North by C. L. Stone

Author:C. L. Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult romance, reverse harem, the academy, ghost bird, young adult contemporary
Publisher: Arcato Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

7

Silas arrived by the afternoon. One look from him, and it was clear not much progress had been made on their new potential recruit at the motel. Nothing to report.

“No visuals,” he said quietly to North before he turned his attention to Sang, who had come from the kitchen. “Hey,” he said to her.

Sang did a silent finger wave and skittered back to the kitchen quickly.

Silas frowned and sent such a dour look of disappointment to North. “She blames me, I bet,” he said quietly.

North shook his head. “I think she’s more embarrassed.” He could remember a time when Kota hesitated a lot, embarrassed about what had happened to him, when Kota revealed painful recurrences with his father. Whenever some new information got brought up, he avoided talking to people or sidestepped out of range.

Silas’s eyes darkened and he didn’t say anything else.

North felt he understood. Silas always had issues with feeling guilty about things. Silas’s own family especially haunted him. He took what happened to his mother very hard.

Despite what Sang might think, the rest of them were very well versed in troubled family life.

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When the afternoon rolled on and it was starting to look like Kota was reaching the limits of house chores for Sang to do along with him, and North was about to nearly fall asleep as they all watch cartoons. North sat on the floor, having made room for the others to sit on the couch.

Sang’s leg and foot were right next to him. At first, he just had a hand nearby. Through his sleepy state, he thought he was rubbing the side of his own leg. Eventually, he did realize he’d been rubbing Sang’s foot.

When he realized this was what was happening, he paused, unsure. She hadn’t said anything, not to stop. And he swore he felt her foot turning into his hand, as if to suggest it was okay and to continue.

He didn’t trust his own brain, and obviously didn’t want to make assumptions about it. He kept his hand nearby her foot, however, and just remained still and hoped he hadn’t misjudged

Later, Luke rolled his head back to look at Sang, “Sang, let’s play a board game.”

North groaned and was surprised when both Silas and Kota did so at the exact same time.

“Don’t be like that,” Luke said. He did a half folding roll and then knee crawled the rest of the way across the living room carpet to the entertainment center. He opened one of the cabinets and peered inside. “Wait, where did the board games go?”

“Threw them out,” North said.

“Stored away,” Kota said at the same time.

North was about to say don’t bother, but it was Luke who peered at him, pleading silently with that look Luke often gave him when he really, really wanted to do something and he knew there was no reason for North not to approve of it.

North didn’t say anything further but he mentally prepared himself for this. How could Luke want this to happen?

Kota seemed to have the same mindset, giving in to Luke’s request.

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