Avoidables 3 by Medhurst Rachel

Author:Medhurst, Rachel [Medhurst, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

‘I’m in love,’ Sandor declared to the room when she’d been asked what had provoked her to bomb the compound.

‘With who…?’ William asked, looking around the room.

It was the morning after I’d escaped from the rebels. My mother and father had turned bright red when they saw me walk into the courthouse holding hands with Hope. They’d tried to come over but William had stopped them because the case was about to continue.

‘With Leon, the rebel leader,’ she replied, smiling slightly.

‘So why would that make you bomb the compound?’

‘Have you ever been in love?’ she asked William.

William shook his head and I noticed that the Perfects in the balcony were looking blank. They thought they’d experienced being in love, but they were so wrong.

‘Love is stronger than anything you could ever possibly imagine. I know that you…and you,’ she said, pointing at the Perfect jury, ‘have never been in love like I have. You shut off your emotions because you think you need to look and act amazing all the time. Love is endless. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you look like or how you act, it’s always there and accepts you for you. You’re all missing out.’

Purple applauded and Hope grinned at me. I winked back before glancing at my father. He was standing on guard, staring at me. I ignored him and laughed when William shook his head at us.

‘William, can I?’ Catherine said, coming over to stand in front of Sandor.

William nodded and went back to his seat. Catherine glanced at me and glared. My own mother could tell that I was on their side and she didn’t like it.

‘We have a new witness who we would like to call to the stand in a moment, but first Sandor, I want to ask you. If you were so in love with Leon, why were you capturing Perfects and using them?’

Sandor didn’t even blink. She glanced over at the panel, her eyes landing on the Chancellor.

‘I did that before I met Leon. He helped me to see that not all people were horrid, except Perfects of course.’

A jeer went around the courthouse and Catherine let it.

‘The Avoidable Sandor has just claimed that all Perfects are horrid. Click one if you agree or two if you think it’s the Avoidables that are horrid,’ said the television presenter behind me. She was looking into the camera smiling. She was always smiling and it wasn’t right. I was tempted to stand up and say something into the camera but stopped myself.

‘We are an outstanding race. We have no crime. We have no bullies. We have glorious houses and clothes. You are all dangerous and kill one another all the time.’ Catherine glanced down at her black dress. It was more like a dinner dress and it looked crazy in the middle of the day in a courthouse. The male Perfects were staring at her though, so she’d had the desired effect.

‘You may have all that, but you have no life.

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