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“Would you shut up?” the person hissed

Abby blinked Wait She knew that voice

Turning, she noticed Kaden chuckling beside her as the carjacker in the back seat leaned forward, their face coht of the streetlamp

“Cammie? What the heck! You scared the crap out ofhere?”

Her raven waves curled around her face beneath her black hoodie Further accenting her dark features, she wore black lipstick and dark eyeshadow Even her nails were painted charcoal

“What’s with the black?” Abby scowled, looking none too pleased

“I’nito Duh And you should really lock your doors You never knoho ht break into your car”

“This so isn’t funny”

Kaden laughed next to her, and Abby threw hilare

“At least someone has a sense of huuilty because, hello? It’s Friday, and you have yet to tellas how I just heard everything you said, don’t even try denying you aren’t hiding so because I just heard it So, what exactly is it we’re on our way to find out? And why is Kaden sneaking out of his house when it’s only a little after eight?”

Abby sighed She hadn’t yet decided how ive And she was so not good at improv under pressure “Um”

What could she tell her other than the truth? There was no getting rid of her now, and Abby wasn’t about to postpone going to Lawson’s on account of her, which hter Deciding on a partial truth, with minimal explanation, she said, “Okay, you know that journal you saith the other day?”

“Yeah The one with the super depressing passage?”

“That’s the one Well, like I said, I found it in s Turns out, she hired a private investigator to track down the journal’s owner But he’s dead now As a way of reh and finish what she never got the chance to do Tonight, we’re going to talk to the detective’s daughter and see if she ht’ve found That’s it See, it’s really no biggie” Abby rolled her eyes like the whole thing was inconsequential

Ca me the truth?”