Seeking Cassandra by Lutricia Clifton
Author:Lutricia Clifton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
After Bobby Ray and Héctor and I return from hiking, I try out my detective skills, searching for tracks leading to something metal that would make a tinny sound. Studying the ground behind our camper, I find remnants of different kinds of tracks. Coyote. Raccoon. Birds. But theyâre not what Iâm looking for. In front of my eyes, a breeze moves the sand around, scouring the ground clean.
Itâs hopeless, I think. Thereâs no way a track would survive in the wind here. Itâs a lunar landscape, scraped clean, just like X said.
Discouraged, I trudge back around the camper. Suddenly, the breeze uncovers an indentation on the ground. Part of a heel print, one with deep ridges.
Heart racing, I make a footprint next to it. The heel print is similar to mine.
A hiking boot?
âItâs probâly Dadâs. He wouldâve left tracks when he was looking around,â I whisper to myself.
Hearing Dadâs truck, I hurry around front.
âHey, Peachesââ He stops short, looking at me. âSorry. I meant to say Cassie.â
âItâs okay, Dad. Peaches is okay when itâs just us.â
âReally?â he says, smiling. âThatâs great. So, how was your day?â
âIt was all right. How was yours? Anything . . . new?â
âNope,â he says. âNothing interesting, anyway.â
I glance at his feet, looking for a track like the one I found out back. His leather work boots are worn down at the heel, leaving a smooth print different from the one I found. And a lot larger.
So that other track means there was someone else here that night, who deliberately left that envelope for Dad to find. And that means . . .
The word accomplice echoes through my head, again and again.
âWhat is it, Peaches?â Dad looks at me, frowning. âBlisters hurting?â
âUh, no. Theyâre, uh, theyâre better.â
âGood. Pearl stopped me on the way in. Said for you to come over and sheâd teach you a recipe.â
âIâll go now.â
âNo need to rush off. Dayâs young, and Iâd like to hear about your hike. . . .â
I hurry away, not knowing what to say to my dad. One word has changed everything.
Accomplice.
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