Brain by Candace Blevins

Author:Candace Blevins [Blevins, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781504500555
Google: z8UsCgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 25302294
Publisher: Excessica Publishing
Published: 2015-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Harmony

Brain and the nurse had called me Harmony every other sentence those first couple of days, and Brain was still overusing it, but it was working.

When I looked in the mirror, the girl I saw was Harmony. I’d bought purple sparkly fingernail polish, and done my toes and fingers with it, and every time I looked at my hands, I told myself these were Harmony Johnson’s hands. Same with my feet.

“What did your parents and friends call you, when you were growing up?”

“My parents called me Thurston — no nicknames for them. Sometime in late middle school, someone figured out Thurston originally meant Thor’s Stone, and my friends started calling me Thor.”

He’d gone on his adventure earlier that morning, and now we were sitting outside in the shade, eating our lunch. He’d bought a huge assed umbrella, and when he used it in conjunction with the shade trees, we felt confident I wasn’t getting sun on my face, which would be bad while it was healing.

But I’d have gone crazy if I’d had to stay inside two weeks. Going this long without running or working out was bad enough.

“In a weird sort of way, Thor fits you. I mean, you’re tall, and muscled, and smart.”

He shrugged. “My dad hated it, which kind of made me embrace it.”

“Why did you choose Wulff for your hacker name?”

He eyed me a few seconds and said, “Not time for the conversation yet, Buttercup. The nurse says you can start wearing makeup in another couple of days, let’s see how that goes, and then we’ll set a time for me to tell you my secrets.”

“Why do we have to set a time?”

“Let’s say, hypothetically speaking, I’m really one of the famous superheroes, and there’s a club of us. If one of us is found out, all of us would be at risk, right? If Spiderman exists, the Flash and Batman and Superman are suddenly possible. So, there are rules about who can know, and people who oversee the rules, and I need for you to believe you’re Harmony when I introduce you by the name.”

I shook my head and told him, “You’ll tell me your secrets by Sunday, or you can pack your shit and go.” I believed him, but at the same time, worried he was stringing me along. He needed to know I was serious. He knew practically everything about me, and there was so much I didn’t know about him.

“Okay, Harmony. Meanwhile, tell me what you’ve learned about me.”

“You’re Thurston Silas Alexander, grew up in Chevy Chase Maryland, and your family is so politically connected you could probably be a Senator alongside your brother by now, had you chosen to go that route. You were accepted to all the top colleges, but told your parents you wanted to take a year to travel Europe and live a little, and they financed it. You toured Europe on a motorcycle, and appear to have decided you didn’t want to live the life your family chose for you.

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