The Forest of Adventures by Katie M John

Author:Katie M John
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: mermaids, Young Adult, vampires, paranormal romance, immortals, romance, forbidden love, college, Adventure, arthurian legend, knights, mythology, fairytale, urban fantasy
Publisher: Katie M John
Published: 2011-03-06T01:23:18.480765+00:00

18. ATOMIC

The days slipped into weeks and before we knew it the Spring Ball was only a matter of weeks away. As The Space Cadets were to be the main band, Joe and Matt had taken to living in the music department’s practice rooms in preparation, leaving the girls far too much unoccupied time on their hands, which they had filled with an almost obsessive interest in dress-shoe combinations and balloon colour schemes.

Their slightly crazed event planning left me exhausted and so I’d taken to seeking refuge in the library at lunchtime on the pretext of English coursework research. It was the oldest part of the school and had remained unchanged, apart from the installation of some Macs in the far corner, since the Victorian birth date of the school; a time when libraries were still seen as something sacred and built in the fashion of churches. The smell of wax polish and book-dust mingled with the strong black coffee of the librarian’s personal percolator.

It was rumoured Mrs Minerva was as old as the library itself and when we were in lower school we had all believed she was a witch. A rumour that wasn’t helped by the fact that she often wore crazy coloured tights with her black boots and her iron grey hair looked like it had never seen a brush. As we got older and actually braved her out, we discovered she was really quite lovely… even if she did run the place like a silent military campaign. Mrs Minerva’s ‘SSSHHH!’ rule suited me fine as it gave me the perfect conditions for concentrating on my gorgeous study partner.

Blake always rolled his sleeves up to work. Leaning his head on his upturned palm, he had this habit of tapping his pen on his book as if even though his mind was a hundred percent focused, his body was desperate to go and do something else. Every now and then he’d push his hair from his forehead; a gesture at once boy-like and flirtatious. Whilst we were here studying in private he’d wear glasses which made me smile because he never wore them in class. It amused me that he had this insecurity, but I didn’t tease him over it in case he stopped wearing them. For some inexplicable reason, I found him amazingly hot in them. Maybe it was a Clark Kent – Superman thing going on.

Because of my sudden keenness in my studies it felt like I’d started to drift apart from the old gang and I missed them, which is why when Blake was out on a history field trip and I went to grab lunch in the canteen, I was pleased that Daisy made a special effort to seek me out.

The day was wet and cold and the canteen packed. Our ‘usual’ table was full and so being just Daisy and me, we pushed our way through the crowds of lower school students and took a table right in the corner of the room; managing to find a small oasis of privacy behind one of the notice boards.

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