Shady

"We're ready," Jayk said, turning his gaze towards Glynn and ignoring Elias's question. Jerica ignored him too. She couldn't be bothered to answer his question just then -- she had ...

"Do you always ask so many questions?" Jayk asked skeptically. "Yes," Jerica answered, then looked back at Elias. "And yes. And hold on tighter this is going to be... bad ...

"The R'hyk," Jayk answered tersely, nodding down to her shoulder. "Now hold her down so we can do it. She's laying her in pain for no reason."

Jerica blinked at him, not quite sure how they were having this conversation. Rek was always ridiculous, trying to find decency in her when there was only shitpost. But she ...

Jerica was more excited to write the poem than she'd ever admit to anyone, ever. The shitpost one that she was going to read in class, if they had to ...

Jerica glanced at him. She was still so perplexed by being with someone who hadn't spent their entire life -- well, her entire life -- building up hatred for her. ...

Jerica pushed herself upright, then leaned forward and put her hands on his knee, then rested her chin on her hands. "I just wish you'd tell me what happened. You ...

It was going to be a good year. It was only the second day, and Jerica had already found someone as chaotic as she was. It was a nice change ...

"Would it really be charity, though?" Jerica asked, too nervous to transition back to speaking normally. If questions were the price she had to pay to keep from hallucinating again, ...

Jerica stared at the final group in dismay as they decided to be punks and refuse to read their poems aloud. Oh, you're lucky you're all the way over there. ...

Jerica sat with her palms pressed against her closed eyes, trying to figure out what had just happened. She still felt so unsettled from the hallucination, but it was slowly ...

“I don’t,” Jerica admitted quietly. She pressed her right fist against her burnt side, wishing the throbbing would stop. She’d been entirely too tense this entire conversation. She glanced aro

Jerica hoped to the gods Elias would make up a believable story. At this point, she wished she had told him more of the truth. She took a deep breath ...

Jerica eyed Jayk, trying to gauge what he was trying to get at. Maybe he just thought Elias got scared. Or, maybe he thought Elias wasn't able to help. And ...