Halo (Blood and Fire Series (A Young Adult Dystopian Series)) by Rose Frankie

Author:Rose, Frankie [Rose, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-01-10T08:00:00+00:00

Sky-blue eyes widen at me as Olivia and I walk across a clearing in the vast tent maze. I can’t see the girl’s whole face; half of it is hidden by a male shoulder, which she is looking over. The guy’s back is broad, and even before I see his hair, I know it’s Ryka. The way his body weight rests on his left foot. The way his shoulder slopes down as he whispers into her ear. After all of our time spent together training the other day, I now know the way he holds himself, and that makes me feel conflicted. So does the way he angles into her as he continues to talk into her ear, too close to notice the surprise on her face, presumably at seeing me.

I’m really turning heads with this new haircut. I can’t say that I’m enjoying the attention, although Olivia warned me I can’t be shy about it if I want to pretend I did it myself. For a few panicked moments after leaving my brand new tent, I worried about what I was going to say when people asked me why I’d done it. Shouldn’t have worried, though: of course, no one breathes a word to me. They just stare.

Blue Eyes blushes as Olivia and I drew closer, and I can’t help but wonder what Ryka is saying to her to make her react that way. He shifts his weight slightly and reveals more of her: flowing red dress with bronze bells, stitched into the gentle pleats of the material; very slim, with softly curled brown hair all the way down her back. I’m pretty sure my hair used to look like that only this morning.

“I didn’t know he was going to be here,” I hiss. For some reason I feel self-conscious about seeing Ryka after our day together. Olivia pivots to smirk at me over her shoulder. There are tiny white flowers woven into her hair, painfully pretty.

“I didn’t know he would be, either.” Her smirk gets wider. “He told me he had better things to do. I didn’t realise he meant Simone. Oh well, if he’s all distracted with her then he won’t bother us. That’s not a problem, is it?”

Something tells me she’s trying to goad a reaction out of me. I shake my head and bite my tongue between my teeth quickly, just enough so that I taste copper. “No. No, of course it’s not a problem.”

Olivia tuts, giving me a weird look. I ignore it and let her grab hold of my hand, and she draws me farther into the clearing, where a huge fire licks and spits at the sky. A horrible feeling wells up inside me, one that makes me feel sour and a little angry. I try to put aside the awful, niggling sensation, try not to wonder who the girl is and what she and Ryka are doing together, but it doesn’t seem to work.

The only thing that distracts me from my line of thought are the looks I’m getting as we make our way through the crowds.

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