Moonbeam by Adrienne Woods

Author:Adrienne Woods [Woods, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9969748-3-7
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing

Shortly after Christmas, my mother bought me my first pair of high heels. She wasn’t kidding with those heels. I took a few wobbly steps in those strappy green stilettos and bam! I toppled down the stairs. I was lucky that I’d only broken an ankle—and not my neck.

Blake’s second semester at Dragonia was the hardest. Why, I didn’t know. Probably because I only received one crow a month. He’d never been this quiet before. But he wrote that he had the coolest journal and laughed each and every time someone tried to open it. It was like a party trick. They had parties. It was so freakin’ unfair.

I couldn’t wait. Two more years and I’d join them.

Still, it upset me when the once-a-month crow dwindled to once every two months. It stung that he had all the fun and had forgotten about me.

I wanted a Cammy badly. But my mother refused. At least with a Cammy I could’ve phoned his ass.

One night, I sat on my bed with my leg elevated. Mom had loaned me her Cammy to speak with Sammy. Mom didn’t even have Blake’s number. I’d looked. I sighed, and then Sammy’s hologram hovered over my dingy cast, wearing a sympathetic expression. She hadn’t heard a thing from her brother either. I was making her crazy. After pestering her, I begged her not to tell him anything. I didn’t want him to think that I was becoming like Arianna, who had annoyed him for an entire year.

Just thinking about it made me shiver. I wished he would just write. I had no idea what was going on in his life. We’d never been like that. We’d always known what was happening in each other’s lives.

When I switched off Mom’s Cammy, I heard a tapping at my window. It was a crow.

He perched on the sill.

This couldn’t be.

I jumped up off the bed and ran to the window to the crow, and eventually took the letter from the pouch around his neck.

I eagerly tore the envelope open without giving the crow his treat. He pecked me hard. A crimson droplet of blood appeared.

“Ow! Patience. Don’t they teach you that in flight school?” I stuck my finger in my mouth. It hurt like hell. If Blake were here, he could heal that easily.

I bent down my desk and grabbed a dried mouse. I hated keeping them, but crows were picky. If the treat wasn’t good, then they wouldn’t bring another letter.

He took the dried mouse meat and lifted off. Greedy crow.

I opened Blake’s letter.

I met someone, he wrote. Her name is Tabitha. Don’t judge me, but she is a Snow Dragon. Haha. I guess one can’t choose who they love.

For some reason my heart sank lower and lower as I read a rambling page he’d written about a stupid Snow Dragon. Nothing about his day. Nothing about the past month. Just about her.

I chucked the letter into my drawer. Why was I so sad? He was like my freakin’ brother.

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