Breaking Sky by Cori McCarthy

Author:Cori McCarthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
Published: 2014-12-16T18:06:41+00:00

23

HAWK CIRCLE

Looking to Land

The alarm sounded every hour.

“Chase.” Pippin shook her awake on the top bunk. It was only around two, and it felt like they had been doing this drill forever. The room tilted as she sat up. He handed her a glass of water, and she took a few sips. “Arrow should be doing this. He’s the one who gave you a concussion.”

“I could’ve stayed in the infirmary.”

“And have Kale all over us for being so reckless? I’ll pass, thank you.” He took the glass and touched the side of her head, feeling the knot from Tristan’s grand finale of a punch. “Swelling’s going down.” He collapsed on his bed.

“I don’t like that you’re taking care of me. I’m still not happy with you.”

He ignored her. “See you in an hour.”

Chase fell asleep against her will, like the world had swung a black cape around itself and disappeared. When the buzzer sounded next, she watched Pippin shuffle to his desk to slap it off.

“Good. You’re up,” he said.

She was already gritting her teeth, ready to have it out once and for all. “You don’t even want to know why I’m mad.”

He sat at his desk. “I don’t. But what I would like to know is why all of a sudden you want to have a feelings powwow. That’s not our style, Chase.”

“You’re hanging out with other people. Romeo and Arrow. And you’re avoiding me—”

“I’m avoiding you because you keep pushing. I told you I want space.” He sighed. “Keep in mind, I tried to talk to you awhile back and you blew me off.”

“So now you’re blowing me off?”

“Now I’m acting the way we always are together, which seemed to make you plenty happy two weeks ago, I might add.”

Maybe Pippin was right. Hadn’t they always been this way? Sarcastic jokes. Sharp and short conversations. But then if that were the case, why had she duped herself into believing they were best friends? Because he was her roommate? Her RIO?

A wave of loneliness crested over her, and she punched her pillow. Her head throbbed. “So maybe now I want to know about you.” She switched tactics. “Are you okay?”

“Me? I’m not the one with mild head trauma.”

“I mean in general. You’re evasiveness is…” She hoped he’d fill in the rest.

“Am I okay?” He rubbed his face. “Okay is one of the more inexact words in the English language. I will agree to being okay.”

The silence that filled the room was tight. She couldn’t find a way through it.

“Is it still my turn?” he said. Anger and exhaustion seemed to rise together in his tone like twined snakes, and his face was red even through the dark. “All right, I’ve got a good question. Is Tristan the next one?”

“The next what?”

“The next guy you’re going to mess with before you pull up faster than a Streaker out of a canyon.” Before she could answer, he stumbled to his bed, and she lost sight of him. His voice drifted up. “Poor Riot.

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