Chapter 9

As Pogue and Caleb hopped on Pogue's bike to take Caleb home, Tyler and Reid escorted the girls back to the girls back to their dorms. Tyler went with Sarah and Kate and Reid went with Summer. He left her at the door because she didn't want Kira to ask questions. But when Reid left Summer and she got in, there was no sign of Kira anywhere. She supposed that was a good thing and went to sleep. Sarah on the other hand, was lying in bed staring at the ceiling. She couldn't get that image out of her head. The white flash she had seen in Summer's eyes the night before, the weird way she had cried blood today. Unable to resist the temptation, clambered out of bed and went back to the rec.

As she trudged through the darkness she couldn't help but wonder if she was over reacting, even if she was mad. Maybe Summer was normal. Caleb was the one with the weird powers, right? She knew those existed. But she had to be sure.

When she reached the tree that Aaron was attacked under, she looked around for any clue to what happened. But then, what was she looking for? She looked and looked but she didn't see anything out of the ordinary, so she sat on a log to think. Then she felt something. A void in the log underneath her. She got up and felt the surface. This is strange she thought.

She then pulled the log out of the shade of the tree and into the light of the moon and was astonished to see what it was. A hand print. A hand print that was burned into the fabric of the wood. It was definitely Summer's, she had no doubt of that, it was small with thin, long fingers.

Doing her best not to be seen, Sarah carried the log back to her dorm so that she would have the evidence to confront Summer with later. She then went to sleep, trying to work out what could have caused her hand to print in the wood.

The next morning, Summer got up immediately. Kira was now in her bed, she was wearing a full two piece pyjama set, which was odd but relieving. She was still asleep when Summer left so she must have been out pretty late. As Summer left her room, she turned around and was faced with a beaming Sarah.

"Oh, hi Sarah." She greeted. Sarah smiled on, wondering what to do next.

"Um, hey, do you want to do?" she said and the two of them started walking to class as the hallways began to fill with students.

"So, what happened last night?" Sarah asked, trying to be subtle.

"I-I don't remember." Summer insisted, she could never tell Sarah, at least not until she told the guys.

"C'mon, really?" Sarah asked persistently, she was not going to drop this easily and Summer knew that.

"Look, Sarah I have no clue, honestly. Can we please not talk about it any more?" Sarah was about to retort until they rounded a corner into Caleb and Reid. They looked shocked to have been disturbed. Caleb, without a word, glared at Reid, smiled at Summer then walked away with Sarah, who looked over her shoulder at Summer.

What just happened? She thought as Reid sidled up behind her. He answered her question without needing to hear it.

"Your brother keeps biting my head off about the tree incident." he explained and Summer nodded as they followed the direction that Sarah and Caleb had walked in to go to class. Summer looked up at Reid, wanting to explain everything she knew, but knew she couldn't. As they walked into class, Summer knew she couldn't sit with Sarah and Kate now she knew that Sarah was suspicious, so she sat next to Reid, who was in between her and Tyler. Mr. Hutt walked in soon after and scanned the room for them, eyeing them with warning in memory of what had happened last time.

"Hello, class." he said openly. "Today we are going to be answering practice final papers on The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway." he said handing them out.

"This will be done in silence and absolutely no one is to cheat." he said before giving them the go ahead to start. Summer whizzed through the questions and was the first to finish whereas Reid struggled and didn't finish the last question. He looked over at Summer. Why does she have to be so beautiful when she's not even trying to be? He asked himself as she simply flicked her hair over her shoulder.

After class was over and they got their mock paper results, Summer was the first one Reid spoke to.

"What did you get?" he asked her.

"Full marks: A+." she told him, beaming and holding her paper up. "You?"

"42%: D-." he sighed as Summer gave him a reassuring 'its OK its not the real thing' look. As they packed up and left for the day, Reid followed after Summer.

"Hey, Summer!" he called. As she heard his voice she turned and beamed.

"Hey, Reid. What's up." she greeted perkily. He momentarily got lost in her chocolate eyes.

"You don't suppose that later you could come over and teach me a bit about that book do you?" he asked, his voice trembling slightly. Why was he nervous? He was never nervous.

"Um, sure, Reid. What time?" she asked.

"7?" he suggested.

"Sure thing. Oh but don't tell Caleb will you? He probably think we'll be having sex or something stupid." she laughed as she walked off down the hall. Reid stared after her with a burning sense of longing in his throat.

Yeah he thought stupid.

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