Awakening by Long Samantha

Author:Long, Samantha [Long, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Booktrope
Published: 2015-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

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Sophie shot up. The scream in her throat didn’t make it out as she bumped heads with Lilli, who knelt over her. It took a few seconds for her to realize she wasn’t in the dean’s office but on her kitchenette floor.

Lilli groaned and rubbed her forehead, then pulled Sophie up to stand. “You were on the phone with Todd and you fainted. I couldn’t wake you up.”

Todd? She tried to remember being on the phone. Todd had been telling her something about Roman. Then, sweet relief when she learned he was still alive. Then, the piercing headache when she’d started to see the vision of Morgan—

“Morgan!” Sophie looked at the Hello Kitty clock on the wall. It was 2:08.

“What?” Lilli brushed a strand of hair back from her face. She frowned at Sophie’s manic expression.

Pop.

“What was that?” Lilli squeaked.

Horror projected into Sophie’s mind. She knew who it was without even having to look. Morgan had finished the vision without her.

Once she entered the living room, she saw Morgan swaying on her feet in the center. The cheerleader’s gaze widened, and her mouth formed a small “oh.”

“Oh, my God.” Lilli covered her mouth with her hand. She took a deep breath.

Morgan took a step toward the couch and her knees buckled.

Lilli managed to catch her before she hit the floor and helped her the rest of the way. “It’s okay. You’re safe now.”

Sophie listened to Lilli’s soothing tones and followed.

Words formed on Morgan’s lips. No sounds emerged.

“Shh.” Lilli stroked Morgan’s curls and murmured soothingly. She shot a questioning look at Sophie.

How was she to explain that Akeldama had found them? Sophie lowered herself onto the couch. “Morgan, I had a vision just before you showed up here. I know what happened.”

Fat tears rolled down Morgan’s cheeks.

Sophie knew she was replaying what happened in her mind, and that the demon’s laughter echoed through it. When Morgan’s sobs subsided, Sophie asked, “How did you get here?”

Lilli met Sophie’s gaze over the top of Morgan’s head. Her concern broadcasted.

For a minute Morgan was silent. Her body still shook, and pieces of it kept disappearing and reappearing randomly. As if she were a bad signal on satellite. Sophie and Lilli ignored all of that and waited for her to speak.

“I don’t know how it happened. I was there in the office with that… creature… and the next thing I knew there was a pressure building in my body. I felt like I was being stretched uncontrollably, and then I opened my eyes and I was here.”

Sophie thought about this for a moment. Earlier that week, she’d emitted a purple light that demolished demons. There was no telling what each of them were capable of. They’d never had a reason to explore what they could do.

She told the girls this.

“She knows who we are,” Morgan whispered. Her voice was steadier when she grasped Lilli’s hand.

There was a sharp instant of panic.

“What are we going to do? If she knows who we are, how can we hide?” Lilli glanced at Sophie.

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