The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Author:Alexandra Bracken [Bracken, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781423157373
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
See? she seemed to be saying. Get it?
“But you can’t do that to me,” I said, reaching for her hand
again. “You don’t have to worry about hurting me, because you
never could.”
I know how it feels, is what I really should have been saying,
I know what it’s like to be scared of what you can barely control.
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I had forced myself to stop thinking about what I had done
to that undercover PSF. I didn’t let myself wonder if I could do
it again, let alone test it out. But how, I wondered, were either
of us ever going to learn to control ourselves if we couldn’t prac-
tice? If we couldn’t stretch and test boundaries?
“Let’s see if we can find something useful,” I said, slipping
my fingers around hers again. I waited until I felt her hand close
against mine before leading her back down the aisle. “What do
you think—”
I’m not even sure what I was about to ask her, but she wasn’t
paying attention to me. Zu stopped so suddenly and gripped my
hand so damn hard, that I stumbled back a few steps. My eyes
followed the line of her outstretched arm to the upended cloth-
ing and shoe racks.
More specifically, to the lone hot pink dress dangling from
an otherwise empty rack.
Zu took off at a run, blitzing down the aisles of extension
cords and buckets. I tried to keep up with her, but it was like
the wind had caught her heels and was propelling her forward.
She stopped just short of a rack. I watched, fascinated, as one of
her hands reached out to stroke the fabric, only to pull back at
the last second.
“Beautiful,” I told her. The dress itself flared out at the waist,
with a big ribbon bow at the place where the sleeveless top met
the pink and white striped skirt. She looked like she wanted
nothing more than to pull it down, hug it to her chest, and press
her face against the satiny fabric.
I could think of about a thousand things I missed while I was
at Thurmond, but dresses were not on that list. My dad’s favor-
ite story to tell strangers and indulging relatives was the day he
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and Mom tried to button me up into a blue one for his birthday
party when I was three. Because the buttons were so small and
impossible for me to reach, I shredded the fabric by hand, bit by
gauzy bit. I spent the rest of the party proudly parading around
in Batman underwear.
“Are you going to try it on?” I asked.
She looked back up at me and shook her head. Her hands
dropped from where they were hovering over the plastic hanger’s
shoulders, and it took me a moment to recognize what was
happening.
Zu thought she didn’t deserve it. She thought it was too
nice, too new, too pretty. I felt a sweltering hate rise in me, but
I didn’t know where to direct it. Her parents, for sending her
away? Her camp? The PSFs?
I pulled the dress off the silver rack with one hand and took
Zu’s arm in the other.
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