You Look Different in Real Life by Jennifer Castle

Author:Jennifer Castle
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Turns out, Lance is a pacer. I wouldn’t have guessed that.

He’s treading the wide planks of the kitchen floor back and forth, back and forth, while he scratches the same spot on the back of his head. It all seems a little overdramatic. Maybe he thinks that if he keeps moving, he won’t feel like such an idiot.

Because during the night, Keira managed to sneak into their room and steal their car keys, both cell phones, and Leslie’s wallet.

I’m a little shocked and a lot—so much that I can’t even contain it—impressed.

“Who’d have thought?” I say now to Felix. We’re sitting on a bench on the front porch. It’s warm, so the door is open and we can hear everything that’s going on at the back of the house. Rory sits on the steps in front of us, reading. We’ve been rather forgotten at the moment. It feels like a wide crushing pressure has been lifted off my chest, and the sun is shining and this weekend is turning into something pretty terrific.

Felix has his keyboard on his lap and plays a few random, distracted chords in a melancholy key. “Keira’s always had a lot going on below the surface.”

“Yes,” says a voice to our left, and I turn to see that Nate has stepped onto the porch. As the resident expert on the subject in question, he had been asked to remain in the Holy Shit Keira Is Gone headquarters. Here, the light hits his face but doesn’t brighten it; it’s drop-shadowed with worry. “She does have a lot going on.”

“Any news?” I ask.

Nate shrugs and leans against the porch railing, facing us but focused on the side of the house above our heads. “They finally got ahold of her dad. He said he had a voice mail message from her, telling him she was okay and she wanted to be left alone for a day or two, and to ask that nobody come find her unless they hadn’t heard back from her by Sunday night.”

“That sounds incredibly thought out,” I say.

“That’s Keira,” says Nate. “She plans.”

“Did she say anything to you about where she was going?”

“No,” he says, his head drooping. “But Leslie said something cryptic about knowing where she might have been headed.”

I’ve been thinking about the conversation I heard last night, trying to make sense of it. It sits like a tiny sparkling something in an inside pocket of my jacket, and I need to show it off.

“They had some kind of information for her,” I finally say.

Nate’s head snaps back up and looks straight at me like suddenly, miraculously, I matter. “What do you mean?” he asks.

“She was in Lance and Leslie’s room last night, and I overheard her talking to them about finding an address for someone, and she was pissed.”

“Her mom,” says Nate after a pause.

“I figured.”

He thinks about that for a moment, then shakes his head with I should have known heaviness. We’re all quiet again. Rory has stopped reading and is staring out at the woods.

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