The Prophecy by Melissa Luznicky Garrett

Author:Melissa Luznicky Garrett [Garrett, Melissa Luznicky]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 1484822811
Published: 2013-05-13T07:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

“Did you finish your homework?” Adrian asked as I got in the car the next morning.

“Hmm?” I shoved my bag into to the backseat, a sudden flicker of unease in the pit of my stomach. Why did he want to know?

“You said you had a lot of homework last night. What were you working on?”

I racked my brain. The thing was I hadn’t really had a lot of homework. I’d finished most of it during study hall. And I was a horrible liar when put on the spot. “Oh, you know. The usual.”

“The usual?”

“Math. Science. History,” I said as he backed out of the driveway, knowing that I was perilously close to overdoing it.

“We didn’t have history,” Adrian said pointedly.

“Oh. Well. It never hurts to be ahead, right?” I gave him an uneasy and totally incriminating laugh.

“Sarah, I called to see if you wanted to go out to dinner with me—I figured you’d have to eat, right?—and Meg said you were down by the creek. And I thought that was strange, seeing as how you made such an issue about having too much homework to do anything else.”

“I took my books with me. Sometimes I like to study outside. What’s the big deal?”

“It was fifty-five degrees.”

“So? That’s not cold. You were wearing shorts yesterday. Lots of people were.”

“And you wear flannel pajamas in the middle of summer.”

I turned on him. “I do not! And so what if I did? What’s that got to do with anything?”

Adrian came to a stop at the end of the street, and I had to keep from pushing open the door and throwing myself out onto the road. Breaking a few bones seemed a lot more preferable to him finding out I’d lied. And he was on the verge of doing just that.

“Seriously, what are you getting at?” I bit my bottom lip to keep quiet. Why couldn’t I just quit while I was ahead?

Adrian hit the gas so hard I was sure he’d have to peel me from the seat once we got to school. “The thing is, Caleb told Jasmine he was going to meet you, and—”

My stomach sank. “And let me guess. Jasmine was all too willing to tell you.”

I stared out the window, shaking my head. Darn Caleb. And darn Jasmine! When I got hold of that little brat I’d . . .

My fingers began to tingle and I sucked in a deep breath, trying to reign in my temper. Caleb was right. Some of my powers were hardwired to my emotions.

“What were the two of you doing?” he said.

“Nothing.”

Adrian breathed out through his nose. “Come on, Sarah. I’m not dense.”

I turned on him then. “Nobody said you were.”

“Then don’t treat me like I am!”

“Then stop acting jealous when you have no reason to be!”

Adrian’s jaw clenched and unclenched repeatedly, and the vein in his neck bulged.

“Caleb might be my best friend, Sarah, but that doesn’t mean I trust him around you. He’s got a reputation, you know.”

“It sounds an awful lot like you don’t trust me.

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