Thirst - the Shadow of Death by Christopher Pike

Author:Christopher Pike
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: YA, Vampires
Publisher: Hodder Children's Division
Published: 2011-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

The Secret of Ka, and the Remember Me and Alosha trilogies are some of his favorite titles. He is also the author of several adult novels, including Sati and The Season of Passage. Thirst and Alosha are slated to be released as feature films. Pike currently lives in Santa Barbara, where it is rumored he never leaves his house. But he can be found online at christopherpikebooks.com.

HERE‘S A PEEK AT ANOTHER SERIES BY

Christopher Pike

SOME PARTIES ARE TO DIE FOR.

I should never have gone on vacation in Europe, Jessica Hart thought. After climbing the Matterhorn, starting high school again feels ridiculous.

The day was a Friday, the last day of the first week of school, but Jessica‘s first glimpse of Tabb High. Less than twenty hours earlier she had been enjoying the crisp, cool air of Switzerland‘s Alps. Now she had Southern California‘s worst to breathe; the morning was as smoggy as it was hot. Plus she had a terrible case of jet lag. She probably should have skipped what was left of the school week and rested up over Saturday and Sunday, but she had been anxious to see her friends and to check out the place where she was doomed to spend her one and only senior year. So far it had not impressed her.

―I want to have a party,‖ Alice McCoy was saying to her as they wove through the crowds in the outdoor hal way toward Jessica‘s locker room. ―We could get, say, thirty kids from Mesa, with thirty kids from Tabb.‖ Mesa High had been their alma mater until midsummer, when those in power had decided that the district could not afford two partial y ful high schools.

Tabb had absorbed perhaps three-quarters of Mesa‘s students. Although Tabb was older than Mesa, it was far bigger. The other twenty-five percent had ended up at Sanders High, five miles farther inland. Fortunately for Jessica, the majority of her friends had moved with her to Tabb, not the least of whom was Alice McCoy. Two years younger, she was—in Jessica‘s unbiased opinion—the sweetest girl in the whole world.

―You mean as a get-to-know-each-other sort of thing?‖ Jessica asked.

―Yeah. I think it would help break the ice between us.‖

―I wouldn‘t worry about any ice today,‖ Jessica said, brushing her dark hair off her sweaty forehead. On hot days like this she wished she had Alice‘s bright blond curls; they seemed to reflect most of the sun‘s rays. ―Does this joint have airconditioning?‖ Jessica asked.

―In some of the rooms.‖

―Some?‖

―The teachers‘ lounge is real cool. I was in there yesterday. They want me to paint a mural on the wal .‖ Alice laughed. ―They want a mountain glacier.‖

―It figures. I hope you‘re charging them?‖

―I‘m not.‖

―Fool. Back to this party business. How would you know which thirty Tabb kids to invite?‖

Alice nodded. ―That‘s a problem. But maybe in the next week we‘l meet some neat people. Have you run into anyone that you like yet?‖

Jessica shook her head. ―No, and I‘ve been here al of thirty minutes.

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