Page 28 of Zeus' Spark
“Not me, and the only person he’s looking at is you. Dax too.” She giggles, and I realize she’s right.
The two men have stopped in their tracks and are now watching me with hungry eyes. Jayden is smirking as he saunters over.
“Like what you see, Beth?” He grins as a blur of blonde hair shoots in front of him.
“Jayden.” Mia puts her hands on his chest when she stops in front of him. “I have been looking for you all day.”
“Take a hint then, Mia.” He removes her hands from his chest and walks around her.
My jaw drops for a totally different reason this time, and an uncontrollable laugh bubbles up at the confused look on Demigod-Barbie’s face.
“You,” she screams, pointing at me with rage in her eyes. She stomps closer.
Jayden tries to step in front of me, but I put a hand on his arm, sidestepping him and shaking my head. This is obviously something she thinks is my fault, so it’s my fight.
“What about me, Mia?” I ask, squaring my shoulders and widening my stance.
“You just show up here at the beginning of the year and take everything from me.” Her hands glow pink, and I smirk.
What the hell is Aphrodite magic going to do to me? Give me a makeover? I almost laugh out loud at my own thoughts.
“What did I take from you, psycho? I don’t give a shit what you think, you plastic bitch.” I know she isn’t worth my time, but the way she’s throwing all her problems on me when Jayden broke my fucking heart?
Fuck her.
“Before you got here, I was the prettiest girl in school. Everyone wanted me, and I had Jayden. Then, you show up, and suddenly everyone loves you. All the guys want you, and Jayden starts pushing me away. I wish they never would have found you in that fucking town. I wish they would have let the monsters get you.”
“Fuck you, bitch,” I yell back, not even caring that we are drawing a crowd. “You can have it. All of it. I don’t fucking want it. I just want to survive and learn at this school. If you hate me, that sounds like a you problem, not a me problem.”
My lightning is sparking beneath my fingers, and it takes every ounce of willpower not to zap the petulant child.
“Get over it, Mia. We were never together,” Jayden cuts in, and I nearly groan.
He’s so not helping.
“Ahhh.” She throws the magic ball in her hand at the same time a loud crash fills the air.
The ground rumbles beneath my feet, nearly knocking me to the ground.
An arm wraps around my waist, holding me steady and spinning me away from whatever stray magic Mia’s dumb ass threw at me.
“You okay? What was that?” Jayden has me caged in his arms against a tree for one long, torturous second before twirling in the direction of the explosion that rocked the academy.
“I’m fine, but we need to go see what the hell is going on.” I push him back a bit, and I don’t miss the flash of hurt in his eyes as I race in the direction of the noise.
“I’m not done with you, Bethany,” Mia screams.
I completely ignore her, knowing that we have bigger problems than her pettiness.
“Yeah, well, she’s done withyou,” Raven yells as she jogs up next to me and pulls her blade out of thin air. “Sounds like we may have a fight on our hands.”
“I mean, it’s been a couple hours since we’ve been attacked, so…” I grin when we make it to the weapons wall.
After I grab my sword since I don’t have Raven’s super cool power to pull a weapon out of nowhere, we continue to the spot where the explosion occurred.
Students are running back and forth as a fire rages in the woods, and they try their best to put it out. Red magic pours from Draven’s hands, and a small stream of water hits the flames, but it’s not enough.
The roar of the fire and crackling flames drowns out all other sounds.
