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"Cammie," someone said, but I didn’t turn at the sound of the voice

"Earth to Cammie…"

"Cammie!" Macey shouted, and I shookthere

"Are you okay?" Liz asked

"I’m fine," I said for 2,467th ti count)

"I thought you had therapy," Bex said

"I did but…then I caain "Then what are you doing here?"

"Thinking"

Even though theand solid and reinforced in about a dozen different ways, I could have sworn I heard the building groan as the wind howled beneath the peck peck peck of sleet falling against the walls It should have been easy to stop thinking about summer But it wasn’t

"What is it, Ca onto the sofa beside me

"This" I pulled the necklace over my head and stared down at the seal "It feels like I’ About it About Gilly"

"I know," Liz said "Why have we never seen this before?"

It seemed like a fair question Our school crest was everywhere, from the brass brackets that held back the heavy velvet curtains to the good china Gilly had branded every inch of her hoet who and ere

"Why haven’t I ever seen this crest before?" Macey said I knehere her frustration was coher fa I could say to ht She walked to the glass-covered bookshelves and held her palainst the slass slid aside

"Are those…?" I asked Liz nodded and sinal journals? Oh, yeah" Liz shrugged "Buckinghaave me clearance the day after she told us all about the crest I’ve been coh therin

"I alondered why these weren’t in the subs," I said, taking a pair of cotton gloves and a book from Liz I open the smooth leather cover and looked down at the most beautiful penmanship I had ever seen

"Well, they aren’t really classifiedaloud "‘Tonight, father sent Elias to see me They do not want me to include former slaves in my "youthful experiment," as it will make it harder for the school and for me He simply does not understand what my school is to be--what I am to be’"

"So Gilly’s family…" Macey started, but trailed off

"Disapproved?" Liz guessed Then she nodded "Totally"

"Awesome" Macey looked like she’d never been more proud to have Gilly’s blood in her veins

"Yeah," Liz went on "They wanted her to get married and settle down In journal seven, Gilly writes about hoas only after her parents died that she inherited the mansion and…well…the money That’s when she was able to ha the school crest everywhere the family crest had been"

"Gilly eso back to the fire "She was"

"Does sheabout a lock?" Bex asked Liz "Or the key?"

"You mean the key I didn’t even know I had?" I said

"Cammie, don’t be so hard on yourself," Liz said "We don’t even know that the necklace is a key Maybe it was just soher family heirlooht--she usually was But I didn’t feel any better

I ran er across the small medallion "It feels like "

"Well, maybe Summer You did see it so at the necklace, hearing my father’s words over and over in my mind Key Lock A way for this to be over--athat can lead to a happy ending

"Window…"

My voice trailed off as my mind drifted from Dad’s letter to the crest I wore around niven us

"Bex, do you remember the day we met Macey?" I asked

"Of course I do"

"Do you re Mr Solomon in the corridor? Do you res," Bex said, and with those words, I was gone

Okay, so I know I’ve given ht be crazy, but they seemed a whole new kind of worried when I juh the foyer, and up the sweeping staircase at a full run

Bex was behindclose behind, when I turned on to the wide corridor on the second floor that led to the Gallagher family chapel It was the oldest part of theMacey’s first visit to our school That here Joe Solomon had told us that covert operatives should not just look--but see

There was aoverhead, and I heard my teacher’s words and stared up at the kaleidoscope of color that I’d walked beneath every school day since the seventh grade--at the stained glass I’d looked at aabout that lesson and that ie must have stuck withfor, exactly where to find it And when my roommates finally came to stand aroundlass that was different than any otherin the school There was a field of green, and tall stone walls, which I had always assureen field was too open, the blue beyond too vast--like the sea And in the center of the lines that crisscrossed thelike a labyrinth I saw it--an e aroundup at the one iher family crest that remained inside our mansion "I saw it there"