Sophomore Freak (Reject High: A Young Adult Science Fiction Series Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

cell phone will become a portable explosive.”
    “Wonderful,” I said out loud. My cell phone had a full signal, but Rhapsody still hadn’t messaged me back. What’s your 20? I sent her in another text.
    She did not answer. Maybe her service was down wherever she was. She could be visiting her dad. George was in a coma and cell signals in the ICU were horrible.
    Sasha once said that she thought solar flares activate our prisms’ power. She’s smarter than I am, but I’m not sure. Could it be that simple? And beryl is a gemstone . Did that mean everyone wearing one as jewelry would become like one of us? Or did they have to be from the source crystals?
    Before I nodded off completely, she found me.
    “Hey.” Sasha joined me in the waiting area. Ray was impatiently filling out admission paperwork for Julia. “Maybe we should get out of here.”
    “Agreed. How is he?” I asked her as I eased out of my chair.
    Her mouth tightened. “We left after you took off. He drove on sidewalks, back roads, whatever, to get here. He saw Clone Sasha. That didn’t help at all.”
    “How did you explain? Long lost adopted twin sister?”
    “Hardly,” she said. “He knows I’m an only child, remember?”
    The only reason we were in this mess was because of Ryan. “I could kill him.”
    She rubbed my back. “Don’t do that to yourself. You saved Julia. You did the same thing for Debra. She’s on our side. Who’s to say Ray won’t be?”
    “He promised to put me in jail if she dies,” I said, exhaling loudly.
    “Juvie,” she corrected me. “Your birthday is still a month away, baby.”
    “Thanks.” I didn’t want to laugh, but a chuckle sneaked out. “He forgets my birthday on purpose. He probably thinks I’m already sixteen.”
    “Why would he do it on purpose?” Too late to stop her from asking, she realized the answer – it was three days after the anniversary of his first wife’s death.
    She laid her head on my shoulder. “I’m proud of you.”
    “For what?”
    “Doing the right thing,” she said, kissing me on the cheek. “Let’s go.”
    We held hands and started for the exit. Reject High’s former Student Resource Officer, Stu Spivey, met us there with a heavyset white woman beside him. She wore a blue dress shirt, black tie, and black slacks. The Giovanni’s manager. Crap.
    “That’s him!” she shouted, pointing at me. “He stabbed that lady, Julia.”
    Dazed, I stood there and watched the scene unfold. Spivey gripped my forearm and pulled me toward his squad car.
    “Resist,” he said under his breath. “I dare you.”
    I wanted to take him up on that, but I played along.
    Sasha piped up. “You know he didn’t do. . .”
    I hushed her. Now wasn’t the time for Sasha to come to my defense, or for a show of super strength. “I’ve got this,” I mouthed to her.
    The manager stared at me as I got hauled away. God only knows what else she’d said besides that I’d attempted to kill my stepmother. Sasha, Ray, and anyone with two eyes knew exactly how Julia had gotten stabbed. I saved her life. I didn’t try to take it.
    Spivey handcuffed me and put me in the backseat. From inside the caged windows, I watched Ray motion to me not to talk. He still didn’t get it. Nobody forces me to do anything I don’t want to do.
    I yanked at the metal cuffs, but they didn’t give. Suddenly a streak of fire shot into my right leg around my knee. Did he stab me? Why can’t I breathe? I shifted my wrists and the handcuffs nicked my skin. What’s on them? Is it a different kind of ice? I couldn’t tell.
    Everything Ray said replayed in my mind. He never went to church, so he thought little of what God could do. That wasn’t a surprise. He didn’t think much of me, either. No shocker there. He’d put me in jail? I don’t think so .
    Good thing Debra decided letting me stay with him over the summer was a bad idea, after all. Otherwise, I might have thrown a chunk of his penthouse into the