Melody (Logan 1)

charges.

"I'm sorry," I told her. "I don't have enough

money."

"That's okay. Where are you?"

"I'm in Provincetown, on Cape Cod, living with

my uncle and my aunt."

"Living with them? Why?"

"Mommy's gone to New York to get an

opportunity as a model or an actress," I said. "If she

doesn't get a job there, she's going on to Chicago or

Los Angeles, so I had to stay here and enroll in the

school."

"You did? What's it like?"

I told her about the school and about my life at

my uncle's house, Laura's disappearance and death,

and May's handicap.

"It sounds sad."

"It's hard to live with them, especially with my

cousin Cary. He's so bitter about everything, but I

keep telling myself I won't be here long."

"What are the girls like at school?"

"They're different," I told her. "They seem to

know more about things and do more things." "Like what?"

I told her how they had given me a joint of

marijuana in the school cafeteria.

"What did you do? You haven't smoked it, have

you?"

"No. I was scared. Actually, I was terrified

when a teacher came to our table. Afterward, when

the girls weren't looking, I threw it in the garbage." "That's what I would have done," Alice said.