Arkadia (Halfway House Series Book 1) Read Online Free PDF

no intention of talking, or anything else with Eloise; yes, she helped her out last night, but a mother that did not make her.
    Walking past the kitchen table, she heard “croooooak” and stopped dead in her tracks. She slowly turned her head, having a mini nightmare that she was going to lay her eyes upon Sebastian’s green slimy frog body again this morning. Her blood ran cold as she was already thinking up excuses as to why the Mayor’s son was on an all fly diet.
    Raven and Zahmali laughed to themselves, and Arkadia realized it was Raven that had made the noise. “Oh sure, that would be right, Raven,” she said. She grabbed her bag by the door and looked back at Raven with a death stare that may have in fact caused some singeing on Raven’s long black hair. “Can’t find your voice when you need to tell me it’s washing day? Or to tell me what assignment is due tomorrow? But when it comes to pointing out my mistake, you turn into a right royal Jerry Springer, huh?” Arkadia stormed back over to the table, leaned right over and grabbed the butter knife off the table. She could see Raven’s smile quickly disappearing. “Let’s see how tough you are now, Vamp Girl.” Arkadia cut the tip of her finger and shoved it over at Raven.
    As the tiny orb of red blood appeared at the top of Arkadia’s finger, her eyes met Raven’s. She watched Raven’s face turn white, and her eyes glaze over and rollback into her skull. Arkadia turned away as she heard the thump of Raven’s unconscious body falling to the floor in a dead faint. Arkadia licked the top of her finger and strutted out the door, feeling justified in her revenge.
    Arkadia walked up the stairs to the school, and the girls were right where they always are, waiting at the top, sitting on the brick wall on the left-handside. Standing to exchange a hug with each of the girls, they seemed eager to know about the date.
    “What was it?” Cheyanne asked.
    “Was he as gross as we thought he might be?” questioned Cat. Arkadia really didn’t want to say much about the date, and certainly didn’t want any of the details getting to be public knowledge.
    “I bet Sebastian was the slimiest date you have ever had, am I right, Ark?” Vi asked as she came to stand over beside Arkadia.
    She froze. Slimiest? What the? Vi couldn’t know, there was no way in hell that Vi could know anything. They were in a car, at the drive-in, but still, a shot of fear struck up her spine. Vi did say the word slimiest, not boring, or crappy. Arkadia tried to breathe normally so she wouldn’t give away the fact every cell in her body was screaming, “I don’t wear prison orange.” She slowly looked over at Vi, seeking answers, but only saw genuine interest and concern in her eyes. Arkadia relaxed a little and answered, “Let me put it this way, Vi,” Arkadia looped her arm through Vi’s and smiled, “he isn’t no Prince Charming.”
    Taking their seats in the most boring English class on the face of the earth, Arkadia sat beside Cheyanne, in front of the two seats that were taken by Vi and Cat. Arkadia had already begun to tune out. When it came to Mrs. Eckles and her monotone voice reciting Shakespeare, she could cure any insomniac instantly with a simple forty-five minute class.
    Suddenly, for Arkadia the world went silent, and every hair on her body began to rise, like a serpent charged with electricity straight from the heavens above, wound around her ankles and slithered up her calves, twisting and writhing over her thighs. Arkadia’s breathing began to get shallow as she was becoming intoxicated and confused at her body’s response. Arkadia looked out the window, and sure enough, as she expected, the big, black, shiny beast of a truck was parked in the parking lot. Looking to the license plate to check if it was the same, she could just barely make out the ‘DRGN30’, and her heart began to race at a clip that would have impressed the highest paid jockey.
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