Jinx by Cabot Meg

Author:Cabot, Meg [Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Chick-Lit, Adult, Witches, Magic
ISBN: 9780060837648
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2007-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

Jinx

CHAPTER TWELVE

It started the next day.

I knew it as I approached my locker, before first period had even begun. I stopped suddenly, the traffic in the hallway streaming around me, people giving me annoyed looks as they tried to get by.

Thered been no sign of Tory that morning, and, having noticed the tenseness in Aunt Evelyns face at the breakfast table (apparently the little meeting she and Uncle Ted had had with Tory the night before, when Tory had finally turned up again, had not gone well), I hadnt waited for her, and had just gone on to school without her.

Zachwhom Id run into on my way to schoollooked around the hallway and went, What is it?

Look, I said. And pointed.

The halls of the Chapman School are usually crowded. The exclusive school, whose graduates routinely go on to Ivy League colleges, was experiencing a surge of popularity that had resulted in classrooms that were almost spilling over, and hallways that were barely passable. But that day they seemed even more

so.

Then I realized that the crowd was not made up of the kids I normally saw lingering outside their classrooms waiting for the bell to ring, but teachers and even some administrators from the principals office, too. They were all standing around, staring at one spot...and that spot, I knew, even from a hundred feet away, was my locker.

With a growing feeling of dreadnot to mention the resurrection of the knot in my stomachI pushed my way past a couple of lacrosse players who were blocking my view, then stumbled to a halt. There, hanging by a shoelace from the vent in the top half of my locker door, was a dead rat. Fluid of some kind not blooddripped from the cavity where the rats head should have been, forming a pinkish puddle on the tile floor in front of my locker.

Zach squeezed through the crowd behind me, and then froze. I felt his breath, warm on the back of my neck, as he whispered, Holy

A maintenance worker was carefully unstringing the rat, a plastic bag held open beneath it to receive the body as it fell. It did, with a sickeningly soft thud. Several students groaned.

Is this your locker, young lady? a sharp-nosed administrator asked me. I could not take my gaze off the pink puddle in front of my locker door. Yes, maam, I said. Do you have any idea who could have done this?

I lifted my gaze from the puddle, but instead of fastening it on the administrators face, I scanned the crowd, searching it for one person in particular. I finally noticed Tory pressed up against the shoulders of the lacrosse players, peering around them, a triumphant smile plastered on her face.

I looked away and said to the administrator, No, maam. I have no idea who could have done this.

I went through the rest of the day in a sort of haze. What, I kept asking myself, did Tory think she was doing? Stealing a dissection rat from the bio labbecause that, I learned, is where the rat had come from.

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