Chapter 213

The next few weeks passed by both slowly and at breakneck speed, depending upon the given day of the week. There were three weeks of school between Thanksgiving break’s end and Christmas break’s beginning. In that amount of time I realized how much I hated going to school and pretending to be normal when nothing was anymore. Any chance I got, I was on the IAC with Brandon, sometimes even in class, and most of my evenings I spent either talking to him or hunting through the archives, watching past hunts or reading reports. I did get to spend one more weekend during those three weeks at LIGHTS, and my parents let me go without them, which was cool. Cadence tried training me again, but even after our emotional connection, it just wasn’t working, and she handed me back over to Aurora. Since I’d finished the rest of the Thanksgiving week with her, I was happy to be back with the redhead. She just got me better. It didn’t hurt that both Jacinda and Brit had b