Where No One Knows by Jo Ramsey

Author:Jo Ramsey [Ramsey, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ya
ISBN: 978-1-63477-344-7
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

THE TRIP to Boston was long and boring. I wished I’d bought some magazines or something in Chicago. At least then I would have had something to occupy myself. As it was, all I could do was stare out the window or sleep. I did both, along with making a few trips to the restroom and a few to the dining car.

We crossed into Massachusetts the next evening, and I called the group. A woman—or maybe a girl; she sounded about my age—who gave her name as Treese answered in a cold voice. I gave her the code word Shad had told me the night before.

“Hi, Kellan,” she said, her voice warmer. “Royce will be meeting you. He said you’ve spoken to him before.”

“Yeah.” After what Shad had told me, I wasn’t happy about meeting Royce, but I’d have to sooner or later. The guy was part of the group, after all.

“He’s about six feet tall, blue hair, three piercings in his left ear,” Treese said. “He’ll be kind of hard to miss. Even if you recognize him, don’t go with anyone unless they say ‘tea boat.’”

“Okay.” I almost repeated the code. It sounded so weird, I thought I might not have heard her right, but I caught myself. If I repeated it, the people around me might hear, and right then it wouldn’t be a good idea to trust anyone.

“See you soon.” Treese hung up.

It kind of irked me that she hadn’t given me a chance to say anything else. It was the first real conversation I’d had with anyone since I’d boarded the train, and I wanted to keep talking.

Too long later, the train pulled into South Station in Boston. I collected my luggage and exited the train in a crush of too many people. I was exhausted, hungry again, and cranky. Not the best shape for meeting someone, but I didn’t care. All I wanted was to arrive wherever I was going for the night so I could go to bed. I’d only been able to nap for an hour or two at a time on the train, and I needed some real sleep now.

I shivered in the cold air on the platform, but inside the station was warm. I had no idea where to go, so I got out of the way and stood there feeling like an idiot while I searched the crowd for someone with blue hair.

I spotted him before he saw me, but I didn’t move. Even in a city as big as Boston, there probably weren’t a lot of tall guys with blue hair and ear piercings, but the guy I saw might not actually be Royce, in spite of my instincts saying he was.

He scanned the crowd until he turned toward me, and then he smiled and headed my way. I could see why Shad had been interested in Royce. Just because I wasn’t into guys didn’t mean I was blind. He was one of the best-looking guys I’d ever seen.

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