The Ballad of Aramei by J. A. Redmerski

Author:J. A. Redmerski [Redmerski, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: J.A. Redmerski
Published: 2012-11-24T06:00:00+00:00

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After thinking on it for a while, I decide to head upstairs to talk to Zia. I stand outside her bedroom door and knock a few times, knowing she’s inside because I hear her talking plain as day. It’s when her voice stops abruptly and then rises even higher that I realize she knows full well that I’m out here, but she’s not ready to talk to me. My shoulders fall over in a slump and I start to walk back down the hall when I hear her door click open.

Sebastian steps out and closes the door behind him.

“She hates me, doesn’t she?”

“Nah,” he says, shaking his shaved head. “She’ll get over it.”

I sigh and lean my back against the wall. The red-haired girl who apparently used to be Rachel’s number one sidekick shuffles past, smiling at me. Positions in Rachel’s little clique are shifting fast with Alex here; already Rachel’s ‘old’ friends are looking for sides to change loyalties to. I smile back faintly as she slips down the stairs, hoping not to give her any hopes. I really want no part of that.

“I want to tell Zia everything,” I say to Sebastian as he leans against the opposite wall, crossing his arms, “but I can’t. Like really can’t. I have no control over it. I wish she understood.”

“Between you and me,” Sebastian says quietly, looking back once toward Zia’s door, “Zia is dealing with a lot of rejection lately.”

“Rejection?”

“Yeah,” he says, “even her brothers have pretty much blown her off and she never sees them anymore. They’re too busy doing their own things, y’know?”

Zia’s brothers, Damien and Dwarf, are rarely ever at the Mayfair house anymore. I haven’t seen much of them since Seth’s going-away ceremony the day Nataša was here and I fainted in front of her. And even before then, it was like they had moved out of here and only stopped by on occasion. New girlfriends are to blame. But I admit that I kind of miss Damien’s dark natured playful attitude and Dwarf’s big mouth.

“I wish she would talk to me.”

“Just give her time to cool off,” Sebastian says. “It’s really not about you, so don’t put too much into it.”

He looks towards the door once more and moves over closer to me and whispers, “What is this thing you guys are looking for anyway?”

I pause, suddenly untrusting of him, or just being paranoid again.

“A Praverian,” I say. “Like Genna who had been following me. And Malachi, the one I met when we were all in Portland last month.”

Sebastian nods, but doesn’t say anything.

“Why do you ask?”

He shrugs. “Just looking for something to tell Zia when I go back in there.” He smiles and runs the palm of his hand across his bald head. “I hope it grows back soon.”

“Seriously?” I say, looking surprised. I’m glad the topic has shifted. “It’s a good look for you, like I said before.”

Sebastian crinkles his nose a bit. “It makes me feel naked—Well, I better get back in there with the…,” he holds up his fingers in quotations, “…info, before Zia has my head.

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