Emerge_A Young Adult Paranormal Romance by Lena Mae Hill

Author:Lena Mae Hill [Hill, Lena Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speak Now
Published: 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Eliot

The cafeteria had erupted like a nuclear explosion, except instead of mutating my classmates’ DNA, it immediately turned them into hooting, cheering, shrieking maniacs.

One girl screamed, “I don’t want to die!”

All her friends laughed, but I wasn’t sure she’d been joking.

“Please exit the cafeteria in an orderly manner,” one of the lunchroom monitors said through a bullhorn.

No one paid him the slightest attention. Two lacrosse players jostled against the end of our table, pumping their fists in the air and high-fiving Zeke as they passed.

“School’s out…for-ever,” one of them sang at the top of his lungs.

“Our fine education system, ladies and gentlemen,” I muttered as a chorus of MOOs broke out at the back of the line.

“What the fuck is going on?” Xander demanded, ignoring the crowd and glowering at us. “Who called me?”

None of us had moved. While Zeke and Gwen looked at him blankly, I checked my phone. With all the weird stuff that had been going on lately, I wouldn’t have been surprised to see that my phone had started calling people at random. But I didn’t have any pocket dials.

Finn seemed to share my thought, but after checking his phone, he shook his head.

“Well? Somebody called me,” Xander said, snatching his phone from his pocket and thumbing it on.

“So? Which one of us was it?” Peyton asked.

Xander swore under his breath and shoved his phone back in his pocket, but he looked more subdued. “No missed calls,” he said quietly.

“Let’s go out to the field,” Zeke said, standing from the table. “It’s time to talk about what’s been going on.”

I nodded and stood with him. Zeke and I butted heads a lot, which didn’t really make sense because I was obviously the brains in the family while he was the brawns. We shouldn’t have been in competition, but we always seemed to be. This time, though, we were in full agreement.

The other students filed out, instructed by a couple increasingly-hysterical lunch monitors who obviously thought it was much more serious than the students. Not surprising. Most people in a town this small thought school was a joke, and nearly as many thought life was one. Just another reason I’d started applying to prep schools for next year. When I applied for Harvard, I wanted more on my resume than what Wellfleet could offer.

We all rose from the table and ducked out, waiting at the doors while Finn dumped our trash. When he joined us, we walked out the side doors without a word.

“You think they’ll dismiss us for the day?” Peyton asked as we walked across the back lot towards the football field. It wasn’t much, since Wellfleet’s team was about as small as you could get and still qualify to play.

“They’ll probably say it was something ridiculous, like a sudden change in air pressure,” I said.

“But we all know different,” Xander said, shooting Gwen an angry look, as if this were her fault. I was a little surprised he’d agreed to go to the

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