Secrets in the Attic (Secrets 1)

"Cut out the act," he snapped.

"I'm not acting."

"You want to know something? I think you're

sick. You're both sick. What was it she would tell the

other girls, that you're spiritual sisters? You're sisters,

all right, but it's not spiritual. It's weirdness that makes

you sisters. I guess she got some kind of perverted

kick getting me all lathered up about you, making you

sound like you were more sophisticated and even I

would learn new things, things I never imagined in

my best fantasy."

"What did she say?"

"Forget about all that. You know when a girl

meets a guy like this, it's as good as making a

promise. It's an unwritten agreement, a contract. Your

father's a lawyer. You should know that."

"What?"

"What, what, what are you, a light bulb?" he

cried, and then just threw open his door and got out. My heart was thumping. He was really in a

rage. Should I just get out and walk away or maybe

run away? We hadn't traveled that far, but it was far

enough to take me some time to get back to my bike

and then home. My father was surely going to be back

home by then.

"Dana!" I called, but I didn't see him I turned

and looked back and then in front of the car. Where

was he? What was he doing?

Suddenly, the passenger side door was jerked

open, and there he was, but my heart stopped and

seemed to drop to my stomach. He was standing there,