Got Fangs ? by Katie Maxwell

Author:Katie Maxwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-08-18T10:35:50+00:00

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Chapter Eight

"Are you all right?"

"Yeah. You can let go of my head now."

I sat up slowly, as if I had been feeling dizzy and was liable to pass out at any moment. I wasn't the least bit dizzy, but I was very sick to my stomach.

Someone wants to kill Ben!

Ben squatted next to the chair he'd led me to when I pretended to collapse inside the tent. I took a few deep breaths of fresh air, air not polluted by hundreds of bodies, and looked around me. We were outside Tallulah's tent, which was the farthest point away from the main tent. The music was a dull throb in the back of my head, like a headache that wouldn't go away. I didn't remember walking all the way here, and wondered if Ben had carried me. Wouldn't I remember that?

Someone wants to kill Ben!

I shook my head and closed my eyes again. Thinking was too hard to do with the music pounding away in my brain.

"Is she better? Does she want water?"

Someone wants to kill Ben!

"Shut up," I growled to the shrieking inner Fran.

"Did she just tell me to shut up?"

"I'm not sure. It sounded like it."

A shadow fell between us, on top of my hands, which were clutching Ben's as if I had been drowning. It must be Tallulah. She hated the bands; she always stayed away from the tent when one was playing.

"Someone wants to kill you." I didn't think I had said the words, but I did. It was my voice, and Ben's fingers tightened around mine.

"Someone always wants to kill me," Tallulah said very matter-of-factly. "That's no reason to tell me to shut up. It's because I can contact those who have passed on, and tell things the living don't always want made public. Once, a lady in Amsterdam who had suffocated her elderly father tried to kill me with a hatpin. A hatpin! Naturally, I knew she was coming. Sir Edward told me." Sir Edward is Tallulah's boyfriend. He's dead, but they still hang out together.

"I don't think that Fran is talking about you," Ben said, not looking in the least bit surprised or worried or freaked or any of the ways I would feel if I were told that someone wanted me deader than a squashed bug. He was just looking at me, a little concerned, true, but his eyes were back to honey oak with gold flecks.

I glanced up at Tallulah and gave her a feeble smile. "I wasn't telling you to shut up, and I'm glad you have Sir Edward so you'll know whenever someone wants to off you, but Ben's right. This is about him, not you."

"Someone wants to kill Ben?" Tallulah stepped back and stared at him. Mom says Tallulah is related to a gypsy queen, and I have to admit, she looks like it. Her skin is the color of a double-tall latte, but her eyes are bright, bright blue. She has long black hair with a

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