All right, I’d had enough of her spiraling.
She slithered onto my hand so easily and I hugged her close.
“I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.” I kissed her snout.
With her slithering around my neck to stay in place, I pulled out a pair of wide leg pants and a shirt.
“I think it’s time you start coming with me to classes anyways. You’re over a week old now. Tarrin said that’s plenty of time. What do you think?” I set her back on the dresser as I switched from Rylan’s clothes to mine.
Edith tilted her head to the side while her belly scales turned lavender. That was her thinking color.
“Alright, but not today. I didn’t get much sleep with all the moans, then wondering where you were.”
It was sweet she was worried about me, but I didn’t want that for her. I was her momma now, which meant I was the worrier, not her.
“I’m sorry again, little noddle. Get some rest. I’ll check on you during lunch, okay?”
She slithered back into her moose and yawned.
With thirty minutes left before class, I tidied up in the bathroom, grabbed a purple sweater with silver stars, slipped on some flats, then left.
The coffee line was fairly short, so instead of heading straight to class, I decided to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the morning air for ten minutes.
Then a clicking of heels came to a stop behind me. A sweet-as-pie voice entered my vicinity and my metaphorical hackles raised. “Hi there.”
I glanced back to see Delanie Templeton standing with her arms crossed over her chest with three women behind her.
“Hello,” I greeted her even though she didn’t seem to be here on friendly terms.
She pushed her blonde hair back with pink manicured nails and sneered. “I just think it’s sweet that Rylan took pity on the ugliest girl in class to sit next to. Probably made you feel good.”
Geez, who just walked up to someone and said something like that? No hi, how are you or anything. Just jumped right to some lame, teenage bully insult.
The sheer audacity made me laugh. We’re talking full blown coffee spitting out of my mouth laughter. This was not high school, and I did not care what this twatsicle thought of me.
“He made me feel good last night, too,” I purred, giving her a knowing wink. “We’re talkingreallygood.”
One woman behind her grinned and I remember what it was like to feel like you had to follow behind the cool girl in school. Better behind her asshole comments than in front of them.
“Whatever fantasy you have about him,” Delanie hissed, pointing a finger at me. “Just know, he’s going to be mine. So, you need to get over it.”
I stood to tell her I if I could handle dragging a pre-teen away from the mall on a Friday night, I could handle her wimpy ass.
I never got the chance because the far side of the courtyard exploded.
Kaboom!
Chapter Twenty-Three
The gravity of my new life knocked me on my ass
The blast knocked me over the picnic table, and a roar kept my head down.
What the hell just happened?
“Nobody move.” A strong male voice bounced around the courtyard, and I dared a peek from beneath the table.
It was the headmaster.
