The Hunter's Daughter Series: The Blood Moon

Chapter Three

Chapter Three

We entered my room Nate starred in wonder at my walls decorated with numerous things posted, maybe they showed I wasn’t the girl he thought I was. What with pictures of me in famous cities, maps of places I’d been too and wanted to travel too. Maybe it was the fact he saw the wall above my bed and near my window decorated in astronomy stuff.

“That’s my star, I track it nightly with my scope!” I said approaching him.

“You know there is an eclipse this Friday night?” He asked giving me a slight smile.

“I was hoping to go into the woods to see it in a clearing I found; apparently it’s going to be...”

“A blood moon!” He answered taking the words out of my mouth.

“Yeah exactly, how did you know?”

“It fascinates me how rare they are and how they need to have a recently erupting volcano to create them, its science at the end of it but it is just so fascinating.”

“Me too, it’s why I really want to see it. I’d be hundred and seventeen before the next one” we both laughed at my comment, I felt like I was finally getting somewhere with him.

“So shall we begin?” he asked taking me back to reality we were here to study for our biology assignment.

“Oh, yeah...”

“So in the morning we’ll compare notes before we give the speech tomorrow?” I asked as we packed up our study.

“Um yeah sure” he answered.

“Cool...!”

“Do you want to watch the eclipse together? It would save you carrying the telescope out into the woods.”

“That sounds good” I replied although in my head I was thinking this was great even excellent.

That night as I went to sleep I hung in the promise Friday was going to be one of the greatest days since moving here.

The next few days passed in a blur of school and homework, Nate and I barely had a conversation and I felt more like I was still being pushed out of his bubble and I so badly wanted to be inside it. I kept thinking maybe Friday would change everything, maybe we’d become close bond or something. Maybe I felt so torched because he’d only been the first guy I knew who didn’t want to kiss me, and the fact was I’d kiss plenty of guys but never one who was more than happy to ignore me. My thoughts came to a halt as I remember I was sitting at dinner with the family and our three forever unambiguous house guests.

“Do you have any plans for Friday night?” asked Jude sitting beside me, I nearly choked on my mash potato after avoiding him a full week as he made me so nervous even to be around him.

“Isn’t there an eclipse this Friday?” asked my Dad looking down the table at the two of us.

“Uh, yeah there is!” I answered and chewed another mouthful of potato.

“Maybe you can watch it together?” said Dad not thinking to ask of my already arranged plans.

“That’s impossible!” blurted out fast, Jude looked at me a bit confused and my dad seemed surprised. “It’s not impossible, it’s just I already made plans with someone!” I turned to look at Jude apologetically but he didn’t seem to mind.

My Dad’s reaction proved presumptuous that he suspected Jude and I were into one another, I admit Jude to be hot but he was the kind of guy who loved to spend weekends on the couch wrapped up in the latest game of some sport and not sitting in some old woods with a telescope late at night.