Flawed Plan (A Crimson Falls Novella) by Amabel Daniels

Author:Amabel Daniels [Daniels, Amabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

The next morning, I left the house well after Mom had already gone in for her shift at the hospital a half an hour away in Arbordale. I had my lengthy handwritten letter to Bill sealed in an envelope and addressed to him in my backpack. Bill’s house wasn’t too far from school, but I’d anticipated needing a good couple minutes to stop by there to deposit my words where he couldn’t miss them.

What I hadn’t counted on or even considered was the absence of Bill’s car. So excited and determined was I with my plan, I didn’t even think about a backup idea. Because in Bill’s short driveway to his rental was nothing but chilly October air.

Damn.

Guess that’d mean…he was at work? Not necessarily a bad thing, and I could still pass along my letter, somehow, after school. The beauty of slipping it under his windshield would be that no one would have to witness me handing over the secret. If I were to run into him in person, there was the chance Tim or the other two bullies could oversee my exchange.

Hmmm. I glanced around, checking again for Tim’s, Ashlyn’s, or Meg’s cars. Still good. It was early in the morning, and they wouldn’t have reason to be on Bill’s street anyway. My only company was a squirrel sampling a gourd on the neighbor’s porch. Slip the letter inside under the crack of the front door? I eyed the entry to Bill’s house and didn’t favor that option either. Who knew how long it might be before Bill could come home? The longer I didn’t tell the one person I deemed as my single hope for justice, the more this urgency to do some action intensified.

“Damn.”

No amount of grumbling or staring at Bill’s house would fix my dilemma, though. If I was absent at school, I’d really trigger the trio of terror’s attention. I had to go. And not let myself get cornered, by any means possible.

Students were heading inside the front lobby door and into classrooms as I made my way to Miss Bleason’s homeroom class. The noise and bustle of people nearby and carrying on as usual helped to ease my anxiety of having to be near the guy who warned me into silence. Made it slightly easier to stifle the scream that I’d been holding in since I saw Jackson’s car disappear underwater.

Warn me into silence? Ha. The letter in my backpack wasn’t too noisy as ink on folded loose-leaf paper, but I’d made sure to be as descriptive and concise with time and locations that the message was a screaming revelation.

Friday must have been Bill’s day to give his flirting a break because as I sat in my preferred seat, I noticed Miss Bleason wasn’t dilly-dallying like she was waiting for him to pop in for a chat like he sometimes did. No, of course he wouldn’t show here today, a day when I needed to see him.

Tim strode into the classroom with

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