Secrets

We had made it to the top of the steps & entered his small room. I went behind him. I didn’t want him to see. When we were both squished in his tiny room, he turned around and looked at my face.
“um..” I started. Real intellegent. “Something’s been happening to me, C.J.” His face was completely calm, almost relieved. Like he had wanted me to figure it out that he was in on it. “And I guess that you know, cause you’re acting really strange about it.”
“Embry.” He looked at my eyes and nothing else, so serious. “Tell me what happened.”
“Why?”
“I need to know. I need to know, Bree.” I sighed, followed by a pained wince. My back.
He noticed my action. “Embry.” I gave up.
“It’s my back, C.J. It burns like hell, a-and it looks horrible, with blood and bones and everything. And then this morning, well, yesterday morning now, i woke up with this huge bruise-like thing that was like taking over my chest
and my neck