Dream Shatter by Ann Hunter

Author:Ann Hunter [Hunter, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aisling House, LLC

Fourteen

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Summer finally comes, along with The Capitol Centennial Celebration. Our president has decreed that we are to honor the edict all summer long. A show of good will to those around us is to be extended… except to Anyone.

Most nights, Jonas is busy with the Martinets, helping with the party. When we do chat via holowatch, he mostly complains how he feels like a glorified janitor. He misses the nights of chasing a phantom menace through hospitals and clinics.

Also, he swears he saw me.

I have to deny it. Especially now that I understand why Reina does what she does. She’s not just desperate to feed herself and Zee. She’s serving others.

From what I’ve seen, she takes what she needs— samples and supplies nobody will really miss. And often from places that aren’t using them anyway. Maybe it was wrong, but what was the real harm in it?

On our lone night off, Jonas and I agree to crash together at his place. We eat until we’re about ready to pass out, with no remorse, and stay up watching shows until we’re sacked out on the floor drooling.

It’s a relief to feel like nothing is wrong between us.

Knowing the Martinets were busy with the Centennial, I felt as though I could rest. Reina wasn’t in any real danger.

I allow my eyes to droop. Jonas is already snoring.

In the middle of the night, I startle. Wake up, Logan. Wake up. Now.

It’s that woman’s voice again.

Someone has lain blankets over Jonas and me — no doubt his mother. The room is dark. It’s a peace I haven’t known in a while. My stomach hurts from overeating.

I get up to use the restroom. Maybe there is something there for my stomach as well. It strikes me as funny that we’ve cured deadly diseases, but not indigestion.

After relieving myself, I fumble in to the apothecary cabinet over the sink. I seek the relief for the burp that comes up. My eyes settle on Jonas’ mother’s pills.

It’s a powerful medication that could help so many people in Anyone.

Don’t do it.

I think of the mother and child, the men huddled around the fire, and the other group who were desperate for their own relief.

My hand stretches forward, toward the bottle.

Stop.

The bottle finds itself in my clutches.

This is your own brother’s mother’s medicine. You know she’s sick.

I unscrew the cap. My fingers tremble. I’ll only take one.

Because if I am blessed, so is Anyone. I only hope this dog won’t bite back when I feed it, like I’ve been raised to believe.

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