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yours?”
    Sam grinned. “Yeah, yeah. I know.” She turned back to the computer.
    â€œThe only friends I’m seeing of Tam’s whose namesstart with a J are: Jared Hopkins, who’s on newspaper with us, Jefferson Cole, Nikki’s little brother, a James Seymour, a Jane Rogers, and . . .” Sam bounced on the bed. “One Jason Turner.”
    BabyKitty jumped off the bed and ran from the room. Chewy gave chase down the hall.
    â€œWho’s Jason Turner?” Makayla asked, turning from her computer.
    â€œI don’t know, but let’s see what I can find out.” Sam clicked on Jason’s name and brought up his Facebook page, then clicked on the About button. She read aloud, “Attends Joe T. Robinson High School. Loves computers, anime, and golf.”
    â€œHigh school? What grade is he in?”
    Sam scrolled. “Hang on. Oh, he’s a junior. Eleventh.” She looked at Makayla. “I wouldn’t have picked Tam as a person to have a lot of high school friends, would you?”
    Makayla shook her head while Sam creeped a little more.
    â€œHe’s in EAST.” Sam wrinkled her nose. “I don’t remember meeting him with the high school team at conference last year.”
    â€œOh, you know everybody in EAST now, even the high school program?” Makayla teased.
    Sam shrugged. “I just met a lot of the teams last year at conference.” As one of the administrators, she helped keep Mrs. Shine’s notes about the conferenceorganized, and that included the correspondence with the high school and other facilitators. Thinking about Mrs. Shine’s notes reminded Sam of what she’d found out in EAST today. “Hey, guess what?”
    Makayla spun the desk chair around so she could prop her feet on the side of Sam’s bed. “What?”
    â€œSince you weren’t willing to help me investigate—”
    â€œYou mean go into the student database without permission and get expelled.”
    â€œWhatever.” Sam grinned. “Anyway, I pulled up Tam’s EAST project in the computer today.”
    Makayla frowned. “Are you supposed to do that?”
    â€œMrs. Shine has asked me to look at stuff for her before, so it’s fine.”
    Makayla raised one eyebrow.
    â€œShe has.” Sam tossed a throw pillow at Makayla’s head. “Anyway, all the files in his project are blank. Everything. Not even his project reports are in there, and I know Mrs. Shine has graded us on at least two this semester.”
    â€œMrs. Shine wouldn’t have allowed him an extension or something?”
    Sam shook her head. “Not like this, not with conference coming up next month. We’re up for a Founder’s Award. No way would she let it slide.” The Founder’s Award was the highest award in EAST. It went to the school that best demonstrated the overall purpose and mission of EAST and it was quite the honor to even benamed a finalist in the running. This was the first year the school was a finalist.
    â€œThen what do you think is going on?”
    â€œWell, I checked Mrs. Shine’s files of the class’s projects and I just found his project overview notes about making some workshops on Internet and child safety mandatory.” She crossed her legs under the laptop on her bed.
    Makayla wiped cat hair from her jeans. “Isn’t that a co-winky-dink that Tam’s project is about children’s safety and now he’s missing?”
    â€œI know.” Sam glanced back to Jason Turner’s Facebook page. “You know, I’ve been thinking Tam was taken or something, even though Dad says the sheriff’s office must be pretty sure he wasn’t abducted if they haven’t issued an AMBER Alert or anything.”
    Makayla moved from the chair to lay across the foot of Sam’s bed and prop up on a pillow to stare at Sam. “Yeah, go on.”
    â€œBut what if that