Prophecy Girl by Melanie Matthews Page B

the morning?” she joked to Meg, placing the spoon back.
    Corrine laughed, but Meg furrowed her brow. “Green eggs? Eggs are yellow.”
    Corrine sighed. “She was talking about the book.”
    Meg still seemed confused, her brow furrowed, thinking. Then after a few seconds, her face relaxed, and she laughed. “Oh! That’s good! You’re so funny!”
    Eva just smiled, resisting the urge to shake her head. Instead she took a set of tongs, and picked up a fresh-baked honey roll.
    “You’re from Miami, right?” Meg asked.
    Eva almost dropped the roll on the floor, but she managed to set it cockeyed next to her beef stew. Given Meg’s personality, she worried that the redhead would ask all about her life, and she didn’t want to tell anyone about her year long stay in the psychiatric hospital.
    Eva set the tongs back. “Yeah.”
    “Hot down there, huh?”
    Eva nodded. “Yep. Hot.”
    “I’m from Washington,” she said. “The state, not the capital” she added with a nod.
    “Ah, got it,” Eva said, nodding back too.
    “I’m from Ohio,” Corrine said. “And Bree’s from Maine.”
    “Maine? I would’ve thought she was from California.”
    “Why?” Meg asked.
    Eva shrugged. “Well, Lucas is from there, and I don’t know, but they look so…alike.”
    “Yeah, they do now that I think about it,” Corrine agreed.
    “Yeah, I guess,” Meg said. “So…you’re with Lucas?” she asked, grinning.
    Eva felt her face get hot and it wasn’t from the steaming beef stew.  “Um…maybe.” 
    They hadn’t officially declared themselves as boyfriend/girlfriend, but Eva knew they were more than just friends.
    Meg squealed. “Ooh, that’s great! You know, he used to date Bree, but that was last year. She’s into Devin now.”
    “Devin?” Her heart did a back flip in her chest.
    “Yeah, have you met him?”
    “Briefly,” Eva answered in a dejected tone.
    “Well, they had a little fling after her and Lucas split, but she wants more.”
    “And he doesn’t?” she asked, confusingly hopeful.
    Corrine shook her head. “No, they say he likes to play the field, and after he ended it with Bree, he did, but now he’s single.”
    Meg gently jabbed Eva in her side. “Bet he was waiting on you, the new girl, but now his best friend has you!”
    Best friend?! 
    “Have you met Liam and Finn?” Corrine asked, oblivious to Eva’s roaming thoughts.
    Eva nodded. “Yeah, they’re nice, especially Liam.”
    “Yeah, he’s funny,” Corrine said. “I used to date Finn…last year.”
    “Oh? What happened?” Eva asked, excited to get it on the juicy gossip.
    Corrine shrugged. “Didn’t work out.”
    Meg shook her head. “He’s such an idiot for breaking up with you.”
    “What was his reason?” Eva asked.
    “That’s the thing,” Meg answered in an annoyed tone. “He didn’t even give a reason!” She put her hands on her hips. “Can you believe that?”
    “Sorry,” Eva said to Corrine. “I didn’t think he was like that. He seemed so nice.”
    “The nice ones will fool you,” Meg said with a wizened nod. “Get some apple cobbler,” she continued, pointing to the sweet dish at the end of the line.
    After Eva ate, she was introduced to the rest of the students in the cafeteria. Everyone seemed nice, and she truly felt that Green Clover Academy would be the best place for her. And the home-cooked food was much better than what she was served at her old school and the hospital. She could get addicted to Ms. Dempsey’s apple cobbler.
    “Let’s go back to our room,” Meg suggested, skipping about with excitement, her red curly hair flying around her face.
    “Uh, yeah, sure,” Eva said.
    She felt tired after her journey, and all the drama, but she knew bouncy Meg wouldn’t let her sleep. The clock on the cafeteria wall—a large green shamrock—read eight-thirty. If she was back at the hospital, there would be only thirty minutes until bed time, but she wasn’t sure about this place, even