Shooting Star by Cynthia Riggs

Author:Cynthia Riggs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

Teddy paused and Victoria said, “You are brave, Teddy. Your parents and the police will think so, too.” She poured orange juice and moved the glass toward Teddy. “Go on,” said Victoria.

He had pretended this was only a game, he told Victoria. He reached the rail fence that marked his property. The lights were off at Peg’s. But lights were on in his house. He didn’t remember turning them on. Maybe Peg had escaped to his place and was looking for him. Maybe the bad guy had left Peg tied up and was stealing the TV from his house. A burglar, maybe.

The game had moved in a direction Teddy didn’t much like. He’d leaned his bike against the fence and, crouching beneath overhanging tree branches, he crept toward his house. This was like the time he and Joey snuck up on Joey’s sister’s slumber party, hoping to hear the girls scream. Exciting, but scary, because Joey’s father might catch them.

Who might catch him this time?

He had lowered himself to his stomach, and, slithering through the shrubbery, reached the big beech tree next to his house. He kept the tree trunk between him and the lighted windows.

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