The Dead Girls Detective Agency by Suzy Cox

Author:Suzy Cox [Cox, Suzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780062190109
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“THIS IS SOOOO EXCITING!” NANCY BOUNCED up and down on the spot three times, her curls flying and looking redder than usual in the light. “I know you guys might be under the impression that, when I was alive, I was some bookish super-serious type …”

It took massive reserves of self-control not to catch Lorna’s eye and make a face.

“But ever since I saw Bring It On when I was having a study break from my Latin lessons, I have always wanted to try on a cheerleading uniform and wave pom-poms,” Nancy said, bouncing twice more. “Just for a day! It looks so … mindless and silly. Which must mean it’s fun. And now I get to try it! Do they still say, ‘Gooooooooooo, team’? Or is that just in the movies?”

No question about it, this was up there on the most-disturbing-sights-of-my-death-so-far list: Nancy Radley standing in the cheerleaders’ inner sanctum, their changing room, and seriously loving it.

“Don’t you mean you, like, have totally always wanted to, like, be a cheerleader and, O to the M to the G? you could not be hearting this more?” Tess asked, in her best airhead voice.

“Oh, puhlease,” Lorna rolled her blue eyes. “You guys are so, like, totally stereotyping popular kids. As if anyone talks like that in real life.”

“So can we just go over the Plan: Stage One one more time, please?” I asked, trying to get things back on track.

“Quick on the uptake, aren’t you, Feldman?” Tess said. “With lightning intellect skills that good, you’d never be the kind of girl whose boyfriend could cheat on her in front of her face and still think she had a chance to get him back.” Tess paused. “Oh, hang on …”

Bitch.

“Nancy, the Plan, please?” I said, trying my hardest not to glare at Tess.

“Good idea, Charlotte,” Nancy said. “You can never recap a plan too many times, I always say.”

“Really?” Lorna asked. “Because even I am up with this one. Do we really need another play-by-play?”

Last night, after my possession lesson, we’d gone back to Lorna’s room (she said it had better feng shui than HHQ’s, and even though I had no idea what that meant, I agreed with her) and talked about where we needed to take the investigation next.

Ali was off the list, none of us (bar Tess and least of all me) seriously believed that David should be on it—so we needed some new suspects to look into. And after that little incident in chem yesterday, Kristen and Jamie had shown they were more than happy to fall out with each other to get what they wanted—what I used to have: David.

“I wonder if one of them was willing to commit murder to get him too?” Nancy had asked.

I knew Kristen wasn’t going to become New York’s newest Girl Scout leader anytime soon, but was she really capable of pushing me under the F train? Come on, if she’d been that into David, wouldn’t she have just asked him on a date? He clearly wasn’t as cheerphobic as he’d always pretended.

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