Twilight (25 page)
Authors: Meg Cabot
Tags: #death, #Teenage girls, #Fantasy fiction, #Juvenile Fiction, #Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic, #cats, #General, #Horror & Ghost Stories, #Ghost stories, #High schools, #Schools, #Carmel (Calif.), #Ghosts, #Time Travel, #Badgers
“See and speak to ghosts?” Jesse grinned in the moonlight. “Apparently so. Why? Is that a problem?”
“No. Except that… that would mean—” I could barely believe what I was saying. “That means you’re a—”
“
Querida
,” Jesse said, pulling me toward him. “Let’s just dance.”
But I was still too stunned to think of anything else. Jesse—my Jesse—was no longer a ghost. He was a mediator.
Like me.
“The only thing I don’t understand,” Jesse was saying, his breath warm in my ear, “is why it took him all this time.”
I swayed in Jesse’s arms, barely registering what he was saying.
Jesse is a mediator
, was all I could think.
Jesse’s a mediator now.
“Your father,” Jesse said. “His moving on, I mean. Why now?”
I put my arms around his neck. What else could I do?
“Do you really not know?” I asked him.
He shook his head.
I smiled because I felt as if my heart might burst with joy.
Many thanks to Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, Laura Langlie, Abigail McAden, and especially Benjamin Egnatz, as well as all of the readers who supported this series from the beginning.
MEG CABOT
is the author of many best-selling, critically acclaimed books for teens, including the Mediator series, the 1-800-Where-R-You series, the Princess Diaries series,
ALL-AMERICAN GIRL,
and
TEEN IDOL,
as well as
NICOLA AND THE VISCOUNT
and
VICTORIA AND THE ROGUE.
When she is not reliving the horror that was her high school experience, she also writes books for adults, including the boy next door, boy meets girl, and every boy’s got one. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and a one-eyed cat named Henrietta.
Visit meg’s website at : www.megcabot.com.
THE MEDIATOR
1:
SHADOWLAND
THE MEDIATOR
2:
NINTH KEY
THE MEDIATOR
3:
REUNION
THE MEDIATOR
4:
DARKEST HOUR
THE MEDIATOR
5:
HAUNTED
THE MEDIATOR
6:
TWILIGHT
THE PRINCESS DIARIES
THE PRINCESS DIARIES
,
VOLUME II
:
PRINCESS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
THE PRINCESS DIARIES
,
VOLUME III
:
PRINCESS IN LOVE
THE PRINCESS DIARIES
,
VOLUME IV
:
PRINCESS IN WAITING THE PRINCESS DIARIES
,
VOLUME IV AND A HALF
:
PROJECT PRINCESS
THE PRINCESS DIARIES
,
VOLUME V
:
PRINCESS IN PINK
THE PRINCESS DIARIES
,
VOLUME VI
:
PRINCESS IN TRAINING
THE PRINCESS PRESENT
:
A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK
PRINCESS LESSONS
:
A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK
PERFECT PRINCESS
:
A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK
ALL
-
AMERICAN GIRL
TEEN IDOL
NICOLA AND THE VISCOUNT
VICTORIA AND THE ROGUE
THE BOY NEXT DOOR
BOY MEETS GIRL
EVERY BOY
’
S GOT ONE
THE
1-800-
WHERE
-
R
-
YOU BOOKS
:
WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES
CODE NAME CASSANDRA
SAFE HOUSE
SANCTUARY
Cover art © 2005 by Paul Oakley
Cover design by Sasha Illingworth
Cover © 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
The author wishes to acknowledge that while she did live for a time in Carmel, California, and attended the Junipero Serra Mission School, she has taken liberties with certain other facts, including, but not exclusive to, making the Mission School a K–12 insititution, when in reality it educates only K–8, as well as inventing a hospital and sticking it in the middle of downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea. The author apologizes for any confusion these or other inaccuracies might cause to the residents of the area.
MEDIATOR #6:
TheTwilight.
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Mobipocket Reader December 2004 ISBN 0-06-081749-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cabot, Meg.
p. cm.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Carmel, California teenager Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a “shifter” who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century.
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