Class Roar: The Collection by Hunter Sam

Author:Hunter, Sam [Hunter, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

We were sitting around the living room again, but I wasn’t listening to the girls’ bickering. It seemed like they were talking and talking and hadn’t come to any fucking conclusions, and it was pissing me off. It didn’t feel like we had time for them to argue—because, from what I could tell, something was about to happen and it was about to happen soon—but they wouldn’t listen to each other and when I looked at the books that were strewn all over the place, I knew that there was more code to crack and a lot more to learn.

Ali and Maya sat across from each other, both of them getting progressively angrier. Lucy got up to go into the kitchen and Faye leaned her head on my shoulder, closing her eyes as she did. I draped my arm around her shoulder and she inched closer to me.

“Fine!” Ali said, getting to her feet. Her long red hair tumbled down her back, swaying when she did. “I’ll help you find some books with code on them, but you have to promise me that you’ll take the eclipse things seriously.”

Maya’s eyes narrowed. “We can talk about it.”

Ali crossed her arms over her chest. “That’s not the deal,” she said. “If I help you crack the code, you have to help us prepare. Just in case. You’re always about being prepared, I don’t know why you’re so resistant to this.”

“Because there’s nothing we can do to prepare, Ali,” Maya said. She didn’t sound annoyed. She sounded scared. “There’s no way we can stop a full out war, especially not when everyone’s going to come and try to find the three of us. We’re the only ones who have the artifact. We have a giant target painted on our back.”

“I know, which is exactly why we should prepare,” Ali said. “There’s a chance we won’t win, but at the very least we can try. It might be the only to make sure we protect ourselves when the eclipse happens.”

Maya sighed. “Ali…”

“Please,” Ali said. “We might even find something in Evan’s dad’s notes about it. If we do, will you start taking this seriously?”

“If we find something to back up your crazy theory, other than just a random mark on a calendar, I promise you I’ll take it seriously,” Maya said.

Ali rolled her eyes. When she left the living room, Maya followed her, and I watched them until they turned a corner. Both of them bickered quietly, their voices and their footsteps receding at the same time.

Faye inched away from me, her hand on mine. “Evan.”

“Hm?”

“Are you sure you’re okay? You look a bit like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“I’m fine,” I said.

She tilted her head, a question in her eyes.

I laughed. “I am, really,” I said. “This is a lot to take in, but I don’t expect things to be simple anymore. Plus, you guys have never made it a secret that this is all genetic. I guess I just never wanted to think about what my parents had to do with it.

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