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    Coming Clean
    Coming Clean
    Coming Clean
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    Coming Clean

    By Jeff Ross

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    This could be Rob's big break or the night everything falls apart.

    Rob wants to be a DJ—more than anything. And when his older brother Adam lands him a gig at a local all-ages club filling in for DJ Sly, Rob is ecstatic. When he finds out that the girl of his dreams will be there that first night, it seems like it is all coming together. But things fall apart—Mary Jane overdoses on Ecstasy provided by Adam, and DJ Sly turns Adam in and implicates Rob. The brothers end up on the run, evading the police while trying to force DJ Sly to tell the truth about the brothers' part in the death and Sly's own role in supplying drugs at the club.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781459803343
    Coming Clean
    Author

    Jeff Ross

    Jeff Ross is the author of several novels for young adults including several titles in the Orca Soundings and Orca Sports series. He teaches scriptwriting and English at Algonquin College in Ottawa.

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      Coming Clean - Jeff Ross

      Coming Clean

      Jeff Ross

      ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS

      Copyright © 2012 Jeff Ross

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Ross, Jeff, 1973-

      Coming clean [electronic resource] / Jeff Ross.

      (Orca soundings)

      Electronic monograph.

      Issued also in print format.

      ISBN 978-1-4598-0333-6 (PDF).--ISBN 978-1-4598-0334-3 (EPUB)

      I. Title. II. Series: Orca soundings (Online)

      PS8635.O6928C66 2012       jC813’.6      C2012-902628-X

      First published in the United States, 2012

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012938311

      Summary: Rob wants to be a DJ, but when a girl overdoses during his first gig and his brother is implicated, Rob realizes he could lose everything.

      Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

      Cover photography by Getty Images

      Orca Book Publishers

      PO Box 5626, Station B

      Victoria, BC Canada

      V8R 6S4

      Orca Book Publishers

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      Custer, WA USA

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      www.orcabook.com

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      For the real Rob and Matt.

      Remember, these characters are,

      for better or worse,

      fictional.

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter One

      The problem with my brother is that he is far too often full of it. Which is why I was skeptical when he said he’d landed me a DJ gig at the local all-ages club.

      Friday night, he said.

      Seriously, Adam, don’t mess with me right now. I was in my room trying to beat-match an old soul record with a white label drum-and-bass LP. It was not going well.

      I’m serious, Rob. I got you this Friday night!

      Adam, I said, taking my headphones off and silencing the stereo. DJ Sly does Friday nights at The Disco. DJ Sly was a ridiculous name for a DJ. The Disco was a ridiculous name for an all-ages club. And yet, at that time, I would have done anything to be DJ Sly playing at The Disco. Proving yet again that life, at its core, is a cruel joke.

      Do you mean the DJ Sly who just recently took a nasty tumble and busted his wrist? That DJ Sly?

      What? I said. I never heard about that.

      That’s because it happened yesterday, and you, as far as I can tell, have been locked in here for the past week. He looked at the floor, where there were piles of dirty plates and glasses. Mom had been working double shifts, leaving the two of us to our own devices.

      Always a bad idea.

      Adam is taller than me by about three inches. He’s also thicker. I’ve never been able to break 120, pounds while Adam is a steady 160. He is far too fond of hair gel. His black curls are totally glued to his head. I have longer hair and let it do what it wants. And yet there’s always talk about how we look so much alike. Adam has small eyes, which some people might refer to as beady. And his nose is a little too big for the rest of his face. It’s these kinds of characteristics that people seem to become depressed about. Like, there’s nothing you can do about the size of your eyes or nose, but people are going to make you feel bad about it anyway. Adam also had some pretty severe acne for a while, and his constant action against the angry red balls has left his skin pockmarked and rutted.

      In the end, though, neither of us are hideous. But Adam has cared too much for too long about how he looks, and now he often walks hunched over with a hoodie pulled up around his face. Though I have noticed that in the past few months, he’s begun to stand a little straighter.

      Anyway, Sly is down for the count and he needs a replacement.

      And how did you get me Sly’s night? I dropped my headphones around my neck. I then cleared a bunch of records off my bed to make room to sit down.

      I’ve been working there. You know that. Adam leaned against the door frame and examined

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