Catacombs by Avery Cross

Author:Avery Cross [Cross, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Zach

A week. An entire damned week passed, and all Briar managed to do was grow even more distant; I hadn’t even thought that was possible. No other mentor was having this much trouble with their student. Mine barely said two words to me every day now, even during our spirit training sessions.

And we’d gotten nowhere. Professor Woods checked in with her progress Friday, and I’d lied. Flat out lied to a professor. I’ve never done that before, ever. But I had to otherwise he’d be forced to deal with Briar, and I wasn’t about to dump her on anyone else.

“You going to eat?” Hunter asked, shoving a plate of pancakes toward me.

“Nah, not hungry.”

“This about that Shroud girl?”

“What do you think? I’m not getting anywhere with her. She won’t talk to me. I’m nice, and she shuts down more. What am I doing wrong here?”

He just shoved a pancake in his mouth and with his cheeks full asked, “Are you curious as a failing mentor, or because you hoped you’d be you know, further along with her?” He waggled his eyebrows at me for emphasis, and I glared at him. “What? Just saying, she’s not bad looking, and she’s definitely your type.”

“Hey, Zach.”

I turned around and forced a smile, waving at Sam, a girl from my combat class and her three giggling friends. I turned back around and hung my head groaning. “Do I have a sign on my forehead or something?”

“You’re single, and the whole Academy of girls knows it.”

“I’m going to start telling them you’re single.”

“Oh no, don’t do that. Trisha would kill me.”

“She’d only know if you told her. She doesn’t go here, remember?”

Trisha was a year older than us, but she’d been a friend of ours since we were all younger. I said a long time ago those two would wind up together and I was pretty sure as soon as Hunter finished his two years of service, he was going to ask her to marry him. Poor girl. I smirked, sipping my coffee.

“What are you going to do?” Hunter asked, and my moment of peace was gone.

“I’ll think of something.” I stood to get to my first class and maybe get my head where it needed to be.

My senior year was meant to be hard, but not like this. Briar was fighting tooth and nail, and though in the beginning, I thought it was against me just because she hated me. Now, I sensed it had to do with herself. She had yet to find her center, and I hardly knew anything about her except she had a relative here at some point, and she had more insight than I did on the disappearances still. Though I told myself repeatedly there was nothing to worry about, I couldn’t stop myself from still doing some digging. If nothing else, it got my mind off my troubles with Briar for a while.

Today, things were going to change. She’d walked out on most of her lessons with me, but not this time.

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