Caught Between My Bully and My Stepbrother novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: The Login
I read it twice.
Then I held the phone out so both of them could see.
Corey sat up straight against the wall.
"Something cute," he said. "Like a camera in a book."
"Like a confession," Crew said.
He set his mug down on the drafting table, right on a strip of torn napkin.
"With your name on it. Published by your own paper."
"At midnight on Friday," I said.
The space heater ticked.
"Don't answer her yet," Crew said.
He pulled his laptop off the drafting table and sat cross-legged on the end of the bed in his boxers.
"What are you doing?"
"Building you a newspaper."
Corey looked at me.
"Is he allowed to say stuff like that before nine a.m.?"
"He's top of his year," I said. "Nobody believes it."
Crew typed for two hours without looking up.
At eleven he turned the laptop around.
It was the Ledger's login page.
Our green banner, the gray box, the little lamp logo the editor hated.
"It isn't the Ledger," he said. "It's a copy. Every page behind it is a copy too."
"So nothing she writes goes anywhere."
"Nothing she writes goes anywhere." He tapped the screen. "And whatever she does in that window, I watch."
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