“Well, so? It’s not your fault her yard’s a mess.” “But then I found out that they don’t even own that house.
They’re all poor because her dad’s got a retarded brother that they’re, you know, paying for.
Garrett gives me a real chumpy grain and says, “A retard? Well, that explains a lot, doesn’t it?”
I couldn’t believe my ears. “What?” “You know,” he says, still grinning, “about Juli.”
My heart started pounding and my hands clenched up. And for the first time since I’d learned to dive away from trouble, I wanted to deck somebody.
But we were in the library. And besides, it flashed through my mind that if I decked him for what he’d said,
he’d turn around and tell everyone that I was hot for Juli Baker, and I was not hot for Juli Baker!
So I made myself laugh and say, “Oh, right,” and then came up with an excuse to put some distance between him and me.
After school Garrett asked me to come to his house and hang for a while, but I had zero interest in that.
I still wanted to slug him. I tried to talk myself down from feeling that way, but in my gut I was flaming mad at the guy.
He’d crossed the line, man. He’d crossed it big-time.
And what made the whole thing so stinking hard to ignore was the fact that standing right next to him, on the other side of the line, was my father.
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