Love and Lechery at Albert Academy by Dolores Maggiore

Author:Dolores Maggiore [Maggiore, Dolores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-eight

The Official Note

A butter-cream light poured through my window. Katie was fully clothed, sitting next to me on the bed; Alda was nowhere to be seen.

I blinked a few times and tried to figure out the day and the circumstances. I was thinking more or less straight.

Katie repeated that she was okay. Why wouldn’t she be?

“Kat, I uh…What day is it?”

“It’s Monday. You’ve got to get up,” said Katie as she tapped an ivory colored envelope against her hand. “Sweetie, you have to read this. It’s on Craney’s stationery.”

“Oh Jesus. It’s all coming back to me.” I scratched my head. “Where’s Alda?”

“No clue. Listen, Pin, the note. You’ve got to—”

“Kat, Alda was really weird, really scary. Do you really trust her?”

Katie got up and came back with a washcloth. She wiped my face and held my head between her hands. She looked straight into my eyes and said, “Open it!”

Finally putting all the pieces together, I understood how this letter could change everything. I reached out for Katie’s hand and ripped the flap with my other hand. The note said, “Report to my office at once on a matter of extreme urgency.” Signed Mary Margaret Craney, Headmistress and dated that morning.

All I could think to say to Katie was, “What time is it?”

Katie was chewing her lower lip. “Seven. Why?”

“Why didn’t she summon me last night?”

“Pin, is that important now? Are you following this? Don’t you get it?”

“What’s to get? I’m going to be thrown out,” I grunted.

“Is that the only thing you’re worried about?” Katie caught my eye. She had raised her voice and was pursing her lips. “Pin, dangit, I’ve already called my father. He’s totally upset but can’t do anything until he knows what’s what, what she accuses you of.”

“Katie…” I threw my head back. “We can’t prove anything except that we’re in love. But you know, like in that book The Children’s Hour, all the relationships wound up ruined after the whole ordeal.” I stared off into space.

Katie threw back my covers and pulled me from the bed. “Pina, you’ve got to get dressed. You’ve got to find out what she’s going to say.”

“And Alda and Dorotea?” I said.

“She-it, Pina! Why the heck are you worried about them now? I haven’t seen either of them.”

“Alda’s up to something. I think. But it was like I was drugged. She was cruel to me. Like she was laughing at me, I think.” I was struggling to remember.

“Get dressed now! We’ll talk about Alda later,” Katie ordered. “I’ll walk with you up to the entrance to Damper. I’ll wait for you, I promise. Just remember everything Craney says. And don’t argue.”

“What? And take her garbage in silence?”

“You’ve just got to get her to spell it out, to do something we can nab her on.”

My mind wandered. Just how much would I have to let Craney do to me?

I got dressed in my most serious clothes, all navy and white. It was hard to concentrate. Everything distracted me from the task at hand: to walk the gangplank to my perdition.

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