Seer by Ashley Maker

Author:Ashley Maker [Maker, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-07-17T22:00:00+00:00

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I don’t know how to feel when I’m around Tarry the next day—happy because everything is normal between us again and he’s waiting for me at the cafeteria like he usually does, or completely freaked out because my stomach does this little dip when his hand brushes against my arm as we maneuver around the cafeteria tables. Then, before I can make sense of this new jumbled mess, I realize breakfast might have been a bad idea to begin with.

People have stared at me before, but nothing like this.

They stare at my bandages. At my eyes. At the fact I’m with Tarry. Snatches of their whispered conversations taunt me as we navigate through the crowd to the breakfast line.

Seer.

Cuts herself.

Went crazy.

Hospitalized.

By the time I place silverware on the tray, I’m no longer hungry. All of the other students think I’m insane, and after yesterday’s episode, it’s not like I can blame them. But I hate that they’re all staring at me. Don’t get me wrong—all girls, whether they admit it or not, want to be stared at, but only if it’s in a good way. Like look-at-that-girl-she’s-so-gorgeous kind of staring. This isn’t that kind. It’s more like the hey-that-girl-is-trailing-toilet-paper-let’s-laugh-at-her.

I’d take the toilet paper scenario over this any day.

“Hey.” Tarry leans down, his voice low in my ear. “What’s wrong?”

“They all think I’m crazy.”

“Don’t worry about what they think. They’re not important.”

I try to follow Tarry’s advice, but it seems like the more I try, the worse the whispering and the staring becomes until I feel like every single part of me is a spectacle to be scorned. To make it worse, Aaron and Piper are staring right alongside the rest of them. My hands tighten on the edges of my tray as we approach our table.

“Clare, I am so sorry about what happened yesterday,” Aaron says the moment I sit down. “I was just joking around—”

Piper snorts. “More like showing off.”

“Being a huge pain,” Tarry adds before shoveling a forkful of scrambled eggs into his mouth.

Aaron glares at them. “Bottom line is I didn’t mean to upset you.”

“Thanks, but it’s not your fault.” I pick at the paper around my blueberry muffin. “The timing was bad, but the whole spazzing out thing was kind of inevitable.”

“I didn’t ‘spaz out’ the first time I phased,” Piper says with a frown. Her ponytail bobs as she tilts her head to the side and regards me skeptically.

Aaron leans forward. “Yeah, what happened out there? Morris wouldn’t let anyone else leave the gym.”

I swallow and stare at the crumbs that have gathered on the tray. There’s no way I can eat right now. I put the muffin down and push it away from me.

“Just let it go, guys. She’ll talk about it when she’s ready.” Tarry nudges me with an elbow. “You want to get out of here?”

Of course I do. Does he really have to ask? I don’t even care where we go, so long as we get out of this room. Ignoring

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