Wilde Card by TJ Williams

Author:TJ Williams [Williams, TJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-16T05:00:00+00:00

When Tia woke up, it was with a migraine to rival all migraines. Nausea rippled through her and she barely managed to keep hold of her stomach contents. She was lying across a mat and Raghida was lying across her. She groaned and pushed her off ungracefully.

“Ow,” Raghida mumbled but she didn’t move from where she had re-settled, face down.

They were in their favourite sparring room, crashed out on the floor. Tia’s mouth tasted like dust and acid. Her nose was clogged with smoke and alcohol. She tried to stand up and gagged, stumbling back to her knees. “Oh my God, what fresh hell is this?”

Her whole body ached, and not in a good I-just-worked-out way. She was barefoot too. She froze. Suddenly, she had tunnel vision. “RAGHIDA!” she yelled, shaking the girl violently.

“No,” Raghida moaned, trying to fend off the attack but Tia was seized by panic and she wasn’t going to give up. She continued to shake her.

“Raghida!”

Finally, she sat up, rubbing her eyes. “What?”

Tia pointed to her right foot. “What the hell is that? Am I still drunk?”

Raghida giggled. “Oh, you forgot. How cute.” She shook her head. “No, Tia. You’re not still drunk. That is, indeed, a tattoo on your foot.”

Tia groaned. “Oh, God.”

The tattoo was only small, about two inches high, on the top of her foot. The lines were thick, dark, almost artistic. It was a black flame. And it was itchy as hell. She glared at Raghida suddenly. “You let me get a damn tattoo last night?”

Raghida lifted up her arm to show Tia the inside. The same thick lines were gracing her reddened skin. “We all got them,” she laughed.

“How are you okay with this?!” Tia demanded. “These will definitely get infected. We got them in a dirty warehouse. Oh, God.”

“They were your idea.”

Tia refused to believe that. She finally got to her feet, pausing to crack several bones in her back. “You are a terrible friend. And a drinker?” Tia shook her head. “Who knew?”

Raghida giggled again and collapsed onto her back. “At least I didn’t take drugs. Talia kept telling everyone not to let you drink anymore.”

And then the night’s events came back to Tia all at once. She remembered kissing Jay. And then snuggling up to Talia. Again! She groaned, holding her stomach. “I was spiked! And, urm, Raghida...was Jay with us for the rest of the night?”

“He disappeared at some point but came back covered in glitter so I don’t really know what happened. He was so drunk that it was hard to make sense of him at that point.”

Tia couldn’t let herself feel relief, not yet. She was disorientated, in pain and tired. But she wanted to see Talia and make sure that she hadn’t made a complete mess of everything. She had never experienced anything like that party. She was glad she had, but she was also worried. She was worried because she was still drawn to Jay. But it was Talia she wanted...right?

She reached down and pulled Raghida up.

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