The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie

Author:Lindsay Currie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2022-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Five

“What is that?” I croak out.

The mirror is covered with writing. Jagged red letters streak down the glass.

REVERSE THE COURSE

I read it again. Then again. The words are dripping down the mirror now, looking way too much like blood. Panic settles in. This is another clue when we still haven’t figured out what all the other ones mean.

“Reverse the course,” Joshua reads out loud. “What does that even mean?”

“Ugh. I don’t know.” Snatching a towel off the bar on the wall, I turn on the sink and dip it in the stream of water. “This is my house. My house! Why did she come here?”

“She came here because she believes you can fix whatever her problem is, Mallory.” Emmie pauses, her eyes tracking my movements as I turn off the water and move toward the mirror. “Wait, what are you doing?”

“Cleaning this up.” I reach out to scrub away the message, but she grabs my hand. Annoyed, I try to pull it back. “Em, let go.”

“No.” She wrestles my fingers from the towel and takes it from my hand. “If you wipe that off, you’re ruining evidence.”

Joshua looks unconvinced. “Evidence? It’s not like we can take fingerprints or test for DNA. What are we really going to do with this?”

Emmie sets the wet towel out of reach. “I know we can’t test for fingerprints and DNA. But we can take a picture of the message before we wipe it off.”

And this is one of those moments I’m super impressed with my best friend. We’re like peanut butter and jelly, Emmie and me. We’re a team. When I’m freaking out, she’s calm. When she’s freaking out… Well, she doesn’t freak out much, but if she did, I’d like to think I’d calm her down too.

“Yes!” I say, wrapping her into a giant bear hug and squeezing until she lets out a strangled mmmph sound. “We’ll take a picture and then look at it later to see if anything has changed—like the holes in my other photo!”

“Exactly,” Emmie crosses her arms over her chest, looking pleased with herself.

“I’ll get your camera!” Bri races toward my bedroom. She’s wearing a pair of my Harbor Point sweatpants and an oversized sweatshirt now. Even with the patches of paint left over on her face, she looks cute. And less like Sweet Molly, thank goodness.

“We have to wash this off as soon as I get a good picture of it, though. Otherwise my parents might see it.” And if my parents see it, they’ll start nosing around. Once they figure out what I’m up to, they might cause problems for me. And the last thing I need right now is more problems.

I turn back to the message on the mirror, realizing Joshua is quiet. Too quiet.

His jaw twitches as he stares at the dripping red letters. “Do you think this message has to do with the boat? The Merriweather? It sounds like something a captain would say.”

“Reverse the course,” Emmie says aloud. “I didn’t think of that, but maybe.

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