Evading the Dark by E M Rinaldi

Author:E M Rinaldi [Rinaldi, E M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CHBB Publishing
Published: 2018-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

After successfully pissing Eli off, I left the gym in an exhausted daze. It was lunch time and my growling stomach led me straight to the cafeteria. Because of training, I missed out on waffles, the only real food this facility makes, but I was so hungry that not even the threat of tofu could ruin my appetite.

There were many stares and whispers sent toward me as I made my way to an empty table. Break had been over for a week now, making the cafeteria full again. Awesome, this was just what I needed, people staring. My first day back at training really took a lot out of me, and I’m sure I looked like it.

I was shuffling my feet since my legs hurt too much to lift them, drenched and sticky with sweat, pale, and my arms were shaking with the effort of holding a fully loaded tray. People were gawking at me while I looked like a newborn calf. Super. I grabbed an open table in the corner of the room, as far as I could get from everyone else.

Setting my tray down, I fell into the chair, my head throbbing and stomach rolling. I could feel my blood sugar dropping faster than an Olympian on steroids. My body was heading for a crash and soon. Taking sips from my glass of orange juice, I focused on keeping my eyes open and my head up; it would do me no good to pass out here. Eventually, the vertigo faded and I was steady enough to start eating.

When my blood stopped roaring in my ears, I was once again able to hear the whispers from the other students around me. Turned out, they hadn’t forgotten about me. My plan had been out of sight, out of mind, that’s why I was hiding in the corner. But it’s been proven before that my plans suck.

I guess they wouldn’t stop talking about me for a while yet. I’m the girl that went crazy and then was found passed out in the woods, off school grounds; one of those escapades also landed me in the infirmary for a week. If that wasn’t juicy gossip, I didn’t know what was. As I finished off my lunch, a certain group of whispers caught my attention.

“Look at her,” giggled the voice of one girl.

“Go on, go ask her,” came the whisper from a different one this time.

Ask me what?

Peeking out of the corner of my eye, I saw the two girls in question. They were the prissy type: perfect hair, perfect make-up, and perfect fashionable outfits. They were the kind of girls that would hang out with others just as vapid and shallow as themselves. And just as I called it, they were hanging out with Tony.

More like hanging all over!

I made a little snort as I laughed at my own joke. Not the coolest thing to do, but what can I say? I’m hilarious. As I heard my whispered name float on the air toward me, I instinctively looked back to those girls.

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