Moby Clique

Author:Cara Lockwood [Lockwood, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body, Characters in literature, Ghost stories, Illinois, Action & Adventure, Private schools, High school students, Juvenile Fiction, English literature, Characters and characteristics in literature, Mysteries & Detective Stories, General, Mind & Spirit, Supernatural, Boarding schools, Sisters, Missing persons, Ghosts, Fiction, School & Education
ISBN: 9781416550501
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-03-04T20:03:42.055956+00:00

Heathcliff has managed to get a little fire started and he’s gathering more wood to put into it.

“We need some help,” Ryan says, but Heathcliff ignores him. “Parker is trapped.”

Heathcliff barely pauses in his wood gathering.

“Are you just going to ignore us?” Ryan asks.

“I warned her,” Heathcliff mutters.

Heathcliff doesn’t even look at Ryan. He just pokes at the fire. I put my hand on his arm, and he looks up at me.

“I don’t like her, either, but we can’t leave her there,” I say.

He blinks at me and then scowls. “You want me to help her?” he asks me, his eyes darker and more brooding than usual. He doesn’t like Parker. Helping her would go against every instinct he has.

I nod.

Heathcliff sighs, but straightens, looking resigned. “Anything you ask of me, I’ll do.”

Back at the sinkhole, Heathcliff has Ryan hold his feet. Within a matter of minutes, he’s pulled Parker out. Typical of Parker, she doesn’t bother to thank him.

“Hey, watch it!” she cries as he tugs on her wrists. He glances up at me and I give him a warning look. I can tell he wants to drop her straight back down in the pit. I know how he feels.

As soon as Parker is on safe ground again, Ryan immediately starts to help her hobble back to the camp that Heathcliff has set up for us. There’s now a small fire, which we huddle around because it’s starting to get cold.

“So what do you think they’ll do to us when we get back?” Samir asks.

“Dish duty?” Hana offers.

“Pffft. Only if we’re lucky,” Blade says. “Toilet duty is more likely. Or maybe figurative expulsion.”

Everybody looks at me after she says this. It’s because last semester I got this punishment when the faculty wrongly thought I’d caused the disappearance of two teachers. Figurative expulsion means that basically everybody ignores you, as if you don’t exist.

“Being a social pariah is the worst by far,” I say.

“Of course, you were one of those even before you got ex-communicated,” Parker snaps. Her hurt ankle is making her even ruder than usual. “Anyway, I’m not getting anything because I didn’t want to spend the night out here in the first place.”

I have the distinct impression that the minute we get back to campus she’s going to blame everything on me, even though she was the one who volunteered to tag along. Maybe she and Lindsay do have something in common, after all.

“No one’s going to get in trouble,” Ryan says. “All we do is say that we got lost, and then Parker hurt her ankle, and we couldn’t go back before curfew. They can’t punish us for trying to help Parker.”

Parker sniffs, but doesn’t say anything. She just cuddles up to Ryan for warmth. Ryan lets her. Fine, I think. If that’s the way he’s going to play it. First, he crushes on my sister, and then he lets Parker fawn all over him? Two can play that game.

I scoot closer to Heathcliff. He’s momentarily

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