Admit You Want Me by Holloway Taylor

Author:Holloway, Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

22

Ward

“What do you like about being in school?” I asked Emma. We were down to the last few bait worms. The survivors wriggled around in the cup helplessly. They didn’t know it yet, but their fate was already decided.

She shrugged, squinting into the sunlight to look over at me. “Why do you ask?” Her green eyes glowed in the light like they were lit from inside.

Because I want to know every detail about you.

The little voice in my head came from nowhere. I told it to shut the hell up before it got me into trouble, but just like the bait worms, I suspected my fate was sealed.

“I’m just curious,” I said casually, “I spent my whole life waiting to get out of school, but you’ve spent your whole life trying to stay in it.”

“I like to learn,” she said simply.

“There’s got to be more to it than that. Getting a PhD sounds like torture to me. You couldn’t pay me to do it, let alone make me pay to do it.”

Emma sat quietly for a bit before answering. “Did you read The Chronicles of Narnia when you were a kid?”

“The ones with Aslan the lion and the British kids that went through the wardrobe?” I grinned at her. “Of course. My mom read them to me. I liked that the kids got to be kings and queens.” I had fuzzy, happy memories of sitting with my head in her lap as she read them to me right before bed. This was when Kate was just a baby and I had to beg, borrow, and steal every moment I could with my mom. I eventually stopped disliking my little sister for monopolizing our mom’s attention, but there had definitely been a few years when we were both small that I wished I was an only child. The reading time I spent with my mom before bed was still special in my memory. I could almost feel her hand on my forehead and hear her voice in my memory, even now.

“Do you remember the first book in the series? The Magician’s Nephew?” Emma’s voice was wistful.

“Um… not really.” It had been probably twenty years since I thought about these books. The actual plots had become extremely mixed up in my head. “Was that the one with the evil talking ape or the one with the prince and boat?”

“Neither. Those were different ones. This was the first book, set before the other ones. In The Magician’s Nephew, the two English kids find these rings that bring them to this place that they called ‘the wood between the worlds’. It was where they first found Narnia, and also the world that the evil White Witch was from.” I nodded vaguely, remembering not liking that book as much as the others. Fewer battles. Emma continued, “Anyway, that image has stuck with me all this time. That there were all these worlds out there, all these different stories. Not just Narnia. Other worlds too. And

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