Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs

Author:Tera Lynn Childs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Teenage girls, Stepfathers, Fiction, Myths, Private schools, Love & Romance, Blended families, Legends, Europe, Fables, Cliques, girl relations, & Fables - Greek & Roman, Running, Science Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories, supernatural, Schools, Fantasy/Young Adult, School & Education, Humorous Stories, Magic, Stepfamilies, Juvenile Fiction, Greece, Remarriage, Fantasy & Magic, Greek & Roman, Greek, Islands, People & Places, Mythology, Family, Fantasy fiction, Teenagers, Competition, General, Fantasy, Dating (Social customs), High schools, Teenage boy, Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
ISBN: 9780142414200
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 2009-05-19T11:20:49.662000+00:00

Chapter 7

“ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?” Griffin is leaning over me, his brows

pinched together in concern.

“Yes,” I say, rolling onto my back. “Just peachy.”

“What happened?” He looks really anxious, like I’m going to accuse him of zapping me like last time.

No, I know better.

“I’m not sure. I just tr—aaaack!” I try to stand, but my right ankle buckles under me. Arms flailing, I collapse forward against Griffin’s chest.

Seems like Nicole didn’t just knock me down. My ankle doesn’t hurt or anything, but it won’t support my weight. As I clutch Griffin’s shoulders and claw my way upright, I throw a scowl in the direction of the bushes where I glimpsed her. She’s long gone, I’m sure.

“You must have really twisted that ankle,” Griffin says, placing his hands on my back for support. “Can you walk?”

“Of course I ca—aaaack!”

Another step forward—and another tumble immediately into Griffin’s arms. What did Nicole do, zap away my ankle muscles?

“Here.” Griffin comes up behind me, scoops down, and lifts me into his arms. “I’ll carry you.”

“No, really, that’s not nec—”

“Yes,” he interrupts. “It is.”

While it is not totally unappealing to be in his arms, this is not how I’d always imagined it would be. Wait—I mean this is not how I’d fleetingly thought it would be when we came up with this plan.

I never wasted my time imagining Griffin and me doing anything. Promise.

Anyway, here I am, cradled in his arms as he makes his way back through the woods. I feel like some fairy-tale damsel in distress being rescued from a dark forest full of ogres and trolls.

But Griffin Blake only acts like a fairy-tale hero when it suits him.

“Why are you being so nice?” I ask.

His blue eyes glance down at me. “I’m not.”

I give him a look that says, “Um, hello!”

“All right,” he relents, then mumbles, “I hrmphoo.”

“What?” I know he’s weird, but I am sure he is capable of intelligible speech.

“I said . . .” He closes his eyes—I glance ahead on the trail to make sure he’s not going to trip over a tree root or anything—and clenches his jaw. “. . . I have to.”

“What do you mean you have to?”

I stomp down on the little part of me that wants him to say, I can’t help myself because I love you, Phoebe. Talk about delusional.

“It’s in my blood,” he explains. And leaves it at that.

Like that clears everything up.

“I don’t get it.”

He growls and I can feel it in his chest.

“Listen, if you’re going to do the silent thing the whole way then just—”

“Hercules is my ancestor.”

“Isn’t Hercules Roman?”

“The name is,” Griffin says. “But most people have never heard of Heracles. Even the gods stopped using that name centuries ago.”

“I thought you were descended from Ares.”

“I am,” he grumbles. “On my great-grandmother’s side. Hercules is on my father’s line.”

“And . . .”

“Descendants of Hercules are compelled to act heroic when someone is in need.”

I can’t help it—I burst out laughing. That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. He really is helping me because he can’t stop himself.

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