Now You See Me by Marilyn Kaye

Author:Marilyn Kaye [Kaye, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Supernatural, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Schools
ISBN: 9780753430460
Google: 2SnARQAACAAJ
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Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2010-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

JENNA SANK INTO THE chair in the lounge and looked at the TV screen without even seeing what was on it. She supposed she could take advantage of the fact that for once she was alone in the lounge, and she could watch something she wanted to watch. But she wasn’t in the mood for TV.

She wasn’t in the mood for anything. It was 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, and she’d been at Harmony House for three days. What would she be doing if she wasn’t here? Waiting for her mother to come home from work, and thinking about what they might have for dinner. Maybe throwing some things in a backpack for one of the regular Friday night sleepovers at Tracey’s. Checking online to see if there were any good movies playing in town.

Instead, she was imprisoned in a facility for bad teenagers, and she wasn’t bad. And right now, all the really bad teenagers were enjoying visits from friends and families, while she, Jenna Kelley, who had done absolutely nothing wrong, was all alone.

That Landers woman had said she couldn’t have visitors or phone calls for the first forty-eight hours. Those forty-eight hours were over twenty-four hours ago, and she’d had neither a visitor nor a phone call.

Peter Blake, the creepy resident assistant, came into the lounge.

‘It’s visiting hours,’ he announced.

‘Yeah, I know,’ Jenna muttered.

‘Guess you didn’t get any visitors,’ he commented.

Jenna didn’t think she needed to dignify that with an answer.

He turned to leave, but looked back at her from the door. His lips curved unpleasantly into a smile that was more like a sneer. ‘I wonder why.’

So did Jenna. Not one visitor, yesterday or today. Not from her mother, not from Tracey or Emily. She’d harboured a faint hope that Madame might have come to visit her. OK, maybe she acted like she didn’t give a damn what Madame thought about her, but deep in her heart she did trust the teacher, and she thought the teacher trusted her. But now she had to wonder if maybe Madame thought she belonged in this prison.

At first she was surprised by the lack of calls and visits – now she was depressed. Did they all believe she’d really come to school armed with a butcher’s knife? Had they all abandoned her? Was her very own mother on the phone right now to Social Services telling them to keep her daughter for ever?

It hurt, bad. Even during the worst times of her life, when her mother was drinking and Jenna was basically living on the streets, she couldn’t remember feeling so low. So alone.

This morning, she’d had another meeting with that doctor, Paley. He’d asked her if she was making friends here at Harmony House. She’d lied and said yes, just to get him of her back. It wasn’t like she could tell him she’d read a few minds and realized there wasn’t anyone here she wanted to make friends with. So many of them were like the people she’d known before, on the streets.

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