Golden Dreg Boy, Book 1 by D.K. Dailey

Author:D.K. Dailey [DAILEY, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tillable Ground Dreams

Chapter Twenty-Three

The next night, I’m lying on my cot. My stomach lurches, churning food like an olden-day ice-cream maker. Boy, do I wish I had ice cream instead of mashed-up corn peppered with bulky meat. My stomach is used to decadence, to food separated and solid, not mashed to a pulp. While I eat, I think: Don’t throw up. And What’s the point of scavenging for food if we’re going to eat shucky every day? I truly hope my stomach can keep it all down.

A scuffle about ten cots to the right stirs my attention. I sit up to stare at two girls fighting.

“Get off me!” The sisters who argued in the chow line on my first day are fussing with each other.

“They’re at it again.” Isa is near the brawl. She’s watching me, and I look at her, hoping for an explanation. She looks unfazed at the fighting so close to her and laughs it off. “Those two fight all the time. Over shower time, food—”

“Or their place in line.”

Once again, Mrs. Shelby tries to break up the fight, this time with help from a man who I think is named Carson. But the girls are so thin and small that they keep slipping through the referees’ grasps.

Isa stands and tiptoes her way around the disturbance to my cot. “They’ve been acting cuckoo without their mom. Strange things happen when you lose your family and buds one by one.”

I focus on the commotion again and sigh. The world I’ve been thrust into is the underbelly of society. In my Golden life, no real worries existed. In fact, the only one coming to mind now was my trepidation about my future. These sisters fight over life. They are learning to deal with the bigger digital: their mother is gone and will never come back.

Taken.

Isa gestures to my cot, and I scoot over. I’d forgotten about the message she wrote on the bubble’s window during last night’s mission. Talk later. Curiosity balloons inside of me.

“Close call out there.”

Is she referring to Noodle and I? “Yeah, close call.”

“It’s like you didn’t want to move away from that guard.” She forces a smile.

“He was a trainee. He didn’t have any business being out there.” I twist a piece of quilted blanket in my hand. She’s fishing for answers.

Her big eyes become slivers. “How did you know he was a trainee?”

“Didn’t you see the orange stripes on his uniform shoulders?”

“Why would they let a trainee guard a government building?”

“They do it all the time. It’s called ‘a day in the life.’ I went to my dad’s—” Can’t talk about him. “Maybe his dad worked security there.”

“You tied him up separately so you could talk to him.”

I clear my throat, and my gaze drops to the dirty linoleum floor.

“Don’t worry, I was the only one who saw. But Pike and the others shouldn’t know you knew one of the guys there.”

“Pike already told me he knew.”

“Oh. I guess that makes sense.” She bites down on her lip.

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