Awaken by Bryan Michelle

Author:Bryan, Michelle [Bryan, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, adventure, Fantasy, Young Adult, dystopia, teen, post apocalyptic, dystopian
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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For days I refuse to see anyone, except Vi, Jax’s ma. I ain’t up to facing any of ‘em...I don’t want to see their questioning looks and to try and give them answers I don’t got. They try to visit...especially Finn but I keep refusing, so Vi agrees to my wishes and every day turns him away with a quiet but firm ‘not today”. She is my only connection to the world outside, bringing me food, changing my bandages, never judging. For the first time in my life I realize what it must be like to be under a mother’s care and I am grateful for her strength. But with each kindness she shows me I cain’t help but think about my own ma. Did she abandon me ‘cause she knew what sort of monster I would turn out to be? Was the thought of it more than she could bear? I guess I cain’t never know but the thinking about it just sends me spiraling deeper and deeper into despair. I was in one of those dark moods on this day when Vi brings me my meal.

Wordlessly she lays the soup on the table by my bed then opens up the shutters covering the small window in the room, letting in the bright sun. Wincing, I cover my eyes with my arm.

“Could you close those back up please Vi?” I say.

“I could ...but I won’t,” she says and I stare at her in surprise. She ain’t ever denied me anything since she’s been caring for me.

“Enough is enough child.” She stands over me, arms folded. “For days now I have watched you wallow in self pity, turning away those who care about you and for what? Because you found out you are different?”

She see’s my surprise and nods. “Yes I know what you are, even though Jax tried his best to hide it from me.” She sighs. “I swear sometimes that boy thinks I am an idiot.”

“How did you know...?” I say.

“That you were a new blood? Well if your rapidly healing wound wasn’t a dead giveaway it would have to be your resemblance to her.”

I frown at her, puzzled. “Her? Who?”

“Jenna...Jax’s sister, and my daughter. You remind me of her so much. Oh not in appearance other then the hair of course, but your temperament and stubbornness and sadness. In that you are very similar.”

I am surprised by this revelation. “I didn’t know Jax had a sister.”

Not that he would have told me anyways...we ain’t had much of what you would call civilized conversation in the time we’ve known each other.

She sighs again and sits by me on the bed. “No he doesn’t talk about her at all anymore.

But as children they were inseparable....he loved her very much.”

“This is her room ain’t it?” I say. Vi just nods and looks around fondly.

“All these dolls...Jax made them for her, or found them, over the years. It was the one thing that made her happiest.”

“She was ...odd? Like me?” I say, already knowing the answer.

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