Wicked Little Secrets: A Prep School Confidential Novel by Taylor Kara

Author:Taylor, Kara [Taylor, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-03-03T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY-SIX

Brent, Cole, and Casey Shepherd leading the men’s 8 team to victory Saturday morning only lasts a day or two as a water-cooler topic: The spring formal is on Friday night, and everyone is buzzing about that. Apparently some freshman’s parents own the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, and they agreed to let Wheatley have the dance there as long as no one disturbs the wedding going on in the ballroom next door.

Anyway, what everyone is really freaking out about is Goddard’s new decree that anyone planning not to return to campus after the formal needs written permission from their parents. Also, we have to sign a form saying we promise not to get drunk, high, naked, or some combination thereof and wreak havoc on the city of Boston.

Most of my friends convince their parents that Casey Shepherd is having a small, G-rated get-together on the Cape. My mom even agrees to write me a note allowing me to go, as long as I don’t tell my dad. But it’s Kelsey’s parents who take issue with April driving us to the Cape in her mom’s SUV.

“Does she think I’m a bad driver or something?” April asks, stabbing her potatoes a little too manically at dinner Monday night.

Everyone looks at one another.

“Whatever.” April slams her fork down. “I only failed the road test the first time because the lady hated me for no reason.”

“What were your excuses the other two times?” Murali mutters into his soda.

“Hey,” Brent says, as April growls at him to shut up, “we can’t all fit in Apes’s car anyway. I’ll borrow my sister’s car for the weekend and drive half of us. Kelsey can come with me.”

And that’s how that gets settled.

I am not buzzing with excitement, however. Everything that happened with Anthony has left me in a permanently foul mood, and Brent’s intense practice schedule has left little time for us to get past the weirdness of The Drop debacle. As a distraction, I throw myself into full-on Weaver mode.

In my downtime Wednesday night, I pull out the notebook in which I have the crew team picture and Matt Weaver’s key hidden. I think about Pat’s story about the security guard’s version of the night Matt disappeared.

Three voices. But four guys in the basement, allegedly. What if Matt were the phantom fourth guy? The woman said she saw him go into the woods around the same time. He could have met up with the guys who were playing poker, then left to meet his doom. The only question is Which of the guys was waiting for Matt in the woods? And why would the others lie to cover for him?

I wish I had access to the official statements Matt’s friends gave about that night, but I have a feeling they were “lost” when the police department switched to digital records. How else could Steven Westbrook run for senator twice without any of his opponents digging up the connection between the hazing charges and Matt Weaver’s

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