Warrior Saints - Creator: Stonehaven Academy Saints Book 1 by Carla Thorne

Author:Carla Thorne [Thorne, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Ivy

I stumbled into the hall after the meeting and raced for the door. So help me, if my mom was late, I was going to lose my—

“Ivy?”

Crap! Are you freakin’ kidding me right now?

I turned as Trinity approached. I hardly recognized her in her school uniform. “Hey, Trinity.”

Her bright smile in the daylight was much more friendly than the stern warning-pretend smile she’d given me at the horror-movie campfire. “Thought that was you.”

“Yep, it’s me.” I kept walking. “Just finished Drama Club and my mom’s waiting.”

“Just one sec. Please.”

I surrendered. “Sure.”

“Can I be straight with you?”

“Yeah. What’s up?”

“Paige is going to ask you to officially join the Arrows. I don’t think that was her original plan, but after you ended up there, she scratched someone else off the list.”

Everything about her statement made my skin prickle. “Please don’t tell me she cut Corey. For whatever reason that stupid club means everything to her.”

Trinity bristled at my comment and blinked. Her long, fake lashes brushed her cheeks like butterfly wings.

“Sorry,” I hurried to explain. “No disrespect. It’s not for me.”

“That’s actually a good thing. And no, she’s not cutting Corey.”

Trinity’s mixed signals were about to add a tension headache to my day. “What are you trying to say to me?”

“If you don’t want to be an Arrow, refuse the invite. Don’t take what she gives you. Say no thanks and walk away. She’ll be pushy, but she won’t pursue you. It’s not her style.”

“Why are you telling me this? And why did you protect me at the campfire if you don’t like what goes on there either?”

“Keep your voice down.”

That prompted us to both look around the empty hallway that led to the fine arts building.

I had enough on my mind without the added cloak-and-dagger crap. “What the heck are we supposed to be afraid of here, Trinity? Paige?”

“Look, I’m not afraid of Paige. She won’t mess with me. We’ve been close since first grade. But something’s happened to her. She’s different…”

“Then why don’t you refuse the invite? You sat in that circle like her queen bee Arrow sidekick.”

“I’m taking care of what I can. I have a semester and a half of school then I’m off to college, and I won’t ever look back at Paige and the Arrows again.” She moved close to my face. “And I’m giving you some friendly advice. Stay out.”

“Fine. You know I’m not interested anyway.”

Trinity headed the opposite direction.

“Trinity, wait.”

“Yes?”

“Thank you. For this and the other night. And keep an eye on Corey.”

“Like I said, I’m doing what I can.”

As weird conversations went, I’d had more since coming to Stonehaven than I’d had in my whole life—and I lived with a mentally unhealthy mother with multiple diagnoses who I literally had to feed some days and slide pills into her mouth so she stayed even.

I wasn’t sure what I’d done to deserve all this unhinged activity, but it was only getting worse with not one, but two groups of schoolmates—not sure I’d call all of them friends—who were gold medalists in the Bizarro Olympics.

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