Reject High (Reject High: A Young Adult Science Fiction Series Book 1) by Brian Thompson

Author:Brian Thompson [Thompson, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great Nation Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Sasha and I text messaged back and forth until about 10 p.m., when jumping across the county and being pushed fifty yards in the dirt finally caught up with me.

The next morning I awakened to see Debra with her arm hovering over my body, ready to throw a cup of ice water onto my face.

“Don’t throw that,” I spat out, waving my hands. “I’m awake.”

“It’s about time – get in the shower. You only have twenty minutes before the bus comes.”

Excitement rushed through me – I’ve got a girlfriend. I smiled so hard that my teeth hurt. My first three girlfriends had been long-distance relationships, and everybody knows those never work out.

I’d met one girl outside Aunt Dee’s house and another when Debra dragged me to some postal worker weekend carnival. The most recent one went to a Catholic school near North High and rode my bus. But Sasha – we’d talk every night and I’d see her each day. It was a chance at a real high school relationship, whatever those were.

After a quick shower, I got dressed, brushed my hair a couple of times, and grabbed a cinnamon raisin bagel before leaving for the bus stop. Nothing could put me in a bad mood, or so I thought.

Rhapsody didn’t sit with me when she got on the bus, but instead, sat by herself on the outside part of the seat. We never made eye contact, and she didn’t turn around, wave, or anything. Rather than be ignored, I waited until the bus neared a stop sign to move a few rows up. She didn’t move. So, I hijacked the seat of a fellow freshman next to her.

“You don’t take hints well, do you?” Rhapsody asked with the heavy metal from her MP4 blaring.

“You’d think you’d know that about me by now.”

She forced out a smile. “What do you know about this Anderson chick?”

I blanked for a minute. Anderson was her last name? I tried to mask my embarrassment at not knowing that fact. We’d never discussed last names or our dating pasts, which was a relief for me. But I did question hers. Girls at North High with a reputation for sleeping with a lot of boys either did it, or were flirts that never did anything. This, however, was Reject High and everybody here was guilty of something bad. What was hers?

“Enough,” I said, forcing a laugh.

“I hope you know what you’re doing,” she said. I assumed she meant the crystal, and not my relationship.

Since Rhapsody and I hadn’t talked about what happened yesterday, I told her about my effort to remove the source and my findings. It was at least two feet deep, it stretched across the wall, and I got knocked unconscious trying to destroy it. With both Selby’s perspective and mine, she could see why I did what I did.

“She still shouldn’t be one of us, but whatever,” she said. I wondered whether it was because of the crystal, or due to the fact the prettiest girl in school liked me.

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