Those Heartless Boys by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore [Moore, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798690486624
Goodreads: 55258817
Published: 2020-09-26T05:00:00+00:00

18

The last class of the day, I share with Lucas. I get to the room first, but when he comes in, he sits next to me, pulling his desk close to mine, ignoring when the teacher tells him to move it back into his row. Miraculously, the professor doesn’t push it. She rolls her eyes like she has more important things to do than tell a twenty-something year old where to put his desk. Which, let’s face it, she probably does.

However, despite her airs, she plays a video during class. It’s a mythology class, so I guess that makes sense. Five minutes into it, though, it’s apparent that Lucas is either bored or has no apparent interest in a three-headed beast.

Slyly, he moves his desk even closer to mine. “Don’t ignore me, Dakota,” he whispers.

I glance over at him as if I’m bored when I’m far from it. Ever since he cupped my face earlier, staring into me with those deep brown eyes, I haven’t been able to get him out of my head. Actually, I haven’t been able to get Stone out of my head either. The two of them have taken up space in my brain and won’t leave.

I tell myself it’s an easy fix. I’m just fucking horny, so a little alone time with myself with the blinds drawn in my room tonight is definitely in order. In high school, I started to have feelings that just wouldn’t go away. I refused to relieve them, but then one day in the computer lab, I looked up a scientific article about self-stimulation. It turns out it’s perfectly normal and healthy to masturbate, and I’ve been doing it ever since. That particular research incident, however, did earn me an embarrassing conversation with the librarian who told me that there was school-appropriate research and there was home-appropriate research. Yeah, like we had the internet. No way. If Dad needed to look something up, he went to the public library, and even then, he’d tell me it was the slowest connection he’d ever had the displeasure to wait for. I never minded when he went, though, because he would bring me home books. So. Many. Books.

“You’re doing it again,” Lucas teases.

I point toward the screen. “I’m watching this.”

“No one’s watching this,” he scoffs.

I take a quick look around. Literally no one was actually watching it. A few students were blatantly on their phones while others were doing assignments from other courses.

Jesus hell.

He leans closer to me, and I swear I can smell mint on his breath. “We thought we might talk treasure tonight.” He watches for my reaction, waiting.

Talking treasure with them is something I’ve been putting off, but I also know it needs to happen. It’s not just about the treasure for me though. It’s about finding my dad, too, and we won’t be able to do that unless we go up into the mountains.

The note said, “Find the treasure and find your dad.” If these people aren’t fucking with me, then that’s exactly what I need to do.

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