Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

Author:Adriana Mather
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

I yank on my black boots and stand up from my window seat. I’m still reeling from that crazy breakfast. I head for the spare bedroom, twisting my wet hair over my shoulder.

Just as I reach the door, Susannah opens it. “We should go. Jaxon’s truck just left, and we don’t know how long he’s going to be with Niki.”

“I don’t understand.”

“We’ll explain in the car,” Mary says.

Alice tosses me a black jacket, and I follow them down the stairs.

I knock on my dad’s office door and crack it open. “I’m going out with the girls. Be back in a little bit.”

“Keep your phone on and be home for dinner,” my dad says.

“Will do.”

I follow the girls out the front door and get in Mary’s Jeep.

Alice pulls away from my house and glances at me in the rearview mirror. “So what happened with you and Jaxon?”

“Alice, you can’t just go straight at a subject like that,” Susannah says.

Alice shrugs. “I just say what I think. But it’s not like I was trying to cause a blowup at breakfast. You know that, right, Sam? I was trying to figure out…I just need you to tell me what happened.”

“I will,” I say. “But can someone fill me in on what sent us running out of my house just now?”

Susannah turns toward me. “We’re going to Niki’s.”

Did I hear her correctly? “When she’s not home?”

“Faster and more effective,” Mary says.

“Are you saying we’re breaking in? Why?” My voice betrays my disbelief.

“Don’t sound all shocked,” Alice says. “We’re not looting the place. It’s just that if the Titanic you’re going to is a spell, then we have a more serious problem than we originally thought. And with Redd’s warning, I don’t know. I still think it’s unlikely Niki and Blair are involved, but let’s just say that I’m no longer opposed to double-checking. And besides, I know where the spare key is.”

Does that mean they think Redd’s warning might have been directed at me, too? “What about her parents?” I ask.

“Most likely at the yacht club,” Alice says. “I’ve lived next to them my whole life, and they’re almost never home on the weekends.” We pull to a stop, and she gestures toward an enormous redbrick house with black shutters. “See, empty driveway.”

Mary turns around from the passenger seat and looks at me. “When we get out of the car, make sure you act like everything’s normal. Don’t speed-walk or look around suspiciously, and no one will question what we’re doing.”

The girls and I jump out of the Jeep, my heart beating so loudly I’m sure the neighbors can hear it.

Susannah nods in the direction of the brick house and I follow. Every piece of gravel under my boots is amplified.

Alice sticks her fingers through a thin opening in a tall white wooden fence and jiggles a metal latch. The gate swings open into the backyard. Rows of white flowers and bushes, all trimmed and uniform, line the house and fence.

Alice grabs a fake frog and flips it over, revealing a hiding place for a key.

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