Ninth Key by Meg Cabot

Author:Meg Cabot [Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Romance, Usenet, Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
ISBN: 9780061971891
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2001-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twelve

“Oh, Susie,” my mom said, turning around as I came into the house. “Hello, honey. Look who stopped by to see you. Mr. Beaumont and his son.”

It was only then that I noticed Tad was there, too. He was standing by the wall that had all of our family photos on it—which weren’t many since we’d only been a family for a few weeks. Mostly they were just school photos of me and my stepbrothers, and pictures from Andy and my mom’s wedding.

Tad grinned at me, then pointed at a photo of me at the age of ten—in which I was missing both my front teeth—and said, “Nice smile.”

I managed to give him a reasonable facsimile of that smile, minus the missing teeth. “Hi,” I said.

“Tad and Mr. Beaumont were on their way home,” my mom said, “and they thought they’d stop by and see if you’d have dinner with them tonight. I told them I didn’t think you had any other plans. You don’t, do you, Suze?”

My mom, I could tell, was practically frothing at the mouth at the idea of me having dinner with this guy and his kid. My mom would have frothed at the mouth at the idea of me having dinner with Darth Vader and his kid, that’s how hot she was to get me a boyfriend. All my mom has ever wanted is for me to be a normal teenage girl.

But if she thought Red Beaumont was prime in-law material, boy, was she barking up the wrong tree.

And speaking of barking, I had suddenly become an object of considerable interest to Max, who had started sniffing around my book bag and whining.

“Um,” I said. “Would you mind if I just ran upstairs and, um, dumped my stuff off?”

“Not at all,” Mr. Beaumont said. “Not at all. Take your time. I was just telling your mother about your article. The one you’re doing for the school paper.”

“Yes, Susie,” my mom said, turning around in her seat with this huge smile. “You never told me you were working for the school paper. How exciting!”

I looked at Mr. Beaumont. He smiled blandly back at me.

And suddenly, I had a very bad feeling.

Oh, not that Mr. Beaumont was going to get up, come over, and bite me on the neck. Not that.

But all of a sudden, I got this very bad feeling that he was going to tell my mother the real reason I’d gone to visit him the night before. Not the newspaper article thing, but the thing about my dream.

Which my mom would instantly suspect was you-know-what. If she heard I’d been going around feeding wealthy real estate tycoons lines about psychic dreams, I’d be grounded from now until graduation.

And the worst part of it was, considering how much trouble I used to be in all the time back in New York, I wasn’t at all eager to let my mom in on the fact that I was actually up to even more stuff on this side of the country.

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