The 13th: Frozen Destiny Read Online Free

since... The first time she had met Ethan and their hands brushed against each other, she had felt an electric current, too. Just thinking that both touches had the same meaning, if felt as if she was betraying her boyfriend. But there was no way they could have the same meaning, especially not since she felt such a strong electric current because Ethan's powers were the ones -- Wait, what powers?
    “What’s wrong?”
    She shook her head. “Nothing. Just...” For a moment she debated whether or not to tell him. “Lately I have stumbled over reality, when on second thought it doesn’t make any sense.”
    He stared at her as if he had no idea what she was talking about.
    “It's hard to explain.” She furrowed her forehead. “It’s about little things that I think happened, but didn’t. And small facts that don’t add up.”
    “Because you dreamt about them?”
    She tilted her head, thinking about it. “It could be. Maybe the sickness muddled my brain a little.” She faced him. “Hey, Kate said you were quite sick, too. Do you have any weird side effects?”
    “Like hallucinating?”
    She narrowed her eyes at him, trying to gauge if he was making fun out of her. She noticed his mouth twitching at the corners. She pinched her mouth, turned on her heel and stomped away. Here she had been thinking that she had found an ally with the same goal: to find out what was going on with Ethan. And Kate. But he preferred to make fun of her.
    “Hey, don’t be mad, please.”
    She accelerated her step.”
    “What about the secret passage?” Ryan called after her.
    She ignored him.
     
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    Claire sat on the grass behind the dorm, watching Tyler and Ethan playing basketball with a couple of boys. Tyler was very good at it, while Ethan was playing a sorry game. “It's like he isn't aware of his own height,” she commented to Mandy, who was sitting beside her.
    “He's not good as Tyler, but I have seen him play better.” Mandy leaned back on her arms. “He's not on the team, so it doesn't really matter.”
    “On the team?” But there was no team here, was there? Claire stared at the playground before her, which was actually a grass field with buckets tied to the trees. They never played basketball in gym classes or any other sports like volleyball, mostly they ran and played dodgeball.
    “I don't know why I said that.” Mandy gave a nervous laugh and straightened.
    Could it be that this was another case of little facts that didn’t add up? “Hey.” Claire shifted closer to Mandy, carefully eyeing Ryan, who sat a small distance away waiting for Kate who had been detained by a teacher. “Do you ever get a feeling like you are in a dream? You know, where everything is logical and makes sense when you think about it, but at the same time feels new and foreign?”
    “Well...” Mandy pulled her knees against her chest and wrapped her arms around them. She frowned and looked as if she were going to say something, but then a yell from the playground drew her gaze and a smile lit her face. Seeing Tyler playing hoops always managed to do that and to distract her. “Not really.”
    “I do, sometimes.”
    Claire's head whipped around. How had Ryan managed to get so close without her noticing?
    “I'm sorry about before. I just wanted to lighten the mood, I didn't want to anger you or anything,” he said in a low voice, so low that Claire doubted Mandy could hear it. “When you asked me about side effects, I planned to tell you... Do you remember that time in the dining room when you asked who I was?”
    She nodded and slowly shifted away from Mandy and closer to him, but not too close.
    “I thought the same thing about you.”
    “Really?”
    “I think I have memory problems,” Ryan said. “Do you think it's possible that it wasn't the flu, but something else?”
    “Like what?” Claire glanced at Mandy, who was occupied with admiring Tyler taking a shot. Good.
    “I don't know.” He rubbed his elbow. “This