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  Why do they want to do that anyway, make your destination look like your departure when they know all you want to do with your departure point is to depart it?

  Anyway.

  “Anyway,” I say, as the bus hisses into its bay and I return to collect my backpack and my actual friend.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Chris Lynch is the Printz Honor-winning author of Freewill and other highly acclaimed young adult novels, including Gold Dust, Iceman, Gypsy Davey, and Shadow Boxer, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults. He is also the author of Elvin Extreme, Whitechurch, and All the Old Haunts. Lynch holds an MA from the writing program at Emerson College. He lives in Scotland, and he continues to work on new literary projects.

  Also by Chris Lynch

  Angry Young Man

  Kill Switch

  Pieces

  Shadow Boxer

  Iceman

  Gypsy Davey

  Freewill

  Little Blue Lies

  Killing Time in Crystal City

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  Copyright © 2005 by Chris Lynch

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  Also available in an Atheneum hardcover edition.

  Designed by Kristin Smith and Jessica Sonkin

  The text of this book was set in Proforma.

  First Simon Pulse edition May 2007

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Lynch, Chris.

  Inexcusable / Chris Lynch.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  “Ginnee Seo Books.”

  Summary: High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.

  ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84789-9 (hc)

  ISBN-10:0-689-84789-0 (hc)

  [I. Rape—Fiction. 2. High schools—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction.

  4. Family life—Fiction. 5. Alcohol—Fiction. 6. Football—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7-9845Way 2005

  [Fic]—dc22

  2004030874

  ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-3972-6 (pbk)

  ISBN-10: 1-4169-3972-5 (pbk)

  ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0702-7 (ebook)