Literature

MichaI’m determined to have a party tonight, even though I’m not a fan of parties. Never really have been. I just like how they block out all the noise inside…

Micha”Dude, where the fuck is your head today?” Ethan asks and seconds later a grease rag hits me in the face. I throw it back at him, hard. “You’re starting…

EllaThe next morning Lila is feeling much better. It’s like last night never happened, but I wonder if it’s an act. “I have a feeling that today is going to…

EllaI can remember the first time I wanted to kiss Micha as clearly as the day I found my mother dead. Both times were equally as terrifying, but in two…

MichaI’ve slept in my own bed for the past week, even though my body itched to do another maneuver up the tree and into Ella’s window. She’s been avoiding me…

EllaI realize I have more issues than I thought. As soon as we turn onto the Back Road, a passion combusts inside me. It only flames hotter when we pull…

EllaDean’s got his music blasting upstairs at full volume and it’s rattling the ceiling. I start picking up the garbage in the kitchen, avoiding the confrontation of seeing him again….

MichaThe pain in her eyes nearly kills me. If it were possible, I’d go back in time and stop her from climbing down that tree that God awful night. Maybe…

MichaThere she is, the girl I used to know. It’s visible in her green eyes that she’s getting turned on. She was always weird like that, the speed, the danger…

Micha”She’s already got you all hot and bothered.” Ethan sips on his soda. “Look at you. Drunk after eight months of sobriety and I don’t believe it’s a coincidence it…

Ella”I take it that’s Micha?” Lila wanders around my kitchen as she tightens a loose ribbon on the waist of her floral dress. “He’s even cuter than in the picture.”…

Ella”I swear to God if we don’t find a bathroom soon, I’m going to piss in my pants.” Lila bounces up and down in the driver’s seat. The air conditioner…

8 months later…Ella I despise mirrors. Not because I hate my reflection or that I suffer from Eisoptrophobia. Mirrors see straight through my facade. They know who I used to…

I lifted up my dad’s PDA and counted off the seconds with the two thousand other people in the room.”Five! Four! Three! Two! One!” And then there was no noise,…

And so I went home, Consu gift in tow.John and Jane greeted me as I jumped off the Obin shuttle, all of us ending in a pile as I ran…

I entered the storage deck of the other Obin ship.”So this is the human who has an entire race to do her bidding,” said the Consu waiting there for me….

Something was nudging me awake. I swatted at it. “Die,” I said.”Zoe,” Hickory said. “You have a visitor.” I blinked up at Hickory, who was framed as a silhouette by…

“Demand something back,” I said to myself as I waited for the Obin council member to greet me in my state-room. “Demand something back. Demand something back.”I’m definitely going to…

The next morning I found out Dad was under arrest.”It’s not exactly arrest,” Dad said at our kitchen table, having his morning coffee. “I’ve been relieved of my position as…

“Admit it,” Enzo said, through the PDA. “You forgot.””I did not,” I said, with what I hoped was just the right amount of indignation to suggest that I had not…