I Know You Remember by Jennifer Donaldson

Author:Jennifer Donaldson [Donaldson, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2019-10-07T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

I SLIDE INTO YEARBOOK just as the bell rings. On the chalkboard Ms. Yi has scrawled Independent work period. She’s in the back of the room, talking quietly with some kids about the different parts of a camera. Other kids sit at the computers, working through tutorials or just messing around on social media.

Tabitha’s lying with her head in her arms on the table in front of her. Marcus looks like he’s been up half the night, too, and Jeremy’s not even there. I set my muffin on the table and lean in toward them.

“Do either of you know a guy who wears a metal bracelet?” I whisper.

Marcus frowns a little and shakes his head. Tabitha lifts her head up a little, looking blearily through stray locks of hair. There’s a smear of unwashed mascara under her eyes, and there’s still a faint whiff of alcohol coming off her.

“What are you talking about?” she croaks.

“I just went to the Cup and Saucer.”

“Ugh, I hate those bitches,” she says. “They talk shit about everyone.”

I ignore the irony. “They seemed nice enough to me.”

She just presses her lips into a smirk. “They used to try to get Zahra to stop hanging out with me. They always acted like I was the stuck-up one, but they’ve been nasty to me every time I hang out with them. They have all these little in-jokes and they act like I’m too stupid to get them.”

I just nod. I can only imagine how those meet-ups would’ve gone. Tabitha getting territorial, jealous, hating that she had to share Zahra with these other girls with their inside jokes and easy rapport; Margo and Soo-Jin baffled by Tabitha’s resentment and laughing off her attempts to pull rank.

“Well, they said there was some guy who used to come hang out with Zahra on her lunch break,” I say.

She raises one narrow brow. “That’s not exactly breaking news, Ruthless,” she says. “Everyone knows about that by now.”

“Yeah, but they actually saw the guy,” I say. “They gave me a description. White guy, skinny, brown hair. It might help lead us to—”

“Jesus, would you knock it off with the Nancy Drew shit for, like, five minutes?” She slaps the table with both palms. Then she closes her eyes and rubs her face. “You’re so fucking relentless.”

I recoil a little.

“Yeah,” I say shortly. “I am. I want to find Zahra. I want to bring her home.”

She doesn’t say anything for a minute. Her eyes dart down and to the left, a twitchy motion like a scurrying animal. She’s scared, I think. She’s scared to talk about this.

But when she speaks, her tone’s belligerent.

“You really think you’re going to find something the cops missed?” she asks.

“I don’t know. But they’re so focused on Ben—what if this other guy is the one they should be looking for?”

Marcus’s eyes widen. He looks from me to Tabitha. “That could help clear Ben’s name,” he says. “If we could find him.”

Tabitha slouches back over the table, bracing up her forehead with her hands.

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