Lightning Chase Me Home by Amber Lee Dodd

Author:Amber Lee Dodd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2019-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

I had thought the book would explain everything that was happening to me, but it just created more questions.

•Would the disappearings eventually take me from places that meant something to Mum, to Actual Mum herself?

•Was the island really in danger from a terrible storm?

Thinking about it all made my head spin. I needed to tell Tom everything as soon as possible after school. But I had to get through the day without running into Blair first, and she hadn’t been lying when she said she would stop at nothing to expose my secret.

After the fish incident Blair had rallied her ponytail gang to spread the word that I was public enemy number one; that I had weird freaky powers and for the good of the school I needed to be exposed. And even though nobody really believed Blair’s story about me disappearing, it was much better to be Blair Watson’s friend than her enemy. Especially as Gregory and Ian had been found locked in a store cupboard in nothing but their PE shorts after they’d played a prank on her. So it soon became apparent that it was the whole year’s mission to catch me doing something weird. Blair’s spies were everywhere that day. Waiting for me in the girl’s loos, stalking me on the field, sitting too close to me in assembly. Even our special lunchtime spot under the stage wasn’t safe. Me and Tom couldn’t walk around a corner without someone pointing a camera phone at us. I had gone from the strange home-schooled girl who nobody talked to, to the most famous girl in school!

When I had started school, I had dreamed about being popular, about having a big group of friends who I could invite around my house, sharing secrets and having sleepovers. I’d never really minded not having many friends when Mum had been about. We didn’t need anyone else to make our adventures any better. But after she left I’d watched everyone in their friendship groups in church or at the cinema and I’d longed with every bit of me to be part of one. To not be the loneliest girl on the island. But Blair had made it so I couldn’t even go to the loo on my own. I kept waiting for it to calm down, but more and more kids joined in. Half of them didn’t even know Blair or about my supposed disappearing powers. It had just become the popular thing to do. It made it impossible for me and Tom to have a top-secret meeting.

It was a few days later when Tom managed to sneak me a note during STAR class. It had a funny picture of me and Tom on the front dressed like ninjas complete with swords.

“At break meet me back at the library. Take the long way around. Don’t be followed.”

It was the not-getting-followed instruction that turned out to be the hardest bit. Even though Tom and I split up, Blair was tracking me almost as soon as I got into the corridor.

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