Bonds That Blind (Daughters of Anubis) by Kelli Kimble

Author:Kelli Kimble [Kimble, Kelli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-11T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

There was something lumpy underneath me. When I moved to push it away, a spike of pain shot through my eyeball.

“Ow.” I clapped a palm to my eye, as if I needed to keep it from falling out of my head. I tried to roll over, but I reached the end of the bed. I turned to roll the other way, but something was wrong about that, too. Something wasn’t right.

Tentatively, I opened the eyeball that wasn’t experiencing a red-hot poker. I was in a dark room. Something rustled. I turned towards it and the world started spinning. I closed my eye. “Ugh, what is wrong with me?”

“I’d say you have a doozy of a hangover,” someone said.

“Who’s that?”

“Shirley. Drink this.” A glass of something was pressed into my hand. I struggled to a sitting position and drank it. My mouth felt like a hundred angry spiders had spun webs inside it. It was so dry that I couldn’t even taste what I’d just been drinking.

“This is weird,” I said. “I don’t have any saliva.”

“Just keep refilling that glass and drinking. You’ll feel a lot better when you aren’t so dehydrated.”

She replaced the empty glass in my hand with a full one.

“Geez. I feel terrible. My eyeball is rebelling. It feels like it’s going to pop out. Is it popping out?”

“It’s not popping out. Drink.”

I did as she told me. This time I could tell that it was just plain water.

I eased my hand away from my pulsing eye and tried to look around. I was in the dance studio, on one of the waiting room sofas. The lumps I’d been laying on were my left shoe and my tin foil headdress, which was now smashed into more of a tin foil pancake.

“What happened?”

The couch seemed to rock like a boat. It was Shirley sitting down beside me. “You don’t remember?”

“I remember dancing. I remember going up on stage and taking a bow. I remember more dancing, and punch.”

She laughed. “The punch. You didn’t know that I doctored it, did you?”

“Doctored it?”

“By the end of the night, that punch bowl was basically straight vodka. And you were drinking it full-on guppy style.”

“Oh.” I settled my chin into my hands and looked around the room. It was a wreck. Miss Helga would have an absolute fit if she saw it. “Where’s Jacob?”

“Uh, listen. There are some things you might not remember about last night.”

I winced. “Could it be worse than the way I feel right now?”

“Yeah.”

“Do I want to know?”

“I don’t know all of what happened. I was at the bowl. But you did something that upset the crowd and made Jacob really mad. You two came in here and he yelled that he was leaving and not to call him. He said he needed to clear his head.”

I slumped against the arm of the sofa. “That sounds really mad.”

“Yeah.”

“He’ll come around. That wasn’t so bad, I guess. Our first fight.”

Shirley made a huffing sound. “That wasn’t all. Whatever you did or said — Patty caught it.

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