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Invisible
Book: Invisible Read Online Free
Author: Jeanne Bannon
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Godsend. It’s given me something to look forward to and helps keep my mind off my troubles.
    “ Hi.”
    I peer up from my journal to find Jon staring at me. His dark blue eyes seem friendly enough, but I look away dumbfounded, unsure of his intentions.
    “ Do you have a pen I could borrow?” He holds up a disgusting looking Bic that’s been chewed and mangled. “Mine’s a good for nothing piece of shit.” He flings it over his shoulder and smiles.
    A warm flush rises from my collar to my neck and spreads into my cheeks. “Uhh,” I say and fumble through my pencil case. My fingers feel fat and rubbery. Finally, they close on a pen. I give it to him and hope he doesn’t notice the tremble in my hand.
    “ Thanks,” he says, taking it. He starts to turn around, but hesitates and turns back to face me. He holds my gaze. I want to look away, but I can tell he has something to say. His lips part and he says quickly, “Sorry… about yesterday.”
    He turns back to his work before I can reply and my heart does a little jump for joy.
    * * * *
    I meet Charlie for lunch at our usual table. She’s already there and has started in on a pile of gravy-smothered French fries. I take the top off my plastic Tupperware container filled with the remnants of last night’s stir-fry. Mom is the reigning queen of stir-fry. I’m so sick of it, I usually buy my lunch when I have the money. Not today, though. This week’s allowance was forfeited because I went over on my cellphone minutes. I eye Charlie’s lunch enviously.
    “ My mother’s making me go shopping for my grad dress with her,” I say, shovelling a forkful of rubbery chicken and soggy noodles into my mouth.
    “ No way! How’re you going to get out of it?”
    “ There’s no escaping this time,” I say, covering my mouth as I chew.
    “ I guess we’re in the same boat. My mom’s making me go to the grad party too.”
    My eyes widen and I heave a small sigh of relief. Charlie and I had a pact to skip the grad dance if possible. We weren’t foolish enough to believe we’d be able to get away with skipping out on the graduation ceremony, but we thought the dance would be do-able since we’d already managed to ditch Prom.
    “ Oh my God, well at least we’ll have each other,” I say.
    “ Don’t you want a date?”
    A pang of desire so strong strikes me that it takes me by surprise. Yes, I want a date and I want that date to be Jon, but this is reality and the reality of my life is that I will be dateless.
    “ No, it’s okay. I don’t mind going alone. Like I said, we’ll have each other,” I say, knowing full well Charlie knows I’m lying.
    “ I told my mother if I have to go then I’m taking a girl,” she says, “but I didn’t mean you. I meant like in a real date.”
    She’s not smiling and I have a sneaking suspicion she means it. Charlie’s sexual orientation is a slippery slope and a road we don’t travel down very often.
    “ You said you had an idea this morning, so what is it?” I ask, changing the subject before things get awkward.
    A sly smile unfurls on Charlie’s lips and she nods over her shoulder to a table behind us. I know without looking who’s sitting there — Nino, Tyler and Julia.
    I put down my fork, my appetite vanishing with the sudden anxiety churning in my belly.
    “ What are you thinking?” I ask with hesitation.
    “ You’ve got to practice.”
    “ Whaddaya mean, I have to practice?” I ask flatly. If becoming invisible means I have to endure tons of humiliation and embarrassment, I’m not sure I want to practice, especially if I have to throw myself at the mercy of Nino, Tyler and Julia.
    “ You’ve got to learn to control your ability ,” Charlie says.
    “ That’s going to be hard. I mean, look what happened in my room yesterday when I tried to do it on purpose. I was only gone for a split second.”
    Charlie stabs her fries and crams them into her mouth, then takes a swig of soda to wash them down.
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