My Sister's Reaper (Reaper's Rite) by Dreyer Dorothy

Author:Dreyer, Dorothy [Dreyer, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: 1. Young adult. 2. Fiction. 3. Paranormal. 4. Teen. 5. Romance. 6. Fantasy.
ISBN: 9780985029487
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC
Published: 2013-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I shielded my eyes from the sun as I marched out to the hockey field where the homecoming parade floats were being put together. On the football field adjacent to us, the varsity team practiced and a handful of students chilled in the bleachers. Naomi spotted me and waved me over to her float. Long strands of something shiny and gold hung from between her teeth as she smiled at me.

“You found me,” she said after spitting out the gold strands.

“Yeah,” I bit my lip. “I went to the library but you weren’t there, obviously. I feel really bad about leaving you hanging all the time.”

She regarded me for a moment, then offered a small smile. “No, it’s not your fault. I mean, it’s family stuff, right?”

“Yeah.” For once, it wasn’t a lie. “What is all this?” I pushed aside an enormous Styrofoam ball with my foot. It rolled into a can of blue paint and bounced back to me.

“I told you I was on the float committee. I, uh, guess you weren’t listening. Anyway, this float has some kind of underwater theme. But with glitter. I don’t know, I just do what I’m told.”

“Okay.”

“Do you want to help me paint some balls blue?” She waggled her brows.

I batted my lashes at her. “I thought you’d never ask.”

“They’re supposed to be bubbles,” she explained as she handed me a paintbrush.

“Are you the only one working on this float?”

“Well, Wesley has wrestling practice so he’s coming late. And Shay’s probably off somewhere toking one up. So it’s just you and me, sweetheart.”

“Groovy.”

We took our supplies to a large piece of cardboard laid out on the grass. I painted one half of my ball but couldn’t figure out how to hold it in order to paint the other half. Naomi saw me struggling and let out a giggle.

“Oh,” she said, her eyes all at once wide. “Guess what I heard.”

“What?”

“You know Brent?” she said, and my fingers clenched my paintbrush. “I heard he got jumped. Some gang beat him up and broke a bottle over his head or something. Heard he’s got a patch over his eye. Might even lose it.”

I swallowed hard. “No way.”

“Well, that’s what one of Tasha’s friends said, so I don’t know how much of it is true. Guess we’ll find out if Brent comes back to school with a patch over his eye.”

I painted over the same spot. “Guess so.”

I felt a pang of remorse for possibly doing permanent damage to Brent’s eye, but then I remembered his hands on me. How the Reaper may have made him do those things. I shuddered and pushed the thought away.

“So tell me something, if you don’t mind me being nosy—which you shouldn’t since we’re best friends and all.” Naomi continued to paint as she spoke. “I’ve seen you talking to Chase in the halls once or twice. Anything going on there I should know about?”

I froze. I guessed warding her off in the hall hadn’t been enough. “No. Nothing.

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