Thirteen (The Two Moons of Rehnor, Book 13) by J. Naomi Ay

Author:J. Naomi Ay [Ay, J. Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Ayzenberg, Inc.
Published: 2014-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Carolie

“Do you think we’ll see Arsan today?” Sara asked, while dragging a brush through her thick, golden curls.

She smiled at herself in the mirror and pouted her red lips prettily. I looked over her shoulder at my own hair and lips, one plain straight brown, and the other thin and uninteresting.

“Here, let me do that.” Taking the brush from her hand, I proceeded to draw it through her tresses. I got an odd satisfaction from making her hair shine and crackle with static electricity. I got even more satisfaction, an evil twist of joy, when inadvertently, I found a knot, and inadvertently, yanked it.

“You’re not my maid, Carolie.”

Sara smiled into the mirror. She always said this whenever I offered to help her out. Then, she would hand me the hairbrush, or turn around so I could zip her dress, or hold out her tiny foot so I could slip her shoe on it.

She preferred if I polished her nails, or did her makeup because I wouldn’t make mistakes. Of course, she would have done a terrible job on her right side if she tried to use her left hand, and somehow, unless I brushed it on for her, her mascara would always smear.

“I know that, Sara,” I replied, trying to keep the bitterness out of my voice. “I’m helping you because we’re sisters. After I’m done, you can brush my hair if you want, or give me a manicure with the new gold polish.”

“Oh, that’ll be fun!” Sara exclaimed. “But, I think I’m busy. I promised Leon I’d let him show me his new football. Mygan and Lura want to teach me some cheers. They think I ought to be on the cheerleading squad too.”

“Sure,” I replied, setting down the brush, and heading toward the window to look out at the snow. “It looks like a great day to be doing both of those things. Was he going to show you his football out on the field, or behind the bleachers underneath a blanket?”

“Now, Carolie,” Sara pretended to scold me, “You know I’d never do anything like that. My dad would positively kill me if he found out. So you won’t tell him, will you?”

“What’s to tell?”

“You’re the best, Carolie.” She blew me a kiss. “I promise to do your nails when I get back, unless somebody like Arsan comes to visit.”

“Sure,” I said again, and settled into the window box with my tablet.

She could have Arsan. What did I care? He was just a dumb Karut boy. I didn’t believe any of that crap about how he came to protect us, or that the Emperor had sent him. Everyone knew the Emperor was long dead.

Still, he was awfully handsome, and when he smiled at me, I thought my heart would turn into butter and melt.

On the other hand, chances were nobody was going anywhere today. The wind was howling, and the snow was falling fast and furiously. Already, the campus walkways were impassable. I didn’t tell Sara this though.

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