Amber Eyes by Mariana Reuter

Author:Mariana Reuter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: yojng adult, coming of age, Juvenile Fiction, paranormal
Published: 2015-04-30T05:00:00+00:00

July 3, 6:32 am

In the impossibly small space inside our tent, Abe, Daniel and I woke up to the rumble of an earthquake shaking the tent wildly. Abe and Daniel sat up in their sleeping bags as if propelled by a spring, their eyes wide open. Their unruly hair rubbed the tent’s interior canvas while they gaped in all directions. I did the opposite. I cringed and hid inside my sleeping bag, peeking only through a small opening.

“What the hell?” Daniel almost squealed.

The earthquake stopped. “Everybody wake-up,” Edward’s muffled voice came through the tent’s canvas—he must have been shaking the tent from outside. God! He’d scared the hell out of me, and out of everybody else too. “Rise and shine!”

Daniel bore a pinched expression on his face. He lifted his upper lip in contempt. “Rise and shine, my foot! This dude is pathetic.”

“Wake up! I want everybody out here in 5 minutes!”

Abe, who had stood motionless after the first heart-stopping impression, reacted first. He crawled out of his bag and yawned and stretched. Recovered from his start, he seemed still half-asleep. Nevertheless, he pulled on his sneakers, didn’t lace them, and crawled out of the little tent. As he did so, I saw Edward’s boots through the open entrance.

Edward said, “Morning,”

“Mbrolning,” Abe muttered in another yawn, mangling his words. “Jeez! What time is it?”

“A little after half past six. Jorge’s chopping some firewood by the ravine. I want you to go and help him. I want breakfast ready on the double. We’ve gotten a lot to do today.”

Abe yawned again. “Tsure…”

The earthquake resumed. “Wake up! Wake up! Only 3 minutes left. Remember, a Scout is an early bird.”

Daniel kicked me. “Wake up, dude. This is not the Four Seasons.”

Because I was hiding inside the sleeping bag, Daniel hadn’t noticed I was awake too. The sunglasses were inside beside me. I grabbed them and put them on, then I came out of my bag. “You don’t need to be rude. I’ve already heard Edward.”

“You don’t need to be rude. ” Daniel mimicked my tone. “Why do you talk like a sissy? People are saying you’re gay. If you’re still sleepy, you should have gone to bed earlier last night. Where on earth were you, dude?”

I tried to sound aggressive and manly. “It’s none of your business, dude. I got lost. That’s all.”

“That’s what you get when you go to Alaska to pee, dude. Did you sleep in those sunglasses? You’re a total freak, dude!”

I kept with the strong tone. “It’s none your business. Besides, you don’t want to see my eyes. You’d freak-out. I’m a devil.”

Daniel raised his upper lip. “Ha, ha, ha. How funny, dude. Don’t be a retard on top of being a sissy.” He kicked me again. “Get out of the sleeping bag! Edward’s outside and counting down our time, dude. The guy freaks out and behaves like a depraved Army sergeant when we’re late.”

“That sergeant can hear you, Daniel,” Edward said.

Daniel kicked his own sleeping bag until he got out of it.

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