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she replied, batting her tinted lashes.
“I feel like I am being goaded towards something.”
“Yeah,” she said flatly, surprise on her face.
“Calisthenics.”
I accepted the lift to school. We rode in a more
modest red hatchback with dust in the windows. I
recognized it as the car that we had left in the school
lot yesterday afternoon. “I left the G6 at home today,”
she joked.
The inside was grey, and it smelt a bit of something bad covered with aerosol, maybe baby spew. She
drove with two hands on the steering wheel. I was
sure this was her car and I noted Giny seemed too
cautious as she drove it with her shoulders hunched,
despite the vehicle’s dilapidated condition. The CV
joints crackled as we turned towards school.
“I was scared you’d stolen Mr Marshal’s car
yesterday?”
“Sorry, no.The G6 Sedan is Sam’s,” she admitted.
“What was wrong with your car?”
She didn’t answer, as though it was sadly obvious.
“Sam thought you’d be more comfortable. Do
you like Shade so far?”
“Yeah, it’s different. So this is your car?” I asked.
“Don’t worry you’ll get used to it.”The car or the
town I wondered?
I wished it were true.
“What do you guys do around here for fun?”
She smiled. “We hit the river or hang at Sam’s,
tip cows?”
I smiled “What?”
“That part was a joke.” She giggled softly.
I took the opportunity to ask about my suspicions
“Do you ever haze kids?”
“Haze?” Giny enquired.
“Like your last member?” I looked at her.
“What, Cresida? Why would you think that?” she
asked.
So the girl had been with them. I knew it.
“Why doesn’t she hang with you anymore?” I recalled her expressionless skin and piercing blue eyes,
not unlike Sam’s but clearer and bluer.
Giny replied quietly,“She’s pretty damaged, why?”
“What from?”
“Her parents aren’t around and she’s pretty mixed
up, I’d rather we didn’t gossip. The person who gossips with you today, gossips about you tomorrow,” she
recited.
I smirked, but hid it when she didn’t seem to
share my humour.
“I didn’t know, I’m sorry, forget I asked,” I said
embarrassed, looking out of the window.
“We wouldn’t do anything like that anyway…”
Giny muttered referring to hazing.“Why?”she asked.
I gritted my teeth. “This girl told me not to hang
with you.”
“Who?” she asked, defence coating her tone.
I worried she could easily guess.I shrugged. “I’m
not sure, I don’t know her name. Someone from
math’s class,” I lied, scratching my hair and looking
out the window at the flashing scenery.
“Well, that’s news to me,” she chimed.
I changed the subject. “Giny, do you think I’ll be
any good at Calisthenics? Really?” I was sceptical.
“Yes, you don’t see it but we do.” Her confident
glance made me shift inside.
“What do you see…that no other girl at school
has?” I wasn’t athletic or coordinated.
“We have been waiting for you.”
“Someone, like me?” I almost laughed. “Why?”
I wanted to know how they were so sure someone
would turn up with talent and why Sam thought I
somehow showed that potential when she hardly
knew me.
“Sam sees potential-” She looked at me - “in you.”
Her face was soft and childlike - it didn’t match her
words. I wondered why they didn’t seem to want to
get to know me before inviting me into their circle.
I wasn’t sure what she meant. “Are there any tests
I have to pass?” I was sure I would soon fail them.
“Tests?” She thought. “Oh, like auditions?”
“Yeah.” I imagined trying to do the splits and
cringed.
“Practice is your test. If you’re bad, you’re off the
team.” The car crackled as she turned the wheel and
we entered the school lot.
“Just like that?” I raised a brow.
“Well no, you’d no longer be on the team, but we
would still be friends.”
Somehow I doubted that.
She smiled as if to soften the sting of the last
thing she had