Whisper (Novella) by CRYSTAL GREEN

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Honeytrap
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    The events in “Whisper” take place before the trouble even begins to start for
Honeytrap*
 . . .
    *You’ll see what I mean in February 2015, when
Honeytrap
comes out!

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    I’d do anything to have Carley, but she doesn’t know I exist.
    If the latest message on my phone hadn’t name checked me, I would’ve swiped past it on my way to read all the other secrets from anonymous users on the TellTale app. Secrets like
Sometimes I touch myself when I’m thinking about my teacher
, or
I like to keep my girlfriend’s underwear in my office drawer
.
    But this wasn’t some confessional meme I could ignore, especially since the words were overlaying a black-and-white selfie of a guy’s silhouette, his face turned away from the lens, the rest of him in shadow so I couldn’t tell what color his hair was or what the rest of him looked like. Also, this wasn’t the first post from him about me.
    A secret admirer?
    Me? Carley Rios? The new girl in town?
    At the thought, my heart raced, my skin flushed, and I wasn’t sure if I was more flattered or scared of this unknown person who had sent the messages from less than ten miles away, according to their location status. And like any girl who was freaking out about a boy, I’d blabbed to someone else.
    To the only friend I had in Aidan Falls so far.
    That’s why my new neighbor, Diana, was huddled with me in a corner of the party she’d dragged me to. While she checked the latest TellTale post on my screen, keeping my phone down by her blue-jean-skirted thigh, she swept a lowered, false-eyelash look around the room.
    â€œCome out, come out wherever you are,” she said under the country rock song blasting in the family room of some guy I didn’t even know. I hadn’t been around Aidan Falls long enough to know much of anyone. My stepdad told me I should get my butt