Transparent by [email protected]

Author:[email protected]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-01-25T16:00:00+00:00

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HarperCollins Publishers

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nineteen

When I walk into tutoring, the Brady-asked-me-out high dissolves. Not like Seth looks pleasant often, but today he’s beyond stressed. And he won’t look at me. Bea glances my way several times, then finally leans over. “Do you know what’s up with him?”

“How would I?”

She shrugs. “He seems to be avoiding you. Wondered if maybe you guys got in another fight or something.”

“Not really.” I thought Seth and I had reached some tentative truce since that game of sardines. Not that he’s been chummy, but he certainly hasn’t been as jerky as before. He even talks to me sometimes at lunch, though he mostly studies with Hector. We’re kind of friends, I think.

“You should talk to him and see what’s up,” Bea says. “He seems to open up around you, and he listens to you.”

“What?” I try not to laugh. “He does not.”

Her look is flat. “He does. Trust me.”

“Whatever.” I focus on my homework, sure we’re reading into it too much. Seth is always stressed over something.

But then the entire hour passes without Seth checking on us once. In fact, he stays as far away from me as possible. Maybe his furrowed brow does have something to do with me. Every minute he avoids me makes my heart beat faster, and I go into panic mode.

He let my secret slip.

My mind races through the possibilities. Maybe he was talking to Hector about me and someone overheard. They figured out I’m not hiding from my dad. He’s probably scared to tell me. And he should be, because I’ll never forgive him if he ruined everything.

As I pack my stuff, his feet come into view. “Fiona?”

“Yeah?” I look up; he stares at the floor.

“I need to talk to you.”

“You could have done that during class—Bea’s my ride. My mom actually got a job . . .”

“I can take you home. This is really important and . . . private.”

My throat closes. Crap. Someone does know I’m on the run. They told my dad. He showed up and seduced the school secretary into telling him where we live. He’s probably there waiting for Mom and me to come home.

I’m such an idiot. I’ll never have a normal life, and now that I’m losing this one I know what I’m missing.

“Fine. See you, Bea.”

She nods. “It’ll be okay.”

I wish she was right.

After the door closes, Seth takes the seat next to me. He chews the inside of his lip, and his blue eyes turn sad. “I have some bad news.”

My hands won’t stop shaking. “Who’d you tell?”

His brow furrows. “What?”

“C’mon. You look like you’re being followed by the Grim Reaper. You must have let my secret slip. Who’d you tell?”

“I didn’t tell anyone. She figured it out on her own and came to ask me about it.”

My jaw drops. It was probably one of my dad’s spies, following a lead. I thought Seth would be a lot smarter than that. “And you just told her? I thought you said you were good at keeping secrets!”

His eyes turn angry.

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