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- Author: Rachel Van Dyken
- Language: English
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Luna
Present Day
Oregon Coast
Mom gripped the steering wheel hard, turning her knuckles nearly white as
our Jeep rolled into Orca Cove. The trip was supposed to be my birthday gift,
even though I still had a month before I turned nineteen. There was a reason
we had to drive into the town early, a reason that my mom looked pale and
sickly despite her futile attempts to add artificial color to her cheeks with
blush.
She was dying.
And nobody, not even the doctors, knew why. It wasn’t until she started
having crazy dreams about soul-sucking demons, which had her waking up in
a cold sweat, that I realized it was affecting not just her body but her mind.
Last week she started hearing voices.
And by the way she was driving—they were heckling her now. I was no
shrink, but part of me wondered if she would rather have her body fail than
her mind with the way she reacted every single time she was taunted.
I cleared my throat and tried to think of something that would take her
mind off of the darkness. “I think I’m going to have sex with my lab partner.”
Swear she hit the brakes so hard the seatbelt jerked against my body as the
car swerved to the right. “I’m sorry, what?”
“You’re shrieking.” I pointed out with a smile.
“I am not.” She took a deep breath and hit the accelerator again.
“Shrieking. I’m just surprised. Don’t you think you’re a little young to be
having sex? And what’s with telling me about it? Now I’m going to be
wondering every day if you’ve actually gone through with it, and the last
thing we need is me picturing—” She made a face. “Rob’s really your first
choice? Really?”
I burst out laughing. “Not at all. You know how I’m saving myself for
Tom Holland.”
Her frown slowly melted into a smile. “So, you were kidding, right?
Please God, tell me you were kidding. I can’t leave this earth knowing my
daughter’s going to have her first sexual experience with a guy who talks to
his lizard more than his parents.”
“His lizard has quite the TikTok following.” I yawned behind my hand
and looked out the window at the ocean waves crashing against the rocky
shore. “Besides, there are worse guys out there.”
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