Chapter 14: Attraction and Punishment
If you ask me, this is not going well. I did get my Lasa, so I suppose I should be happy. But I have a sinking feeling that we’re about to get caught, and now Emelia seems fascinated by this strange girl we met. To me, she looks odd—she looks like trouble—and there’s a weird smell about her, almost like soil, or even blood. She gives me the creeps! But Em can’t shut up about her.
“Come on, Hillary, what do you have against Mariah? All she did was say hello and direct us to Papa John’s.” We are now almost back to the conference site. I shake my head at my best friend in frustration.
“One: she talks weird—like she doesn’t know anything about the real world. Two: she has a hair-do like something from an old-fashioned movie. And thre—”
Em interrupts me
