Abandon #2: Underworld by Meg Cabot

Author:Meg Cabot [Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)

My mother’s voice was coming from across the hall.

Realizing I could no longer hear the sound of water running, I got up from the bed and hurried to the hallway. My mother’s bedroom door was open just enough for me to be able to see that she was wearing the soft, fluffy bathrobe I’d given her last Mother’s Day. I felt a pang when I saw it, and had to restrain myself from running towards her and flinging myself into her arms.

Because her next words stopped me cold.

“Zack, how can you even say such a thing?” my mother asked in an agitated voice as she squeezed the ends of her long, dark hair with a towel. “I refuse to believe Pierce would ever run away, especially with a boy.”

She was on the phone. And she was talking to my father. Arguing with my father, actually. About me.

Well, what else was new? Their arguments about me, starting from the time of my accident, for which my mom had always somewhat irrationally blamed my father — though it was my own fault, not Dad’s, that I’d died. Oh, and Grandma’s — were what had ended their marriage.

But where had my father gotten the idea that I’d run away?

“When? When did this happen?” my mom demanded, going to sit on her bed. She looked upset. “When did Pierce call you and say she wanted to leave Isla Huesos?”

Standing in the shadows of the hallway, I felt my heart skip a beat. Oh, God, of course … the phone call I’d placed to my father a few nights earlier, when I’d seen the Coffin Night supplies in our garage … and learned the truth about my necklace.

And John.

That had been before, though, when I’d been unhappy and overwhelmed and — I might as well admit it — scared to death. I was still scared, of course, and a little overwhelmed, and I certainly wasn’t always happy.

But I didn’t want to leave Isla Huesos anymore … or John.

It sounded like my mother was on my side, though.

“Zack, that was her first day at a brand-new school,” Mom said, into the phone. “It’s natural she called and asked you if she could come home. The counselors at New Pathways said she might. Every student feels insecure and miserable their first day at a new school. That doesn’t mean she’s run away. What about that boy on the security tape? Pierce didn’t look as if she was going with him willingly. And he punched my mother, you know.”

My father must have made some kind of colorful remark about that — there’d never been any love lost between him and Grandma — since I heard my mother inhale, then sarcastically reply, “Yes, well, I understand you’ve always wanted to punch my mother, Zack, but that doesn’t make me think that boy is someone whose company Pierce would keep. Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called.

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