Deadly Attraction (Nightmare Hall) by Diane Hoh

Author:Diane Hoh [Hoh, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781480421660
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-08-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

FINN AND PETE WERE in room 416 when Hailey returned. When she had related the conversation she’d overheard, Nell said with delight, “Well, well, well! I knew Susan and Puffy were disgusting little snobs, but I didn’t know they were cheats!”

“I’m not so sure they are,” Hailey said.

“You’re defending Susan?” Nell asked, disbelief in her voice.

“Susan is in my calculus class,” Hailey answered. “She’s the smartest person in there. She doesn’t need to cheat.”

“Maybe,” Pete said, “she just stole the notes to prove that she could do it. An ego thing. Probably thought she’d never get caught.”

“I heard Dr. Leonardo say that she’d received an anonymous phone call,” Hailey said as she took a seat on the floor beside Finn. “Telling her to look in Susan’s tennis locker. Don’t you think that’s pretty weird? If Susan had stolen those notes, she wouldn’t tell anyone. Except Puffy, of course. And Puffy would never turn Susan in. So who made that phone call?”

“Who knows?” Nell asked. “Who cares?”

“Well,” Hailey pressed, “either Susan didn’t cheat and someone is framing her, or Susan did steal the notes and then made the mistake of telling someone she shouldn’t have trusted. I don’t think she’d be that stupid.” Although, Hailey quickly reminded herself, Richard Wentworth had been that stupid. He’d trusted someone not to hit him. He’d been wrong. And now he was … dead.

Hailey felt depression settling in her bones. “This doesn’t make any sense. I thought whoever wrecked our room was mad at us for helping Darlene. But Susan and Puffy didn’t help Darlene. Just the opposite. So, if they’re being framed, it can’t be by the same person who’s mad at us.”

“Probably doesn’t have anything to do with what happened in your room,” Finn said. “And you can’t even be sure they are being framed. Do you really think those two are above cheating?”

Hailey shook her head. “I don’t know. Maybe not.” But she couldn’t shake the feeling of uneasiness created by the overheard conversation in the Dean’s office. It made no sense … but then, what did these days?

Pete and Nell had already tuned out Hailey’s questions and were huddled together on a corner of Nell’s bed, talking quietly. Noticing, Hailey’s spirits lifted. Pete and Nell? That might be nice, since Pete and Finn were friends. And she hadn’t heard that Pete was dating anyone else.

If only all she had to think about was romance …

Hailey saw Susan only once the next day. And when they passed in the library, she saw far more pain than anger in Susan’s eyes. Being caught cheating at Salem was a very big deal. Hailey had no trouble imagining what kind of day Susan was having: the stares, the gossip, the contemptuous attitude of her professors.

At noon, Hailey heard that Susan and Puffy had been suspended from the tennis team until their disciplinary hearing, which was scheduled for a week away.

A week! And Susan and Puffy were going through this alone, since Robert Q, Lyle, and their other “friends” were avoiding them as if they’d come down with a contagious disease.

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