Planet Urth Boxed Set by Jennifer Martucci & Christopher Martucci

Author:Jennifer Martucci & Christopher Martucci [Martucci, Jennifer & Martucci, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Leaden clouds raced like a fleet of warships and quickly invaded a picture-perfect morning. Snow was coming. Arianna could smell it in the air, heavy and unmistakable. Though the clouds advancing had not yet overrun the sky completely, there was a distinct frostiness to the air unique to snow. She supposed she should be excited like the rest of the student body undoubtedly was. Snow early in the school day typically meant an early dismissal. But Arianna couldn’t care less about early dismissals today. She was worried about making it in the front door, as well as getting out that very same door in one piece.

Thoughts of survival swirled in her head, a dizzying churn of deadly faces, as she pulled into the parking lot of her school. She circled the front lot several times, determined to steer clear of the rear lot, searching for a parking space. After her second tour, she found one in the row closest to the building and directed her car into it. She was about to breathe a sigh of relief at her good fortune, but her breath caught in her throat before she could complete the act.

The first car she spotted was a Jeep Cherokee, Scott’s Jeep Cherokee. She swore under her breath as a rush of nervous energy seized her. She trembled and her hands felt cold despite the heat being placed on the warmest setting in her car. The fact that one of the few available spots left in the front lot was two cars from his felt less like an unfortunate coincidence and more like cosmic punishment. Staying where she was meant that seeing him at some point would be unavoidable. She had not deluded herself into thinking she would be able to dodge all of them all day, but she’d hoped to limit her time with them to the actual school day inside the actual school. More witnesses meant less possibility for supernatural power use. Out in the open, in the parking lot, she was vulnerable. Desmond was vulnerable.

She closed her eyes for the briefest of seconds and thought about Desmond. Desmond was the reason she was here. Desmond was the reason she worried as she did. Hers was not the only life at stake. His was as well. And she valued his life more than hers. She had lost him once already or at least she’d spent a day truly believing she’d lost him. She did not intend to lose him again. Still, she did not want to be there and worried what awaited her. She knew that George, for one thing, awaited her and loomed like dread incarnate. She could see him, practically attached to Scott’s hip, making his way to the main entrance. She contemplated shifting the car into reverse and hauling ass out of there, but for the sake of upholding Desmond’s supposed death, she did not. Now, as she sat and stubbed out the third cigarette she’d smoked on the way, she began to regret her decision.

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