Feeder by Patrick Weekes

Author:Patrick Weekes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

WEDNESDAY

07

LORI

“Are you okay?” Lori’s brother, Ben, asked the next morning in between spoonfuls of yogurt.

“Yep!” Lori rinsed off the plate from his toast (properly, without butter, this time) and did a little spin to the dishwasher to load the plate. “Why?”

“You’re very bouncy today,” Ben said. “Is it just that you’re happy because your friends came over last night?”

“Mm-hmm,” Lori called back, flipping the dishwasher door up with one foot and snapping the light switch with the dish towel. “It was nice having them over, wasn’t it?”

“Yeah. I like Tapper.” Ben thought for a moment and then added, “He knows a lot about Pokémon. Am I done with my yogurt?”

“If you want to be!” Lori danced to the happy little song playing in her mind and took a probiotic pill that Handler had told her contained good gut flora or something.

“You didn’t even look,” Ben called over from the table.

Lori deliberately turned and looked at her little brother, who held the yogurt cup out for inspection. It was perhaps half-full.

“Close enough for today, little guy,” Lori said, and grinned at him. “Now, do you want to go get Legos for day care today?” She was going to have to come up with a cover story for day care, since she’d kept Ben at home yesterday. She hadn’t thought of one yet and was having trouble caring.

Ben frowned at the clock, which read 7:25. “Are you not grumpy about us being late?”

Lori let out a slow breath. “Not today, kiddo. I don’t have work in the morning, and you were really nice to my friends last night, so today, we are going to be nice to each other. ‘Our family might get there late . . .’ ”

“ ‘But we’ll get there together.’ ” Ben gave her a little smile. “Okay. If I get my Pokémon and Legos superfast, can you come with me on the late ferry?”

Lori checked her phone. Iara had said she would text Lori when she had a new lead, and so far there was nothing. “You’ve got it.” She headed to her room and pulled on a sweatshirt that was warm enough for what promised to be a breezy day.

She had one more day to find Tia Lake and stop her. One more day to destroy the Lake Foundation and Kirk, whatever he was, and all those eels. Part of her wanted to panic about it, but she’d panicked about it yesterday, and that hadn’t much helped, had it? At least they had a file.

And Lori had friends. Not friends like Jenn, who just thought she had a job that kept her busy after school, friends who would turn blank when Lori asked if they remembered anything about the water rising. Friends who were like her.

Maybe even friends who did like her.

She thought of Maya and the one kiss, which had ended with Hawk making a “D’awwwww” noise until Iara whacked him, and her own face hot and Maya blushing but still grinning as she shot Hawk a dirty gesture.

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