Sapphire
““When she turns sixteen...they’ll come for her.”
The worst part wasn’t the terrible secret between her parents that she’d overheard, it was that she turned sixteen today.
“Hel-lo?”
Startled, Shawna dropped her apple. Her friend, Tara, was waving her arms like she was signaling a rescue plane.
“How was space? You back now?”
Shawna nodded. Despite the day being warm and beautiful at Bozeman High, a chill prickled up her skin.
“So, anyway,” said Tara, “your mom and dad found you? Did I really ju...st hear that?”
“That’s, um.” Shawna forced herself to swallow the bite of apple she’d been chewing on for the last minute. It tasted like wax-paper. “That’s what I heard them say.”
“And your mom kept you cuz you were a ‘sign’”—Tara made asterisks in the air with her black Lick-Irish fingernails—“and your dad was desperate?”
Shawna nodded again, tucked a rebellious strand of blonde hair behind her ear, and felt her throat constrict.
“You only wanted her because of that thing,”MoreLess
The worst part wasn’t the terrible secret between her parents that she’d overheard, it was that she turned sixteen today.
“Hel-lo?”
Startled, Shawna dropped her apple. Her friend, Tara, was waving her arms like she was signaling a rescue plane.
“How was space? You back now?”
Shawna nodded. Despite the day being warm and beautiful at Bozeman High, a chill prickled up her skin.
“So, anyway,” said Tara, “your mom and dad found you? Did I really ju...st hear that?”
“That’s, um.” Shawna forced herself to swallow the bite of apple she’d been chewing on for the last minute. It tasted like wax-paper. “That’s what I heard them say.”
“And your mom kept you cuz you were a ‘sign’”—Tara made asterisks in the air with her black Lick-Irish fingernails—“and your dad was desperate?”
Shawna nodded again, tucked a rebellious strand of blonde hair behind her ear, and felt her throat constrict.
“You only wanted her because of that thing,”MoreLess
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