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Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up

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Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up is a novel in English. Chapters 1 and 2 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

Erin Bennett and her boyfriend Noah Carter planned to turn their college's fourteen-day outdoor orientation into a documentary series about the two of them. But again and again, Noah leaves her alone on the training field whenever his childhood friend Claire Moore calls, saying she is sick or scared. Erin misses the sunset team drill and the closing long take she spent two weeks preparing, while Claire is photographed happy in a dessert shop outside camp.

Before, Erin would have asked when he was coming back. This time, she crosses "Couples Finale" off the Day Fourteen script and replaces it with two words: just me. When Noah protests that Claire needed him, Erin points out the camp has a nurse, instructors, and an emergency line. He insists it was only once, but she remembers eleven days and eleven reasons, and the two-year anniversary he forgot.

Erin slings her tripod over her shoulder and walks away, leaving Noah reaching after her.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

For the eleventh time, Noah left me alone on the training field. His childhood friend Claire Moore had called him in tears, saying she'd been vomiting and was lying in the camp clinic alone and scared.

Waiting for him to come back, I missed the camp's only sunset team drill and the closing long take I'd spent two weeks preparing.

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Contents

Chapters 1 and 2 are on this page. Chapters marked with a lock continue in the official app.

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Which chapters of Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up are free?

Chapters 1 and 2 are free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 3 the book continues in the official app.

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What is Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up about?

Erin Bennett and her boyfriend Noah Carter planned to turn their college's fourteen-day outdoor orientation into a documentary series about the two of them. But again and again, Noah leaves her alone on the training field whenever his childhood friend Claire Moore calls, saying she is sick or scared. Erin misses the sunset team drill and the closing long take she spent two weeks preparing, while Claire is photographed happy in a dessert shop outside camp.

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