Love in the wrong place - Christina Ramey (top 100 novels of all time .TXT) 📗

clamed down and shot a look at me that said everything was going to be OK. I hoped they would. I didn’t want to witness a fight.
“Take Elizabeth and shut her in her room. Now, Ryan.” Matt demand in a harsh voice.
“Come on,” Ryan said grabbing my arm, softly.
Ryan led me back to the room where I woke up at. When we got in the room he shut and locked the door.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“Yeah, why do you ask?”
“You looked pretty shaken when I got angry at Matt.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.” Ryan said, “Listen if you need anything just tell me and I’ll try to get it for you. OK?”
“Um…”
“Elizabeth I’m not trying to be mean or anything. I really mean it.”
“OK.”
Ryan looked at me for a moment like he wanted to say something else. Instead he smiled and walked out of my door. Only to turn around and come back in.
“What?” I asked.
“I forgot to say goodnight.”
“Oh, well, goodnight.”




Chapter Two


The next day I woke up to the sound of shouting. It was Ryan and Kyle.
“…go wake her up before Matt gets up and finds her still in bed!” Kyle yelled.
“She had a long night! She need’s to sleep!” Ryan yelled.
“Ryan you better go wake her up before I do, ’cause I won’t be nice!”
“Fine.”
I heard footsteps coming down the hall so I opened the door before Ryan could.
“You’re up,” he said, surprised.
“Um… yeah…I heard you and Kyle yelling at each other.”
“Sorry about that. That always happens when we get a new girl. It only last a couple of days.”
“So…what do you want?”
“I want you to get up. If Matt gets up and you’re not up he’ll get really mad.”
“OK, when do we eat breakfast?”
“When Matt gets up. He’ll probably be up in a few minutes.”
As soon as he said that Kyle rushed into the room.
“Dude, Ryan, Matt is getting up. So if you don’t want him to think you have the hot’s for Elizabeth I suggest you guys get into the dining room now.”
Ryan grabbed my hand and pulled me into the hallway, “Come on.”
We hurried down the hallway in a hurry to get to the dinning room before Matt. Ryan was a faster runner then me so he was practically dragging me behind him. We got to the dinning room in the seconds before Matt did. Ryan and I sat down and tried to look like we’d been there for a while.
“Anyone got breakfast down yet,” Matt demanded.
“I was just going out to get some donuts,” Kyle said.
“Well, hurry your ass up.”
I sat there and stared at Kyle. How could he let Matt talk to him like that? Kyle seemed so tough when he wasn’t around Matt. As soon as Kyle disappeared out the door Matt turned to me.
“Elizabeth I have a job for you.”
“OK, um… what is it?”
“I want you to work for me. You seem much tougher then the other girls Ryan and Kyle have tracked down. We could really use you. You could help us get the girls to trust us. So what do you say? We’ll you work for us?”
I stared at him then at Ryan. Ryan was smiling at me. When he saw me look at him he shook his head slightly. Then I looked at Matt who was staring at me and waiting for an answer.
I sighed and shook my head, “OK, I’ll do it.”
“Great, after breakfast Ryan will explain what we do.”
“OK,” I said looking at Ryan who was still smiling.
All through breakfast Ryan kept staring at me for reasons I couldn’t identify. As soon as breakfast ended Ryan grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the dinning room. As soon as we got into the hallway he placed his hand over my eyes.
“Where are we going?” I asked.
“My room,” he said his mouth close to my ear.
“Why?”
“So I can explain what we do here.”
“OK.”
Ryan led me down a series of hallways with his hand over my eyes.
“Do you not want me to know where you’re room is?” I asked after a few minutes.
“You might try to hurt me when I’m asleep.” He joked.
“Ha ha ha, I wouldn’t do that.”
“How do I know you’re not lying?”
“I’m not.”
Then we stopped walking. I heard the sound of a doorknob turning. Then Ryan uncovered my eyes. It took a few minutes for my eyes to adjust. When they did my mouth fell open in shock. His room was neat, everything had its own place. There was nothing on the floor and his bed and his bed was made. It didn’t look like a teenage guys-or any guys-room.
“Elizabeth are you OK?” Ryan asked looking at my mouth hanging wide open.
“Yeah, I’m just shocked to see your room so clean. I mean I’ve never seen anybody’s room so clean.”
I shook my head and went to sit on his bed.
“Are you going to tell me what it is you guys do?”
“Well, we pick up homeless girls off the street and we find them jobs.”
“What kinds of jobs?”
“I don’t know. Matt hasn’t told me and Kyle that. He says we don’t need to know, so I’m guessing that there not very nice jobs. Matt isn’t the type of person to give somebody a nice job. To be honest I was suppressed that he hired you. He never offers anybody a job, he choose it for them. You must be special or he knows something about you that you don’t even know.”
“I don’t know. Maybe he just likes me.”
“Maybe.”
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The weeks went by slowly, people came and went. Everyday somebody came looking for Matt and wanting to know if he found somebody for a job that they had; the answer was always no. Ryan and Kyle were following this one girl. Her name was Susan Lloyds and she was nineteen years old. She was living in an apartment on 51st street. She only had a few friends but I still didn’t like the idea of Ryan following her.
For some reason I was always worried when Ryan went out to follow her. I was worried he wouldn’t come back and every time he walked through the door I let out a sigh of relief. It felt like I’d been holding my breath all day until he came back.
“Hey Elizabeth,” Ryan said walking into my room.
I smiled, “Hi, did you just get back?”
“Yeah, I don’t know why Matt is having us follow this girl. People will notice she’s missing. She’s not like you.”
I hit him on his arm, “What’s that suppose to mean?”
Ryan laughed, “All I was saying is you were homeless and nobody cared about you. Plus nobody would notice you being gone. With Susan, she’s got friends and family who will miss her.”
“I know. When are you going to bring her in?”
“Matt says we’re going to bring her in tomorrow, that’s where you come in.”
“Okay, what do I do?”
“You have to get Susan to trust us. Tell her lies and stuff because if you don’t Matt will get really mad and hurt you.”
“Oh.”
Ryan took my hand, “I don’t want you hurt.”
Before I could say anything footsteps came down the hall. Ryan pulled his hand from mine and went to lean against the wall.
“You just need to get her to trust us,” Ryan said as Matt walked in my room.
“Good you’re telling her what to do,” Matt said looking from me to Ryan.
Matt looked from Ryan and me with a confused look on his face. He looked at us for a few more minutes before shaking his head and walking out. When the door closed behind him Ryan let out a sigh of relief.
“That was close,” he whispered.
“What was?” I asked.
Ryan looked at me, “What do you mean?”
“Didn’t you just say something?”
“No.”
I looked at Ryan with a frown. I know he had said something but I didn’t hear what.
“Ryan I heard you say something I just don’t know what.”
Ryan smiled secretly, “I didn’t say anything you need to know.”
“Fine, what ever you say.”


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Publication Date: 11-16-2010

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Dedication:
This book is dedcated to my best friend in the whole world Cassidy Garrith who reads everything I write and whom I'm writing a novel with right now. It's also dedcated to my family who will never give up on me. I wouldn't be here if it weren't form them. And all of my other friends.