Chapter 78

The whole story came out in the news the next day. One TV station announced a series called “When Kids Lie.”

The TV news also showed Danny walking out of jail with his mother and father. He had shaved and was smiling, his arm in a sling. The family waved off reporters as they drove away.

I wondered if Danny knew we were the ones who had helped get him released.

All anyone could talk about at school the next few days was Cammy and Tracy. A rumor said that one or both of them had run away, but we had learned not to believe everything we heard.

I couldn’t stop thinking about Sam. He had been on the phone nonstop one night and in his office till late another. Mom seemed upset and hadn’t worked much on her new book.

Leigh became almost a stranger. She stayed out—“studying,” she said—and when she came home she just went to her room. She didn’t ask Mom or Sam to let her drive and get her night hours in. The tension was about to kill me.

Who was Sam?