Staked! by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

Physics, my third period class, greeted me with bitterness. I wholly expected Claire to not be in the backroom, waiting to tutor me. I knew all about the facts of physics. It was just the whole building part I had trouble with.

I took one step in the backroom and saw the big-boned, athletic, super-smart girl sitting in her usual seat. Her short, boyishly cut blonde hair was at the length where it covered her bright blue eyes.

Claire. The one who acted like she hated me when she first met me. Claire, the girl who just lost her father because of Crixis. Because of me. Crixis had wanted my attention at a football game, and I had a gut feeling that he was the one who killed her father, who was in a critical state in the hospital. He practically came clean about it.

Claire didn’t even have any other living relatives. Her mom died about a month ago in a crash, the same car crash that gravely wounded her father and sent him into a coma. Her weird, practically albino uncle, Steven, had moved in with her. He wasn’t even related to her by blood, but by marriage to her older sister, who was also dead.

This girl had worse luck than I did.

As I said a soft, “Hey,” I noticed her eyes were beyond sad, as they’d been for a while.

“Hi.” Her voice was quiet, and she didn’t bother to even glance at me. “Do you remember where we left off?” Claire reached for the nearby physics book and opened it to the table of contents.

I tried thinking back. It seemed like we hadn’t done this in forever.

“No, sorry,” I apologized. “We can start anywhere you want.”

“I guess we can start with acceleration,” she mumbled as she flipped to the corresponding page. I knew we already did that, but I wasn’t about to argue with a girl in mourning. All I did was nod and hope with all my heart that this class was going to end soon.

My eyes flicked to the clock. Only forty-nine more minutes to go.

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