The Elementalists by C Sharp

Author:C Sharp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Paranormal
Publisher: Firebrand Technologies
Published: 2014-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The Gauntlet

Chloe tried to force the jagged-edged shape of her life back down into the neat little hole of high school. Before, she’d struggled to hold on to every nuance of her encounters with the dragon only to have them stripped away in her sleep. Now, her failed attempt to suppress those same memories left her sullen and irritable. She’d worn the mask of scholarly focus for a few days without incident, but today was Halloween and her attempt at assimilation was derailed before she even got through the senior parking lot to her homeroom class.

First Ezra came bounding toward her wearing the white-sheet toga and golden oak leaf crown of a Caesar. “You can’t ignore me forever, Lightning,” he bellowed from twenty paces out.

Chloe scrunched lower as more than one pair of eyes swung to watch her response. She forced a weak smile. “Don’t count on it, Your Highness.” She’d managed to steer clear of him for the better part of a couple weeks, and a public confrontation was the last thing she needed right now. She headed for the side entrance to the school, knowing before she’d taken two steps that her evasive tactics were futile.

He drew his cardboard legionnaire’s sword and blocked her path. “What are you supposed to be?” he asked.

She grabbed the fake sword by the blade and pushed it aside. “I’m an angry high school student.” She eyed him up and down and kept walking. “Let me guess, you’re a premature frat boy with a weakness for jailbait.”

He looped around and fell into an exaggerated step beside her. “What, you plan to avoid me until I graduate?”

“I hadn’t really given it much thought,” she muttered without looking at him. “How about you? You plan on robbing the cradle until June?”

“Chloe, come on!” he shouted, stopping her in her tracks.

She flinched and turned to look up at him.

He looked at her in a way that made it seem like they were the only two people there, despite all the eyes and ears that had turned their way. “What’s really your problem with me?” he challenged. “You’re the one who’s in love with that surfer dude and always running around with the stoner doofus!”

Chloe shriveled as her gaze danced between multiple sets of watching eyes. “Why are you shouting at me?” she asked in a harsh whisper.

“’Cause you’re too damn thick to listen otherwise,” he answered in a more reasonable decibel. “I’ve gone out with your presumed enemy a couple times—so what? She’s actually pretty cool and hilariously sarcastic once you get to know her, but despite popular belief, I’m not actually all that sleazy,” he proclaimed. “I’m not pretending or hiding anything. I’m just having fun when I can, and I don’t apologize for that… But YOU are my homegirl, Chloe. I’d move the earth for you.”

That was when Kendra zipped into the parking lot in her brand-new sweet sixteen BMW. Sleek and fire red, it slid into an open space a few cars ahead.

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