Night School by Daugherty C. J

Author:Daugherty, C. J. [Daugherty, C. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Mystery, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, thriller, Contemporary, Vampires
ISBN: 9780748131297
Amazon: 0748131299
Goodreads: 13552292
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Published: 2012-12-09T08:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

When Allie woke some time later, she was alone, but she had the not unpleasant feeling that Carter had been with her most of the time. She’d half-woken several times from bad dreams and in her exhausted daze thought she’d heard him whisper: ‘It’s OK. Sleep.’

Sitting up, she looked at the alarm clock. It was just before seven o’clock.

Morning? Or night?

A glance out the window revealed a summer evening. She’d slept all day.

As she stretched her tired muscles, her stomach rumbled so loudly at first she didn’t know what she was hearing.

‘Starving,’ she announced to the empty room.

Jumping out of bed, she headed straight for the door then skidded to a stop when she caught a glance of herself in the wall mirror. Her hair stood on end, her face was smudged with soot and she still wore the same clothes she’d put on in the middle of last night, now almost unrecognisably wrinkled.

She made a face at herself. Oh balls. Even I can’t go out looking like this.

Grabbing a hairbrush off the desk, she forced it through the tangled waves, then quickly changed clothes, hopping up and down on one leg and swearing under her breath when her skirt caught on the shoes she’d put on first.

Still buttoning the waistband, she rushed out of her room, stopping briefly at the mirror to wipe the soot off her face, and headed down the empty hallway to the landing, where she stopped.

It was quiet. Unnaturally quiet.

An awful thought crossed Allie’s mind: What if everybody left while I was sleeping, and they just forgot me?

Even though she knew it was absurd she felt a rush of fear as she raced down the stairs, hearing only the rubber patter of her shoes on the steps. As she neared the ground floor, though, she saw crowds of students moving in a subdued hush to the dining room and she slowed her pace. She felt ridiculous.

Of course they hadn’t left.

You’re losing it, she scolded herself, before taking a calming breath and joining the throngs.

The smell of food mingled unpleasantly with the acrid scent of scorched wood and plaster. As she looked around for a familiar face, she noticed that several of those around her had visible bandages. One hopped on crutches.

In the dining room, the night’s chaos had all been cleared away, but the tables had not been reset for supper with the usual crystal and china. Stacks of plates stood on every table, and students were handing them around to each other. No candles glimmered (after the fire she was glad of that). Everyone sat quietly as if nobody knew quite what to say.

She noticed with relief that Jo, Gabe and Lucas were at their normal table and she headed straight for them, but then Carter walked up beside her.

‘Hey.’

As she turned to look into Carter’s dark eyes her stomach flip-flopped. Suddenly shy, she shoved her hands in her skirt pockets.

‘Hey back.’

‘Did you sleep OK?’

He’d showered and changed – his cheeks were still rosy from the water, and his hair was damp on the ends.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.