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responsible for another human being.”
    “Yeah.”
    “But that doesn’t change the fact that I’m a baby killer.”
    I flinched. “You’re not a baby killer.”
    “But I am though. Literally.”
    “Your parents know?”
    “Unfortunately. But I wish I hadn’t told them because I swear my
Mom still looks at me sometimes, Kate, and I don’t know. It’s like her
expression is just full of disgust, ya know? I honestly think if it wouldn’t
make her look bad, she’d kick me out.”
    “And your dad?”
    “He’s easier. He just pretends it never happened. Same as me.
The only reason I told them was because I was worried that any doctor I could
afford to have do it would fuck up my insides, and I'd be traumatized.”
    “Well that was the right thing to do.”
    “I actually asked my Mom then about going on the pill.”
    “What did she say?”
    “She suggested that maybe I should stop being such a whore instead.”
    “God, Annie, that’s awful.” I couldn’t imagine either of my Moms
ever saying something like that.
    “I know. She’s a self-righteous bitch,” she said, holding up
what remained of the blunt. “Wanna save the rest of this for later?”
    “Yeah, I’m plenty high.”
    She put out the glowing embers on the half a blunt that was
left. “And she’s a hypocrite, too.”
    I raised my eyebrows.
    “I’m pretty sure the only reason my Dad married her was because
she got knocked up with me. Honestly, she’s the worst, most manipulative…” She
started shaking her head.
    “Don’t worry,” I said. “You’ll be out of here soon.”
    “Fucking right I will be. If I get in anywhere.”
    “You will. Of course you will.”
    She shrugged. “So that’s why I hate Ian so much.”
    “Wait, what?”
    “You’re always wondering why I think Ian is such a fucking
douche.”
    “Wait you and Ian were-”
    “Yeah.”
    “And he-”
    She nodded.
    “How did he even keep it up long enough?” I asked, regretting
the question as soon as I asked it.
    Thankfully, she laughed. “I know, right? God I was dying to ask
you if he’d improved at all but I guess that answers that question.”
    I shook my head. “Having sex with him is like looking for a
shooting star.”
    She pulled a pack of smokes from her pocket. “If you blink
you’ll miss it?”
    “Exactly.”
    She slid a cigarette from the pack and held it out to me.
    “No thanks,” I said. I hadn’t had one since I’d heard Dawn’s
death rattle. Not that I didn’t want one. I just couldn’t.
    “But Annie?”
    “Yeah?”
    “You really should’ve told me. I mean, I’m kind of ticked.”
    “What was I supposed to say?” She lit the end of her cigarette
and dragged on it to get it going. “ Hey Kate, I know you like this guy but
he got me pregnant two years ago and was a total douche about it. ”
    “Yeah! That is exactly what you were supposed to say!”
    “Oh well. I guess I’ll know for next time.”
    I rolled my eyes.
    She smiled, but it was the kind of smile that looked slightly
pained. Almost desperate.
    “He was a douche about it, huh? Not that I’m surprised.”
    “Like he didn’t even want to know. Just denied it right away.
Called me a liar. Said no one would believe a slut like me anyway.”
    “Are you serious?”
    “Yeah.”
    “No wonder you hate his guts.”
    She shrugged. “He’s dead to me, as dead to me as our dead baby.”
    “Don’t talk like that. Please. That’s horrible.”
    “What?” she said. “It’s the truth. I mean it was only like the
size of a quarter when it was aborted but still.”
    I nodded and watched the smoke swirl off the end of her
cigarette, wondering what it was like to carry that around and if I would’ve
made the same decision. Not that she had any options. Between her parents and
school and Ian’s general idiocy, what choice did she have?
    And suddenly I realized how easy it would’ve been for Dawn to
make me disappear so I was just an unnamed mistake, too. And yeah, I