We Shall Be Monsters by Ryan Decaria

Author:Ryan Decaria [Decaria, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733908566
Publisher: Immortal Works
Published: 2019-09-23T18:30:00+00:00

Anika stared at the pink ceiling of her four-poster bed, listening for the door to open. She’d packed a go-bag with the essentials. She had to get Billie away from this place, and the only way she would ever get the girl to leave is to run away herself.

She’d planned to run away a dozen times already. Each time she found reasons to stay. She kept putting her friends in danger. For what? She had nothing to use against her father. The alligator was a time bomb. Pankina wasn’t going to go away. If she wanted to remain intact, it was time.

She was sure Sasha would come with them.

Her rat, Seven, ran in his little wheel on her desk. Jackie’s father insisted her rat carried a tracking device. Anika wanted to cut it out, but she couldn’t tell where it was located. She’d searched his little body, but could find no marks, incisions, or lumps. Well, except for the spot where she’d electrocuted him with a car battery to save his life. Maybe Jackie’s father had lied, but she couldn’t risk it. She’d leave Seven at the school. Yoko offered to take care of him.

The front door opened and Boulsour lumbered inside. She could easily identify his gait from across the house as he stumped into the kitchen. Anika sat up and slung her backpack over her shoulders. She couldn’t trust any of her belongings. Billie would provide her with new clothes. They would ditch the bag after she offered her friends a crack at the rest of her science crap.

She grabbed the cage and her microscope and left everything else in her room. She’d give the microscope to Hawking, begrudgingly. She was still surprised at its sentimental value. But it couldn’t be trusted either. Perhaps Hawking would find the tracker and eliminate it.

As Anika marched down the stairs, she felt a pang of longing for the creepy house. It went well with her guilt for abandoning her quest and her friends. In the short time she’d lived there, Moreau had become more of a home than any she’d had before.

Boulsour met her at the bottom of the stairs with a plate of unevenly sliced peaches and a cup of milk that had splashed all over the plate.

She stared into his eyes. “I’m not sure what I’d ever do without you.”

His eyes didn’t waver the slightest.

Anika handed the cage to Boulsour and took the plate. She slurped down the peaches and drank the milk, perhaps the best breakfast he’d made for her, then set the plate on the stairs. He held open the door for her as she swept out of the house.

She didn’t speak on the way to school, unwilling to give the slightest hint that she was emotional. The rat and microscope were huge tells, but somehow, she didn’t think Boulsour would ponder why she’d brought them. If they were being tracked, perhaps someone would come check on her, but she doubted anyone would even care.

As they sped into the parking lot, Anika cooed at Seven, trying to keep him calm.

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