As I Wake by Scott Elizabeth

Author:Scott, Elizabeth [Scott, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: DUTTON CHILDREN'S
Published: 2011-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

30.

WAKE UP.

Everything is gone; the room, the orange, Morgan, and a moment I know. That I remember.

That changed me.

Greer is leaning over me, frowning.

“Wake up,” she says and Sophy says, “Her eyes are open, Greer. I don’t think you have to keep saying it.”

“You fainted again,” Greer says, ignoring Sophy and looking at me. “That’s twice in something like twenty seconds, Ava. No, wait, maybe you shouldn’t sit up.”

I do anyway, head spinning, and press my hands to my face to block out the world, to try and figure out what’s real and what isn’t. What I know and what I don’t.

My hands smell like orange.

I start to shake. Morgan.

I pull my hands away from my face, and Greer and Olivia and Sophy are watching me, Olivia looking worried, Greer looking worried and a little annoyed. I can’t read the expression on Sophy’s face at all.

Ethan is standing a little farther away, a blank, almost angry but more resigned light in his eyes that goes softer, kinder as he sees me looking at him. He knows what it’s like to be—to be hurt. I know that.

I stand up, shivering, and they all reach for me, all of their hands are reaching for me, and I take a step back and then another and another.

And then I turn around and run.

Once I’m away from school—away from them—I slow down, trying to think as I walk along the road Jane uses to drive me to school. It takes me through neighborhoods full of houses that look just like the one she lives in, a whole tiny universe of sameness, and although I keep expecting to see someone, I don’t see anyone.

There’s just me.

I take a deep breath, startled to realize I’m still shaking. Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I’ve built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don’t understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren’t from here, but that are so real.

That are more real than Jane and the life she has made for me.

I turn onto Homeway Lane, onto Ava’s street, my street, and see two people standing by Jane’s driveway, talking.

One of them is Clementine.

The other is Morgan.

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