Playlist for the Dead by Falkoff Michelle

Author:Falkoff,Michelle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperTeen

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USER NAME: HAYDENSTEVENS

PASSWORD: ATHENA

And I was in. Simple as that. Or not so simple, really; I had a million questions. Who, or what, was Athena? Why was it important enough to be Hayden’s password? And how did Astrid know? Not to mention the still-open question of what really happened to Jason and Trevor—my brain felt like a whirling blob of confusion. It was all too much. I had to focus on one thing at a time, and right now, I was focused on Hayden’s computer.

I’d always been a little bit of a snoop. I’d found the hiding place for Hanukkah presents every year until I was ten, when Mom finally sat me down and said, “You know you’re just ruining it for yourself, right?” Yup. I was just starting to get how much the surprise of the gift was part of the fun, sometimes even more so than the present itself. But even though I stopped looking for Hanukkah presents, I didn’t stop looking through Rachel’s stuff trying to find a journal (not a chance; she wasn’t much of a writer, and even if she were, she’d be great at hiding it), or even through cabinets trying to find Mom’s stash of Oreos (she thought if she hid them she wouldn’t have to share, but she was wrong). And I considered myself the king of Internet stalking; the few times Hayden or I found a girl we liked I’d practically put together a dossier on her, though neither of us had ever had the guts to use it. At least as far as I knew.

This meant that the process of going through Hayden’s computer should have been one of the most exciting things I could imagine. The combination of satisfying my innate nosiness and possibly finding out once and for all what had made Hayden do what he did, even if it meant confirming my own culpability—catnip, right?

Yet I sat there staring at Hayden’s home screen for what felt like hours. I didn’t know what to do first—check his email? Read his documents? Go through his music? All of the options felt wrong, and not just out-of-order wrong, but not-okay, bad-person wrong. Like many snoops I was a private person myself, and the idea of someone going through my computer, even after I was dead, was horrifying. It seemed like everyone these days was all about letting everything hang out, but not me. I liked seeing what everyone else was doing without revealing myself in the process. And as far as I knew, Hayden had always felt the same way. Looking at his stuff now felt like a major violation.

Not to mention that ArchmageGed could apparently show up at any time, on the computer and in real life, and if he was really Hayden, he might be pissed. Maybe he was even watching me right now, crazy as it might seem. And if there was any chance that ArchmageGed was somehow involved in what happened to Jason and Trevor .

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