Fingerprints #7: Payback
Chapter One
Rae Voight had an impulse to stop dead in the middle of the hallway, fling her arms out wide, and cry, "Just look, okay? Just take a good long look and stop giving me all those sneaky, out-of-the-comer-of-your-eye glances."
But she didn't. When everyone at school recently found out your mother was a murderer who died in a mental hospital and everyone already knew that you had spent your summer vacation in, yes, a mental hospital, it wasn't that smart to draw more attention to yourself.
Except ... at this point, all of that barely seemed to matter. How bizarre was that? The possibility that even her best friend might find out the truth about Rae's mom used to be Rae's biggest fear And now everybody knew She was sure even the janitor had heard. She was sure the AV guys, who usually didn't talk about anything except how bad they wanted a plasma TV, were gossiping about her. And she cared ... some. That's it. She wasn't even close to being destroyed the way she'd always thought she would be if anyone found out about her mom.
Maybe it was because she knew her mother hadn't killed anyone. She'd been convinced of t ... read full excerpt from: Payback ebook
