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OTHER BOOKS BY CAROLINE B. COONEY
Diamonds in the Shadow
A Friend at Midnight
Hit the Road
Code Orange
The Girl Who Invented Romance
Family Reunion
Goddess of Yesterday
For All Time
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
What Janie Found
Tune In Anytime
Burning Up
What Child Is This?
The Face on the Milk Carton
Whatever Happened to Janie?
The Voice on the Radio
Both Sidles of Time
Out of Time Prisoner of Time
Driver’s Ed
Twenty Pageants Later
Among Friends
For my mother,Martha Willerton Bruce
THE GOOD THING ABOUT FRIDAY IS—IT’S NOT THURSDAY. JACK Fountain lived through Thursday, and nothing bad happened: no cameras, no microphones.
Of course, nothing good happened either. Jack did not hear from either of his sisters.
Their father’s birthday—and Jack and Madison and Smithy pretended it wasn’t there; that November fifth was just another day.
And in fact, thinks Jack, walking into the high school cafeteria, it was just another day. Dead people don’t have birthdays.
Around him, hundreds of kids are buying lunch, skipping lunch or finding lunch partners. His goal is to be normal, although the Fountain family stopped being normal a long time ago. Jack is considering his options when Diana Murray walks past. “We need to talk,” she murmurs.
This seems odd. How would Diana know about Dad’s birthday?
But Diana does not pause beside Jack. She keeps walking, moving casually out of the cafeteria and into the hall.
If Diana doesn’t want anybody to overhear their conversation, then this is not about a birthday. This is about Jack’s baby brother, Tris. Something else has gone wrong; something Jack hasn’t planned for. Diana is on the Tris protection team. It’s a small group. Usually a two-year-old has parents to protect him, but Tris is not that lucky. He has only his big brother and his babysitter.
Jack returns his brown plastic tray to the clean pile and strolls away, as if merely leaving the hot line for the salad and sandwich line. Then he drifts out of the cafeteria and down the hall, where Diana is leaning over the watercooler.
Because of Tris, Diana knows more about Jack than he wants her to. But then, the world knows more about Jack than he wants it to. His friends love to display their lives on video sites, but they get to choose what’s out there. Jack doesn’t.
The last few students with first lunch hurry past. Jack stands behind Diana, pretending to wait his turn for a drink of water. He braces himself for a Tris nightmare. He’s trapped in his failure-to-breathe mode: a clen ............

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