SMOKE AND MIRRORS by TANYA HUFF

Author:TANYA HUFF
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-01-19T07:01:28+00:00

Brianna stepped past the lantern sitting on the threshold— the compromise between all of them crowding into the bathroom and privacy. “Okay, next. And don’t worry, the boy’s mostly scared about strange people coming in his room.” She glanced around at the half circle of silent faces. “What?”

“What boy?” Ashley snapped.

“The boy whose room it is, Zitface.” The younger girl rolled her eyes. “He’s not even a little bit gross. I want to see the baby.”

“Just hang on a minute.” Tina cut off both Ashley’s reply and any potential attack on her sister. “There’s a boy in the bathroom?”

“Yeah, but you can see through him, so . . .” She pursed her lips and blew a disinterested raspberry.

“You can see the ghost of a boy in the bathroom?”

“Duh.”

“Oh, my God! Oh, my God!”

Releasing her hold on Ashley, Tina grabbed the wardrobe assistant’s arm, keeping her from bolting. “Brenda, calm down.”

“Calm down? Calm down! How am I supposed to calm down! There’s a dead person in the bathroom!”

“There’s going to be another one right here if you don't shut the hell up,” Kate growled.

Amy stepped forward and leaned over the threshold, "I don’t see anything.”

“Maybe that’s because you’re in on it, too.” Kate folded her arms as Amy leaned back to glare at her. “Well, you could be!”

Brianna shrugged. “She doesn’t hear the baby neither.” She cocked her head. “I don’t hear the baby.”

“Maybe you’re too far away?”

“You can always hear the baby.”

Kate’s lip curled. “Unless Tony’s playing ghosts again.”

“Oh, for fuck’s sake and for the last time!” Amy snapped. “Tony has nothing to do with this! You don’t know him. Until tonight, you’ve hardly ever spoken two words to him. You’re totally losing it.”

“That’s not helping,” Tina warned as the two younger women moved closer together.

“You people are all nuts!” Whites showing all the way around her eyes, Brenda jerked her arm free and ran for the door of the suite.

Tina swore and raced after her.

The other four watched as the script supervisor crossed the dressing room and disappeared into the darkness of the bedroom. They winced in unison at the soft hard crash of flesh and furniture hitting the floor. After a moment, Tina limped back into the light, alone.

“I lost her in the dark, but I think she made it to the hall. I’m sure she’ll be able to see the light of the other lantern coming up the stairs. She’ll head right for it.”

“She’ll head right for Lee,” Amy snorted.

Kate snickered an agreement.

“Do we go after her?”

“I’ll go.”

Tina grabbed Brianna’s arm on her way by. “No, you won’t.”

Ashley pushed past Amy still standing by the bathroom door. “You guys can do what you want, but I’m going to pee. Any boy shows up and I’ll slap him stupid.”

“She will, too.” Brianna tugged experimentally on Tina’s grip, and relaxed against her side when it became obvious she Was going nowhere. “She slapped Stevvie so hard his nose bled. It was pretty gross.”

“Brenda will be fine.” Tina’s tone suggested that the Wardrobe assistant wouldn’t dare not be.

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