Page 29 of SNOB

It’s like he’s trying to kill me with that gaze. Like his eyes are bullets.

“Malcolm, I command you to stop!”

Then that smirk appears.

“Fuck, Mac, watch out!”

My eyes shift to the road but I see nothing but darkness.

Screech!

A gasp leaves me as my body feels weightless. My stomach drops, the world spinning.

So does the car.

It all happens so fast and I don’t know what he hit, or where we are. But Mac’s eyes are the last things I see before the world slows, and everything goes black.

“Ember.”

The serene sweet sound of nothingness fills me as Uncle Jake flashes in my head. So do Mom and Dad. Their fights. Their laughter.

Pow!

That gun shot.

“Ember.”

Him.

I can hear him now, haunting me in the afterlife.

“Ember!”

I can still feel the way my insides twist when he says my name. Even in a world beyond.

“Ember!”

A hard sting comes to my skin. Then my eyes widen to him.

The sound of the world comes crashing back as that sculpted face moves closer. My eyes fall to his heart-shaped lips as they close in, a little open as if he’s about to give me air.

Pull away, pull away, pull away!

But I’m too dazed to move when his lips graze mine.

The ground shakes beneath me and I don’t know where I am or remember why he’s here but… I want more.

My lips beg to connect to the soft pillowy pair in front of me, and when they do, a soft moan escapes me.

I’m spinning again, my body melting into the earth as a wave of warmth overtakes me and a thousand sparks fill me.

Then it all fades, as quickly as it came.

“Are you fucking kidding me?” That voice pulls me down to earth as he blurs into view.

The bane of my existence.

Wait, did we really just…?

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