Circle of Silence by Carol M. Tanzman

Author:Carol M. Tanzman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-06-05T14:00:00+00:00

Power is not a means, it is an end.

George Orwell

MP LOG

This is what happens when things don’t get done right. The new girl called me from the hospital and said she had to talk to me. Alone. She sounded really scared, so I said, “I’ll be there at seven. Make sure your mom, or whoever is visiting you, is gone. I don’t want to run into anyone.”

At 6:45, I slipped into the lobby wearing a gray windbreaker, the boring kind that nobody notices. My hair was combed neatly. I ignored the desk with the notice that said Visitor Sign-In Here. Instead, I stood by a trash can. Didn’t take more than a few minutes before someone tossed their visitor sticker. Easy to stick it on my jacket.

When I got to the room, the new girl told me she’d had a visit from that news chick who knew she got hurt doing something with us.

I kept my voice low and calm because you never want to show you’re surprised.

“Did you tell her anything?” I asked. “Anything at all?”

She looked terrified, like maybe I wouldn’t believe her. She said, “I swear, all I said to that Val girl is I don’t know what you’re talking about and you better get out right now. She wrote down her phone number in case I changed my mind and wanted to talk to her, but I threw the paper in the trash. Is that okay?”

“Yeah that’s good,” I said, “but how did she find out? Did she give you an explanation?”

“I have no idea,” the new chick said. “That’s why I called you. Because I wasn’t the one who told her.”

Then the new girl started crying and asking, “Do you believe me and can I still be in the group when I get better because it’s not fair to punish me when I did what you said to do.”

I said, “Nothing changes as long as you keep quiet.” She swore she would, so I said, “Okay, you’re still MP.”

But now we’ve got this problem. At the next meeting, I said, “One of you broke the blood oath. I’m going to find out who.”

Everyone looked shocked when I told them about the hospital visit and they all swore on a second blood oath that it wasn’t them.

“What about Phantom?” Hell Girl asked. “Maybe Phantom talked to Campus News.”

Frankenstein shook his head. “Why? Skeletor has pictures of Phantom like he has of the rest of us.”

Ghost Face looked thoughtful. “Maybe Phantom wants to make sure we never meet again. If the new girl caved and told Campus News what actually happened, we couldn’t blame it on Phantom.”

That made sense.

“We’re okay,” I told them. “If it was Phantom, it’s not like that Campus News chick was told all that much. She didn’t know anything for sure.”

I hit them up with the wolf grin and said, “But if I ever find out it was one of you, that person will be really, really sorry.”

Everyone nodded. Word. It’s spine-tinglingly cool how much control I have.

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