Friend Locked (Salt Lake Pumas) by Camellia Tate

Author:Camellia Tate [Tate, Camellia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Jessie

Felix had woken me up when he’d crept out of my room first thing in the morning. Not entirely, just enough that I’d lifted my head, noticed the drop in temperature, and then gone back to sleep. It didn’t bother me. We’d just fallen asleep by accident, that was all.

But Felix had so obviously not wanted to talk about it. That puzzled me, because Felix hardly ever lied to me, or even kept anything secret from me. Surprises, obviously, but in all other ways, he’d been an open book. I knew about his fears and dreams and hopes as well as anyone.

Or at least, I’d thought so. Now, Felix was acting weird. Not in any very big way, but he was far more careful about how comfortable he made himself on my bed in the evenings. Sometimes, he’d open a window, claiming the room was stuffy, even when it was definitely chilly outside.

I wanted to tell him to stop worrying. But since I didn’t know what he was actually worried about, the words never quite made it past my lips.

As the days passed between that night we’d slept in the same bed, Felix seemed to get more normal. So hopefully, that would be the end of it.

Doing physio every day was exhausting. Not physically, because 30 leg raises really weren’t enough to tire me out, but emotionally. It meant a reminder, every day, of the uncertainty of my future. Whether or not my leg would recover quickly, how soon I would be fit to dance again, whether someone else would take my place in the company.

I stayed up late, unable to completely quiet my mind. It probably didn’t help that there was so little for me to do. Felix had done his best, but he couldn’t enable me to dance again, which meant there was a lot of spare energy zinging around my body by the time I went to bed.

One night, after Felix and I had stayed up watching a new horror movie, I tossed and turned for what felt like hours.

When I finally did sleep, I fell immediately into a dream.

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