Revelation by Kate Brian

Author:Kate Brian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

A TASTE

Tuesday at lunch I sat with Diana, Shane, and Sonal as they quizzed one another on French vocab words they would need to know for their final. Since I wasn’t taking French, I was able to tune them out and stare off into space. Which basically meant I was staring at the Billings table.

Noelle and Amberly sat across from each other at the first seats near the aisle. Noelle in her usual chair, Amberly in my old seat—which was also Ariana’s old seat. Her hair was pulled back in a sleek ponytail, and she wore a pressed white shirt under an aqua-colored, cable-knit sweater vest and a gray skirt, plus a light blue scarf. When I squinted, she looked exactly like Ariana. Was I the only person around here who had noticed her transformation? Was I the only one who was totally creeped out by it?

“Have you guys noticed anything different about Amberly lately?” I asked my tablemates, interrupting the vocab round-robin.

“You mean like the fact that she’s gone from sniveling bitch to bossy bitch in less than a week?” Shane replied, taking a bite of her ham sandwich. “Has to be a record, even for Easton.”

Diana and Shane giggled. Sonal covered her mouth with her hand to keep from spitting her chicken salad everywhere.

“Well, that and … isn’t she kind of dressing differently?” I asked.

They all leaned in to see the Billings table better. After a moment Diana shrugged. “Still preppy and peppy,” she said. “I swear that girl has at least one cable-knit sweater in every color in the universe.”

“I thought Seattle girls were supposed to be more, like, earthy,” Sonal commented, tossing her long black hair behind her shoulder as she sucked at her teeth.

“Apparently Amberly didn’t get the memo,” Shane replied.

“But she doesn’t look like she’s trying to emulate anyone else?” I prodded.

They glanced over again. “Laura Bush?” Shane suggested.

Then they all cracked up laughing and got back to their work. So much for that. Maybe it was just because I had known Ariana better than they had. Or maybe I was just trying to see something that wasn’t there. And there was always the chance that I was getting a tad obsessed with this whole Cheyenne murder thing.

I was about to return to my lunch when Kiran’s ex—Dreck Boy James—walked by Noelle with his tray of food. She said something to him as he passed—something I couldn’t hear, but which cracked up the other girls at the table. James paused for a moment, turning beet red. For a second I thought he was going to say something back, and I willed him to do it. To just stand up for himself. But instead he ducked his head and kept walking.

Noelle smiled happily to herself as she sipped her water, and suddenly all those feelings from that awful day last year came flooding back. The terrified look on Kiran’s face when Noelle had told her they knew who she was dating. How Noelle had basically blackmailed her into breaking up with James.

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