Earthlight Space Academy- Border School by Heather Lee Dyer

Author:Heather Lee Dyer [Dyer, Heather Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732999244
Publisher: Amethyst Rush Press, LLC
Published: 2020-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

15

Friday

I imagine Rand standing there with guns in his face, and I want to throw up.

“Thank you,” I whisper to him as I look over at our lean-to with the lock still intact.

I turn in a circle to take in the camp. Everyone is busy getting ready for dinner, streams of people coming down the trail out of the fields.

“I can’t believe they showed themselves to all these people. And threatened them,” I whisper to Rand and Mrs. Mitchell. “Everyone knows it’s illegal for them to be here.”

“Sure. But who’s going to tell? And if one of us was brave enough to put our necks out like that, who would we tell? No one cares about a few hundred thousand immigrants.” Mrs. Mitchell’s crosses her arms.

“But I heard some of the land bosses came down to help,” I say quietly.

“Yes, a few did. Enough to scare the Unit away, but when it comes down to protecting all of us, there won’t be enough help.” Mrs. Mitchell’s face turns a dark shade of pink.

I clamp my mouth shut. I’ve never seen Mrs. Mitchell so angry. I look at Rand. His face mirrors hers, except he’s grinding his jaw. I swallow. “This was all my fault. I need to be the one to do something about this. They can’t just terrorize us and get away with it.”

“You can’t do anything. You don’t want to mess with your chances at getting into the Academy,” says Mrs. Mitchell, a tinge of sadness in her tone.

“But—”

“She’s right. Take care of your mom and get sleep tonight. We have our final tests tomorrow,” says Rand as he takes a step away from the tent. “I’ll meet you back here and we can walk up in the morning.”

I frown and look over at Mrs. Mitchell. “You don’t think they’ll be back tonight?”

She shakes her head, making her jowls shake. “No, I don’t. I think they’ll wait to see if anyone tells on them first. There were only about eight of them, and there are hundreds of thousands of us, so they were down here and gone in the span of less than twenty minutes.”

I crease my forehead deeper as I think about that. I tilt my head and look over at Rand. “They knew exactly where to go, then. They know it’s me. Otherwise it might’ve taken them all night to get over here to my tent.”

Cam slips his hand into mine and closes the distance between us, hugging himself to me.

Rand’s expression freezes into concern.

“You agree then? They do know it’s me. The Unit is coming after me.” I squeeze Cam’s hand.

“Get some sleep,” Rand says before he turns toward the dam. “Nothing we can do about it right now. Like Mrs. Mitchell said, they won’t be back tonight. She’s right. And we have a big day tomorrow.”

Cam and I wave to Rand as he leaves. While we get ready for bed and take care of Mom, Cam doesn’t say or ask anything. I’m grateful because I doubt I’d have any good answers right now.

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