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we’d know the killer’s identity.”
    My insides froze; the world
around me fading and all I could do was focus on him…the source of my trauma.
He turned around and made his way into the classroom, leaving me alone with my
paranoid thoughts.
    He knew. Oh God, he knew.  
    My stomach twisted and I pressed
my hands to my belly. I would swear on my life he knew. But how much? Surely he
didn’t know about my powers. He couldn’t know. I’d never told anyone here.
Unless Grandma had. Was this some sort of test from her? I wouldn’t put it past
the old bat. But that didn’t explain why I couldn’t read his mind. I swallowed
hard and on trembling legs, I made my way toward class.
    There was only one other person
whose mind I couldn’t read… Grandma’s. And that was because she had learned to
control her thoughts. What if…what if this Lewis…
    No.
    I froze outside the door and
studied the classroom through the small window. Lewis sat near the back, his
gaze focused on the front of the room.
    Could Lewis read minds too?
    He turned his head and looked
directly at me, answering my question.

 
    Chapter 4

 
    “You sure they won’t mind that
I’m coming with you?” Annabeth was so nervous it was making my stomach roll. I really, really wished
she’d keep her emotions to herself. I hadn’t been this nervous since we’d moved
here.
    “They’re not going to kick you
out,” I said, slipping my arm through hers as we made our way up Emily’s
sidewalk. That was exactly what Anne was thinking they’d do. As if they’d
scream she wasn’t popular enough and toss her from the house. I almost laughed
at the idea, but didn’t want to hurt her feelings.   
    Heck, I wasn’t even sure if
Emily still wanted me to come to her party as she’d barely talked to me the
past week. It was also the last time I’d talked to Lewis, even though, oddly,
we had every class together. Emily had been on him like a freaking tick on a
deer. She was jealous I’d gotten to hang out with the hot new guy.
    I hadn’t had a chance to
question him about his odd comment, and honestly, I wasn’t even sure I wanted
to. All I wanted to do tonight was get lost in a rush of teenage hormones. I
was determined to make my last year of school as normal as possible. Yet, as
much as I tried to stop thinking about him, Lewis was never far from my mind.
    “It’s too bad we can’t, say, read minds. Then perhaps we’d know the
killer’s identity.”
    I’d caught him looking at me a
few times during the week, but other than a passing glance he’d seemed to have
forgotten my existence. And it irked. For one moment I’d thought I wasn’t
alone, that someone finally understood me. The moment had passed and I began to
wonder if I’d imagined his odd comments and attention.
    The front door burst open and
Trevor stumbled outside. His hair was mussed, his blue t-shirt half untucked
from his jeans; already wasted even though the party had just started. “Hey,”
he muttered, then leaned over and threw up in the bush, producing a wrenching
sound that made me want to gag in kind.
    Annabeth gasped like a mother
who’d just heard her kid curse for the first time. Well, she’d wanted to go to
these parties; she should get used to it. I shook my head, laughing. “Every
party starts the same way. I swear I don’t understand why anyone wants to go to
these.”
    I was getting bored with them to
be honest, but I couldn’t stand to be home tonight with only my thoughts
keeping me company.  
    Anne shrugged, flushing. “It’s
just nice to be included.”
    I brushed off my guilt.
Sometimes I forgot that Anne wasn’t as popular as the rest of my friends. She
was hoping that would change tonight, I wanted to tell her not to hold her
breath. Not because Anne didn’t deserve to be popular, but because my friends were…to be blunt…kind of asses.
    As we made our way into the huge
foyer of Emily’s home, or should I say mansion, Anne gasped again. “Oh