dark secrets by a.m. hudson

Author:a.m. hudson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-05-12T05:00:00+00:00

Sam’s schoolbooks engulfed the dining table, leaving one space left for me to do my homework; the kitchen counter. I slumped over my books, munching an apple, spinning my hips from side to side on the swishy stool. I’d deliberately moved my schoolbag off the seat beside me, hoping David would sit there to either help me with my homework or just plain old be close to me, but he went and sat next to my pesky brother instead, and helped him. Except, he wasn’t helping him with his math—he was doing it for him.

“David, will you stay for dinner tonight?” Vicki asked, casually chopping away at vegetables.

David looked up from the page. “That’d be great, Mrs Thompson. If Ara doesn’t mind.”

A giant, invisible question mark formed above my head. Why would I mind, dummy? Unless you plan to eat us for dinner.

He smirked.

“Great,” Vicki beamed, without needing my answer. “It’s nothing special. Although, I am making apple pie for dessert.”

My vampire flashed the most incredibly charming smile and said, “Apple pie happens to be my favourite.”

“Oh, really?” Vicki’s whole face lit up. “That’s great then.”

I groaned quietly, rolling my eyes. I think my stepmother has a crush on you, David.

He nodded to himself, his eyes small with humour, aiming the pen tip to the top of the page. He went on then to explain some number jargon to Sam, and I turned back to my books, a breath away from asking for his help. I really just didn’t get this Pythagoras’ Theorem crap. I never had.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw David look over at me for a second, but as the numbers on the page started to shift into place in my brain, I fazed him, Sam, and Vicki out, and concentrated on my homework—taking a sideways glance every now and then to see David look up at the same time. All I really wanted, though, was to go upstairs to my room so David and I could do our ‘homework’ in private. The idea made me smile to myself.

A roll of paper hit my forearm then and bounced up, landing between my wrists.

David winked at me, rolling his hand in the air as if to say ‘Open it.’

As I unfolded the paper, perfect Victorian cursive handwriting stared back up at me in the words: What exactly would we be doing in your room—other than homework?

Stay out of my head!

He laughed and took a sip from his coffee cup; I ditched the paper back at him, but he caught it without even looking.

Smart arse, I thought. But if you were any decent sort of mind reader, you wouldn’t need to ask what I wanted to do with you in there.

He looked over at me, his face tight with a frown, his cup just in front of his lips.

I waited until he dared to take another sip, then showed him what we’d be wearing if Vicki trusted me alone upstairs with a boy in my room.

Brown

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