“Take a look at my face, I am the future”

124. Friends for Life – Ellen Emerson White

Kids who no one knew used drugs are dying at Baldwin like that one kid on the flagpole in Class of 1984. And also like in Class of 1984, there’s a guy named Tim responsible (well, in Class of 1984 only the actor’s name is Tim… but still there’s a parallel). I guess I just spoiled the whole book, but mostly, it’s about friendship and loss and Tim being a rich lying jerk whose friends don’t really seem to like him very much, also like the gang in Class of 1984 (except they seemed more organized, after all they were also running a prostitution ring and doing home invasions, it’s quite the movie).

When three best friends Susan, Patrick, and Colleen are about to be able to go to high school all together – Colleen dies of bad LSD…after telling Susan she’s sure the last overdose death was a murder. So, Susan goes undercover, shrugs off Patrick and because she used to go to school in New York City, she can pretend she also was heavy into drugs and get in with the drug dealing rich kid Tim and his friends. She does a great job pretending to be on drugs while having anxiety attacks and grieving over her memories of her best friendship with Colleen. Then she gets in over her head after Tim’s friend Beverly realizes that Susan did know the last person their group murdered with drugs (mostly that was just Tim and Randy,but once Beverly knew after Randy told her, she was in on it according to Tim). And so of course they decide while high that they must now murder Susan. Kids these days.

 

Peregrine understood having best friends very, very well. Her first was Merricat.

 

Pere also understands best friend related sadness.
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