Do you like scary movies like “I know what you did last summer?” or “Jeepers Creepers”? Then you will love “The Secret”. Usually I would just watch one of those movies or read a comic styled the same way with some predictable humor. But with this one I found myself wondering what would happen next. Right from the beginning when the lead character is invited to a house party being thrown by the girl of his dreams named Pam you expect there to be some setup for trouble.
Tommy shows up and is welcomed in by a slightly flirtatious mother who guides him downstairs to where the party is taking place. Making his way through the clicks of people talking amongst themselves while stabbing him with their cold stares. But once he found Pam she was sitting with other friends in a small room playing a telephone game. Each person would dial one digit out of seven and once the person on the other line would answer, one of the kids would say:
“I know your secret.”
Once the person on the other end of the line was curious to know who had called them and what secret they knew, the kid would instruct them to meet up in the park near a statue at midnight. After a few more phone calls Pam’s friend makes one last call and then hands Pam the phone telling her to just hit “send”. But when the phone picks up Pam puts it on speakerphone. Everyone sits and waits patiently for someone to say something but instead all they hear is a television on in the background.
Pam then just calls out: “I know your secret”.
Then a voice replies back to her: “How do you know my secret”?
That’s when Pam’s friend nudges her to continue with the prank. So Pam instructs the voice to do the same thing that they instructed the others to do earlier. Meet at the statue in the park at midnight.
Freaked out, Pam decides she has had enough and while taking Tommy’s arm looks for a place a more quiet. Pam decides to show Tommy her bedroom and doesn’t waste any time getting comfortable on her bed. Now even though the book showed Pam and Tommy making out, the very next cell on the next page shows them and the group of Pam’s friends at the park so I can only assume that everyone decided to take the party out to the park.
During another make-out session on a hilltop, Pam and Tommy notice a set of headlights coming down the bike path. Could it be one of the people they had pranked earlier on? Some dark figure walks through the park and then stands by the statue for a while. Pam knows it’s the man who answered her call and all of the kids decide its safer to just leave.
The following day in school Pam gets a phone call while in class and to her surprise the voice asks: “How do you know my secret?”
Stunned, Pam tells Tommy about the call and explains that Kyle used her cell phone to make the call so the man could easily find her. Tommy tries to calm her nerves by being there for her but he is unable to keep Pam from being abducted. Now he needs to figure out how where she is and who has taken her. I already read the book so I know what happens but don’t worry, I can keep a secret. Can you?
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