saved by allegra skye

Author:allegra skye
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780983701538
Published: 2011-06-23T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

The first day back to school was impossible. Everyone crowded around Keira, asking how she was and how Amanda was, was, how her family was—students, teachers, counselors, coaches, the works.

She was embarrassed by all the attention. All these people that had never noticed her before suddenly wanted to talk to her. She felt that they weren’t genuinely interested in her or how she was feeling.

Plus, she didn’t know how to respond, or what to say to any of them. She didn’t even know herself how Amanda was really doing.

Later in the day, on the way to lunch, Tom hurried up to Keira in the hall. His eyes were red and swollen and he seemed very nervous.

“How is she?” he asked.

Keira just shrugged. “We’re just not sure.”

“I heard that you took the back road to the party so Amanda could be with me sooner,” Tom said.

Keira was amazed that he knew. So that was it. He felt guilty.

“Who told you?”

“Prissy,” he said. “Amanda had been texting her before she left. Prissy suggested she take the back road and Amanda thought it was a great idea.”

“Well, I wish you’d tell my father that,” Keira said slowly. “My father doesn’t believe that Amanda asked me to take the back road. He thinks I chose it for some reason.”

Tom grew silent and his eyes opened wide. “For what reason?”

Keira didn’t want to have him spread around school that her parents thought she might have wanted to hurt her sister, so she just shrugged.

“Your father thinks you were jealous of Amanda?” Tom asked, incredulous.

Keira had a sudden burning desire to know what Tom was thinking. She wondered if she really had a power to read minds, and if she could summon it. She didn’t see an indigo light anywhere, but she focused, as hard as she could, willing herself to hear this thoughts.

But nothing happened. She couldn’t. And that depressed her. Had she just been imagining her newfound powers?

“Everyone at school is saying all kinds of things,” Tom continued.

“That I hurt my sister because I was jealous?”

“No, not that you purposely hurt her. Just that you must have been very jealous of her.”

Keira felt sick to her stomach.

“What can you do? People here spend ninety nine per cent of their time talking about each other. They’re saying all kinds of things about me too.”

“What?”

“They’re blaming me for the accident, saying it happened because Amanda was so anxious to see me. They’re saying I should have picked her up and driven her to the party.”

“I hope you know that’s crazy,” said Keira.

Tom looked at her sadly. He didn’t know that.

Keira felt much older then, wiser. She felt really different from others now, as if she didn’t belong here at all.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Keira remembered the accident. A flash of it came back to her, and she saw herself spinning, with Amanda, stuck in the car, rolling head over heels.

Keira suddenly felt dizzy, her heart pounding out of control.

“Are you OK?” Tom asked, suddenly concerned. He reached out and put a hand on his shoulder, steadying her.

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