Secrets by Melinda Metz - Fingerprints - 4

Author:Melinda Metz - Fingerprints - 4 [4, Melinda Metz - Fingerprints -]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Goodreads: 553526
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2001-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Rae felt like a squirmy five-year-old as she waited for group therapy to end. Every second that went by was a second she couldn’t use to find out the truth about her mother. Every second that went by was a second Rae might desperately need to save her life.

Come on, come on, come on, she thought as a new girl-Rae couldn’t even remember her name, and the girl’d said it about three minutes ago-stammered her way through a tour of her psychosis. Rae reminded herself how hard it was to learn to spew personal stuff in front of strangers and tried to give the girl an encouraging smile. But she couldn’t make her lips move that way.

Come on, come on, come on, she thought. You’rethe last one. When you’re done, we’re done, even if it’s a few

minutes early. Rae had called Yana after school and filled her in on what happened to her painting. Before Rae could even go on, Yana had jumped in and said they should go straight to the Wilton Center, today. So she was picking up Rae from group, and then they were heading over.

Finally the girl talking came to an abrupt halt. Thank God, Rae thought. But then Ms. Abramson, the group leader, asked the girl a question. Of course. Because that was her job. Getting them all to dig deeper, look harder.

Rae realized her heel was tapping rapidly against the floor. She pressed her hand on her knee to force her foot flat to the floor and keep it there. Things like that-unconscious repetitive motion, or signs of anxiousness, or signs of lack of social awareness-could and would all be noted in her chart. And if she wanted to stop coming to this bizarre fun fest, she had to make sure she was so normal, she put people to sleep.

“Okay, that’s it for today,” Ms. Abramson said. Rae managed not to leap out of her chair and whoop. Instead she stood up quietly, like a normal person, put on her jacket, like a normal person, gathered her stuff, like a normal person, and walked out of the room, like a normal person.

She was only a few steps down the hall when Jesse Beven caught up to her. “Shouldn’t we be doing something?”

he asked, his blue eyes intent on her face.

“Doing something?” Rae repeated.

“Yeah, doing something,” Jesse said. “You know, to find out-” He took a moment to check that no one was listening. “To find out who kidnapped me and who tried to kill you. Are we going to come up with some kind of plan? Or are we just going to keep sitting around with our thumbs up our butts?”

Rae knew Yana was probably already waiting for her in the parking lot. But it was clear Jesse wasn’t going to let her go without some kind of answer. “I want to do something, yeah, of course,” she told him. “But we’ve got nothing, remember? The guy who kidnapped you is long gone, and we have no idea who hired him.

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