The Set Up by Sophie McKenzie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Sophie McKenzie
- Language: English
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2 MB
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I’m Nico and what I’m about to tell you is Secret and Dangerous and True.
It’s also several planetary systems beyond Weird. Here’s how it started . . .
Picture this . . . Friday morning. A whole-school assembly in the big hall.
Rows and rows of teenagers in lines of plastic chairs. I was sitting there,
towards the back – dark hair, brown eyes – the guy all the girls wanted to get
their hands on.
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Only joking.
Anyway, there we all were, sunlight blistering in through high windows and
the head teacher, Fergus Fox, droning on.
He’s not just the head teacher. He’s also my stepdad. I’ve lived with him in
his boarding school since my mum died of cancer when I was five. We don’t
get on, for reasons which will soon become obvious.
But this isn’t about him.
If it’s about anyone, it’s about her . . . Ketty.
She was sitting two rows in front and four seats to the left of me. You’re
probably surprised I can remember that little detail. Well, get used to it.
When it comes to Ketty, I tend to remember everything.
That day she had her dark, curly hair in a ponytail, tied back with a piece of
string. Very Ketty, that string. She doesn’t go in for girly things like ribbon –
she’s practical. Doesn’t wear loads of make-up or jewellery either and I’ve
never seen her in a dress.
My eyes kept sliding over to where she was sitting. Which is when I saw
Billy Martin put his arm round her shoulders. My mouth fell open.
Everything else dropped away, even the sound of Fergus’s droning voice. I
waited for Ketty to push the arm away. But she didn’t. Instead, she leaned in
closer.
No way. But there it was. My best friend . . . with Billy Martin.
I looked away. Tried to calm myself. But my eyes kept going back to them.
I couldn’t believe she’d go with Billy. What did he have that I didn’t? Apart
from a load of money, of course. But Ketty wouldn’t be interested in that,
would she?
I looked up at the stage and tried to concentrate on what Fergus was talking
about. Some long, dull lecture about the appropriate way to wear your school
uniform.
Billy’s hand was on Ketty’s arm now, his fingertips moving slightly up and
down.
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