The Remedy Files: Illusion by Lauren Eckhardt Read Free Book Online Page A

hugged me before. I didn’t know what to think as I never expected Gavin to do something like that. I remember wanting it to happen again, though. I don’t know why exactly except it just seemed like it made sense- as though that hug was the most logical thing that could possibly ever happen, which in itself of course didn’t seem sane but it was the only coherent conclusion I could form. 
    At the end of my visit with him that day, he finally looked me in the eyes again and said, “Please tell me if they bring up the tests or your eyes again.”
    “What did they mean by me being safe?”
    Gavin paused for a moment. “I guess they just mean you won’t be contagious to anyone else and that you’re fine for now.”
    “For now?”
    His eyes widened as though he didn’t expect me to catch those words. “I just mean in case something changes which I doubt would be the case.” Gavin wasn’t exactly convincing with his response.
    “But Gavin, you have blue eyes and you’re fine, right?”
    Gavin averted his eyes to the ground. “Just don’t ever say you know someone with blue eyes. You can’t let them know that.” Putting his hand on my arm and looking back up at me, he said, “Let me know if they do anything like that to you again, ok, Evie?”
    I nodded since I had to leave but wasn’t too sure what he meant. The tests should be a one-time thing. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if Gavin knows more than what he shares with me.  I just try to believe that he would tell me anything I did really need to know- especially if it had to do with my life. 

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 
     
     
     
    CHAPTER 6
 
    “Evangeline, hurry!” Jacqueline’s loud knocks on the door force me out of my daze.
    I’ll have to remember to ask Gavin if he’s seen a difference with my eyes lately as well. If it becomes obvious to everyone, it could alert Doctor Bordine again.
    I quickly slip out of my night tee and shorts and put on the polo and pants that Jacqueline picked out. I open up the door to find a pair of black boots shoved in my face.  
    Jacqueline is tapping her left foot as I grab the boots from her grip and clumsily try to slip them on my feet while walking to the hallway door.
    “About time!” Jacqueline yaps as she follows me out. She prefers to be early for mealtimes unlike me who waits until the absolute last minute.
    We take a sharp right out of my room, entering the hallway that carries us to the cafeteria. We fall in line with the hasty pace of other 14-17 Level classmates that must have been running slightly behind as well.
    Since today is the Annual Archaeological Dig for Level 17 students, we will be handed special breakfast sacks filled with bagels, cream cheese, bananas, turkey slices and a carton of milk. These are a few of the food items considered delicacies and the Annual Digs are the only times we are able to have them.
    “Good morning, Evangeline.” The monitor attendee states in a robotic tone as I swipe my wrist under the cafeteria scanner. She never looks up from her screen as she hands me a black paper sack filled with the breakfast goodies and two blue Remedy pills. I never learned her name, but in part that’s because in the three years that I have been in this building, she has never once made eye contact with me or tried to say more words than what’s required of her.
    “Good morning, Jacqueline.” I hear the monitor say in the same monotone voice behind me. I pause and let Jacqueline catch up with me before we join the rest of our classmates.
    “Well, I hope that’s one job I do not get.” I say with a roll of my eyes. Jacqueline laughs, which echoes faintly in the large concaved cafeteria.
    “Are we going to have any trouble this morning, girls?” Ms. Kay suddenly appears, her high-pitched voice hard to ignore. She fills in for the Level teachers at every Archaeological Dig so she can take all the findings back to the Community Museum where she works.