Bang by Norah McClintock

buried them.
    Detective Tanner asked JD to come in for questioning. JD showed up with his father and a lawyer. Detective Tanner had a big paper bag on the table. He opened the bag and pulled out a gun. He said, “You recognize it, JD?”
    â€œI couldn’t believe it,” JD says to me now in the visiting room. “How did he even know where to look?”
    â€œHe asked me if there were places you liked to go, maybe on your bike,” I say. “I told him you like riding in the ravines.”
    JD shakes his head. “I should never have told you I got rid of my clothes. But back then I thought we were going to be okay.”
    â€œYou said you got rid of
our
clothes,” I say. I don’t add,
But you lied
.
    â€œIt turns out that they couldn’t find anything on what was left of the clothes that they could use to say I shot the guy,” JD says. “I burned them pretty good. But I had to get rid of the gun, right? So I buried it with the clothes. I didn’t think they would ever find it. Turns out that made it even easier for them because they went out with a metal detector. And it turns out that because I was so close to the guy when I shot him, there was some of his blood inside the gun. My lawyer says it’s called blowback. And they also got a partial fingerprint off the gun. Mine. And it’s good enough that the court will let them say it’s a match. My lawyer advised me to cooperate. What could I do? They had me.”
    He pauses and looks at me. “I told them you had nothing to do with the shooting.”
    â€œYou did?” I say.
    â€œIt’s the truth,” he says. “I guess you’re pretty mad at me, huh?”
    I shrug. “I was. But not anymore. It was my own fault I was there. It was my idea to take that stuff.”
    â€œYeah,” JD says. We talk a few minutes more. When I get up to leave, he says, “Tell Leah to come and see me sometime, okay? Tell her I miss her.”
    I promise to do that. And even though I know she’s mad at him, I also know that she’ll eventually come. She’ll have to. He’s her brother. They’re twins. She loves him.

Norah McClintock is the author of
Tell
and
Snitch
, both Orca Soundings novels. Norah lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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