boy.
“Hey, I heard there was a party in the woods last night. Did you go? Was it awesome? I bet it was awesome.” He beamed practically bouncing in his seat.
“Uh, yeah. Awesome.” I shifted in my seat, my fingers tapping on the surface of my desk. I needed a cigarette bad. I missed what Trevor said as I tried to contemplate the likelihood that my guard dog would let me sneak out to have one.
“Did they? Did they?”
“Huh?” I jerked my eyes back to the boy and cocked my head to the side. “Did they what?”
“Harmonize their powers?” Trevor asked again exasperated by my lack of response.
I thought back to the show I’d seen. The display of violence and beauty all mixed together into one. Harmonizing, huh? Well, they have that down to an art. I’d definitely call what they did a display of harmonization.
“Yeah, they did.” I picked up my pencil as Professor Rufus began to write on the board. Today we were talking about the fall and rise of Lucifer, the Morning Star. Samael. Who apparently ran a high profile business office in New York City. It made me suspicious about who exactly my dad worked for. Too many coincidences.
I tapped my pencil against the side of my desk, my leg bouncing in place. I so didn’t want a history lesson right now. I needed to get my phone back and let Nikki know what happened. The last thing I needed was for her to show up here. Especially since those so-called angels actually existed and wanted me dead.
Go figure.
Professor Rufus speech became background noise as my mind wandered.
There was so much I didn’t understand about this place. Or about my dad. Even everything I knew about myself was becoming more and more of a mystery. My fingers circled the mark on my hand, which was barely there today.
Sarah told me there were more to my powers but what? How far could my powers go? I saw visions of death it wasn’t exactly something you could expand on.
It’s not like I’ll suddenly sprout wings and fly.
Out of the corner of my eye, Trevor’s pencil rolling off his desk. It dropped to the floor and continued until it was hidden under the person in front of him.
“You dropped your pencil.”
“What where?” Trevor lifted his book up, searching for his pencil. The pencil that was underneath the edge of his book and when he lifted the book up it knocked the pencil off just like I’d seen before. I watched as it fell to the ground again and rolled under the chair in front of him.
“Hey, that’s not funny.” Trevor stuck his tongue out at me, getting out of his chair to retrieve his pencil.
“Uh…sorry.” I dragged my hand through my hair catching my fingers in the tangles. Great. I was seeing things and had a bad case of bed head.
Chapter 15
When class was over, Dex was waiting right outside the doorway.
“Don’t you have your own class to teach?” I shot at him, trying to quicken my steps to lose him.
“Yes, but since someone has to keep any eye on you until your father is able to, a substitute is covering my classes.”
The mention of my dad made me stop. “What about my dad? Is he okay?”
Arching a brow, Dex continued to walk past me. “I didn’t think you cared one way or the other?”
“Well, no,” I explained, catching up to him as I darted by the other students trying my best not to hit every single one of them. “I mean, I do but more in a curious did that angel last night kill him kind of way.”
Dex snorted. “It will take far more than Michael to take out your father. Besides, they don’t want to kill him. They need him.”
I frowned. “Why?”
He stopped abruptly and I barely caught myself from walking into his back. “To get to this place of course.”
“What?”
“Who do you think funds this place? Keeps it hidden from the angels?” Dex stared at me as if I’d grown a second head. “Your father is single handedly responsible for finding and keeping all of these children alive.” He gestured around the hallway. “He is the reason none of the angels have stormed this place and taken us all out.” His expression grew serious. “We owe a lot to him.”
I hummed and shifted in place uncomfortable with the way he was talking about my dad. “So, he neglected me all my life to protect the kids of