The Lost Girl by Lilian Carmine

Author:Lilian Carmine [Carmine, Lilian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780091953423
Publisher: Ebury Press
Published: 2014-05-22T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Slow Dancing

“Joey, calm down now!” Seth ordered, but I paid him no attention.

Everybody was talking at the same time. I wasn’t listening. I was too mad. Someone had broken into my house. Into my room. I paced up and down the small space like a caged lion. Who could have gotten inside the house? Who had access? My mind couldn’t stop throwing out these questions.

You should rip their head off when you find them, the alien voice whispered in my head. No one should threaten you. Chains rattled inside. All you have to do is let it out, and this person will learn to never cross your path again.

“Joe?” Vigil’s hand brushed softly over my arm. “Calm yourself,” he warned me, eyeing the rattling window panes with worried eyes beneath furrowed brows.

“Yeah. Okay. I’m calming down. Don’t worry,” I said in a strained voice. “Who’s been in the house over the past couple days?”

“Uh … just us. Oh, and Becca. She was here yesterday.”

“Who else?” I asked, nervously scratching at the inside of my arms.

“No one else,” Seth replied.

The memory of Jamie popped into my head. Jamie had access to the house. All he had to do was slip into my room when the boys weren’t looking. “What about Jamie?”

“Oh, yeah. Jamie was here too. He wanted to drop off some edited footage of our last show.” Seth frowned. “Come on, guys, it’s only Jamie. He’s harmless!”

Hmm. Jamie with his blank stare. I never could tell what was really going on inside that boy’s head. Jamie’s mind was always a mystery … Could it be him doing all this, leaving me creepy flowers and notes?

I didn’t think I would ever look at lilies the same way again after today. They would always freak me out.

Great. This had totally ruined my favorite flowers for ever.

“Should we call the cops?” Harry asked, his body tensing as if ready for action.

“I’ve known Jamie since school; I can’t believe he’d do anything like this,” Josh protested with a frown.

“There was that loopy kid at the bookstore, too,” Sam reminded us.

I buried my head in my hands while the boys argued about the best course of action. We’d never had a crazy stalker before and had no clue how to proceed.

I couldn’t believe my bad luck. First an evil cat from another dimension; then the power switch; then the weird voices inside my head threatening to blow everything up all the frigging time; then Tristan leaving; and now a stalker. Seriously, I was really starting to lose it.

“Look, I called Tristan and told him about what happened. He’s coming over; we just need to wait for him to get here. He’ll know what to do.” Seth’s voice rose above everyone else’s.

“Wait, Seth, what did you just say?” I jumped up, startled.

“Huh … Tristan is coming over …?” Seth repeated hesitantly.

“Seth, NO! Why did you do that?” The only reason I hadn’t freaked out more about Tristan leaving in the first place was because I knew he would be safer away from here.

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