Fury by Shirley Marr

Author:Shirley Marr
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: David_James Mobilism.org
Publisher: Black Dog Books
Published: 2008-12-31T17:00:00+00:00

East Rivermoor built a wall to keep the world out. But what if the real danger came from within? Before the seven o’clock news started to call us monsters, I wondered whether deep inside I wanted myself to be one anyway. Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn’t become the victim of one instead. I don’t care what anyone says. I believe him.

seven

There were two striking things about Friday morning.

The first was that the rumour mill was abuzz with the news that a gang of thugs had terrorised East Rivermoor overnight. I saw Ella out of the corner of my eye as I walked the hall toward the Science Wing for Psychology class. She was huddled up behind a marble pillar with Jane Ayres, talking so fast it looked like she was vomiting. I couldn’t hear anything above the noise of the other students. Jane looked suitably impressed with whatever Ella was feeding her, like a mother bird feeding her chick regurgitated gossip.

The second thing was that Marianne looked perfectly normal. Her blonde hair was pulled up in a high bun with a black satin bow, a matching bow at the throat of her perfectly pressed blouse. She sat with the type of posture my mum’s always going on about me having, her Psych textbook already opened to the right page. She didn’t look like someone who would break the six-thirty school-night curfew. Or someone’s window. We sat on high stools behind a sterile white bench, divided by Neil Dennis Fernandes.

“Are the rumours true that your house was attacked last night?” Marianne asked him with a completely straight face.

“Yes,” replied Neil. “My parents had to call the police. I mean, our property was damaged and everything. I feared for my life.”

The two of them chatted with the ease that came from being each other’s only company in Chem four days a week. They seemed to have the comfort level of a pair of siblings. Or, of a pair of soulmates.

Marianne made a tsk-tsk noise. “What is the point of having curfews when they are so blatantly flouted? Personally, I blame the parents.”

“Oh, I blame the kids,” said Neil. “Teenagers just don’t have any respect for rules these days. It was completely different in my day, Marianne, during the war. Back then, these kids would have gotten a good flogging.”

“Oh, I completely agree,” said Marianne without flinching.

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