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Nathan shoved her into a chair behind hiood for you, you’ll get out of here and keep your ood for lasses up my nose--to stall for time--and tried to speak, but my lips wouldn’t move Granted, I hadn’t planned this out past--well, this point The only tioblins took Queen Alexandria prisoner I’d beaten the goblins withthem in the backs Of course, Queen Alexandria was really Gabby Hughes, a pioblin in real life, and the goblins were a couple of newbies to the Kings and Castles scene who didn’t even kno to make their own foa up nerds A lot of practice He glared at oing to flee like most rational people would have at this point He plowed through three rows of desks, sending the to the sides, his hands outstretched I froze and nearly wet ed I threw up the brooesture He snatched it fro

Reason fled fro to the side as Nathan threw the broken handle at me One half nailed me in the head I tripped on a desk It flipped and I rolled over the top of it, soainst the floor Nathan laughed I rolled onto rab another student desk by its s and lift it over his head like a club

Katie screamed "Stop it!" She ran for the door

Sheer panic, the kind that convinces your body to forget potty training, punched ain in the for headache In a few seconds, that desk was going to ht in the rooled with Old Spice and the chemical bite of industrial floor cleanser, attacked my nose The volu wail My eyes swept across the roo out minor details I’d never noticed before A crack marred the surface of the chalkboard Someone had carved curse words on Mrs Dalton’s desk Five nu tiles Mustard stained Nathan’s faded red T-shirt A ghostly presence demanded my attention and drewfor into the ether just inches from her skin What was it? Gas? Vapor? A part of me could feel it It felt hot and sensual and--

Holy crap a desk is about to crush ain My hands shot up, pal it down on es flashed past: How the impact would shatter both hands and crush nizable pulp Only dental records would identify ery, here I co I could use a feeaks and soery wouldn’t be bad either It occurred towas a very odd way to be spending the last split second of ainst ritted ony Pain apparently had gone on holiday because it never arrived I cracked open an eye One hand gripped the front edge of the desk The other gripped the vinyl seat attached byto the rest of the desk Nathan’s scarlet face glared atto force it down on

This came as quite a shock toI let htly so I could bend runted in triuo of the desk

Nathan’s nose gave a sickening crunch He bellowed and pinwheeled like a ballerina on drugs and rollerblades, sh several desks until he bounced off the wall and landed on his butt Then it was all over but the screaed face to lasses rested halfway up my forehead I pulled them down over hetti It was all I could do to wiggle my toes

Katie raced back into the room Apparently, she’d run into the hall to yell for help "My God, you’re alive," she said, sounding as surprised as I felt

"Ungh?" I said My s

Katie tugged on my arm but she wasn’t about to pull me off the floor without a winch I rolled onto runted and tugged on ive herself a hernia Nathan, thankfully, was too busy bleeding and crying for his uards raced into the rooave a wide-eyed look at the disarrayed desks, and then bent down so I could throw an arer frouard "Nathan and I were supposed to be doing an after-school project, but he kept asking o on a date with him When I told him no, he freaked Like, totally capital-F freaked I should have listened to le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>