Someone Like You by Shay Kathryn

Author:Shay, Kathryn [Shay, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: troubled teens, teacher series, high school sports, teachers and students, professional conflict, backlistebooks, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Kathryn Shay
Published: 2011-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Brie was unsteady on her feet as she left Dylan’s office. She was terrified for Matt. Educators had a sense of when a student was seriously in trouble and she’d gotten bad vibes from the boy. Dylan knew it, too. And Nick. No, she wouldn’t think about Nick and how he’d looked through her, how cold and uncaring he’d been when he refused to let her go with them.

Sheryl had called in subs to cover for her and Nick so Brie left the school and went out to sit in her car.

And worry.

Rolling the windows down, leaning back into the seat, she closed her eyes and thought about the news reports of teens hurting themselves these days. No one had used the word suicide but Brie knew that’s what everyone was concerned about with Matt. Except his father. The man had been a robot. Insensitive. Selfish. She conceded that he’d lost his wife a year ago, and remembered her own loss of Jared. But Brie knew for a fact that nothing, nothing could ever make her treat her daughter as badly as he’d been treating Matt.

Mayor Keller was a monster. She only hoped it wasn’t too late for his son.

o0o

Staring through the windshield, Nick blanked his mind as he drove to Letchworth. Vaguely, he was aware of Dylan taking out his cell and punching in numbers.

“This is Dylan Kane, principal of Crystal Corners High School. I need to report a situation in the home of one of my students.”

He was probably calling Child Protective Services, though most likely they couldn’t do anything because Matt was eighteen. Nick tuned out the conversation and focused instead on what had just happened in Dylan’s office. Nick had wanted to deck the mayor, who’d been so careless with his son. How on earth could a man treat his kid like that?

Dylan clicked off and keyed in another number. “Hi, honey, it’s me. I’m sorry I reached your voice mail. We have an issue with a student at the high school. You need to find Brie as soon as you’re free. She’s involved and she isn’t doing well.”

At the mention of Brie’s name, Nick gripped the steering wheel so tight his knuckles turned white. No, he wouldn’t think about her. He wouldn’t.

After Dylan clicked off, he was silent. Then he asked, “Do you want to talk about Brie? I know something’s going on between you two.”

“No,” Nick said, “I don’t want to talk about her. Or see her. Ever again.”

o0o

Brie went home. She didn’t know what else to do. She was too upset to teach her classes so she sat on her glassed-in porch, phone in hand, hoping Dylan would call her when they found Matt. When they found Matt in time. Because she hadn’t contacted anybody, she was surprised when Annie knocked on the back door and stepped inside.

“Brie, are you all right?”

For a moment, Brie was confused. When realization hit her, she felt her mouth go dry. “Oh, my God. Oh, no!

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