” I chuckled.“I'll write to you,” Carla said. “I love you... thanks for being a friend.”“Love you, too.” Betty leaned over and hugged Ca...rla and kissed her on the forehead. She smiled and nodded at me then rushed to the front door.“Told you she'd say, 'go for it.'” She took a deep breath as if relieved and smiled.Before we left, she said, “When Dustin's not looking, take my suitcase from my truck and put it in yours.”I followed her to Dustin's garage next door and parked next to her truck. When. Other students wondered what had cool sexy Sydney so unnerved and out of sorts. Sydney never rushed and she certainly never lingered but today she was doing both. It was behavior that made everybody start to pay even more attention to the popular student than usual. And of course a new student's best bet is to make friends with the one everyone else is paying attention to. Jade was only sixteen but she still had enough high school experience to know this. When the last bell rang, Jade didn't. I let him go completely, and locked the door mentally at the same time. Dad ran for it, but since I'd locked it while touching Summer, he couldn't get out, and couldn't unlock it.He spun on me then. "Devil's spawn," he spat. "What do you think you're doing?" He raised his hand to me, and it was all too easy to make him immediately weak. When his hand came down against my face, it felt like no more than a light caress."I recommend you sit down, and listen to us," I told him. I was surprised at. I had a glass cutter that I used to cut a hole in the window glass large enough to get my hand through to reach the window latch. I had a very small LED flashlight with only one element that I used to look at the room before we climbed in. My eyes were now adjusted to see very well in dim light, so this was enough to tell me that the room was not occupied by a human.I opened the latch and raised the window. Now I could get into the room, and I used my larger flashlight to examine the floor.