Chapter Fourteen: Aguya

Xavier…

I shot up from my chair, my heart thumping hard. No, no no.

“I’ll call you back, mom.” I rushed out, ending the call.

Thalia can’t be dead… right?

Elena was practically vibrating, so I walked over to her slowly. “Calm down, Elena.” I said, trying to soothe her. “Take me to her room.”

She nodded quickly, like a mad woman, then grabbed my arm. I let myself be dragged by her because I understood that she probably couldn’t be thinking of being respectful when her best friend was just found dead.

As we made our way through the corridor, solemn faces materialized all around me. The closer we got to the purple, floral painted room I spent my lonely night in, the more realistic it all felt.

Thalia couldn’t be dead.

I tried to pretend that Blake wasn’t brutally murdered or cursed, but now that Thalia was gone to…

Pretending was getting a lot harder.

It smelled like death and despair. It was like