truth begins. I don’t know if Trevor wrote that letter or not. I don’t know if his death was something other than what it seems like: an overdose.

I’m realizing that maybe I’m not meant to figure it out.

I thought that if I could, if I could find out what really happened to Vic and Jess, that it could be some sort of karmic makeup for everything I put Clint through. I could finally right my wrong.

But I’m not sure that’s true anymore. It’s incredible, really, that I even thought it was a possibility.

When the bell rings, I slip my laptop into my bag. I only have one more period to get through before the day is over. I push open the library doors when I see Andrea, twenty feet away. Headed in my direction.

Then, I realize, she’s headed straight for me.

“Lex said you might be here,” she says.

I take her in, all five feet three of her. Her round brown eyes are identical to her sister’s, at least from the photos of Vic I’ve seen. “I want you to hear it from me first. We want you back on the team.”

I’m not expecting this. At all.

I wonder how the news hit her and her family this past weekend. I can’t even imagine. I’ve really never considered it from her perspective. I’ve been too selfishly consumed in my own shit. But if my sister had died, and my teammate was hooking up with the guy who I thought killed her?

I’d be fucking livid.

“I owe you an apology,” I tell her. “I mean I owe you more than that, but I just want you to know that I’m sorry.”

“Just so you know, Mara told me about her idea with the necklace,” Andrea says. “I told her to do it. If it ended up saving another girl from the Crestmonts, I thought it was worth it.”

“I understand,” I tell her.

Andrea clenches her jaw. “The police are testing the blood on the bikini top. I mean, it’s going to be Vic’s. But seeing it…” She shakes her head. “It was like finding out she was dead all over again.”

I swallow hard.

Do I tell her about finding it? Would that make things worse? I don’t even know how I would begin to explain everything.

“I’m sorry,” I mumble again.

Her hands fiddle with her backpack zipper. She opens it, revealing a package of something that looks like a glazed breakfast pastry.

“Stickies are a Happy Valley staple.” She hands the box to me.

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