I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson

Author:Penny Joelson [Joelson, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Egmont UK Ltd

As we head home, it begins to rain – just to make everyone more miserable – and no one has an umbrella. Although they are in plastic sleeves, the posters will be dripping and bedraggled before anyone even sees them. Mum and Sheralyn struggle to get my showerproof cape over me, but I am already very wet. The chill dampness has seeped through to my skin, making me shiver. Raindrops tickle my face like insects and I wish I could wipe them away.

When we reach the house, Mum says Kate can’t go home on the train all that way, soaked through. She insists she lend her some clothes and invites Kate to stay for dinner.

Once I am in dry clothes, Sheralyn leaves me in the living room with some music playing, saying she’s going to have a shower. Kate, Mum and Dad are in the kitchen and I wish she’d taken me in there.

I’m sitting here, almost asleep, when Olivia slips in, unusually quietly for her. She goes over to Mum’s handbag, which is on the sofa, opens the zip and starts rummaging. I wonder briefly if Mum has asked her to fetch something from her bag – but it’s unlikely. Olivia keeps glancing towards the door too – so she’s obviously doing something she shouldn’t.

She doesn’t seem to have realised that I’m here. I watch as she pulls out mum’s purse and takes out a ten-pound note. She folds it and presses it quickly into her pocket. She zips up Mum’s bag, then glances up at me – she meets my eyes, but then looks quickly away and hurries off.

What does Olivia want ten pounds for? Then I remember Mum saying money was missing from her purse. It was Olivia all along.

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