The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Автор:: Hodkin Michelle
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Серия:: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer #1
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Mara Dyer - 1 by Michelle Hodkin For Grandpa Bob, ...	1
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Mara Dyer - 1 by Michelle Hodkin ...	1
For Grandpa Bob, who filled my imagination with stories, for Janie, who made all the other kids ...	1
1 BEFORE Laurelton, Rhode Island THE ORNATE SCRIPT ON THE BOARD TWISTED in the candlelight,...	1
2 AFTER Rhode Island Hospital Providence, Rhode Island I OPENED MY EYES. A PERSISTENT MACHIN...	1
3 Laurelton Memorial Cemetery, Rhode Island THE SUN REFLECTED OFF THE POLISHED mahogany of Ra...	2
4 EIGHT WEEKS LATER Miami, Florida YOU’RE KILLING ME, MARA.” “Give me a minute.” I squinted...	3
5 SMILING AT ME LIKE HE KNEW ME. I TURNED my head, wondering if there was anyone behind me. No...	5
6 IT WAS CLAIRE. HER RED HAIR SPILLED OVER MY shoulders where my brown hair should have been. ...	5
7 BY SOME STROKE OF LUCK, I FLUNG OPEN THE door to the closest classroom, 213, and it turned o...	6
8 I MANAGED TO SURVIVE THE REST OF THE DAY WITHOUT being hospitalized or committed, and, after...	7
9 HONEY? ARE YOU SLEEPING?” I startled at the sound of my mother’s voice. How much time had p...	8
10 THAT SAME CREEPING, WATCHFUL FEELING escorted me to school the next day. I just couldn’t sh...	9
11 I WOKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH A scream in my throat and an anchor on my chest, soa...	10
12 SWEATY AND BREATHLESS, I ROUNDED THE parking lot by the school entrance and checked my watc...	11
13 THE TREES, SIDEWALK, AND THE FLASHING lights spun around me as I felt it: the first unmista...	12
14 I SETTLED INTO THE SEAT, ACUTELY AWARE OF MY proximity to him. Noah fumbled in his pocket a...	14
15 I MUSTERED UP EVERY OUNCE OF FREE WILL I HAD and extracted myself from his car. I gave him ...	15
16 BEFORE WE PULLED INTO A LONG DRIVEWAY guarded by a rusting iron gate. Thick branches of le...	16
17 I KNEW RACHEL WANTED TO GO TO THE ASYLUM. But until the night after Mabel’s piece of shit o...	17
18 I HEARD HE E-MAILED HER A PICTURE OF HIS—OH. Hi, Noah.” The voice stopped mid-sentence, and...	18
19 THE SEA OF REPORTERS PARTED FOR DANIEL’s car as he pulled into the driveway. They peered at...	19
20 I SHOT OUT OF MY BATHROOM AND SAT ON MY BED, my mouth dry and my hands trembling. I wanted ...	20
21 BY THE TIME I ARRIVED BACK AT THE HOUSE, I’d composed myself. Coming home with a tear-strea...	22
22 MARA DYER?” THE RECEPTIONIST CALLED OUT. I shot up. The magazine I’d been not-reading fell ...	23
23 I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO REACT TO NOAH IN CLASS the next day. The costume party seemed like a l...	25
24 AFTER SCHOOL, I FOUND DANIEL WAITING for me at the back gate. He shifted his overloaded bac...	27
25 MY ALARM SHOCKED ME AWAKE SUNDAY morning. I hadn’t remembered falling asleep at all. I was ...	28
26 I WAITED FOR NOAH TO LIGHT A CIGARETTE ONCE he started to drive. Instead, he handed me a pl...	29
27 ROWS OF PALM TREES SPRUNG UP FROM THE sides of the narrow street, and the ocean peeked out ...	30
28 nOAH’S ROOM WAS STARTLING. A LOW, MODERN platform bed dominated the center of it but otherw...	31
29 MY BODY WARMED AT THE CONTACT AS Noah led the way into the bustling restaurant. I watched h...	33
30 A HALF-HOUR LATER, NOAH DROVE UP TO the front entrance of the Miami Beach Convention Center...	34
31 BEFORE RACHEL HELD OUT THE MAP SHE’D PULLED from the Internet, which showed a detailed blu...	34
32 I TRIED TO OPEN MY EYES. THEY WERE WET AND swollen, and the dark blue-black world rocked ar...	35
33 I EXPECTED SEVERAL DIFFERENT SCENARIOS AFTER my little freak-out. Noah rolling his eyes and...	36
34 THE TEACHER STOOD A FEW FEET AWAY. “I’M not kidding, Shaw. I don’t care whose kid you are, ...	37
35 nOAH’S LIPS PRESSED LIGHTLY ON THE SKIN of my cheek and lingered there. I was on fire. By t...	39
36 EXAMS WERE BRUTAL, AS EXPECTED. I KICKED ass in History and on my English paper, did not em...	40
37 I WAITED OUTSIDE FOR JAMIE UNTIL THE EXAM WAS over. As he walked out of the room, I snatche...	41
38 nOAH PICKED ME UP THE NEXT MORNING, but I was unsettled and silent on the way to school. He...	42
39 I STOOD THERE, COMPLETELY DAZED AND STARING at the empty campus. The one friend I’d made in...	43
40 nOT HAVING AN ITCHY, SWEAT-COLLECTING bandage under my sleeve was the only bright spot in t...	44
41 THE NEXT DAY BEGAN ABNORMALLY. I AWOKE starving at about four in the morning and went to th...	45
42 THE NEXT FIVE SECONDS FELT LIKE FIVE hours. The second bell rang, and I was pushed aside by...	46
43 WHEN DANIEL AND I ARRIVED BACK AT the house, my father’s open accordion files were uncharac...	47
44 HE WORE A RATTY BASEBALL CAP WITH THE brim pulled low over his eyes, and I couldn’t see muc...	48
45 TANGLED ROOTS OF MANGROVE TREES SANK unseen into the black liquid, and on the opposite side...	49
46 WE EXPLODED INTO FLIGHT, OUR FEET beating down the muck beneath us. The grass whipped my ar...	50
47 BEFORE I WOKE UP THE NEXT DAY IN A SKELETAL, INSTITUTIONAL bed inside the Tamerlane State ...	51
48 THE SOUND OF MY MOTHER’S VOICE SHOCKED me awake. “Happy birthday!” She stood next to my be...	52
49 THERE WAS NO STREET PARKING NEXT TO THE Botanica, so we parked three blocks away. The torre...	53
50 WHEN I AWOKE, I FACED A WALL OF books. My eyes felt puffy and swollen with sleep and I rubb...	55
51 SITTING NEXT TO NOAH WHILE HE DROVE ME home the next morning was the worst kind of torture....	57
52 I MUST SAY, I THINK I RATHER LIKE THIS SLEEPING arrangement.” I didn’t think I would ever ...	58
53 THE NEXT MORNING, I WOKE UP NEXT TO Noah. With my arm draped over his waist, I felt his ri...	59
54 MY SENSE OF DREAD INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY as we drove down the dark, palm-tree lined drivew...	60
55 THE STENCH OF ROT FILLED MY NOSTRILS, AND a voice buzzed in my ear. “Biologists are report...	61
56 I WRAPPED MY ARMS AROUND NOAH’S NECK AND buried myself in him. “Yes,” I whispered into his...	63
57 I COULDN’T GO TO SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY, EITHER— that much was obvious. Who knew what triggere...	63
58 I WAS BREATHLESS BY THE time we reached the wide glass front doors. After Noah went through...	65
59 A MACHINE BEEPED TO THE LEFT OF MY father’s hospital bed as another on his right hissed. He...	66
acknowledgments I owe many people many thanks for their unwavering support of Mara Dyer and me...	67