The Other Girl: Black Mountain Academy by Trisha Wolfe

Author:Trisha Wolfe [Wolfe, Trisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-14T18:00:00+00:00

10

Birds of a Feather

Ellis

There’s a balance between love and obsession. Healthy and unhealthy. But how does one know when they’ve crossed the line?

If love feels euphoric, and obsession is a state of enrapture, how can you ever trust your feelings to know the difference?

These questions plague me as I sit parked across the street from a mansion. My Audi is tucked behind a hedge of bushes in front of a neighbor’s yard. I’m concealed by night and ridiculous shrubbery. The thump of bass pulses from within the gigantic house. Throngs of people are gathered around the side and backyard. Lights dance over the pool and patio.

A sinking feeling stirs in the pit of my stomach as I watch the house. It reminds me of my parents’ home. I hardly consider it mine, or a home, even though I grew up there. Like this one, it was all hard angles and cold stone. Beautiful and impressive, but void of character.

My parents didn’t spend enough time there to imprint any personality. And when they died, leaving me the house and a sizable insurance payout, the first thing I did when I turned eighteen was put the house on the market.

I sigh out a lengthy breath, releasing the memory. I check my phone before placing it in the console. According to the social media posts I’ve been following—stalking—this is Alister’s house. He’s some ex-football god/IT guru, and his place is party central just about every weekend.

And Addison Young convinced Carter he needed to attend.

My new world was becoming so beautiful. With a career I can embrace, and a gorgeous boy full of intensity and passion that I’m falling hard for. Everything was going fine. Sue had been away all week, as the faculty was wary of her being contagious. She didn’t become so ill that she required hospitalization…just sick enough that she earned herself a week off.

Carter and I found ways to be together. Devil’s Bluff most evenings after school, my office during the day when desire demanded. We’ve been careful; we don’t text or call. No way to trace any connection.

This whole past week has been a haze of ecstasy and elation. At times, I had to remind myself that it’s tangible, physical. That Carter is real; what we have is real—that I’m not delusional. A word that I loathe.

Some nights, I open the medicine cabinet and stare at the abandoned bottle of pills. Despite how sublimely happy Carter has made me, I question whether or not I should take them. What if all this ends once I pop the little white pill? What if Ellis’s Wonderland really is a dream?

The scariest part is the chance I’ve lost touch with reality.

It’s happened before.

I quiet the pesky voice in my head. That was different. Jeremy was different. What happened on that beach happened to another girl—one that no longer exists.

Regardless, I’m too devoted now. I’m in too deep. My feelings for Carter are more than just carnal lust. We have a connection. No matter what happens, I can’t escape him now.

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