The 39 Clues - Rapid Fire: Turbulence by Riley Clifford

Author:Riley Clifford [Clifford, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9781407134390
Google: zGpGBAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-03-01T21:45:06.330000+00:00

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from the shadows. Vesper One slid into the backseat and closed the door. “Boston.”

There was one final item to attend to before he could put his plan in motion. It was time to eliminate the last Guardian.

The next morning Jonah Wizard arrived fresh off his concert tour via helicopter at six a.m. and landed on the front lawn, triggering the alarm system. By the time Amy had con-vinced the Attleboro police department that everything was under control, the other Cahills had gone back to bed and slept through the tumbling lessons. Most of them came down in time for jujitsu training, but once it became clear that Madison’s idea of a

“light tap” could knock out a linebacker, the crowd began to dwindle.

The worst part of it was that every time Amy tried to get their attention, they ignored 32/56

her. It didn’t matter that she’d spent months arranging for expert linguists and champion martial artists to come to the house. Every time she raised her voice loud enough to make them look at her, she blushed and began to stutter. Yet it wasn’t the wasted time or money that bothered Amy. It was the fact that these people weren’t strangers. They were her family. She’d thought that, after everything they’d gone through, they’d be excited to work together. But it was as if the events of last year had never happened.

At least the skydiving trip seemed to be working out. The Holts were excited to go, and everyone else had been too tired to ar-gue. The bus Amy had chartered was silent as they drove through the Bristol County countryside toward the private airstrip.

Everyone was asleep except for Amy and Jonah, who had been oddly quiet since his arrival that morning.

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Amy was sitting in the row behind Jonah and watched as he pulled out his iPhone and turned to face the window. He fiddled with it for a moment, and the glow from the screen illuminated his famous face. The phone remained lit just long enough for Amy to see the corner of Jonah’s mouth droop before the phone went dark. He sighed softly and put the phone away.

Amy reached forward and tapped him on the shoulder. “Are you okay?”

He turned toward her. “A-Dawg. I didn’t know you were awake.”

“Of course you didn’t,” she said, a little more bitterly than she’d intended. “I could’ve died and no one would’ve noticed.”

“You shouldn’t talk like that. Not after what we survived.” He must have seen the distress in her face, because he flashed his superstar smile. “Besides, sometimes it’s nice to stay under the radar.”

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“Easy for you to say. Was that your pub-licist you were texting? Or the president of your Facebook fan club?” She meant it as a joke and was surprised when Jonah’s face fell. “I’m sorry,” Amy said. “It’s none of my business.”

“No, it’s fine.” He bit his lip, something Amy had never seen him do before, either in person, onstage, or during his countless tele-vision appearances. “I just thought that maybe my mom would try to get in touch or something.

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