The Supernatural Files of CJ Delaney by Carol Williams
Author:Carol Williams [Williams, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00
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This Is a Stickup: Hand Over Your Notes!
After the meeting, Bix Jr. came up to me. âSounds like youâve gotten some good info on thatâwhaddaya call it, ritualistic stuff.â
I shrugged and glanced at him suspiciously. It wasnât like him to be almost complimentary. âI guess,â was all I said.
âThink you could pass your notes on to me? My dad said I could take it from here.â At least he had the decency to look a bit sheepish. And maybe it was just my imagination, but did he even look a little sorry?
I held my notepad protectively against my chest and snapped, âNo way, Bix. Do a little work and get your own notes.â
Now Bixâs freckled face was beet red. âLook, itâs not my fault you canât work on the story and it belongs to my dad. So give me the notes!â He actually reached out his hand to take them!
I backed away. âYou couldnât handle them, anyway! My notes are full of stuff cultists do, like how they dig out the eyeballs and squish the guts around.â This wasnât totally true, but there was still some stuff that made me glad for the olâ nerves of steel.
In the ever-changing rainbow that was Bixâs face, he went from red to pale pink under his tan. But he managed to splutter, âSo? Thatâs baby stuff. I can handle it. Now give âem here.â He was being so rotten I almost felt glad. This proved Parker was wrong about Bixâs so-called lovey-dovey eyes. The only person this guy had a crush on was himself.
âNo, jerk!â I said more loudly than I meant to.
Then I felt a hand on my shoulder. It squeezed just enough to make me close my mouth. I knew that hand.
Contiâs voice was low but firm. âCJ, give Bix your notes.â
It took everything I had not to let my lips tremble as I handed that kid my papers. I lowered my eyes so he wouldnât see how close I was to crying about how my notes would get him one step closer to helping his dad get the scoop.
He smiled in that smarmy way he had when he was around grown-ups and said, âThanks, Mrs. Delaney.â But he stopped smiling as he turned away from us. All he said was, âAnd, oh yeah, thanks, Cub.â
âCome with me,â said Conti softly to me.
Without another word I followed her into her office, where she shut the door. As soon as it shut, the tears spilled out. âItâs not fair! I did all the work,â I said. I wanted to shout, Why did you do that? Youâre my grandmother. Youâre supposed to have my back! But I knew better than to yell at Conti.
She gestured for me to sit in the chair across from her desk. âI know itâs hard for you to understand, CJ, but Iâm trying to teach you a few things besides how to write a news story.â
I reached for a tissue on her desk. âWell, if youâre trying to teach me that Bix Anderson Jr.
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