Anything But Ordinary by Lara Avery

Author:Lara Avery
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide

he next weekend, Bryce folded clothes with her teeth digging into her lip. Though she hadn’t gone to bed until after one, she was up at eight, humming “Hey Jude” in the shower. The water was boiling hot, just like she liked it. She coated her skin with Sydney’s vanilla body cream. Her oatmeal was buttery, covered in blueberries and cinnamon, a taste of home to fortify her for the day ahead.

She had seen bachelorette parties in movies. The purpose was wild fun, she knew that. But underneath the wild fun was the fact running through everything, the fact that the bride needed this one last crazy night before she and her groom would be together forever. Greg and Gabby together forever.

She zipped her old AAU diving equipment bag, packing a few things for the weekend ahead. Her head hurt.

Bryce knew what was happening then. It didn’t come slowly, but it came in levels, like someone was turning up the knobs as the back of her skull was placed on the burner of a stove. Frostbite grew under her fingernails and across her toes. This time, when she was tipped on her head like a rain stick, she felt relief.

Hard dirt under bare feet.

The mute echoes of a place half full of water. It was dark, night. When she reached out in front of her, there was nothing but blank space.

Her eyes adjusted. She confirmed the solidness of the edge on which she stood, and quickly, as the moon darted between clouds, the glint of water.

Then, as if it was what she intended to do all along, Bryce bent her legs. Toes pointed forward, hands crossed in front of her. Nothing fancy, she told herself, and sprung off.

Air held her, gentle and familiar like an old friend. She allowed the breeze to cradle her until the last minute, when she made herself an arrow. She pierced its center and broke the liquid line.

Bryce knew as she hit that water was lifting around her body in a circle of precious, clear pearls, but a diver never gets to see her own splash. It’s too bad, Bryce thought as she went under.

She came to on the ground, the carpet digging spots in her knees and palms as her head moved slowly out of fire.

She never used to fall over after the visions before. And her fingers still felt a little numb. Not now. She shook her sleeping hands, trying to wake them up. She wiped at her face and found a light streak of blood coming from her nose.

She let the throbbing subside. A knock on the door. Her mother’s voice. “Hi, sweetie.”

Bryce stood and wiped at her face again. She opened the door to her mother, who gave her a small smile.

“Carter’s upstairs; he wants to do a quick checkup before you go,” she said.

Carter was waiting for her in the kitchen as she carried her bag up the stairs into the cloudy morning. He turned around from where he was rearranging the Grahams’ spice rack by flavor combination.

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