Clouded by MS Kaye

Author:MS Kaye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sumaria, YA Paranormal Romance, YA Contemporary Romance, High School, Dating, Ohio, First Love
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing
Published: 2015-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20: Heat

“You’re still seeing him?” Sunila asked.

“Yes.” I heard my mother lurking in the hall, so I kept my answers short and ambiguous. I didn’t even particularly want her to know I was on the phone with Sunila. Her status in my mother’s eyes had fallen as it was. I didn’t want to make it worse.

“Is he treating you well?”

“Perfect.”

“What did he give you for your birthday?”

I smiled. “A promise.”

Her smile was audible. “What does it look like?”

How to say it without giving it away? My mother had, thankfully, not noticed yet. I’d taken to wearing long sleeves, long enough to cover my hands.

I finished gathering my school books and stacked them neatly on my desk. “Um...he said it’s like a rainbow shining through the clouds.”

“Opal?”

“He said it seemed right for me.”

“He gets it,” she murmured. “You always were one for rainbows.”

“Huh?” I’d never been one of those girls who drew rainbows and unicorns on the brown paper covers of my textbooks.

“Oh, I don’t know. You just always had the luck of rainbows appearing when you were happy.” Then she added, “What else?”

It was more like their appearance made me happy. They were pretty—but only the real ones, not the ones drawn on brown paper. I answered her question. “The opposite of our skin.”

“Silver.”

“And rosettes.”

“Carved into the band?”

“Mm-hm.”

I heard that little exhale that accompanied her brightest smile.

I asked about her family. She talked about her kids some, but the conversation drifted back to me. Me included Calder. I couldn’t hear my mother lurking in the hall anymore, so I answered more fully.

“He swims,” I said.

She paused. “Is he good?”

I laughed.

“Really good?”

“He and water get along very well,” I said. “He always wins.”

“Is he into anything else?”

I wasn’t sure why she was so interested. Just making completely sure she should approve?

“Um,” I said, “he does well in school.”

Her tone was teasing, like she was covering how interested she actually was. “Math junky like you and Dad, or literature geek?”

“Actually, he likes mythology. I found a couple books in his room that weren’t for school.”

She kept the teasing tone. “In his room, huh?”

“You know I’m not— He doesn’t even ask.” Though I knew he wanted to—very much. Sometimes I thought I liked that fact a little too much, especially when I knew it was going to be a while until I was ready.

“I know.” She sounded confident. “So what kind of mythology?”

“Sumerian.”

She paused. I figured her kids were getting into something and distracting her—but she didn’t scold or warn them like usual.

“I was wondering.” She sounded tentative. “How did he know?”

“You mean New Year’s?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t know.” The box in my head rumbled, tried to open and spew confusion and chaos across my mind. I didn’t know why Calder had known I was in pain, how he’d known what to do. Maybe it was something to do with his abilities, something more than he’d told me. I knew he was still hiding things. I was doing my best to be patient, to remember he didn’t have to tell me every little thing.

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