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A Beautiful Dark

A Beautiful Dark

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Autoren: Jocelyn Davies
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resting her chin on the arm of the chair, “but I think today calls for a cut day.”
    I looked up, and through my tears, I could barely manage a grateful smile. “Finally someone around here who makes sense .”
    Cassie lived in a small ranch-style, powder blue house with white trim that she shared with her parents and younger brothers, and everywhere, everywhere , there was evidence that a family lived there. It was the exact opposite of my house. Cassie kicked aside a yellow plastic dump truck with the gray suede toe of her bootie as we got out of the car. Instinctively I headed for the front door, but she intercepted me.
    “Hey,” she said. “Remember what used to always cheer you up?” She headed toward the side of the house, flipped the lock on the ancient wooden fence, and we walked into the backyard. I smiled when I saw the swing set.
    “Tire swing!” I called, claiming it. Cassie took the bucket swing, which she hated. After a few rounds of musical swings, we finally ended up side by side on the hard-seated bench swings, kicking our feet off the frosty ground for momentum.
    “You’re torn between the two of them,” Cassie said. “Aren’t you? I know my best friend. I knew you weren’t telling me something.” She giggled. “Ellie’s full of shit, isn’t she?”
    I laughed. “Yeah, something like that.” On one level, that was totally true. I was torn, trying to choose between two things: Asher or Devin. The Order or the Rebellion. Self-preservation or heartbreak. Control—or finally letting go. And so far, I was just as undecided as my powers were. “So perceptive, Holmes.”
    Cassie smiled. “Well, I’ve had years of practice. So what are you going to do?”
    “Flip a coin?”
    “Seriously, Skye.” She eyed me. “You already sort of know what you want to do, don’t you?”
    I thought for a moment. Did I? Cassie seemed so sure; how was it possible that I wasn’t?
    “I don’t know.”
    Cassie kicked off the ground, flying forward in a graceful arc. “Well, if I know my best friend, I’m sure you’ll make the right decision. I have no doubts about that.”
    “Yeah,” I said. “I hope so.”
    We swung back and forth, both of us ignoring the cold.
    “Cassie?”
    “Mmm?”
    I stopped my swing, digging my heels into the ground, hard. “Sorry I haven’t been, you know, all there lately.”
    She stopped her swing, too. “Mmm, I don’t know if I can let you off that easily,” she said. “How about a little groveling first?”
    “Shut up.”
    “’Kay.”
    We kept swinging.
    “Skye?”
    “Yeah.”
    “I forgive you.”
    “Thanks.”
    She smiled at me sideways, the way she smiles when she’s getting an idea. “Remember that time in third grade, we got into the huge fight over who would be the first one to wear the floral leggings we both got, and I accused you of copying me, and you gave me back your half of our friendship necklace?”
    “Of course,” I said. “And then we both wore them on the same day, and everyone called us the Olsen Twins. And that’s when we founded the copycat club, where we had to wear the same thing once a week for the rest of the year.”
    “Yeah. Well, I kept the necklaces. I knew you’d want yours back someday.”
    “A Beautiful Dark”
    “Totally. Come on.”
    In her room, she opened her jewelry box and held up two gold chains with half of a tiny gold heart dangling from each. One said Best . One said Friend .
    “I think you need this back now,” Cassie said. “You’re my best friend. Don’t disappear on me like that again, okay? I missed you.” I gulped, trying not to feel too guilty. Whatever had happened in the past few weeks, I knew it was only going to get more intense from here as my powers—whatever they were—really took shape. And I knew there was no way I could let Cassie in on that part of my life. Not really. No matter how much I wanted to.
    I put the necklace on, feeling the ridges with my thumb. If I was going to listen to anyone, if I was going to trust anyone in this world, it was Cassie.
    We fit the halves together, the jagged edges interlocking exactly the way they used to, and it struck me as weird that the tiny heart hadn’t grown or changed in the years since we’d neglected them, even though we had.
    I knew that she was telling the truth.
    I would make the right decision.

Chapter 29

    T he house was gaping with emptiness when I got home. I deleted the voicemail from school informing Aunt Jo that I

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