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Why did that sound like she wasn’t sure if she should tell me that or not? I think if I were a different kind of girl, it would have made me laugh, but I didn’t find that revelation or this situation all that funny.
I began pulling open cabinets, searching for ingredients to work with. “That doesn’t make me interesting,” I mumbled, swiping two cans labeled meat broth.
“You’re not interesting because anyone likes you. You’re interesting for who you are as a person. I’ve investigated the place you came from. You should be really screwed up.”
I continued what I was doing and let her keep talking.
“How’d you come out of this all so… normal? You must think we’re a group of psychos.”
Both that question and her statement made me unexplainably sad.
I sat down the bowl I’d just grabbed and turned to face her. “Normal is a word people use in reference to themselves when they want to put someone down for being different.”
She didn’t say anything, but I think my words got through. I hoped they resonated a little bit if any of what she’d just said was about herself. I didn’t like labels, especially when they came from a place of misjudgment.
Maybe that was why I didn’t put much stock in the rumors about the Savages. I wanted to make my own analysis, not go off what I had been told.
I felt I was smart enough to determine the fictional from the factual.
If I couldn’t with my head, as stupid as it may have sounded, my heart had never let me down, regardless how bruised and battered it was.
“Thank you for saying that,” she finally replied.
It was in this moment that I realized she reminded me of Dasia. Young and sweet with a haunted disposition. Thinking of her made me think of Claire and Marcy in turn.
My throat constricted and I turned back to what I’d been doing. Suddenly, I was glad Luce wanted to keep me busy. It would be nice to have a distraction.
A barrage of voices pulled my attention away from the window I’d been staring out and cut off what Bella was in the middle of saying.
I looked over my shoulder and watched a group of people trail in from outside. They didn’t notice me at first, but that anonymity didn’t last long.
A girl with chocolate brown hair was the first to spot me. She froze in place, causing a guy to slam into her back.
“Damn, Nyx.” His gravelly voice was full of amusement as he wrapped an arm around her waist to keep her steady.
Her stare caused everyone else to take notice of me. There were four of them in total, all with their eyes now aimed in my direction. Bella hopped off the counter and came to stand next to me.
“This is Star.”
The girl with hair two shades blonder than hers was the first to leave their quad.
As she got closer, I was able to make out the strange color of her eyes, like a cloud when it rained. The Savage insignia was inked on her skin, as were a few other various tattoos.
“I heard my brothers had found a girl. I had to see it for myself.” She reached the kitchen, and Bella went straight to her open arms. “I missed you.”
“It hasn’t been that long, Addy,” Bella laughed.
Now knowing which faction this was, I could place names and family dynamics without needing to know what they looked like. Addy had to be short for Adelaide, the older sister.
Looks wise, she was an even mixture of Luce and Bella.
Nyx skirted around them and the large man who was nearly a shadow at Addy’s back, offering me a smile.
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She had even more tattoos than her cousin did and looked somewhat exotic. They were both truly beautiful girls.
“Where did they find you?” she asked. The way she was staring at me, I felt as if she were trying to figure out a puzzle.
