Haunted by Melinda Metz

Author:Melinda Metz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: YA
Published: 2011-03-04T17:41:29+00:00

Chapter 8

into his nose. Plus was Anthony actually supposed to care that some big-shot actor and his plastic wife had split up a while ago? The magazines were so old, everyone already knew what had happened, anyway.

Amagast paused to pull in what sounded like a truckload of snot, then he went on—word, wet sniffle, word, um, um, word, wipe nose on sleeve, word, uh, um, word. . . .

A craving came over Anthony, like hunger, like thirst, like the need to piss first thing in the morning.

He wanted a doobie. He could almost taste it, the thick smoke in his lungs, the world becoming just a little bit nicer.

He glanced at the clock again. Only three minutes had passed. Get a bathroom pass, he told himself. Mike or Gregg might be in the can. Or at least somebody who could give him a toke. He didn‟t need a lot. Just enough to take the edge off . . . so blood wouldn‟t come gushing out of his ears after his brain imploded, which was sort of what it felt like was happening. Anthony started to raise his hand, then lowered it and gripped the side of his desk until his fingers ached. If he let himself get a little buzz to get through the day today, then he‟d be back to getting high all the time. And that was not the best way of getting out of this friggin‟ place for good. He wanted to graduate, and he was barely making it through his Bluebird classes pot free.

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In that book Rae was talking about, was there really a way that—

Stop, he told himself. Remember fourth grade—

getting on the moron bus, going to that place where all everyone wanted to do was help little Tony?

Freaks couldn‟t even get his name right. And the crap they made him do—it just made him feel even stupider.

And then there was the seventh grade. Mr. Leary.

Discipline means a disciplined mind. He couldn‟t breathe in that guy‟s room without getting the dictionary treatment—standing in front of the class, arms out, with a massive dictionary balanced on each palm until his muscles quivered, until he had to drop the books no matter what Leary said. Friggin‟ Leary.

Anthony‟s skin started to get hot. Hot and itchy.

He could feel each spot where a hair connected to his skin. If he didn‟t get out of here—

Jesse. Think about Jesse, Anthony ordered himself.

What could the deal be? He and Rae had talked to a bunch more people in Little Five Points yesterday.

Some of them had seen Jesse. But all of them had a different story about what happened, just like the first few people they‟d talked to. What could that mean? Some kind of drugs in one of the coffee bars in the area? A blast from an alien mind-altering laser beam after Jesse was abducted? Hypnosis? Mass hys-117

teria?

Anthony knew his theories were getting way out of control. But the whole situation was insane.

There has to be an explanation, he told himself.

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