“Ruth said. We were in her bedroom, which I’d recently decided was my favorite place in the world. I called her once I’d gotten away from the Floods, and we decided to ditch school. I’d talked with her late the night before and we’d been going on about ourselves. She told me about the car accident she was in with her big sister and her mom a few summers ago, and the year she spent in London when she was in eighth grade and the proper little English boy she made out with there, and the months she... spent sailing with her parents in the West Indies, which actually got me pretty excited about this trip with my swindler of a dad. She was so incredibly cool. “And look, aren’t those scones? And jam? This is great,” I said. And then I laughed. I was nuzzling her neck and she smelled of the black currant tea and this kind of warm hippie-ish smell that I was getting to really, really like. Even though up to now I’d always said I hated hippies. “I’m so glad we ditched school,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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