Reunion #21 by Melissa J. Morgan

Author:Melissa J. Morgan [Morgan, Melissa J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2012-06-01T08:49:43+00:00

chapter SEVEN

Quiet hour was one of the only times during the jam-packed Walla Walla daily schedule that the campers actually got a little, well . . . peace and quiet. Normally, Sarah preferred being outdoors and engaged in sports or some other activity, but ever since the Lakeview girls arrived at camp and the game of Assassin began, quiet hour had become one of Sarah’s favorite times of the day. It was the easiest time to keep tabs on her tentmates and to make sure that they weren’t getting any closer to learning her secret. It had become a routine: come back from lunch, flop down on her bunk, and pretend to read a book for forty-five minutes or so while silently keeping an eye on everyone else.

Today, however, she came back from lunch to find a surprise waiting for her. Well, not exactly waiting for her, really. Not really waiting for anyone in particular, but rather, trying to get in and out of the tent for some surveillance work without being spotted by anyone else.

It was Chelsea. And she was tossing Hailey’s bed like she was the tooth fairy looking for a recent deposit. The mattress was tilted up at an angle, and she was feverishly checking inside the springs of the bed frame.

“What are you doing?” Sarah shrieked upon seeing Chelsea tearing through the tent like it was her living room. She knew, of course, what Chelsea was doing—or at least, she had a pretty good idea—but she sort of couldn’t help herself from exclaiming out loud.

She’d been dreading this moment ever since Avery had first come up with the idea of playing Assassin. And she thought that she had planned for it by constantly lurking and generally being obsessive about knowing where everyone was at any given time. But trying to be all-knowing that way was exhausting. A girl was bound to slip up.

That, plus, Chelsea was clearly extremely stealthy. No wonder she had slipped under Sarah’s radar.

Chelsea jumped about ten feet in the air, then spun around, a guilty expression on her face. “Nothing,” she said quickly. After a moment, when it became clear that Sarah wasn’t buying that ruse, she went on. “Um, except that I lent a magazine to Hailey, and she told me to come back and get it if I wanted. She told me,” she repeated stubbornly, as if by saying it enough times it would suddenly be true.

“Cool. Well, she should be back from lunch any second now, so, you know, you can just get it from her directly,” Sarah said, challenge in her voice.

That is, if you weren’t really looking for something else.

Chelsea bit her lip, looking flustered. “Right. Uh, maybe, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just get it from her after dinner.” She moved away from the bed and began to sidle cautiously toward the front door. Not that caution would help, Sarah thought. The cat was way out of the bag at this point.

Please, Sarah thought. Unlike the

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