Feathermore by Lucy Swing

Author:Lucy Swing [Swing, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

13 CONFESSIONS

I was driving along, brooding about my strange, chaotic life, watching the headlights on the roadway ahead of me, when I caught sight of something up in the air. I leaned forward on the steering wheel, and just like that, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, Claire and Nate stepped down out of the sky, right in front of me.

“Wh—what the hell!” I gasped, slamming on the brakes.

They landed gracefully on their feet and walked toward the car. I stared at them, a little beyond freaked out. I hadn’t even noticed the doors were locked until Claire tapped the window with her fingernail. I clumsily pushed the buttons, and the windows started rolling down. I kept pressing buttons until I heard the doors unlock.

They settled into their seats just as casually as you please. My body was shaking from what I had just witnessed. Definitely vampires, I thought to myself. I was still staring at them when Claire, ever the backseat driver, told me to please get moving. She had the same bubbly personality as always.

“Are you kidding me?” I gasped. “You just walked out of thin air, and you just tell me to drive?” I felt my voice tremble. I certainly didn’t want them to think I was freaked out about what I saw, but then, that was a sight you didn’t see every day.

“Would you like me to drive?” Nate asked.

I shook my head. I would not show weakness. Why did I have this need to stay cool and take things in stride? “Where do you want me to go?” I said. “I was headed to my house.” I started driving in the direction I had been headed before they came along, going a few miles an hour under the speed limit of forty, lost in thought.

“You know, you could step on it a little—it won’t hurt,” she said in a teasing tone.

“How about you tell me,” I said with greater calm than I felt. “What the heck was that!” I yelled. It appeared that I wasn’t going to keep my cool after all.

“You wanted to know what we are,” Nate said with a little smirk. “Well, this is us showing you.”

“Well, how about you explain it a little before you start doing insane things like that!” I pointed my finger forward from the sky to the street.

“Fine. You want the textbook explanation?” Claire asked in a bored tone.

“Yes, please.”

“You are a seraph,” she said casually.

A deafening silence filled the cab while I waited for either of them to explain what the heck that meant, but no one continued.

“And that means . . . ?” I left the question hanging for them to fill in, but they simply gave me blank stares. “Are you kidding me, guys? What the heck is a seraph? Some kind of vampire?”

This they found immensely funny, and they started laughing—and I mean a good, grab-your-belly kind of laugh. Okay, at least now I could scratch “vampire” off the list.

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