BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 90: Truant {3}

Chapter 90: Truant {3}

The moment we made eye contact I think my blood ran cold, the look she gave me wasn’t exactly satisfying or hateful either, I could not explain it but it made me more anxious as I took aching steps towards her, maybe this was a bad idea.

But the hot whelming eagerness to ask about Dace overridden my brain to stay away, I couldn’t stop my body now, because I was moving with that, there was no going back down. I opened my mouth to say something.

"Emma, there you are’’ Henry wrapped his arm around my neck pulling me to him, that was when we broke eye contact. "So prom..." he began and I looked behind me, only to find out that Emilia was gone, great just great.

"Whatcha looking at?"

"N-Nothing"

He raised an eyebrow. "You sure?"

"Yeah, we should get going, Exams will start soon"

"Yeah yeah sure and after that let’s talk about prom, your first prom ever in Juneau High" he seemed overly enthusiastic now, but I didn’t match the level of his excitement.

~

After Exams

"What do you mean you haven’t attended prom before," Henry said like he heard me wrong, his hazel eyes with a mix of confusion. He gazed upon like I was some strange being.

I shrugged.

"Well, she said it," Miles said.

"You didn’t attend in Washington?" Owen asked this time.

I nod my head before poking my salad. "I stayed home reading manga," I said with a shrug.

"Whoa! She’s serious" Henry said in a whisper like we didn’t hear him, what was the big deal? I wasn’t a fan of prom, because of people and I don’t think I will, and what more, dresses, makeups, and all that stuff wasn’t really my thing.

"Well, you have to attend," Miles intoned.

"There’s always a start for new things"

My eyes darted to Owen who gave me a bright smile, he was right though, but I wasn’t exactly feeling it.

"You could go with Owen, trust me he would love it," Miles said with a smug grin.

"Hey!" Owen snapped at him and Miles and Henry snickered, I just giggled.

"Thanks, guys, but prom isn’t really my thing" my smile suddenly fades.

"Hey, what’s wrong," Owen asked suddenly worried, he seemed to always know when I have a change of mood, and I forced a smile to his answer.

"Sarah," I said and it was like the air was sucked out around the table we sat. "Haven’t seen her" maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned her name because the mood seemed to break immediately but I couldn’t stop the curiosity within me.

"Yeah she can’t write the Exams," Henry said in a stern tone.

"She can’t come to school either," Miles said this time.

"What do you mean?" I asked with perplexity.

"Sarah won’t attend Juneau high anymore, that was part of her punishment," Owen said.

"O-Oh" I leveled my gaze, feeling somewhat uncomfortable. "I-I need to use the restroom" I abruptly rose to my feet. "See you guys" I walked away before they could say anything,

I took a deep shaky breath rubbing my forehead, well I did not expect that, Sarah won’t school here anymore? That was just part of her punishment? I don’t know why but I felt sorry for her.

"Great" I sighed before opening the door, I wasn’t exactly going for a pee, I just needed to escape the gang, I saw their looks when I asked about Sarah, they were sad looks, I had a feeling that they couldn’t do anything even if they wanted to, they felt sorry for her and maybe I did too.

She had her reasons and I understand that but she went too far, I could have been killed, I mentally asked myself why she would go that far, I knew quite well it was all because of Dace.

I turned on the tap, she must have really had feelings for him, maybe she loves him to that extent, ’Love’ my eyes to the mirror, what exactly does that feel like? To love, my parents didn’t exactly have love and I never got to experience that from them. Maybe I could have understood it a little. I never knew my dad and my mom never talked about him, all I knew was he was out of the picture before I even came to this world.

But sometimes I saw it in my mom’s eyes even though she didn’t talk about it, she was sad and hurt.

I sighed, taking off my glasses and splashing some water on my face, before using the wipe on it and putting on my glasses. I almost screamed when I saw Emilia behind me, but what escaped me was a gasp.

"You don’t look good, Emma" she began in her usual cold tone walking to the sink beside me and fixing her looks.

She always looks perfect, her dressing mocking mine in a good way, I was always the one to admire good things and not envy them, that was the kind of person I was... even now I couldn’t take my eyes off her, she was so beautiful that it made my heart ached, and looking at her reminded me of Dace and I felt that tight feeling in my chest again.

"Rather than stare... if you’re gonna ask just ask," she said, applying her mascara which I still remembered the name of after our encounter at the mall, so that was how it works, no wonder my mom applies it this much, it brings out your eyelashes.

She cleared her throat and I jumped slightly away from my thoughts.

"I-I-I haven’t heard from Dace, his line been switched off, he missed the exams"

She huffed. "Is that what you are worried about?"

"I mean he’s smart he could take makeup exams"

She snickered, opening the lid of something and I saw something red, oh I know that one, it was lipstick.

She faced me with her raised eyebrow and the words left me.

"I’m worried about him"