Silent by Sara Alva

Author:Sara Alva
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-10-27T07:00:00+00:00

I didn’t breathe again until we were outside in the sunlight. “Holy shit, Mimi,” I gasped. “I was scared there for a minute.”

Mimi smirked. “I’m always prepared, hermanito.”

“That was a really good fake.”

“It better be, for what I paid.” She huffed. Then she took a look around. “Jesus, Alex. I thought he was going to be in some detention hall or something. This place looks really nice.”

“He hates it here,” I said defensively.

She rolled her eyes. “You two sound fucking perfect for each other. You hate mansions, and he hates beautiful countryside.”

I ignored her. She didn’t know what she was talking about—she was just trying to get a rise out of me. And I had other, more important shit to worry about. “Let’s go.”

We reached Seb’s cabin, and by the time I got to his room at the end of the hallway, he was sitting straight up in the bed.

He must’ve heard me coming, but maybe he had to see me to believe it, because the moment I stepped into sight his eyes grew wider than ever before, and his mouth fell open to accompany them in shock. You came back for me!

I didn’t care that Mimi was in the room. Nothing in the world could have stopped me from running to him and pulling him into a tight embrace. “I told you I would!” I laughed in his ear. “Didn’t you believe me?”

“Alex,” Mimi said testily, her eyes trained on the door. “C’mon, move it. You can do this shit later.”

I knelt down in front of Seb. “Listen, I got a plan to get you out of here…but it’s gonna involve breaking some rules. You okay with that?”

He nodded.

I’d already turned around to get the stuff we needed from Mimi’s purse before the importance of that moment sunk in.

He’d fucking nodded.

“You and me,” I said as I ripped open a plastic bag containing a brunette wig, “we’re gonna have a talk when we get out of here about what you can and can’t understand, you got it?”

No response.

I settled the wig over Seb’s blond hair, tucking the loose strands away so that none could be seen. Then I took the second baseball cap we’d bought and stuck it on top.

“What do you think?” I asked Mimi.

“I think he looks like a white kid in a wig.”

I rolled my eyes. “Gimme your makeup.”

She handed over a bottle of cream foundation, and I worked quickly to smear it on Seb’s face and neck. It was sort of fun, actually, getting to touch his skin like that. His complexion gradually darkened, and I finished by putting a bit of it on his hands. Then I gave him my sweater, complete with the visitor’s sticker still attached.

He wasn’t a perfect replica of me, but it’d have to do.

“Now, you gotta walk out the door really fast,” I told him. “Don’t stop at the front desk. Let Mimi do the signing out or whatever if she has to. And keep your head down.”

That last part should’ve been easy enough for him, but the rest of it had me worried.

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