All Those Broken Angels by Peter Adam Salomon

Author:Peter Adam Salomon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen, teenlit, teen novel, ya, ya novel, ya lit, ya literature, ya book, young adult, young adult book, young adult novel, ya fiction, young adult fiction, science fiction, fantasy
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2014-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

twenty-three

I finished eating as Max sat down with his lunch. On the other side of the room, Melanie turned around, and I stared down at the table to block out the sight.

Caitlin hid behind her hair as Max leaned against her shoulder. “All your hair’s blocking my view,” he said.

“You’re not supposed to be reading this,” she said, covering her page with her arms.

“Wasn’t looking at the poetry.” His bright smile faded as he cast his chin toward the table where Melanie was eating. “Any news?”

I glanced away before she caught me looking and turned to the corners of the cafeteria, where the shadows melted around the numerous students wandering through them.

“No,” I said, and nothing more. What else was there to say?

“Do anything over the weekend?” he asked.

I shook my head, but he wasn’t speaking to me.

“It’s like talking to a wall,” he said, reaching out to tap Caitlin on the shoulder.

She brushed her long hair off her face. “What?”

“I said, ‘do anything over the weekend?’” He smiled, leaning forward to try to sneak a peek at the paper in front of her.

Caitlin covered it up once more before answering. “Hilton Head with my parents and Sidney.”

“Sidney?” Max scooted just a little closer to her.

“My sister,” Caitlin said, holding her hand in the air four feet up or so. “About this tall, brunette. Looks nothing like me. Looks a little like you, though.”

“You do anything?” I asked Max when he stopped laughing.

“Just another fun time on the Georgia coast,” he said. “Spent most of yesterday on my front lawn, watching cop cars driving around.”

“I heard about that,” I said.

Caitlin flicked her pencil against her teeth. “They were saying a girl went missing in Bluffton last week, too. Pretty much ruined the weekend, since my mom never let us out of her sight.” She shivered once, then scribbled something in her notebook

“That’s three,” Max said, counting on his fingers. “Sue Chapman here in Savannah. Ellen Marie whatever her name is, near where I live.” He glanced at Caitlin for a name.

“Not sure,” she said. “It was a vacation. I wasn’t paying much attention to the news.”

“Seems like a lot,” he said.

For a moment, the shadows shifted around me, fluorescent lights flickering above the room. “Four,” I said. “Heard someone talking earlier about an Amber Alert issued in Waycross. Not sure who it’s for, but that would make four.”

“Might not all be related,” Max said. “My dad was talking to one of the cops, who told him they were searching for a ‘suspicious male.’” He made air quotes around the words with a shake of his head.

“I think they’re looking for an older woman in Waycross,” I said.

Logan passed by on his way toward Melanie, dragging his lunch bag across the table so it bumped into my tray. “Casper is a suspicious male,” he said before turning to Caitlin. “And with all that hair, I guess that would make Max a suspicious female.”

“Takes one to know one,” Caitlin said, but Logan had already left, still laughing.

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