The Hollows Of Hiraeth (✔️) | 'Hollows' Book I

Chapter Thirty

_________________________________

T h e   H o l l o w s O f
H    I    R    A    E T H
_________________________________

I was pulled out of my thoughts—which meant nothing to me—when someone grabbed hold of my arm.

"Sky spoke to Toby Espan!" Saph shrieked and I tried to pry my arm out of her painfully strong hold.

"What?" Cassie yelled and I winced at the volume. I'll be lucky if I escape here with both my ears still working.

"Did you actually?" Avery asked me, trying to keep the squeal from her voice. I nodded in response and Cassie fell onto the floor in what looked to be shock, a scream erupting from her as she hit the hard ground.

"I don't see what the big deal is though." I shook my head at the three idiots, trying to prevent a laugh from escaping. All of the girls' jaws dropped as they stared at me in shock, even Kim walked back into the room, her eyes fixed on me, her eyelids unmoving—was she even breathing?

"Sky.." Avery began and that's the last thing I heard before Cassie jumped on my face.

I survived, though, but then the girls started to assault me verbally, teasing me with Toby and Sky ship names—this is even worse than Cassie's ship names for Jameson and I. And that's saying something.

The girls had been assaulting me for a while now, echoes of the ship name Skoby scaring the hell out of me. Thankfully, the smell of our pizza—of which had just arrived—that flooded my nostrils was the only thing that distracted them. I took this moment to shove all the girls off me and stand up.

"I got the pizza!" Kim announced and set two boxes down on Cassie's bed.

Saph eyed the boxes, "Bye-bye diet." It was a joke, but the air radiated with tension as Saph reached out an award hand and opened the pizza box.

"You never needed a diet anyway." Cassie told her, shoving three pizza slices into her hands.

I picked up a slice, "I wouldn't worry, Saph, you need food to survive." I smiled warmly but Saph just laughed, flashing me a grin, holding her hand out with her thumb up. I shook my head, jumping onto the bed, nearly sending the pizza boxes flying, and started to help myself to more BBQ pizza.

"Hey! Don't eat it all!" Avery shrieked as I took a huge bite of my second slice, still holding my first one. She snatched my third pizza slice out of my lap and I complained in hums. The girls laughed at the commotion before taking slices from the boxes.

It was nearing seven and I was bearing a food baby when a loud knock came at Cassie's dorm door. We all looked up as Kim hurried towards it, once she swung it open, I saw Jameson looking around the room, his eyes angry and frantic. He almost looked as if he had run down here—and he probably had done.

When his eyes met mine, his expression relaxed. Jameson walked in, uninvited, and threw me an ice pack. I frowned at the informality of his offering but shook it off and grinned up at him. I put the ice on my swollen foot and hoped the swelling would go down soon.

"Pizza?" He asked and gestured to the two boxes on the side. In greed, I had taken way too many slices for myself, despite Avery's chastising, so I still had some left over in the box next to me.

Picking up said box, I raised an eyebrow at him. He answered my silent question with a silent answer, taking the pizza box off me and helping himself to the cold slices. I laughed at the change of his demeanour as he leaned against the wall and held his many slices.