Secrets by Melinda Metz

Author:Melinda Metz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: YA
Published: 2011-03-04T17:41:21+00:00

Chapter 8

the last one. When you’re done, we’re done, even if it’s a few minutes early. Rae had called Yana after school and filled her in on what happened to her painting. Before Rae could even go on, Yana had jumped in and said they should go straight to the Wilton Center, today. So she was picking up Rae from group, and then they were heading over.

Finally the girl talking came to an abrupt halt.

Thank God, Rae thought. But then Ms. Abramson, the group leader, asked the girl a question. Of course.

Because that was her job. Getting them all to dig deeper, look harder.

Rae realized her heel was tapping rapidly against the floor. She pressed her hand on her knee to force her foot flat to the floor and keep it there. Things like that—unconscious repetitive motion, or signs of anxiousness, or signs of lack of social awareness—could and would all be noted in her chart. And if she wanted to stop coming to this bizarre fun fest, she had to make sure she was so normal, she put people to sleep.

―Okay, that‘s it for today,‖ Ms. Abramson said.

Rae managed not to leap out of her chair and whoop.

Instead she stood up quietly, like a normal person, put on her jacket, like a normal person, gathered her stuff, like a normal person, and walked out of the room, like a normal person.

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She was only a few steps down the hall when Jesse Beven caught up to her. ―Shouldn‘t we be doing something? ‖

he asked, his blue eyes intent on her face.

―Doing something?‖ Rae repeated.

―Yeah, doing something,‖ Jesse said. ―You know, to find out—‖ He took a moment to check that no one was listening. ―To find out who kidnapped me and who tried to kill you. Are we going to come up with some kind of plan? Or are we just going to keep sitting around with our thumbs up our butts?‖

Rae knew Yana was probably already waiting for her in the parking lot. But it was clear Jesse wasn‘t going to let her go without some kind of answer. ―I want to do something, yeah, of course,‖ she told him.

―But we‘ve got nothing, remember? The guy who kidnapped you is long gone, and we have no idea who hired him. Or who hired David Wyngard to set that pipe bomb. How can we come up with a plan when we‘ve got nothing?‖

Jesse‘s frown deepened into a full-fledged scowl, and his eyes darkened.

―Has something new happened?‖ Rae asked. ―Are you worried—‖

―I keep having nightmares, okay?‖ he blurted out.

―I‘m back in the warehouse and—whatever.‖ He avoided her gaze, and she noticed his hands clenching into fists at his sides. ―Every time I wake up, I‘m 121

pissed off. I‘m not letting whoever did that to me get away with it.‖

Rae nodded, worried that Jesse wasn‘t so much pissed off as terrified. But she wasn‘t going to ask.

That was a Ms. Abramson kind of question.

―If anything happens, anything that would give us a

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