Marked - Chapter 20 Sporking

CHAPTER TWENTY

I was going to have to talk to Neferet. I thought about it as Stevie Rae and I rushed through breakfast the next morning. I didn't want to tell her anything about my supposed strange reaction to the elements—I mean, I hadn't been lying to Stevie Rae. I could have imagined the entire thing.

We all know you didn’t imagine it; stop the faux humility.

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What if I tell Neferet and she makes me take some kind of weird affinity test (in this school, who knew?) and she finds out that I don't have anything other than an overactive imagination? No way did I want to go through something like that.

Why? At least you would know for sure one way or the other. Your aversion to telling anyone anything just makes you look even more stupid than you already are.

 

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Marked - Chapter 21 Sporking

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

I really hope this phone call isn’t just PCK wanking over Zoey’s specialness some more…

"Hi Grandma, it's me.”

"Oh! My Zoeybird! Are you okay, honey?”

I smiled into the phone and wiped my eyes. "I'm good, Grandma. I just miss you.”

You know, when she can be bothered to remember you even exist.

"Little bird, I miss you, too." She paused and then said, "Has your mom called you?”

"No.”

 

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