One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)

by Karen M. McManus

Nate Macauley

Bad boy on probation always in detention. Has been blogged about by Simon . Main character maybe used to know him as she last talked to him in 5th grade

“You too?” Addy turns to me so quickly, her blond shampoo-ad hair swirls around her shoulders. She must have been surgically removed from her boyfriend in order to show up alone. “That wasn’t my phone either.”

Main girl addy and cooper all had phones planted in there backpacks

“Somebody punked us!” Simon leans forward with his elbows on the desk, looking spring-loaded and ready to pounce on fresh gossip.

Did simon plant the phones?

Cooper

Base ball player jock and he knows abby

“I know, but—my water bottle’s missing. And I’m thirsty.”

“She’s a princess and you’re a jock,” he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. “And you’re a brain. And you’re a criminal. You’re all walking teen-movie stereotypes.”

And if I’m being honest, I’m pretty freaked at what Simon could write about me if he put his mind to it.

I fumble at the latch on the second one and pull it open. There’s nothing inside.

He says it with a note of finality, because he refuses to see anything but the best in me. If that ever changed, I honestly don’t know what I’d do.

Foreshadowing?

There’s only one thing Simon might have written about me, but it would have been almost impossible for him to find out. Now I guess he never will.

Jake usually defended Simon, though, when our friends got down on him for About That. It’s not like he’s lying, he’d point out. Stop doing sneaky shit and it won’t be a problem.

Jake boyfriend of abby: also friend of simon at one point

“Is this okay?” Jake’s eyes scan my face. “Or would you rather just hang out?” His brows rise like it’s a real question, but his hand keeps inching lower.

Jakes a little suspicious

it reminds me of Cooper Clay, which reminds me of Simon Kelleher and that whole sick scene in detention. I’d never liked the kid, but that was horrible. And Cooper was almost as useless as the blond girl when you come right down to it. Bronwyn was the only one who did anything except babble like an idiot.

I dont think nate did it

“Well, I go a lot,” I say quickly. “For headaches and stuff. It was probably for that.” I scrunch my forehead like I’m thinking hard,

Thats suspicious addy

I can’t. I’m too afraid it’s all going to be ruined. That it’s already ruined.

Abby seems like shes hiding something

“Song of Myself,” Officer Lopez murmurs when the girl finishes. “Interesting choice.”

Why is it interesting?

Bronwyn’s naïve if she thinks there’s more to me than that.

Thats weird

I swallow hard. Somehow, the fact that Nonny accepts my word without question makes me feel guilty.