Just Dreaming by Kerstin Gier

Author:Kerstin Gier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

15

“NO LEOPARD TODAY?” Anabel was leaning back against the blue door that I still thought belonged to Mrs. Cook, the headmistress. When I glanced at it a moment ago, Miss Possessed-by-a-Demon (if she didn’t take her medication) had not been there. That’s to say, she had been there, all right, but she hadn’t made herself visible until I was almost past her. Presumably she wanted to enjoy seeing me jump in alarm, which of course I did.

“Jaguar,” I automatically corrected her.

Anabel shrugged her shoulders. “It comes to the same thing. Are you meeting Henry? He went past here a little while ago.”

“That’s nice to know.” I didn’t want to, but I couldn’t help staring at her. In the twilit corridor, her turquoise eyes were trying to outshine her golden hair, and her complexion was like a work of art. It was as if she had a hidden spotlight fitted to show her—and only her—in soft focus in gentle evening sunshine. Anabel really was astonishingly beautiful, like a painting that you can’t see enough of, and it was hard work making myself remember that she didn’t look so supernaturally perfect in real life. All the same, I instinctively wondered whether Henry hadn’t stared at her just as fascinated, if he had really come this way recently. When Anabel went on, I felt irrational jealousy rising inside me. Jealousy and a certain amount of anger.

“I hear you met his mother this afternoon.” She smiled gently at me.

I gritted my teeth. Did her information come from Henry? And if so, why had he told her, of all people?

“Amazing!” Anabel’s delicate nostrils were quivering. “How long was it before he took you home with him? Only six months?”

I tried to make her shut up by frowning, but it didn’t work. She simply went on probing for sore spots. “Do you at least know why he always tried to keep you away from his family? Or was it just a kind of proof that he trusted you, so that you’d finally sleep with him?”

How on earth did she do it? She was saying exactly what that suspicious little voice inside me whispered, the one that I thought was the voice of my inferiority complex. The inferiority complex that had landed me with Rasmus—and indirectly with Matt. I had steered particularly clear of his dream door tonight. Although Henry hadn’t said another word about Matt, I’d put my flight-simulator plan on ice for now.

Not very clever of you, Liv, the inner voice whispered. Because it’s soon going to be spring vacation, and you’re still an inexperienced virgin with no idea of anything, so people feel sorry for you!

Anabel was smiling as if she heard every word the voice said. But I didn’t want to listen to either her or my inferiority complex. They were both poison to me.

“Jaguars and leopards are not the same at all,” I replied firmly. “Jaguars have a broader forehead and wide jaws, and their coat patterns are different. The jaguar has

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