Now You See Me-Gifted 5

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Authors: Marilyn Kaye
Tags: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, supernatural, Schools
were talking loudly and excitedly.
    ‘I saw it all!’ one of them told the others. ‘Police officers took her away! Five or six of them! And she was in handcuffs!’
    ‘No way!’ another one exclaimed.
    ‘Really, I swear!’
    ‘What did she do?’ the third girl asked.
    ‘I don’t know but it’s serious. They don’t call the police for cutting a class.’
    Uneasily, Tracey turned to the group. ‘Who are you talking about?’
    ‘You’ve seen her around,’ the girl told her. ‘She’s that goth girl. I think her name’s Jeannie or Janie, something like that.’
    ‘Jenna,’ Tracey said. ‘Jenna Kelley.’ She slung her backpack over her shoulder and left the bathroom.
    In shock, she managed to get up the stairs without tripping. This had to be a mistake. Maybe the girl in the restroom hadn’t understood what she saw. Or maybe there was another goth girl at Meadowbrook. She told herself that when she walked into Room 209, Jenna would be there, just as she always was. She even concocted a story that would account for what the girl in the bathroom had seen: a police officer had been invited to speak in Jenna’s last class and Jenna was simply escorting him to the door. There had to be a reasonable explanation . . .
    But when she walked into class, her heart sank. Emily’s woebegone expression said it all.
    ‘Do you know about Jenna?’ Emily asked her.
    Tracey sank into her seat. ‘I heard people talking. They said she was arrested. Is it true?’
    ‘It’s something like that,’ Emily acknowledged. ‘I know a policeman took her away. I don’t know what she did, Tracey, but it has to have been something really bad.’
    ‘But maybe, maybe it wasn’t because of something she did,’ Tracey said. She thought frantically. ‘Maybe . . . maybe her mother was in an accident, and the police came to take her to the hospital.’
    ‘There’s nothing wrong with Jenna’s mother.’
    Tracey and Emily turned to see Amanda sauntering into the room. ‘How do you know?’ Emily asked.
    ‘Because she was in Mr Jackson’s office. First she came, then the policeman came, and then Ms Simmons sent me to get Jenna out of class.’ Amanda sat down and whipped out her make-up bag.
    ‘But why ?’ Tracey wanted to know. ‘What happened?’
    Amanda examined her own reflection in a little compact mirror. ‘Well, Mr Jackson did a locker check today. He might have found something in Tracey’s locker.’
    ‘Like what?’ Charles asked. ‘Drugs? Guns?’
    ‘I don’t know,’ Amanda replied as she applied lip-gloss.
    Ken’s eyes narrowed. ‘Are you sure about that?’
    Amanda snapped the compact shut. ‘Just because work in the office doesn’t mean I know everything that goes on in there. All I know is that Mr Jackson suddenly decided to do some random locker searches and when he came back, he wanted to see Jenna.’
    ‘It was a knife,’ Sarah said softly.
    Everyone turned in her direction. ‘How do you know?’ Tracey asked her.
    ‘I saw it,’ Sarah said. ‘I’d just been excused from class to get some water. Mr Jackson and a policeman were in the hallway. Mr Jackson opened a locker and took out a big knife. I didn’t know whose locker it was.’ She shook her head sadly. ‘I can’t believe Jenna would bring a weapon to school.’
    ‘Why not?’Amanda asked. ‘I mean, she was a juvenile delinquent, right?’
    Emily looked stricken. ‘That’s not true!’ She amended that. ‘OK, maybe it was a little bit true, but she’s not like that now. You don’t know anything about her, Amanda.’
    ‘I know all I want to know,’ Amanda murmured. She took her mobile phone out of her bag and began composing a text message.
    ‘You reporting on this to someone?’ Ken asked her.
    Amanda looked at him. ‘What?’
    But then Madame walked in. Everyone turned to her expectantly.
    ‘Madame, did you hear about Jenna?’ Emily asked.
    The teacher nodded. ‘I don’t have all the facts. I’ve been told that something

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