Kill School: Slice by Karen Carr

Author:Karen Carr [Carr, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B019EKVDIO
Publisher: Mule Town Press
Published: 2016-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I wake in the morning to Vanessa’s voice. When I get up, I see everyone else is already up. I go to my chair at the table and take a muffin and apple. No time for dining hall food today. A piece of paper sticks out from under my plate. I take it out and read my schedule. Biology is my first class, followed by grace. Slice doesn’t appear until later in the week, the day after English and math. Not too bad. I can digest my food.

Mateo peers at my schedule. “We’re in Bio together with Vanessa and you’re in English with me. Awesome.”

I never expected to have regular classes at Kill School.

“I have to take algebra?” Demi whines.

“I’ll help you.” Shah says.

Demi and Shah touch finger across the table. I wish they weren’t so lovey-dovey. It’s embarrassing.

“I can’t believe them,” I mumble.

“What are you, against love?” Mateo asks.

“Love?” I ask. Of course not.” I smirk. Love doesn’t happen that fast.

I am aware that Burke has emerged from his bunk even without looking in his direction.

“Good morning everyone,” Burke says.

I turn toward his voice and my mouth opens. He’s not wearing a shirt. I’ve seen shirtless guys before. My brother. Kids in swim class. At the lake. None of them has muscles like Burke. He stretches and turns, so we can see his backside. He has a scar on his lower left side.

“Cat got your tongue?” Mateo asks.

“What are you talking about?” I ask.

Burke turns around. His muscles flex and relax with his movements.

“Looks like you all have reviewed your schedules,” he says. “You have a great day and I’ll see you at lunch.”

“I’m going to go shower,” I say.

I grab my bag and head of to the showers behind the cabin. A dozen private stalls line the length of the cabin. I go inside and lock myself in one of them. The stall has a seat and a cubby away from the showerhead. I stash my towel and clean uniform there to turn on the water. The air is chill, but the water is warm.

About half way through the shower, something lands on my shoulder and crawls down my spine. I swat my rear and come back with the longest, fattest, and hairiest centipede that I’ve ever seen in my palm. It must have dropped in from the rafters. It grosses me out, so I flick it over the door and rinse the mush off my hand.

A few seconds later, several more centipedes drop in my hair. This time, I catch an arm by the wrist. Someone has been tossing them over the shower door. The arm slips away from me, leaving me to get a mass of bug parts out of my tangled hair. I curse the person who did this to me as I rinse the remains from my hair and down the drain.

After I’m dressed and race to the front of the cabin, I see Erwin on the porch with a bucket of creepy crawling things.

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