Painfully Ordinary Special Edition by Stephanie Amox

Author:Stephanie Amox [Stephanie Amox]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Mitchell-Morris Publishing
Published: 2012-08-15T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The Real World

I awoke to the sound of birds singing. Funny, I didn’t even remember falling asleep. I rolled over and saw Leah sitting cross-legged in the middle of her hammock. Jace and Talon were nowhere to be seen.

Ugh. Talon.

Everything from last night came flooding back to me.

What was I going to do? I just couldn’t stand the thought of him holding someone else in his arms. Obviously, he didn’t feel the same way since I hadn’t seen him since our argument last night. There had to be a compromise. Otherwise, whatever we had would end just as quickly as it began.

“Caiti, stop getting all worked up.”

“What?”

Leah sighed. “You know what? Jace told me a little of what happened with you and Talon last night. Why didn’t you tell me? Cay-bear, he’s still the same person. He cares for you.” She grinned. “He cannot help what he has to eat any more than you can control how much you hate macaroni and cheese.”

I shrugged my shoulders. “Logic tells me the same thing. Problem is, when I think of him feeding on someone, it reminds me of how Tami watched him that first day at school. Leah, it makes me sick to my stomach. I get so angry I shake all over. I tried to explain it to him by putting himself in my shoes. I asked him if he would be okay with it if it was the other way around, and he said no.”

Leah came over and sat next to me, throwing her arm over my shoulder. “Cay-bear, sounds to me like you are both suffering from a little jealousy. I’m sure we can come up with a way around all this. First, we need to figure out how, and if, these rules apply to us. Once we have that part sorted out, the rest will fall into place. The way I see things, we’ve a larger, more immediate problem. Johr will be here to pick us up tonight. We only have a few more hours here before we have to go back home. Tomorrow we will be back at cheer trying to act like none of this ever happened. The worst part is we may be doing it on our own. Who knows if Johr and the rest of the Turvata will even allow them to return with us?”

I groaned. “Crap. I hadn’t thought of it that way. That’s just great. I have to face Ryan and Tami again. Wow, there’s something to look forward to.” I said sarcastically.

Leah giggled. “Yeah. Doing a little hand to hand combat with the Accendersi looks pretty good when you compare it to high school.”

I rolled my eyes. “Here’s to hoping I won’t be constantly making the lights flicker every time I get mad.”

I chuckled and soon we were laughing like fools and covering the majority of the backyard in butterflies. I felt an instant relief. That is until my gaze lit on the back door of my aunt’s house.

Talon and Jace were watching from the back porch.

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