Blood, Glass and Sugar by Lyndsay E Gilbert

Author:Lyndsay E Gilbert [Gilbert, Lyndsay E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wings of Isis Publishing
Published: 2014-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

It was freezing outside. Trix’s breath misted in the air before her as she walked to the tube station, clutching the plastic bag with Evie’s finished gown inside. A man was busking outside the station entrance, strumming a guitar with raw pink fingers. She jangled in her coat pocket and threw him a pound coin. He winked at her.

The station was packed full of people. The Christmas panic was starting in earnest, and kids darted about, chasing each other in front of the turnstiles. Trix manoeuvred around them and swiped her card.

The train was worse than the station. She only just managed to squeeze into the carriage and spent the journey pressed up against a gross old man. He grinned at her the whole way, and half his teeth were missing.

She was more than happy to switch lines, though she had to skip several of the trains that came. They couldn’t take any more passengers. When the doors hissed open at the stop people almost toppled out onto the platform. It felt like half the day had passed by the time she reached Camden. Passengers poured out of the train and Trix got shoved in the back more times than she could count before she made it out into the crisp open air.

She walked quickly to Evie’s street. When she turned in, as luck would have it, Evie was just a few metres ahead of her, going very slowly to her own house.

“Evie!”

Evie turned, looking like she had been caught in the middle of a crime. She stopped walking, and Trix jogged to cover the space between them. “I was calling all morning. What time did you get home at last night? You never phoned.”

Evie looked like Trix was the last person she wanted to see, and shrugged, saying nothing.

“That’s it? You don’t have anything to say to me? Evie I’ve been worried about you. And Lou was acting weird. She said you went missing the other day. You didn’t tell me that.”

Again, a shrug. Though there was a definite blush creeping up her neck and onto her face, staining her pale cheeks pink.

“Evie, where were you? Are you just coming home now?” Trix heard a pleading tone seeping into her voice. She couldn’t help it. Evie was scaring her.

“Trix I… I’ve met a guy okay?”

Trix couldn’t believe her. This was exactly what girlfriends were supposed to tell each other. “So what, within two days you are sneaking about the town, and not telling anyone where you are? God Evie, you can’t tell your best-friend about a boy, but you can go stay at his house already?”

Evie’s blush deepened to a fiery red. “It’s not what you think-”

“Staying in the house of some mysterious man? There are lots of things I’m trying not to think!” Maybe she’d overstepped, but she didn’t care.

“How dare you?” Evie said. “How dare you!”

Trix shoved the dress at her. “I do dare. I was worrying my ass off about you, and now you act like this?”

Evie took the bag, her eyes wide, almost like she was panicking.

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