Fingerprints #1: Gifted Touch
Chapter One
"Is there anything you need for school tomorrow?" Rae's father asked as they drove down the freeway at precisely fifty-five miles an hour. "We could swing by the mall after your, uh, meeting. I'd be willing to give you control of my AmEx for, say, twelve or thirteen minutes." He took his eyes off the road long enough to give her something that she knew was supposed to be a smile, although it came out more like a grimace. Just way too many teeth showing.
That was your cue, Rae, she told herself. Her cue to launch into a long and elaborate whine-protest that would convince him just how key the right clothes and accessories were to having the kind of school year she'd want to look back on fondly when she was his age.
"What do you say?" her father asked. He rubbed the little mole on his right cheek, the way he always did when he got stressed.
"I'm good," Rae answered. She was sure there were some things she should want for the start of her junior year. A shirt in one of the "new" colors or a backpack upgrade or something. But she had no idea what the things she should want were. It seemed safer to ... read full excerpt from Fingerprints #1: Gifted Touch ebook
