HOUSE OF FIRE

Chapter 12

     Somehow, word travelled about me being Steven’s daughter. I don’t know how, or why, but Rae came bustling into our dorm later in the afternoon with her I-pad and showed me a blog website within an app.

     Surprisingly, the blog had the name of the same app Eva referred to this morning. For a second, I wondered if she’d been the one to share the news, then I saw the date and time the blog was posted and knew it was doubtful considering the blog was already up since twelve in the morning.

      The website had over 500,000 followers, and the blog has garnered a lot of attention, every second someone was remarking on how stunned they are or how suspicious they’ve been since they found that I lived with him.

      Then to make things worse, they brought up articles of my parents death and I couldn’t even look at the I-pad anymore. The app, called E-Net, is a social app created by some young elemental wishing to be the next Zuckerberg of elemental society. It isn’t known to the world that the app exists, and it's only accessible to those within the society.

     Rae clarified that the app was established so people who lived outside the bounds of society could keep up with news within and any information can be passed along easily by the council. The blog is commonly viewed by everyone, but mostly operated by students in the academy, so if there’s any big gossip going on the news is rapidly passed across.

      The news shook me so much Rae drove me all the way to Steven’s, and I spent the night over. He atoned for the shock like it was his fault, and I felt a little protected by his sincerity. Come tomorrow, school officially begins, and I didn’t really feel happy to start the semester being the hot topic of conversation within the academy.

To Be Continued…