Fair to Hope by Reed Sam;

Author:Reed, Sam;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63505-196-4
Publisher: North Loop Books

EIGHT

Back on the floor of the wood shop, legs crossed in front of me, arms lifeless in my lap, it had all come full-sickening circle. Bailey had kept her promise. Josh had found me. When he had, Bailey had been on his arm. I wasn’t sure how long they’d been gone, but I could still see his face inches from mine. Feel his breath. See his fingers wrapped around hers. She owned him. BaileyandJosh, BaileyandJosh, BaileyandJosh, their names tumbled over and around each other like barbed pinballs in my head.

Hearing the shop door open, I didn’t bother to look up. Sue would be the only one oblivious to the closed sign on the door. She walked in, sat beside me, and nudged my shoulder with her own. “You look horrible.”

I shook my head, feeling myself steeling on the inside. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I definitely was not going to drag Sue into it. She nudged me again, moving to sit across from me so our knees touched.

“Say something, V. That look on your face worries me.”

I wanted to tell her everything. I wanted to sit on my porch, drink lemonade, and offer her my story, hear her say she believed

me; but where would I start? Hey, Sue, I’m part of this secret order marking souls for the fate of the world, but I ran away when I realized I was chosen to fight a final battle to the death with the only boy I’ve ever loved, so I found this guy with crazy eyes to wipe me clean and moved to your little town to start over and sell bookcases. It sounded like the plot of a bad seventies kung fu movie. She would think I was insane; besides, I was forbidden to tell her. A stunned chortle pushed itself out of me, how silly at this point to think of what was forbidden.

Sue stared at me, smiling tentatively. “What’s funny?”

I had to think. I pushed up from the floor. “I gotta go, Sue.” She stayed planted on the ground. I pushed through the door, trusting she would lock it when she left.

The walk home was white noise filtering the thoughts crowding my head. I registered the cool kiss of the air conditioning as I crossed into my multicolor house, but not much else. As I sat at the burgundy table in my orange kitchen, my Möbius strip of thoughts cycled again.

Part of me knew this was inevitable, but I’d been holding on to the idea that I could ride it out a little longer. Josh had powers. Throw me across the room with a single thought powers. And he was being trained by Bailey. He was dangerous. She was dangerous. Now it was my responsibility? It was my choice. He’d already made his. He was feeding. Feeding! There was no way we could ever go back to those newbies at Essex splitting apples and ice cream, joking about the end of the world.

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