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Three days later, Kylie, suitcase in hand, stood in the YMCA parking lot where several of the ca couldn&039;t believe she was here

Herher mom do it

Kylie, who&039;d never drunk more than two sips of beer, who&039;d never real y sarette, let alone any pot, was about to be shipped off to some camp for troubled kids

Her mom reached out and touched Kylie&039;s aret rid of her any faster? Kylie pul ed away frory, so hurt she didn&039;t kno to act anyed, she&039;d pleaded, and she&039;d cried, but nothing worked She was about to head off to ca she could do Not offering hernot to cry in front of the dozens of other kids, Kylie stiffened her back and took off to the bus behind the won that read SHADOW FALLS CAMP

Jeez What kind of hel hole was she being sent to?

When Kylie stepped on the bus, the eight or nine kids already there raised their heads and stared at her She felt an odd kind of stirring in her chest and she got those weird chil s again Never, not in al sixteen years of her life, had she wanted to turn and run away as much as she did now She forced herself not to bolt, then she irl had her hair dyed three different colors-pink, li but black-black lipstick, black eye shadow, black pants, and a black long-sleeve shirt Hadn&039;t the goth look gone out of style? Where was this girl getting her fashion tips? Hadn&039;t she read that colors were in? That blue was the new black?

And then there was the boy sitting almost at the front of the bus He had both his eyebrows pierced Kylie leaned down to peer out theto see if she could stil see her uys, she&039;d know Kylie didn&039;t belong here

"Take your seat," someone said, and stepped behind her

Kylie turned around and saw the bus driver While Kylie hadn&039;t noticed it earlier, she realized even the bus driver looked a little freakish Her purple-tinted gray hair sat high on her head like a footbal hel her hair up a few inches The wolanced down at her feet, half expecting to see a pair of pointed green boots No green shoes Then her gaze shot to the front to the bus Hoas the wo to drive the bus?

"Come on," the woman said "I have to have you kids there by lunch, so "

Since everyone but Kylie had taken their seats, she supposed the wo as if her life would never, ever be the same

"You can sit by me," someone said The boy had curly blond hair, even blonder than Kylie&039;s, but his eyes peering at her were so dark they looked black He patted the e about the dark/light coled his eyebrows, as ifas if her sitting beside hi

"That&039;s okay" Kylie took a few steps, pul ing her suitcase behind her Her luggage caught on the row of seats where the blond boy sat and Kylie looked back to free it

Her gaze reen eyes Bright, very bright green eyes Hoas that even possible?

She sed and looked at his hands, thinking that ed his lenses No case He wiggled his brows again, and when she realized she was staring at hi off the chil , she moved on to the row of seats she&039;d chosen as her own Before she turned to sit down, she noticed another boy in the back Sitting by hi just above his dark brows and green eyes Norreen eyes, but the dusty blue T-shirt he woretoo weird, thank God At least there was one norave blond guy another glance But he wasn&039;t looking at her, so she couldn&039;t see if his eye color had gone weird again But that&039;s when she noticed the girl with three different hair colors had soirl had a toad Not a frog-a frog she could have probably handled-but a toad A huge honking toad What kind of a girl dyed her hair three different colors and carried a toad with her to ca toads, the ones people licked to get high She&039;d heard about theht they&039;da toad to get high or carrying a toad around just to be weird

Pul ing her suitcase up on the seat next to her just so no one would feel the need to join her, Kylie let out a deep sigh and looked out theThe bus was h Kylie stil didn&039;t see how the bus driver as pedals

"Do you knohat they cal us?" The voice cairl sat

Kylie didn&039;t think she was talking to her, but she turned her head that way, anyway Because the girl looked directly at her, Kylie figured shenot to sound too friendly or too bitchy The last thing she wanted was to piss these freaks off