Ungifted by Oram Kelly

Author:Oram, Kelly [Oram, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, ya, paranormal
Publisher: Bluefields
Published: 2014-02-20T07:00:00+00:00

Preston was right. I did see Russ again. He was passed out on my couch when I got home from school that day. I stumbled through the door rather ungracefully, followed by the four people who’d become my entourage lately. They were, as was most common for them, arguing loudly. Ironically, it was my shushing everybody that woke Russ.

“Sorry,” I said. “If you want to go back to sleep, you can crash upstairs on my bed. We’ll be quiet.”

“Well, most of us,” Cynthia corrected. “Caleb is incapable.”

One guess which ones had been doing most of the arguing.

“How’d you get in here?” Ethan demanded.

Russ sat up and groggily rubbed the sleep from his face. He’d been out long enough that his shaggy, light-brown hair was all matted down in the back. When I realized I was imagining running my hands through it I shook my head and quickly said, “Magic, I assume.”

Russ nodded and pointed a finger at me. “What she said.”

“Aren’t you a little concerned that he just broke in?” Caleb asked me.

I shrugged. “I offered him my couch, didn’t I?”

“Yeah, but still…,” Ethan said.

I shrugged again. “Better him than Andrew.”

The mention of Andrew De La Cote made everyone in the room except Russ fall quiet. Ethan looked angry with me, but then what else is new? “You didn’t seem so able to joke about that last night.”

I clammed up immediately. The awkwardness between Ethan and me had been bad before, but after having spent the night together it was practically unbearable.

“It wasn’t a joke,” I said.

Why couldn’t I ever sound angry like he did? All I ever sounded like when I talked to him was afraid or apologetic. But I wasn’t apologizing! I hated that he was always so critical of me. As if he should have any say on how I conduct myself?

“Only two people have ever broken into my house, so when I came in and found it was Russ instead of Andrew, I was honestly relieved to see him. Plus, I’d already extended him the invitation. You wanted to know why I wasn’t upset about him being here, well, that’s why.”

Ethan was annoyed that I had a comeback to his scolding. He wasn’t finished with his lecture. “You don’t take your safety seriously enough.”

Okay, that did it. I could get angry now. I was so sick of his bossy attitude. “Last night a vampire tried to drink my blood,” I said, laughing a little like a crazy person. “The way I see it, if my guardian angel can’t manage to keep me safe, then what am I, the pathetic human, supposed to do about it?”

“Grace—”

“No, really Ethan, please, tell me what the proper way to react to something like that is, because they don’t exactly cover it in school.”

“Grace, stop. I wasn’t saying—”

“No, I won’t stop! Last night I was too scared for you. Today I’m not scared enough. Nothing I do is ever good enough for you, and everything I say is wrong. I swear you would rather I just take a dive off the deep end.

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