Crazy House by James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet

Author:James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet [Patterson, James & Charbonnet, Gabrielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, General, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic *, Young Adult Fiction / Dystopian *, Young Adult Fiction / Family / Siblings *
ISBN: 0316431311
Google: QDCfDQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01MYDJBSO
Publisher: jimmy
Published: 2017-05-18T05:00:00+00:00

55

BECCA

“SHE IS,” I SAID, STARING at my sister. “She’s the good one, the careful one. Careful Cassie.”

Cassie looked surprised. “Well, you’re the ridiculous one!” she said. “Ridiculous Rebecca! Only now, you’re…”

“Sounds like you’re not so careful anymore,” I told her. “Like, rob any banks while you were at it?”

“No! Of course not.” Cassie looked embarrassed.

“Someone shot Harrison?”

She nodded, her expression darkening. “Yeah.”

“Do they know who?” I asked. I couldn’t believe that he was dead. That I never had to dread him again.

Cassie shook her head.

I had to tell her. As if sensing it, Merry came and sat next to me on the bunk. “Uh… you know, Harrison… anyway. I got pregnant.”

My sister looked appropriately horrified, then did the sweetest thing. She came and knelt before me and took my hands. “Oh, honey. I’m so sorry. That… that asshole.”

I’d never heard her use bad language before, even at her maddest. “Yeah. But a couple days ago I had a miscarriage. I got kicked really hard. And they operated on me to make sure it was all gone.”

“Someone kicked you?” My sister looked outraged.

I sighed. While that had been really, really bad, it was barely registering on my current list of awful life events.

“Cass. I’m really glad to see you, but trust me when I say that I would give anything for you not to be here.”

“I want to be where you are,” she said stubbornly.

“This is a prison,” I said carefully. “Full of kids from hundreds of different cells, including ours. Kathy Hobhouse is here, and I guess Livvie Clayhill used to be. But in here there are tests and training and fights.”

Cassie frowned. “What? Why?”

“How well you do at any of them decides how long you’ll stay,” I said, still pussyfooting around.

“So people get out?”

I hated seeing the spark of hope in her eyes. Slowly I shook my head. “No. This is… death row. The only way out is… to get executed.”

Cassie cocked her head to one side like a retriever. “What are you talking about?”

“Welcome to the crazy house,” I said.

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