imitated the motion and headed back in the other direction.
In the middle of the night a sound came loud and clear through my door, but I put my pillow over my head and fell back asleep. A new dream had me off kilter and I couldn ’t do anything but fall back asleep from exhaustion. Another knock came later and I was up groaning to my empty space.
Sore and tired, I searched for my favorite jeans and ballet flats. I yanked on one of my favorite pullover girl-sleeved t-shirts with the little diamonds all around the collar and sleeves. I love the way the sunshine makes it sparkle too bright into my enemy’s eyes. Well, in my imagination.
I combed through my hair, bobby pinned a crisscross on the left side, applied a thin layer of my favorite shiny cherry lip gloss, and headed out the door with my one book in hand.
I pondered on the way about the knock on my door in the night. I could have sworn I heard other doors knocked on too. Could be suspicious! Or girl craziness. They seem to be a bit on the silly side.
I hurried to English lit class that effectively passed in a blur. I am normally very interested in my favorite subject, but my heart was now erratic while walking towards the gym in anticipation of the coming hour.
I forced my thoughts from weapons class to the side with my crazy dream from the night before. For some reason or another, I’ve always dreamed I was able to fly. Just up and going. In my dreams I could see the ground beneath me, but not actually see how I was flying. I also had practical dreams like one day traveling to see Italy, where my mom was born. But last night, I also dreamed about the always standing in the shadows of indecisiveness boy named Calum. The oddness of it was he stood in the background, watching. Why the flying included him in the same dream, I didn’t know, but my flying dream always geared the same way. Some dark, mysterious guy would whisk me up and in my mind, just hover.
I ’ve seen couples kiss before, but the idea of this boy and a kiss made my heart rate speed up simply because it was new to me. Maze and Liz made it sound like it could be something amazing. I’ve never considered the idea of picking who I would marry or kissing them. Of course, I’d woken up in the night thinking how stupid I was since he was a Hunter and I was Valkyrie. But still, the girls indicated I didn’t have to marry him. This was a rule breaker experience I contemplated, so I was sitting on the devil’s side of the fence just thinking about it. I would never admit to anyone how little I know. I’ve learned a lot in just a few days. I’ve never considered myself as anything but within an arranged marriage. Not too long ago, I challenged my father into considering it my choice. He didn’t say either way, but the shipping yard owner still hade appearances at our court. It was his son I was expected to marry.
I rushed to the gym and dropped my book on the bleacher placing my new bag given to me by Maze on top of it. I yanked a chocolate bar out and started munching while looking around for Maze, Liz, Calum, or anyone I knew.
After searching from the left over ending where I started with the knife throwing from yesterday, I found Maze working in the archery range. I started to head that way, but a hand reached out and pulled my arm by the wrist forcing my chocolate away. I instantly felt the current run up and shuddered. Knowing where it came from, I turned and was looking up a foot higher where his face would be before my feet made the turn.
It was Calum, and he was smiling with the wicked grin that doughed me into certain mush yesterday for which gave thought to Dyer. He was a boy who tutored with me for some years and left to return home when he was fifteen. They ’d decided that he was too old to tutor with a young lady and was sent off to tutor with another. I
In the middle of the night a sound came loud and clear through my door, but I put my pillow over my head and fell back asleep. A new dream had me off kilter and I couldn ’t do anything but fall back asleep from exhaustion. Another knock came later and I was up groaning to my empty space.
Sore and tired, I searched for my favorite jeans and ballet flats. I yanked on one of my favorite pullover girl-sleeved t-shirts with the little diamonds all around the collar and sleeves. I love the way the sunshine makes it sparkle too bright into my enemy’s eyes. Well, in my imagination.
I combed through my hair, bobby pinned a crisscross on the left side, applied a thin layer of my favorite shiny cherry lip gloss, and headed out the door with my one book in hand.
I pondered on the way about the knock on my door in the night. I could have sworn I heard other doors knocked on too. Could be suspicious! Or girl craziness. They seem to be a bit on the silly side.
I hurried to English lit class that effectively passed in a blur. I am normally very interested in my favorite subject, but my heart was now erratic while walking towards the gym in anticipation of the coming hour.
I forced my thoughts from weapons class to the side with my crazy dream from the night before. For some reason or another, I’ve always dreamed I was able to fly. Just up and going. In my dreams I could see the ground beneath me, but not actually see how I was flying. I also had practical dreams like one day traveling to see Italy, where my mom was born. But last night, I also dreamed about the always standing in the shadows of indecisiveness boy named Calum. The oddness of it was he stood in the background, watching. Why the flying included him in the same dream, I didn’t know, but my flying dream always geared the same way. Some dark, mysterious guy would whisk me up and in my mind, just hover.
I ’ve seen couples kiss before, but the idea of this boy and a kiss made my heart rate speed up simply because it was new to me. Maze and Liz made it sound like it could be something amazing. I’ve never considered the idea of picking who I would marry or kissing them. Of course, I’d woken up in the night thinking how stupid I was since he was a Hunter and I was Valkyrie. But still, the girls indicated I didn’t have to marry him. This was a rule breaker experience I contemplated, so I was sitting on the devil’s side of the fence just thinking about it. I would never admit to anyone how little I know. I’ve learned a lot in just a few days. I’ve never considered myself as anything but within an arranged marriage. Not too long ago, I challenged my father into considering it my choice. He didn’t say either way, but the shipping yard owner still hade appearances at our court. It was his son I was expected to marry.
I rushed to the gym and dropped my book on the bleacher placing my new bag given to me by Maze on top of it. I yanked a chocolate bar out and started munching while looking around for Maze, Liz, Calum, or anyone I knew.
After searching from the left over ending where I started with the knife throwing from yesterday, I found Maze working in the archery range. I started to head that way, but a hand reached out and pulled my arm by the wrist forcing my chocolate away. I instantly felt the current run up and shuddered. Knowing where it came from, I turned and was looking up a foot higher where his face would be before my feet made the turn.
It was Calum, and he was smiling with the wicked grin that doughed me into certain mush yesterday for which gave thought to Dyer. He was a boy who tutored with me for some years and left to return home when he was fifteen. They ’d decided that he was too old to tutor with a young lady and was sent off to tutor with another. I
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