The Cursed Series, Parts 3 & 4 by Rebecca Donovan

Author:Rebecca Donovan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: suspense, mystery, teens, social issues, boarding school
Publisher: Rebecca Donovan

Before I leave for class the next morning, Arden leaves another cup of tea on the countertop. This one doesn’t taste like I’m swallowing lawn clippings, but it’s not much better. It has a spicy licorice flavor that clears out my sinuses. I have no idea why I’m trusting her. She could be giving me psychotropics for all I know. Except … I already notice a difference. The pain isn’t as intense, and I’m a little less edgy. So instead of feeling like I could burn the entire campus down in a single breath of fury, my anger smolders in my gut.

I get my meal to go and sit in a weird garden I discover by the languages building. It’s made up of large, spongy beds shaped like mushrooms. But to reach the top of them, you’re supposed to bounce on a trampoline pod—which I can’t. So I sit on the trampoline instead and use the mushroom as an umbrella. I think whoever designed this garden was on psychotropics.

I can easily imagine Ashton jumping around, landing with a plop on top of each colorful mushroom in their various shades of neon. I wonder if she’s found it yet. There’s this childlike wonder about her most of the time. She observes the world around her as if she’s in awe of it. But I know she’s also witnessed and experienced too much of its ugliness.

The smolder ignites into a flame at the thought of what she’s been through, and I’m an inferno again. My fist ricochets off the trampoline when I punch it. I have no control of my anger; it controls me. Feeding off the frustration, knowing Brendan’s playing with me. The homicidal rage I feel toward Vic. The disappointment and hurt that keeps my mother at arm’s length. Just sprinkle the betrayal of my best friends on top, and I’m an all-consuming fiery ball of fury.

So how can I be anyone’s best friend, especially Ashton’s, when I feel like incinerating everything in my path?

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