Kilenya Series Books One, Two, and Three by Andrea Pearson

Author:Andrea Pearson [Pearson, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children's Books, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy & Magic, Children's eBooks, Science Fiction; Fantasy & Scary Stories, Sword & Sorcery, Science Fiction, Time Travel, MG Fantasy
Amazon: B008Z69I9U
Published: 2012-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

What was wrong with him? That question circulated in Jacob’s mind the rest of the week and starting into the following. And it didn’t help that the Makalos had no clue, either. They asked him to start talking to his classmates to figure out what was going on. So, on Monday, he approached a girl whose air was deep blue.

“Hey . . .” he said. “Are you okay?”

She looked at him, her eyes welling up with tears. “N—no! My horse died last night. And—and she was only five years old!”

Jacob grimaced, then caught himself—hopefully she would take his expression as one of sympathy and not what it really represented—a dislike of tears. He couldn’t handle them. And even though his brain wanted him to run away as fast as he could, his heart made him do something completely foreign to him where girls were concerned. He hugged her. She sobbed into his shirt, and he met eyes with Tani over the girl’s head.

“What are you doing?” she mouthed at him.

He shrugged. “Don’t know,” he mouthed back.

The rest of the week was a sort of case study, with him casually asking people how their day was going and if they were doing okay.

He quickly found that most guys didn’t appreciate the invasion of privacy, looked at him like he was a freak, then walked away. This wasn’t a surprise. The girls, on the other hand, loved the attention and sought him out. He began making friends as he helped the girls who were sad to feel better, talked to the lonely ones, comforted those who were upset. After a couple of days, he started wondering if they were interested in him or more in how he made them feel. He supposed it didn’t really matter either way.

Jacob learned all sorts of things about the people in his school. “Brayden broke up with Sophie and now she’s heartbroken.” “Jessie cheated in algebra.” “I got an ‘A’ on that test!”

The girl whose horse died told her friends about how he’d made her feel better, and a couple of them approached him and thanked him. They didn’t leave his desk until the teacher started class. And then they all showed up at the gym to watch the basketball game. Tani teased him mercilessly about it.

This sort of thing happened every day that week.

At first, Jacob enjoyed the attention. Who wouldn’t? But after a few days, he wished he hadn’t ever asked anyone a question.

Wednesday morning as he walked from math to history, a girl stopped him, telling him how grateful she was that he’d helped her get over her breakup with a recent boyfriend. The color around her face was a bluish pink.

He smiled. “No—don’t worry about it. I’m just glad you’re feeling better now.”

“Oh, I am! Thank you again, Jacob!” She grabbed his hand, slipping a piece of paper in it. He unfolded the slip and read it as he walked to history—she’d left her name and number on it, with hearts all over the paper.

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