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Chapter 12
My back was up against the locker, Lianne's eyes piercing me as she jabbed her hands into my shoulder.
"Who did you tell?" She said through her gritted teeth.
"What are you talking about?" I asked. She pushed my shoulders harder.
"You know what I'm talking about." She said, still glaring.
"I didn't tell anyone I swear, well I may have told Amber but…"
"Big mouth Amber. Great, thanks a lot Kelly. Starting now, you're life is forever ruined." She stormed off, eyes of everyone following her, snickering. Amber, Squid and ZigZag walked over to us.
"How dare you!" I screamed at Amber.
"Shorty now's not the time to yell." Squid said.
"You're right; I'll talk to you after school. C'mon Squid, we're going to be late." I said coldly as I dragged Squid away.
"What was that about?" He asked.
"Amber told someone about Lianne's secret and now the whole school knows. Lianne is going to ruin my life. Watch your back." I said. "And your front." I added.
"But you don't know it was Amber." He asked.
"No, but I mean, she is the only one who I told." I said.
"But you don't know it for a fact?" He asked.
"I do know it for a fact!" I said stubbornly, my voice rising in volume.
"I'm going to go to class." He said, backing away.
"Squid come back, please." But he was gone. Lianne was going to ruin my life, and she knew how.
"Alright, what did you have to tell me?" Amber asked, her arms crossed as we stood alone in the parking lot of the school.
"Why did you tell someone about Lianne's secret?" I asked.
"What are you talking about, I never told anyone." She said.
"C'mon Amber, I know you told. You and your big fat mouth." I clamped my hand over my mouth. She looked hurt. But only for about a millisecond before her gaze turned cold.
"Big fat mouth, huh?" She said.
"No Amber, I didn't mean to say…" I started.
"You know what, I'm out of here." She slammed her car door and sped away.
Squid walked beside me, but didn't talk to me. Amber, walking the opposite way in the hallway, glared at me and ZigZag avoided my glance. People snickered at me as I passed them. Lianne seemed to be happy that people were treating her nicely about this. People actually offered to pay for her lunches. She just smiled and thanked them humbly, but inside I knew she loved it.
I called Amber on the phone that night.
"Amber, look I'm sorry about accusing you." I said. She didn't respond but I could hear her breathing.
"I figured you weren't going to say anything, so here I go. Amber, I'm sorry I accused you and called your mouth big and yeah, that's it." I was about to hang up when I heard her squeak.
"Wait." She said.
"Yeah." I said slowly.
"It's okay. I guess I do kinda have a big mouth. I'll help you find out who started talking about Lianne so we get take care of them." I smiled.
"Let's let the boys do that." I said and we laughed.
"Agreed." She said.
"Honey, what are you doing?" My mom asked, walking in on me flipping through an issue of Seventeen magazine.
"Nothing." I replied, not looking up from the magazine.
"I'm going to work." She said, looking around my room suspiciously.
"Ok. See ya." I said, again not looking up from the magazine. She left and I threw the magazine into a pile on the other side of my room.
"Coast is clear." I said. Squid rolled out from under my bed as Amber climber out from my closet. ZigZag came out from behind the door.
"Hmm...I could hide pretty well in here, huh?" Squid smiled suggestively. I wish the magazine wasn't at the other side of the room or I would have smacked him with it. Instead, I rolled my eyes and looked at Amber and ZigZag
"Alright guys, we got to plan how we're going to catch this person who is spreading the rumors about Lianne and obviously wants my high school career ruined." I said, taking a pad out from my desk.
"Let's make a list of possible subjects." Amber suggested.
"Kevin." Squid said, gritting his teeth.
"Well that's an obvious." I said, rolling my eyes and jotting his name down.
"How about Mallory Hertz, she's known as the gossip queen." ZigZag pointed out.
"True." I said, also writing her name.
"What about Lianne herself, I mean she might have…wait, she's not even that smart." Squid said.
"Ok, who was around us when we were talking about it?" I asked.
"Kenny Langton." We all laughed when Amber said his name. He was president of All Things Dork, as most of the student population put it.
"Just putting it out there." She said shrugging. My brother walked into the room holding a piece of paper in his hand.
"This was on the doorstep. You're names on it." He shoved it in my hand and glared at Squid before leaving. We all looked at the note like it was a bomb or something.
"Well open it." ZigZag said, nudging me. I slowly folded the note open.
"I told Lianne's secret. If you want to know any more, I suggest you put a note under your front door mat by 7:00 tomorrow morning." I read out loud.
"What the hell?" Squid asked.
"I guess we should leave a note." I said shrugging. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something on my window. I turned to it really fast, only to see the leave outside rustling.
"So what are we going to say?" I asked.
Will they ever find out who told the secret...to find out, review and look for the next chapter, coming to a computer near you.
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