The Academy - Introductions by C. L. Stone

Author:C. L. Stone [Stone, C. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1481814915
Amazon: B00ASPRPXM
Publisher: Arcato Publishing
Published: 2012-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

When I left Kota’s house that afternoon, I walked around the street and then took a path through the woods to find myself in the back yard. It was a long route but I really didn’t want anyone to see me leaving from Kota’s house.

Before I left, Kota had me send a text to everyone so they could add me to their phones, including North and Luke. Silas and Luke didn’t reply. North was the only one who sent a message back.

North: “Ok.”

I had the phone tucked into the cup of my bra. It was the best way to hide it for now. If I just tried to keep it in my pocket, I was afraid it would slip or my mom would notice the bulge.

I had to pull my hair back, too. Gabriel was disappointed but I told him if I came home with it down, it’d draw unneeded attention. Unusual for me would be attention and at that point, my mother would already be angry over Marie with the boy from up the road. As it was, I’d have to convince her I was only walking in the woods today if she asked.

When I got into the house, I made a dash up the stairwell. The rear stairwell was a lifesaver to my many attempts to leave the house. It came out by the laundry room which had the side door to the garage. Upstairs, I knocked on Marie’s door to check on her.

Marie answered, her long brown hair hanging behind her shoulders. Her nose and chin were sharp, her brown eyes smaller than mine. She was taller, too, by at least a foot. Her hips were wider. For sisters, we didn’t look a lot alike. “What?” she whined.

“What happened earlier?” I croaked. Marie didn’t look upset and she could talk so it must not have been too bad this time.

“Mom was looking for you,” she said, stepping out of the way. Her room had various piles of clothes on the floor and notebooks across her bed.

“I know,” I said, even though I didn’t. “I’m going to take my shoes off and then I’ll go get yelled at.”

I didn’t have to explain it. She knew exactly what I meant. Seeing our mother usually involved yelling and often a punishment. It was painful to kneel on the floor for hours with shoes on.

I crossed the hallway and used a push pin tucked into the wall to unlock my door and get in to my room. Marie knew how to unlock my door and knew where I hid the pushpin. For me, it was just a small deterrent. It allowed me time to hear someone coming if I was inside. No one would bother knocking and I couldn’t enforce them to stay out.

When I was inside, I relocked the door before pulling the cell phone out of my bra. I was tempted to play with it but instead I went for the attic space door. I reached in and found an opening between the wood of the wall and the insulation.

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