Forbidden: Book One of Wild Sky Saga by Tanna Marie Angers Page A

dirt road in his car. He rubbed the bottom of his chin with the back of his fingers looking at his phone. You could tell he was in deep thought, upset perhaps.
    “Jaidas, what’s up? Come on.” Harlem walked over to the car from where they had set up to camp.
    Jaidas looked down at his phone one more time, then he threw it onto the passenger seat and got out.
    “You gotta see this,” Harlem laughed, and they walked back to the camp site.

    Avery was already inside talking to Maddy and Barry.
    “Ready?” Avery asked. Aira smiled.
    “He has to work,” Avery said, sounding disappointed for her. Aira’s smile quickly fell.
    “It sucks, I know,” Avery replied to the look on Airas face.
    “Who has to work?” Maddy asked curiously.
    “No one,” Aira answered, quickly trying to dismiss the conversation.
    “Alright, Avery, spill the beans,” Barry smirked.
    Aira got tense and quickly grabbed onto Avery’s hand and dragged her to the door.
    “Sorry, Mr. Valentine, she would never forgive me.” When they got outside, Aira closed the door.
    Barry laughed and Maddy had a look on her face. “Here we go.”
    “I’m never gonna hear the end of this now,” Aira spoke in dread. Her parents like to raz Aira, but it embarrassed her.
    Avery just smiled at her. “Wait until Jaidas finds out.”
    “He won’t. There’s nothing to find out.”
    “Aira, you shouldn’t worry about what he thinks, he doesn’t care about anything other than himself.”
    “I don’t... care,” she lied. She was a little worried, mostly about how he would react. He already seemed to have a beef with Israel for some reason.
    Aira slid into the back seat of Joshua’s car. Joshua was on the phone. Avery got into the front, closed the door and turned around and looked at Aira.
    “Aira, don’t let him ruin this for you. You deserve better and he knows it.”
    Aira knew it wouldn’t be that simple if something were to actually happen. She hated drama, Jaidas lived for it.
    “Let’s just have fun.” Avery smiled at her.
    “Okay, at four? Hold on.” Joshua put his phone down, covered it for a minute and looked at them. “Israel’s off at four, he wants us to meet him by the park when we’re done.”
    “Yes!” Avery said, excitedly looking at Aira.
    Joshua smiled and uncovered the phone and put it to his ear.
    “Okay man, we’ll meet you there. Kay, see ya.” Joshua hung up.
    All of Aira’s worries about Jaidas completely flew out the window.
    “Let’s go,” Joshua said, putting his car in reverse. He pulled out of Aira’s driveway and they drove to Lake of the Woods.
    Lake of the Woods was five minutes out of town. It was surrounded by mountains, was said to be bottomless, and legend has it, it originated from a volcano.
    They pulled into the parking lot. They got out of Joshua’s car and walked down to the steep rocky hill that led to the lake.
    Avery took off her shoes, shorts, and shirt. She was wearing a dusty pink and burgundy, floral- printed bikini.
    Joshua took off his shirt and shoes, leaving on his black swimming shorts.
    Aira pulled off her sweater as she watched Joshua drag Avery to the water. He picked her up and walked into the water with her. It must have been cold by Avery’s reaction.
    Aira took off her sandals and walked down to the water putting her toes in. It was cold, but not unbearable.
    “Come on, you chicken,” Avery spoke, while swimming around.
    Aira smiled, walking into the water up to her waist. She moved her hands around in the water to get used to it and finally dunked herself all the way under. She came back up refreshed. Aira loved to swim. She loved the feeling of coming out of the cold water on a hot day. To her it felt like everything bad was washed away, a feeling of newness. It was probably one of her most favorite things.
    She swam backwards aways and floated around. In the distance she could hear the echoing of a helicopter chopping through the air. Its familiar sound barreling