The Secret Trinity: Glass Castles by Jenna Bernel

Author:Jenna Bernel [Bernel, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8: Sensing

I remained still, crouching with my hands on my thighs at the edge of the trees, staring at her closed, curtained window like a freaking zombie. I felt numb, unable to let it sink in, a world where I would only see and feel one thing, Ari. How cruel is fate? Mere meters from my Soul Keeper, it might as well be an ocean apart. She was not allowed to know even a single detail of our world yet, let alone know who I was. Was this what my Father experienced before Maggie died, this painful distance, to be so close yet so far away? Is this the pain he had to endure and love someone so much, someone you could never have? I felt a sense of regret. I suppose I should be more sensitive toward him. Still he always seemed so strong. Now I knew it was all an act. If I was experiencing now even an ounce of the pain he felt every day, his was the greatest circus show of all time, because I was breathing in fire from an inferno of emotion she had conjured in me.

I startled when someone yanked on my wrist and whirled me around to face the woods. Brody's tall shadow seemed to tower over me in the moonlight. My eyes quickly found the pine needle covered ground, unable to look at him, afraid the pain of my revelation would show on my face.

"What are you doing out here?" Brody asked forcefully, clearly irritated to find me out here. I looked up at him from the ground with a guilty look on my face, feeling as if I was standing in front of Father, and he had once again caught me sneaking out of the house. The last thing I wanted to do was disappoint Brody, my closest ally, my Brother, but deep down I knew he was no longer number one in my life. From now on it would always be above all else, Ari.

I opened my mouth to speak but my silence hung in the air instead. I couldn't tell Brody the truth. He’d ship me back home on the next plane, so for the first time in my life I had to lie to him, the only person who knew all of my secrets.

"I'm sorry, Bro, didn't mean to worry you. I just needed some air." I stood and slapped him on the arm in a casual manner to try and add emphasis that it was no biggie. He grabbed my chin as if I were a child who had just cussed profusely in public and locked eyes with me.

"You're lying." He didn't say it in an accusing way, just a simple non-negotiable fact. I swallowed down the lump in my throat, and tried to control my shakiness, which was impossible with him still holding my chin. He let go and shoved my shoulder, throwing off my balance.

"Why don’t you try again? What are you doing

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