Eastern’s forehead creases on a frown. “What do you mean?”
“Trust me, okay?”
For a long drawn out moment, Eastern just stares at me. His fingers loosen from around mine, but I refuse to let him go. This will work out. Ithasto.
“I trust you. I don’t trust him…”
“Then do as I say,please,” I beg.
And that’s how after a further hour of Eastern divulging everything he knows about the King’s outfit, he walks out of Mr Carmichael’s office as a fellow student of Oceanside Academy and the real storm, the one that changes my life forever, begins.
To be continued in Reject #2 Academy of Misfits…