A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper
Author:Hailey Piper
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Titan
14. THE KISS
Olivia in tow, Sunflower swept past the warm living room, its fire gentler now. The staircase to the houseâs upper split yawned open, and its rim dripped rainwater down cracked-open walls.
âWhat about Christmas?â Olivia asked. âThe Hazibels? Chapel Hill?â
âDonât rush me,â Sunflower said, waving a hand. âIâm figuring this out as I go.â She slowed as they neared the back of the hall. âI made all this.â A bright smile rose over her shoulder. âMe.â
âYou.â Oliviaâs back ached; her everything ached. âThatâs why we have to go outside. To unstitch tonightâs mess. Only you can fix it.â
Sunflower looked ahead. âBut should I?â
Olivia recoiled in shock. Her legs stiffened to slow Sunflower down, but she kept tugging, and Olivia didnât know how to resist. They reached the fork at the hallâs end, where making a right would lead down a shorter hall to Hazibelâs room. Sunflower eased left and focused on the stairs.
âThat monsterâLizzie.â Sunflower squeezed Oliviaâs hand. âI think she had it wrong. When you lose a left shoe, you donât go buy the same left to match the right. You buy a newer, nicer pair of shoes.â
She planted one sneaker on the firm bottom step and led Olivia up. Fissures in the wooden walls exposed wire webbing, and behind them, a crevice in the hillside formed another dark eye to watch Oliviaâs ascent. Her shoulders shuddered with cold. She focused hard on the ache in her leg and skin, the sight of Sunflowerâs mud-caked back, her red sweater sopping wet.
âHow longâs it been going on?â Sunflower asked, cresting the top step. âJust tonight? Or longer?â
Olivia wasnât sure anymore. Had Sunflower talked this way before tonight? Which came first, the storm, or that sickly glow, or this brash mindset? Lizzie had thought she was explaining everything, and the mess of Hazibels and Mason Houses spun Oliviaâs mind, but she hadnât said what Sunfall was, or what else Sunflower might do with her gift. Olivia could only think to put everything back the way it was before tonight began.
But Sunflower seemed to have other ideas.
The small upstairs divided between a window wall at the back, Ginaâs room on the left, and Sunflowerâs room on the right. Sunflower took two steps into the meager hall and gave Ginaâs room a hard stare. Was she thinking of Gina Night, like Olivia had earlier? Or was she thinking of Gina?
âWish Iâd known,â Sunflower said, the pep in her voice wearing down to melancholy. âWhen did you find out I could do this? Just now?â
Olivia nodded, but she didnât think Sunflower saw, too busy throwing open her bedroom door. Her fingers reached inside the doorframe, and a battery-powered lava lamp cast a warped orange-white glow. It had lit many sleepovers and at least one power-out.
Aside from a dented corner and the runny cracks in the ceiling, Sunflowerâs room looked largely undamaged by this Mason Houseâs descent from Sunset Pass, if it had fallen at all. Maybe it had sprung here from Sunflowerâs head full-formed while they were still descending the pass.
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