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  97. Acknowledgments
  98. About the Author
  99. Also by Meg Mitchell Moore
  100. About the Publisher

“We’re going to have a fresh start come fall. We’re all going to be a little more accepting of newcomers.” We nodded. “And I swear, if Katie comes home from school on the first day and tells me she didn’t have anywhere to sit at lunch, or nobody shared a locker with her, or she didn’t have a partner for the first group project, you’re going to have to answer to me. And also?” She lowered her voice and we all leaned in. It was weird, how seductive she suddenly seemed. “I’d love to get in on that next trip to Nantucket. Whenever you guys are going. If one more isn’t too much trouble.” And she smiled, and she sauntered off.

Obviously Sherri Griffin did not bring a gun to Brooke’s end-of-summer party. (Did she? No, of course not. Don’t be stupid.) But there was something about the way she held herself that made us all feel like she had some sort of weapon—some power over us. It’s hard to explain. It seems sort of embarrassing to talk about it now, especially considering what happened later. But at the time, well. We all took Sherri Griffin very seriously.

What did we do after that, you ask? Well, Gina saw Rebecca and her Mystery Man enter the party. She made a little noise of surprise and started off toward them.

But for a more long-term plan? What do you think we did? We told our daughters to make sure that Katie Griffin had the best first day of school in the history of first days of school. We had our girls fighting over who was going to sit next to her in the cafeteria. We had our daughters buying extra locker decorations so that whoever ended up with Katie Griffin as a locker partner would have the prettiest locker in the whole sixth grade. And when we planned the next trip to Nantucket, which, by the way, didn’t take place for a while because of everything else that happened, you can bet your right index finger that Sherri Griffin was added to that text.

72.

Rebecca

The party was clearly in full swing. Cars were lined all the way down the driveway. Music and laughter floated into the street beyond.

As soon as she saw all of this, second thoughts started marching through Rebecca’s head.

“Maybe we should skip it,” Rebecca said to Daniel. “Go to a movie?” Suddenly she wanted nothing more than to sink into one of the cushy seats at the new theater in Methuen and rest her face in a vat of popcorn. She’d see anything—even an action movie, or an animated movie, or science fiction. Anything.