American Monsters by Derek Landy

Author:Derek Landy [Derek Landy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

AMBER GAVE THE BOUNCERS a smile and they parted for her, and she led Pixie-cut straight through to the hot, heaving crowds and the music that reverberated up through the floor. An idiot reached for her horns, tried to yank them from her head. She caught his wrist and squeezed, then shoved him away and left him there, shrieking.

She lost Pixie-cut in all the confusion, but found the dance floor, and she danced.

She’d never danced before, not really. She’d been to a few school dances, had moved awkwardly to music while trying to look indifferent, but the only time she’d let herself go like this was in front of the mirror in her bedroom. Back then, she fought to ignore how she looked. Now she didn’t have to.

Amber watched herself in the mirrors that lined the far side of the dance floor. There were boys around her, men, each of them trying to be the one she locked eyes with. She ignored them. The girls on the floor separated into two groups – those who glared at her, and those who tried to outdo her. She ignored them all, all but the blonde.

The blonde strutted through the other dancers, straight to her, put her arms on Amber’s shoulders and now they were dancing together, moving to the beat, their rhythms interlocking. The blonde turned, pressed into Amber and Amber grabbed her hips. A few guys started laughing. A few started cheering.

Amber spun the blonde, grabbed her and kissed her, and the blonde kissed her back. There were a lot more cheers now. Amber ignored them all. Then a hand slid up the back of her skirt.

She broke off the kiss and turned and hit the guy so hard that his nose practically exploded on impact. There was a lot of shouting, a lot of pushing, and then someone came at her, a bouncer, and he grabbed her arm, but she lifted him off his feet. She laughed at the expression on his face, then threw him into the crowd that was forming around her. Another bouncer lunged into her path and she knocked him sideways. He went stumbling.

Then the music shut off and people were attacking her. Some of them were bouncers, but not all. They drove her back through sheer force of numbers. Once she’d regained her footing, she started smacking her way through them, breaking bones when she needed to. Someone threw a beer bottle. It missed, but Amber zeroed in on the guy and stormed into the crowd as he fled. She caught him, fingers curling over the back of his terrible shirt, and she hauled him off his feet before slamming him to the ground. She kicked him three times. The second kick spun him into unconsciousness. The third kick spun him across the floor.

A huge guy came at her, part of the door staff, at least a foot taller than Amber and a solid wall of muscle. She went to push him away, but he moved sideways, was suddenly behind her with an arm wrapping around her throat.

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