Forbidden Love: Fate (Zac and Ivy Trilogy Book 1) Read Online Free PDF Page A

go mental now. In fact, he might even kill me. Not only
did I miss a couple days of school, but now my absence from school
will be extended until my leg is fully recovered.
    “And when can I go to school?” I ask.
    “Another month or so,” the doctor tells
me.
    I almost stop breathing.
    Another month? How am I supposed to learn
algebra when I’ll miss school for that length of time?
    “But I can’t,” I tell her. “I need to go to
school. I have to pass the algebra test. And I have band
practice.”
    “I’m sure your band can come to your house
for practice sessions,” she suggests calmly.
    “Well, what about algebra?” I fire back in
alarm. “How am I supposed to learn that if I don’t go to
school?”
    I’m not impressed with my behavior right
now. I’m just like Kai going into his hysterical mode. But I really
can’t lose Elsa. Not because of one lame broken leg. Why can’t I
go to school in a wheelchair?
    “You look stressed out.” She laughs.
    This is no laughing matter. I seriously need
to pass algebra.
    “Don’t worry. We’ll enroll you in our PHST
program,” she tells me, which doesn’t do an ounce of good to ease
my worry. What’s she talking about, PHST program? What kind of
acronym is that?
    “That stands for Patient Home School
Tutoring program,” she answers in reply to my silent question.
“Young students like yourself who require rehabilitation and
healing time would miss school. So we created this program to help
them recover at their own rate but still benefit from not missing
any of their classes. Since you keep on mentioning algebra, you
must struggle in that area. Am I correct?”
    I don’t want to admit my weakness, but
there’s no way around it.
    “Yes.” I nod.
    “That’s good. In our PHST program, we have
advanced students from all different subjects. We will be sure to
pair you up with an expert in algebra.”
    I heave a sigh of relief. “That’s good,
then.”
    Now that the subject of algebra and my
broken leg have been sorted out, we turn to more immediate
matters.
    “Have you got anyone to pick you up? Shall I
call your dad?” the doctor asks.
    “No. My friend is coming over soon. I just
phoned him.”
    “Okay. I’ll wheel you into the waiting room,
then.”
    “No, I’m fine.” I stop her before she has
the chance to touch the wheelchair.
    It’s embarrassing already to have my leg in
a cast and holding crutches, but to be wheeled around like a sick
child too… No, I can’t take that. I’m a big man now.
    I know before I said I’m willing to even go
to school in a wheelchair, but that’s because I’m desperate. Now
everything’s resolved. There’s no way I’m letting anyone see me in
a wheelchair.
    I wear my backpack and stand up, all the
while trying to balance on the damn crutches. Once I’m stable
enough, I thank her and head out. I don’t stop until I reach the
main waiting area.
    My stomach growls again. I’m tired and my
grumpy mood resurfaces. There’s not much I can do but sit and play
the waiting game again.
    Where is Kai, that damn bastard? I’ll box
his ears until they ring when I see him.
    I’m too busy thinking of ways to punish Kai
when a little girl of about five or six appears out of nowhere and
sits next to me. She grins at me and then slides off her seat
again.
    I’m curious. Who’s this girl? Where’s she
come from? And what the hell is she doing poking at my cast?
    “Allo.” She looks up at me from her
inspection. “What’s wrong with your leg? Why is it in that white
thing?”
    “Ugh… I broke my leg,” I tell her. How does
one talk to a little kid? I don’t have a little brother or sister.
The same goes for Kai. So to have one this close to me makes me
nervous somehow.
    She grins at me again, then asks in her
little chirpy voice, “Does it hurt?”
    “Yeah,” I reply, grinning back. That smile
on her lips is really contagious. Somehow, I find I’m no longer in
my bad mood, although she looks sad with