The Space Between Trees by Katie Williams

Author:Katie Williams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

That week that we make the list, Hadley’s angry. No, it’s more like she was always angry, but the incident in the diner parking lot gave her permission to stop hiding it. She’s in detention nearly every day after school for mouthing off to her teachers, and her little brothers hunker down into tiny blond rocks when she storms the living room. She’s starting to get paranoid, too. She’s convinced that cars are following her.

“Look now!” she’ll shout while we’re driving, turning both her head and the steering wheel so that we nearly veer off the road. I grab the wheel and steer us back center, but by the time I’ve done that, she claims the mysterious car is gone.

Things get even worse when the waitress-witness, Laura Grossman, turns out to be a bust. The two guys she overheard in the restaurant turn themselves in. They’re bag boys on break from the supermarket down the street, and the dead body they’d been discussing was from a movie they’d watched the night before. On the evening news, they shake their heads and open their eyes wide.

“We were just talking about movies,” one of them says.

“We didn’t mean to sound like we’d hurt anybody,” the other adds.

“We like scary movies.”

“Like anybody, right?”

“We like to be scared.”

“But just pretend. We’re not scary.”

“No, we’re not scary.”

The newscasters take a moment to chuckle after the clip before dialing their facial expressions back over to serious in order to announce that the hunt still continues for the murderer of local teen Elizabeth McCabe.

“Liar,” Hadley hisses over the phone. “That waitress wanted attention, that’s all. Sad little waitress life. Wonder how she’d like the attention I could give her. Liar.”

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