He isn’t angry, but the tone in his voice has even Xander moving more quickly. I get Mina a pair of the silky soft pajamas Luna Anne gave me and we both settle side by side in my bed. It makes me think of my time with Sierra and a pang of guilt washes through me. I haven’t even seen her since the last time I was in school. She’s my best friend and I have barely thought about her in the last couple days. I have so much to tell her and so much I have to keep quiet. I’ve never had a friend like that before and I feel terrible at just the thought of keeping something from her.
“What? Your whole face kind of went soft and pouty.” Mina asks, her voice softer than I’ve heard it at all today.
“Nothing, I was just thinking about my best friend. I tell her everything, like everything everything, and I have to keep so much from her. I feel bad since I only get to see her at school and we don’t have any classes together here, so lunch is the only time we can talk at all.”
“How do you already have a best friend here? Didn’t you just get here?”
“Yeah, I did, but Sierra came to my pack to stay with her aunt and uncle last year and we got close. She came back home and then I was brought to the Elite training, but it has been hard.”
For the first time I am sad about being here. I don’t regret it at all and I love that I get to do this, but now I have people to miss and maybe missing out on things normal teens do during the summer. I never thought about what I wouldn’t be doing when I was here, it’s a strange revelation.
“Are you talking about Doc Sylvia’s Sierra?” I nod.
“Oh girl! No worries there. She probably knows everything anyway, she’s got this weird way of getting people to spill their guts without even trying.” Mina starts to laugh and I join in, it’s true. “I know her, we’ve had a few classes together over the years. If she’s your best friend I wouldn’t worry abou it, she won’t let your friendship go without a fight. You could be on your deathbed and she would negotiate more time with the Moon Goddess if she thought you needed it.” I smile at the thought.
“I can’t wait for all of us to hang out a bit tomorrow. We get to start classes right away. Although I don’t know why we are going to start so late. If we are eating breakfast at eight, we will for sure miss the first two periods, that seems strange.”
“Who knows, Warrior Brogen has like ten plans running through his head at all times and I bet each of those has two back-up plans.” She laughs again. “But let’s get to sleep, cause he seems to have a soft spot for you, but he will publicly humiliate me and Oscar and probably Xander too, if we are late.”
