I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

Author:Lois Duncan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

chapter 12

"But Helen says it wasn't, and she should know if anybody does." Julie leaned her head against the back of the car seat with a sigh of such weariness that Ray turned to glance at her worriedly.

"You holding up okay there?"

"Oh, sure. I'm just fine. Just having a ball." She was frightened by the note of near hysteria in her own voice. "Somebody's lying-Helen or Barry or Mr. Cox. Who is it, Ray? And why?"

They were driving back slowly through the gathering twilight. The mountains in the east were touched with pink from the last rays of the setting sun.

Somewhere up there, Julie thought, is the Greggs' house, and Megan's there now, standing in the yellow kitchen, deciding whether it's worth it or not to fix a hot dinner for just one person. And a couple of miles north of that, the Silver Springs picnic area is growing cool and shadowy. Maybe later tonight there'll be a moon caught in that pine tree.

"It's like a merry-go-round," she said tiredly, "with everything going in circles and no answer to anything. Why would any one of the three of them lie?"

"Maybe they're all telling the truth."

"But how could they be, when the stories are different?"

"I don't mean telling the real truth," Ray said, "I mean the truth as they see it. Mr. Cox could be repeating exactly what Barry told him. Barry could have believed the person on the phone was Helen, even if it wasn't."

"You mean, somebody imitating Helen's voice?" Julie thought about that for a moment "I suppose it's possible-though, he knows her so well-"

"He was expecting her to call him. She'd called earlier that day and left word for him to phone her and he hadn't. If the person on the phone was a girl or woman, somebody who knew Helen pretty well herself and was able to copy her voice, and if Barry was expecting it to be Helen, he could have been fooled."

"But who would do such a thing?" Julie asked, and then suddenly a thought occurred to her. "Elsa!"

"Helen's sister?"

"Why not? She's a horrid person and very evidently just as jealous of Helen as she can possibly be. I remember the first day I met her-"

Her voice trailed off as her mind flew back to that bright spring day just over a year ago, when she had walked home from school with Helen in order to see her prom dress.

It had seemed strange at the time to be going over to Helen's. Despite the fact that they dated boys who went around together, the girls themselves had little in common. Helen was not a girl for confidences and easy friendships and she took little interest in school activities. Julie, on the other hand, was almost too involved with clubs and committees and cheerlead-ing practices to have time for a close, consuming relationship with any one particular person.

On this day, however, Helen had stopped her in the hall.

"I've got a dress for the Prom," she had said excitedly.

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