The Vampire Secret (The Amarant Book 1) by Tricia Barr

Author:Tricia Barr [Barr, Tricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

Crimson

The next morning, I felt amazing. Nicholae, of course, was no longer beside me—he had gone in the night while I slept, but my pillow still smelt like him.

I got out of bed with new excitement. Today I would go back to school, and the halls would no longer be haunted by the ghost of Stephen. My whole world was now alive with the hope of Nicholae. Last night I had told Nicholae that I loved him, and he loved me. I was in love, and the world was a wonderful place.

When Mom dropped me off at school, I went straight to the cafeteria without risking any consequences from Doyle; now that the competition had passed with success, there was no need for morning or afternoon practices anymore. I was free!

Amber, Robert, and Reina greeted me.

“So how was your trip, Crimson?” Amber asked.

“Yeah, did you find anything fun to do in New York City?” Reina asked.

I wanted to tell them about Nicholae, but how I would I do it in a way that didn’t reveal too much but would also make sense?

“It was alright,” I said with a shrug. “And, um, I kinda met someone.”

“What? No way!” Robert said. “Tell us all about it!”

“What’s his name?” Reina asked.

“Nick,” I said, giving them the shorthand version he had given to my mother. They had all read the Nicholae novels, it would be too risky to tell them his full name.

“How did you meet him?” Amber asked.

I figured I might as well tell them the same story that my mother believed. It would be easier and safer that way.

“He was actually the one who found me in Madera Canyon and brought me back to the ranger station,” I said. “We ran into one another afterward and have been talking since then. When I came back from New York yesterday, we went out, and I really like him, guys!”

“That’s fantastic!” Amber and Reina said together.

“What does he look like?” Robert asked. “I want to know everything from eye color to shoe size.” He winked at me.

“Ugh, Robert,” Reina scolded.

He and I laughed, and then I described Nicholae in detail for them. In truth, I could talk about Nicholae for hours.

The bell rang, and we left for our first-period classes. The school day breezed by. Things were just like they had been before I went out with Stephen. My friends were fun and carefree, and now I was, too. I could get back to enjoying life, instead of wallowing in mourning…

Physics was the best class of the day. Actually, it usually was, but it was even more appealing today because the lecture was on astrophysics, my forte.

“…Molecules inside the gas cloud collide and, over time, start to rotate, as the gas continues to collapse and rise in temperature,” the teacher said as he drew explanatory doodles on the chalkboard. “When the temperature exceeds five million degrees Kelvin, it begins to fuse hydrogen, and we can now say that it is a star. During the

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