Bound TwoGether-Chapter 5 Posted!
Awesome cover edit by @alwayseverlark
Snippet of Chapter Five: Sisters Part II:
“What I’d really like to know is how this whole thing started anyway?” demanded Miss Trinket. Both girls remained silent. “Oh goodie, I get to guess. Hmm, someone stole the other’s boyfriend, perhaps?”
Both of them made faces.
“Sure, we’re teenage girls; that’s all it could possibly be about,” said Dawn under her breath.
“What was that, Miss Mellark?”
“Nothing,” mumbled Dawn.
“My, aren’t we sassy,” said Miss Trinket. In her chair, Autumn snorted.
“Something to say, Miss Everdeen?” Miss Trinket set her eyes on Autumn, who contritely looked down at her folded hands and shook her head.
“Well, then,” Miss Trinket turned her attention to the counselors, “what shall we do about these two lumps of coal?”
Coal. Seriously? Why did she keep referring to them as coal? It was pretty insulting.
“Counselor Mason,” said Miss Trinket, addressing her shorter, harsher counterpart. “You’re the expert on…punishment. What say you? What should we do about our two tempestuous teens?”
What would it be? Dawn wondered. She and Autumn were already on thin ice prior to this very public, horrific incident, and now she was letting Counselor Mason, of all people, decide their fate.
This was bad. Really bad.
All eyes were on Counselor Mason, aside from Dawn, who was staring at her shoes, and Autumn, who was staring at her hands. They glimpsed one another, then Counselor Mason out of the corner of their eyes.
Counselor Mason’s lips curled up into a malicious smile. “I say we let the punishment fit the crime.”
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