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Authors: Robin Bridges

BOOK: Dreaming of Antigone

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CHAPTER 3

I look at my brother and get a sick feeling in my stomach. My gaze swings from his sad face back up to the stage. The curtains my brother can't see. Crap. Why did I say anything?

David has his hand on my shoulder. “It's okay, Nat. Did youâ”

“Of course I took my meds!” I whisper. No one is paying attention to us, though. Starla is playing with Colton's phone, listening to his music with earbuds in. Raine is talking with Mrs. Green up onstage.

“All right. Maybe I just didn't look fast enough.”

“Whatever. Can we go home?” I don't want to be here anymore. It must be the stress from auditioning. If I was hallucinating about the curtains, maybe the person backstage wasn't real either.

“Colton asked if we wanted to stop at the sushi place down the street. I know you like their soup.”

I sigh. I really don't feel like hanging out with strangers right now. Getting to know new people and trying to keep them from learning you're a freak is exhausting. “Why don't you go without me? You'd probably make a better impression solo.”

David looks concerned. “No, if you want to go home, I'll take you home. We'll tell them you have a migraine or something.”

And he lies so beautifully, I think he'll make a wonderful Shakespearean actor. I manage a feeble smile at Starla when she and Raine tell me they hope I feel better soon.

Colton pouts. “We'll miss you two.” But he's looking at David when he says this.

“See, I'm helping you play hard to get,” I tell my brother, when we are in the truck driving back to Grandma's.

He grins. “I already got his phone number.”

“David!”

“But I want to hear more about you. Did you meet any hot boys in the psych unit last month?”

I roll my eyes. And the image of Lucas in the theater flashes before my eyes. He is so not my type.

“Who's not your type?”

Crap. Was I talking out loud? “Um, there was a boy at Winter Oaks that I saw at the theater today. But really, he's not my type.”

David glances over at me, his pierced eyebrow cocked up. “Sis, the last boy you dated went to jail for dealing drugs. Before that, the other one slept with half of your class. While the two of you were going out. Maybe you need a new type.”

I shake my head. “I don't think hooking up with a fellow psych patient is a smart idea.”

“Probably not.” He shrugs. “But tell me about this crazy but hot boy you met.”

I love my brother to death. “I don't really know much about him. He was at Winter Oaks for a suicide attempt, I think, though he kept telling the counselors it was an accident. Obviously they didn't believe him, or he wouldn't have been there, right?”

“Hmm. Cute?”

“
You'd
think he was.” Lucas has floppy blond hair that usually hangs over his face. When it's not hiding under a baseball cap. “Dresses like he belongs on the CW.”

David's second “Hmm” goes up an octave.

“Oh, but he definitely doesn't swing for your team. I just remembered the reason he tried to kill himself was because of his girlfriend dumping him. So he's not the boy for you, and definitely not for me. Don't need someone that hung up on an ex.”

“But you just said he claimed he didn't try to kill himself.”

“He overdosed on sleeping pills and alcohol.”

“Did he leave a note?”

I shrug. I guess I shouldn't make any judgments when I've never held a conversation with Lucas before. But as I don't have any plans to have any deep conversations with him at the theater, it doesn't matter. And really, I don't think he's cute.

Much.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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