Peer Pressure by Chris Watt

Author:Chris Watt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Modern Fiction, Romance, YA Fiction
ISBN: 9781780255101
Publisher: Autharium

THIRTY-ONE

1: Cancel Dinner Reservations

This was an easy one. Jodie knew that her mother was going to meet Rob at Saigon’s restaurant at seven pm tomorrow night. She found the number in the phonebook and rang them up to cancel the dinner. She may have gone a little overboard with explaining why she was cancelling the reservation — do people usually go into that much detail about having food poisoning? To add a little methodical cruelty to the proceedings, she rang the restaurant from Laura’s mobile, so as to kill any trail that might lead back to her in the event of suspicion.

2: Ruin Clothing

Katy had bought a new black dress especially for Friday night. So, armed with this knowledge, Jodie snuck home from school at lunchtime. She had thought about ripping it, but decided against it, feeling that it showed perhaps a little too much aggression on her part. It might have been her conscience getting the better of her. After all, with no one around to witness the crime what would it matter how she did it, except to herself? In any case, she went for the bottle of bleach under the kitchen sink. She then headed upstairs to her mother’s room and carefully took the new dress out of her wardrobe. Laying it on the bed she then took the cap off of the bleach, letting just two drops of the liquid fall onto the front of the dress.

Jodie then put the dress back into the wardrobe and, making sure that nothing else in the room had been disturbed, went back downstairs, putting the bleach back in its place under the kitchen sink, before returning to school, safe in the knowledge that in twenty minutes those two drops would become two white stains, rendering the dress useless.

3: Alter Mobile Number

This had proved trickier. Knowing that when her mother found the stains on her dress, she would quite rightly have to re-think her limited wardrobe options, she would no doubt want to phone Rob and tell him she might be a little late. Jodie’s plan was to make sure the call didn’t take place. The way she would do this was by going into her mother’s mobile phone contacts and altering Rob’s details by one number. But Jodie would have to act quickly, as doing this came with a very real fear of getting caught in the act. She decided to alter the number while her mother was in the shower.

4: Start a rumor

And

5: Create Mysterious E-Mails

were not applicable to this evening, but Jodie kept them at the back of her mind as she placed a tick beside each task she had done that day, then hiding the piece of paper inside her copy of Jude The Obscure, which she had yet to finish. After all, she felt, they might come in handy if the date remained successful. Whereas...

6: If All Else Fails, Fake A Seizure

...on the other hand, might come into play later that night if her mother and Rob ended up on the doorstep again.

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