“You’re not saying anything, Riley!”
“Oh, sorry.” I didn’t feel like talking. It was so hard to pretend that everything was okay that I didn’t just want to burst into to tears and give up. I wanted to forget everything that had happened, and at the same time I was deeply scared that I might.
Sing ’em to remember.
I could. I never had. But I could.
“Riley?”
I leaned over and kissed his forehead. “This is a song I just learned recently. It’s totally…vintage….” A deep breath, a voice slightly off-key.
“My baby has a bright blue Cadillac
She drives it so fast I think it could fly
And someday soon we’re gonna go to the moon
Aim that bright blue Cadillac right into the sky.”
“Totally vintage,” murmured Chris.
“I’m not done yet. That’s just the chorus. Shh…”
Sing ’em to remember.
Sing ’em because you remember.
I remember, Gabe, I remember.
And I’m never going to forget.
About the Author
Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and author, and is a theatre graduate of the University of Toronto and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in the UK.
She is the author of two children’s novels: Alex and the Ironic Gentleman and Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate (Scholastic) and is a theatre graduate of the Univeristy of Toronto and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in the UK. Published around the world, Alex was featured in the New York Post as a “Post Potter Pick,” as well as on the CBS Early Show. It won the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award in the UK and was nominated for the Red Cedar. The sequel, Timothy, was nominated for the Audie, Red Cedar and Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards, and was recently optioned for film. She also contributed to two anthologies in 2011: Corsets & Clockwork (YA Steampunk Romance short story anthology, Running Press Kids), and The Girl Who Was On Fire (an essay anthology analyzing the Hunger Games series, published by Smart Pop Press).
Her debut YA, The Friday Society (Penguin), was released in the fall of 2012 to a starred review from Quill and Quire and was recently optioned for television. Outcast is her first paranormal YA romance.
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