Truth or Dare by Jacqueline Green

Author:Jacqueline Green
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780316220361
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Wednesday, 5:00 PM

SYDNEY MOVED QUIETLY THROUGH THE DARKROOM, letting the stillness envelop her. She’d been locked away in there ever since school let out, her fingers flying from bin to bin as if on autopilot. That was one of her favorite things about developing: how her body just took over, leaving her mind free to wander. Her best ideas were always born in the darkroom, while her body was hard at work. But today Sydney wasn’t caught up in thoughts about new photo series or settings. Today she was thinking with all her might about not thinking.

All day long, thoughts of her cheat of a father and the darer who knew so much about her past had been tailing her, making her feel suffocated. She’d come to the darkroom hoping for a respite. But the same thoughts kept resurfacing, clouding up the darkness she usually found so peaceful.

When she’d checked her phone after lunch today, she’d found seven missed calls from her dad. She hadn’t called him back yet, and she didn’t plan to. There was nothing he could say to explain himself. He was a complete cliché: Once a cheater, always a cheater. What she hadn’t decided was whether she should tell her mom. She wasn’t sure she could bear to watch her face crumple at the news. Her mom tried so hard to be tough for Sydney’s sake, but sometimes Sydney would catch her staring at the family photo she still kept on the mantel, looking as if she wanted reach into it and pluck all three of them out, make the past real again.

Sydney went over to the enlarger, her hands working automatically. To make matters worse, Tenley had cornered her during a game of volleyball in gym class this afternoon and started asking her all these strange questions—like if she ever spent time on Dune Way and if she knew anything about typewriters. She’d told Sydney it was because her stepdad was looking to hire a few high school students to help out at his cosmetics company, and she knew Sydney of all people could use the extra money.

At the time, Sydney had been furious. Tenley really was the same insensitive spoiled brat she’d always been. But the more she’d thought about it, the more unsettled she’d become. Why had Tenley been asking about a typewriter? No businesses used typewriters anymore. It almost made it seem as if she knew something about the dares. But it wasn’t like Tenley could be the darer… right? Sydney paused, fiddling with a negative. She had been at the Yacht Club that night. But still, it was doubtful. There was no way she could know all of Sydney’s secrets. She’d been living in Nevada for the past four years. And besides, Tenley had made it pretty clear that night that Sydney wasn’t worth even a second of her time.

“Ow!” Sydney let out a yelp as she looked down at the line of blood sprouting on her thumb. She’d been so distracted that she’d sliced her thumb on a negative.

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