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Gone Missing
Book: Gone Missing Read Online Free
Author: Jean Ure
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didn’t think most people would exactly have fortunes waiting to be taken, so what did kids do? I had a sneaking suspicion that maybe they went on the streets and begged, or even worse, they sold themselves. I wouldn’t want to do that! No way!
    I decided not to think about it. As I’d said to Honey, you can’t plan everything in advance. Sometimes, you just have to wait and see what happens.
    That’s the good thing about fantasies. If there’s a part you can’t work out, you just skate over it and move on to the next bit.
    It was still a fantasy. But growing more and more real, every day.
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    Next morning, at school, Marnie comes up to me and says, “Hey! Wanna know something?” So I’m like, “Yeah, what?” She tells me that this boy, Rory Mansell, that’s in Year 10, has a thing about me. She knows this cos she’s going out with Jason Dobbs that’s also in Year 10. She says Rory told Jason in the hope that he would tell Marnie and Marnie would tell me, and then maybe I would—
    Would what? Marnie giggles and says, “Ask him if he’d like to go on a date?”
    I think to myself that if Rory Mansell wants to go on a date he could ask me himself, but Marnie says he’s too shy. I say in that case he’s a wimp.
    â€œHe’s not a wimp,” says Marnie, “he’s just scared you’ll turn him down.” Then she tells me off for being prejudiced and says, “He’s actually quite nice.”
    He’s not bad, I agree, but as I explain to Marnie, I don’t really fancy him. Marnie says, “So who do you fancy? You haven’t been out with anyone for ages! You’ll get out of the habit if you’re not careful. People’ll start thinking you’re a lesbian!”
    I say, “Now who’s being prejudiced?” And then, without any warning, I hear myself blurt out, “There is someone I fancy!”
    â€œOh?” Marnie spins round. All ears. “Who’s that, then?”
    â€œThis boy I met. In Birmingham. Me and Honey, we bumped into them, there were two of them, they were down here from Glagow and we all got talking and—”
    My voice burbles on. It’s got a will of its own. I can’t control it, it’s gone mad! Now it’s telling Marnie how me and this boy have been speaking on the phone every week. We’ve been texting, we’ve been emailing.We fancy each other like crazy.
    Marnie says, “Wow! What’s his name? How old is he? Gimme, gimme, I want to know!”
    I say that I can’t give her his name. “It’s a secret!”
    Marnie says, “Why? Is he someone famous?”
    I struggle with a momentary temptation to say yes, but manage to resist it. I say no, he’s not famous, he’s just an ordinary boy.
    â€œSo why’s it a secret?”
    â€œCos he’s a secret! I shouldn’t ever have mentioned him. I don’t want Dad finding out! You know what my dad’s like. He nearly went ballistic that time I went out with Soper. He did go ballistic!”
    Marnie says, “Yeah, well…Soper.” She then agrees with me, however, that my dad is impossible. “I’m surprised he even lets you have a mobile phone.”
    I say, “He wouldn’t, if he had his way. It’s only cos of Mum.”
    â€œI bet he checks on your calls!”
    I mutter darkly that nothing would surprise me. “It’s like living under a dictator.”
    â€œSo what you gonna do?” says Marnie. “About this boy?”
    I tell her that I don’t yet know. “But if things get much worse, with my dad—”
    â€œWhat? What?” She’s all breathless and eager. “What d’you reckon you’ll do?”
    I say, “Something desperate!”
    I spend the rest of the day trying to decide whether I’ve finally flipped and started to believe my own fantasies, or whether
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