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from the way Ken talked about Amanda now, any friendship they might have had was finished.
    And now Amanda had chosen to work in Mr Jackson’s office.
    Jenna had always harboured uncomfortable feelings about Mr Jackson, and not just because he was the school principal. There was something about him that gave her the creeps.
    Madame had assured the class that no one else at Meadowbrook knew about them. The administration thought the students in Madame’s class had some unusual aspects to their personalities or learning skills, and that was why they’d been brought together for a class under her supervision. None of them, not even the principal, was aware of what they could do. Jackson knew they had ‘gifts’, but he thought they were little personality quirks and talents. Not weird supernatural stuff.
    And yet, the way Mr Jackson looked at them . . . Surely he suspected something. It was Jackson who brought Serena to their class as a student teacher. It was Jackson who had accepted the man who called himself Stuart Kelley as Jenna’s father. Jenna had no difficulty picturing the principal and Amanda working together to exploit the gifted students.
    The Gifted class met right after this class. That meant Amanda should be working in the office right now.
    The one good thing about substitute teachers was the fact that they were more gullible than real teachers. Jenna got up and went to the desk.
    Mr Roth looked up from his newspaper with annoyance at being interrupted. ‘Yes?’ he asked testily.
    ‘I need to go to the clinic,’ Jenna said.
    His eyes narrowed with suspicion. Jenna elaborated.
    ‘I think I’m going to throw up.’
    That comment set Roth in motion. Frantically, he grabbed an excuse pass from the top drawer and practically threw it at her.
    Once out in the hall, Jenna knew she needed to work out another story right away. It wasn’t like she could walk into the office and just hang out. She needed a reason for being there. But what possible excuse could she have for going to the office? She could claim that Mr Roth sent her for some classroom supplies . . . but then she’d be handed the supplies and sent back to class. She needed to stay in the office for a while so she could observe Amanda and figure out what she was up to. This was not going to be easy . . .
    But she was in luck. There was a lot going on in the office when she arrived, and she didn’t have to provide an excuse, at least not right away. A counsellor with a red face was demanding to see Mr Jackson immediately. The custodian was complaining about something nasty in a bathroom, while two teachers were arguing over the use of some video equipment. And a couple of boys who’d obviously been in some sort of fight (and who wanted very much to continue fighting) were being held apart by another teacher.
    Ms Simmons, the head secretary, was yelling at them all, telling them to sit and wait until Mr Jackson could see them. Amanda was behind the desk, in front of a computer screen, and not paying any attention to what was going on.
    Jenna approached cautiously and tried to get a better look at what Amanda was doing without letting Amanda get a glimpse of her. She couldn’t see what was on the screen but she could get into Amanda’s mind, which was even better. There, Jenna could not only get a vague image of the screen, but she could also get a sense of how Amanda was responding to what she saw.
    Amanda was looking at an email inbox. Her own? No, not unless Amanda normally received emails with subjects like ‘Budget request for physical education equipment’ and ‘Board of Education Meeting Schedule’. It had to be Jackson’s email. And if Amanda had access to the email account of the principal, wasn’t that an indication that they were pretty chummy?
    Now she needed to know what Amanda was thinking about the emails she was reading . . .
    ‘Hello, Jenna, what are you up to?’ Mr Gonzalez, the counsellor she saw regularly, was standing