Unraveling Emily (Valla Series Book 1) by Anna Rezes

Author:Anna Rezes [Rezes, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Words Imagined
Published: 2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00

nineteen

I have a vivid dream where I walk my pet panther on a leash like a dog. I can’t understand why people are afraid. It’s just a sweet little kitten until I realize it’s not and the beast breaks its chain and pounces on a young girl with light brown hair. The panther disappears as a classroom manifests around us.

I find the girl unharmed and huddled in a ball on the floor. I comfort her, but when the girl looks up at me, I’m shocked to see my own face on the frightened younger version of myself.

Realizing I’m not seeing from my own eyes, I look to my hands, my arms, and down my body. I’m a boy, but not just any boy. I’m seeing from Ben’s perspective. He was there when I collapsed in seventh grade. Ben watches the younger version of myself lying helpless on the floor. Commotion rises around him and Ben tells his neighbor to shut up. He stares at young Emily until she looks up at him with her pale green eyes. She cries out in excruciating pain, and Ben wants to help but doesn’t know how.

The teacher covers part of his view before looking up at him, “Benjamin! Go get Mrs. Henson from next door!”

Not wasting time, he rushes through the crowd, pushing other students out of his way. He darts into the hall and barrels through the door into Mrs. Henson’s classroom.

The classroom disappears and time skips forward. The paramedics roll twelve-year-old Emily out on a stretcher. Feeling anxious and worried, Ben lingers in the entrance wanting to follow the men wheeling her away.

Time passes until Ben stands outside in the cold breeze watching the ambulance at the curb. He hurts for the girl in the back of the vehicle. He watches tears flow down Emily’s cheeks as she sits in the ambulance with the paramedics. When she notices Ben, she wipes the tears away, failing to look anything but miserable. The teacher puts her hand on Ben’s shoulder and guides him back inside.

While sitting in class, Ben hears a rumor that Emily was released to the school nurse instead of being taken to the hospital. Asking permission to go to the restroom, he grabs the hall pass on his way out of class. A white door appears in front of Ben. He’s nervous about opening it, and when he finally does, he finds Emily sitting in the nurse’s office. She’s holding her head down in her hands, her hair hiding her face. She looks up startled as she hears Ben’s shoe scuff the floor.

“Hey,” Ben says.

“Hey.” Emily stares at him with bloodshot eyes and feeble distrust in her gaze. She looks frail and apprehensive about his presence.

“I heard they can’t get a hold of your dad.”

“Word travels fast,” she says, wiping away another tear as it falls.

Ben looks to his feet. “I didn’t want you to have to sit in here alone,” he explains, remembering all the times he’d been alone, the

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