Night Cast by nichole.pages (first ebook reader .TXT) 📕

got out my phone and texted Owen. Hey. Mom freaked. Gotta go to a recital. Pick me up there.
I got dressed while I waited for him to answer. I put on a light blue tube top that flared at the bottom, and a pair of ripped blue jeans with some silver heels.
My phone went off and I looked at the message. k. see you then.
Now all I had to do was figure out a way to go missing without raising mom's suspicion.


Chapter 3

Storm was the first person I went to. And when she saw me coming her face lit up and she ran towards me. “How'd it go?”
I glared at her. “He didn't show.”
She put one hand on her hip and raised her brows. “He did What?”
She said it quietly but you could tell she was raging on the inside.
“He didn't show. I told my mom about him taking me out and she said I had to go to the recital, so I texted him and told him to meet me there. But he never showed.”
She had a murderous look in her eyes.
I started to get a little cautious and stood up for Owen a bit. “Don't do anything to serious, Storm. He probably didn't get the message.” Even though he answered. But I wasn't going to tell her that.
“Don't lie to me, Ivory. I know he answered back.” She turned with that and stormed off to our first period class.

When we got to lunch I sat at our table and started to pick at my food, feeling like crap.
“I knew he was no good.”
Storm and I looked sharply at Carey.
I narrowed my eyes at him. “What do you
mean?”
He looked up at me from his food. “I mean, he's a stupid ass jerk and I knew he was no good.”
“He's got a point there, Ivory.”
“No, he doesn't. It probably all just a big misunderstanding.”
They both just stared at me. I got up and threw my tray away and left.
I went to the library and searched in the back to look up some stuff for my history work on the Korean war.
As I was leaving the library Owen walked up to me. “Ivory, listen. I'm so sorry I didn't show. I got stuck with some problems and had left my phone at home. I'm sorry.”
I looked him in the eyes and saw he was
really sincere. “It's okay. I understand, sometimes
things get in the way.” I smiled at him. “No hard feelings.”
He smiled back at me. “Good, then let me make it up to you. I'm gonna take you out this weekend then. That alright?”
“That's fine.”
“Then I'll see you later.” He turned and walked off while I headed to my next period class.

***

I looked down at my hands covered in intricate tattoos. I laughed and jumped and cried for joy. “Yes! It's finally happened!” I calmed down and closed my eyes. “I'm whole once again.
And no one will ever be able to stop me. Ever.”
I looked over to a man standing next to a door in the far corner. “Sage.”
“Yes madam?”
“Get me some whine, and invite Giles over for supper. It's time we had a little chat.”
“Yes madam.” Sage bowed and walked out the door.
I walked around the room mumbling to myself. But I couldn't understand a word I said. Sage returned a while later with some whine and the cooks to set table. A few hours later everything was ready and Sage walked in again.
“Madam. Giles is here.”
“Good, good. Let him in.”
The door opened and a foot came in. But
before he came all the way in I turned around and
Walked to a seat at the end of the table. “It's happened Giles.”
“Then may we celebrate.” You could here the smile on his face when he said those words.

***

I woke up gasping for air again. I had no Idea what the dream was about. But I knew it was related to the dream with the boy. Those were the same hands I had used to cut his hand off.
Instead of going to get something to drink I lay in bed wasting the time away staring at my ceiling not knowing what to do. I couldn't go back to sleep. Even though I was tired as crap, I
couldn't. And I wasn't leaving my room. That Giles man might show up like the boy did. So I lay in bed until my alarm clock went off and I got ready for school.

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