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

through the sky was more apparent on days like these. She floated there, every once in a while diving underneath the water.
    Avery and Joshua were talking. “What!!!” Avery had a high pitch excited tone to her voice.
    “You have to tell her,” she spoke quietly to him.
    Avery pushed Joshua towards Aira and they swam over to her, moving their arms in the water keeping themselves afloat.
    Aira looked at them wondering why they were being weird as they looked at each other smiling.
    “What?” she asked.
    “What would you say if Israel asked you out?” Joshua asked her.
    Aira’s stomach filled with butterflies.
    “He’s not,” she replied, more nervous then she had probably ever been. She was in disbelief.
    “Ya, he is,” Joshua laughed.
    Avery smiled with love at Aira.
    “No, what? Like now?” she said, almost forcing her words to come out.
    “No,” Joshua answered. Aira felt somewhat relieved. “At four,” he continued with a grin.
    “You’re not serious,” Aira smiled nervously, shaking her head. “No, he’s not.”
    “He is, and there’s no getting out of it.” Avery bit her lip, splashed a little water at Aira and smiled.
    Aira shook her head, looking at their expressions, then turned around and dove into the water to try and wrap her head around what they had just told her.
    “She hates us,” Joshua laughed.
    “Not yet,” Avery smiled.
    They spent the next few hours playing in the water. Aira found a near-by rock and crawled up onto it to sunbath.

    Israel was drying dishes and putting them away when his boss walked into the back with his reading glasses pulled down on his nose.
    “Israel!” He spoke loudly. Israel was startled a little bit.
    “Mr. Lee…”
    “I have your cheque here. You should run to the bank before it closes.”
    “I can go?” he asked delighted.
    “Yep, it’s slowed down enough now.” Israel took off his apron, dried his hands and his boss handed him the cheque.
    “Thanks!” Israel grabbed his sweater and went to run to the door.
    “You do a great job, kid. I’m happy to have you working here,” Mr. Lee called after him.
    “I’ll see you Friday,” he spoke, half saluting his boss as he ran out the door. His boss nodded and returned to his paper work.
    Israel ran down the road about a block, to the C.I.B.C bank. He still had another twenty minutes before it would close, but he had to run back the other way to catch the other shop. He needed to go and pay off what he wanted to buy.

    Avery and Joshua were on shore getting dressed. Aira was still lying on the rock.
    “Aira!!” Avery shouted across the water to her. Aira sat up, looked and saw Avery waving her hand for her to come to them.
    Aira stood up on the rock, looked down at the water, then dove in and swam back to them.
    Avery dried her hair while they waited for Aira. Aira finally got to the shore, dried herself off, got dressed, and they all walked back up to the car together.
    As they were driving back, Aira just stared out the window. It felt like her heart was in her stomach. The closer they got to town, the worse it got. It wasn’t a bad feeling, was just that feeling you get when you’re about to go into a dreamed about situation. She could barely get words out to him never mind having to come face to face with something she didn’t even understand. About the only thing she was sure of was that this was something she had waited forever to feel, to really feel, something that felt beautiful, magical, and unexpected.
    Avery looked back at her, smiled, and she laid her head back onto the seat.
    Aira started to bite her nails.
    “Stop biting your nails.” Avery spoke not even looking at her. She knew Aira that well.
    Aira put her hand down and took a small breath.
    “Maybe he’ll change his mind,” she spoke up nervously playing with her hair.
    “I doubt it,” Joshua laughed.
    Joshua’s phone started to ring and he asked Avery to answer it.
    “Hello? Well, hello there, Israel,”