Hidden (Hidden Series Book One) (43 page)

“Yes, ma’am.” With her hand on my back, she
led us to the door. It closed before I could say goodbye, and for
some reason, that hurt too. “Chris, you scared the hell out of me.”
I reached on my toes to kiss him on the cheek. “I accept your
apology, but are you going to tell me what happened later?” I
nodded and grabbed his hand. “Perhaps in the pool?”

“I’d like that,” I said. His smile told me
he’d
love
that.

My sprint to the locker room hadn’t turned
many heads. They were used to me being weird like that.

My friends and I left the party an hour
after we got there. The news crews snapped pictures and screamed
for comments on our way out.

Nate opened my door then climbed in the
driver’s side. Sophia was stretched out on the backseat reading.
“We’ll have to drive for a while until we’re not being followed,
Nathan,” she said.

I watched the chaos and the school shrink to
nothing as we pulled away from it. I sighed, happy this whole mess
was finally over.

Emma held a tube of lip-gloss to her lips
like a microphone. “Leah slash Christine slash Cecilia, what do you
have to say to the people of the world. Certainly, you don’t appear
to be a kidnapping victim? What have you been doing?”

Everyone laughed at her fake reporter voice.
She held the lip-gloss microphone to me, and I smiled.

“Um … I’ve been away, figuring myself out,”
I said. “And I’m not so bad.”

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From the Author

Thank you so much for your interest in
Hidden. I hope you enjoyed it. Check out my website and Goodreads
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Book Two, Lost, Coming Soon