Out for Blood: Phil's Story (Talisman Series) by Pandos Brenda

Author:Pandos, Brenda [Pandos, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Obsidian Mountain Publishing
Published: 2014-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

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Luckily, Julia and Sam were in the same place as when I’d left. I pulled out a sticker for myself and traipsed over to the bleachers when I heard Katie’s annoying shrill.

“Why haven’t you two given yet?” she asked Sam and Julie. “Don’t you see we’re behind?”

Crap.

“I’m not so sure about it,” Julia said.

“Sure about what?” Katie put her hands on her hips. “Don’t be like Phil.”

I climbed up the bleachers behind Katie with my finger over my lips. Sam and Julia’s eyes grew, watching me. I slid my arm over Katie’s shoulder.

“What’s so wrong with being like me?” I flashed my winning smile.

Katie glared, then her eyes fell to my chest and widened. “You did decide to give.”

Julia’s eyes narrowed, her grin falling into a frown.

Crap.

“Well, yeah,” I winked at Julia, hoping she’d catch I really hadn’t given blood. “We’re all drinking Cain’s mojo, aren’t we?”

Sam let out a small gasp while Katie yanked her head backward.

“Cain? What are you talking about?”

Double crap.

“Never mind,” I said quickly.

Keeping my pseudo persona under control so wasn’t happening today. Good thing I kept all my red blood cells inside me so I didn’t blow things even more.

Julia stood, her shoulders stiff. “Better late than never, right?” She gave Sam the “let’s go” look and started to climb down the bleachers.

Wait. No!

I felt myself reaching for Julia’s hand before I could stop myself. She startled under my grasp, then flicked my hand away. “I don’t want to be the reason we lose,” she hissed.

I pushed my hand through my hair, watching the three descend the bleachers. Dang it! They didn’t break formation, filing out the gym doors together just as the bell rang.

I rushed down the bleachers and pushed through the double doors, unable to find them in the throng of people. Knowing Katie, she’d escorted them directly to the RV, destroying any chance I had of giving them my stolen stickers. Leaning against the wall next to Horace’s classroom, I watched students file in one-by-one—all sporting stickers. Amazingly, they began to smile at me again. My perceived compliance in the contest meant I could return to an acceptable social status. Such hypocrites.

I eventually took my seat, eyeing Julia’s empty one. The warning bell rang and Horace hadn’t returned. My guess, he was in the donor RV.

Katie walked in first, smiling at me. I rolled my eyes and slouched in my chair, kicking my feet in her path. She stepped over them with a scowl.

Julia followed shortly thereafter without a sticker. Sam was behind her. She didn’t sport one either. Both were as white as ghosts. Did the sight of the needle scare them off?

Julia slunk into the chair in front of me, keeping her eyes low. She pulled out her notebook and started writing something.

I poked her in the back with my pen. When she didn’t respond, I pressed harder.

“Would you stop that?” she said under her breath.

“Why didn’t you do it?” I asked.

“None of your business.”

I tore a sticker off the sheet in my pocket and slyly passed it to her.

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