Page 59 of The Genius
Willow’s eyes flew to Hunter and back to Storm. “Are you going to inviteeverybody?”
“That was the plan.”
Hunter rose up to his full height. “You’re not inviting Solo.”
“Ah, come on, it’s been years,” Storm argued and looked to Willow for help. “Don’t you think it’s time to move on and forgive him?”
Willow and Solomon had been a couple back at the school, but they had been only twelve and fourteen and too young for me to ever take it seriously.
“Are you still in contact with Solo?” Willow asked me.
“No. He just kind of fell off the radar. I’m not sure what happened to him.”
Tristan spoke up. “He trained with Magni until he left the school. I know he hoped to join the Huntsmen, but I don’t know if he ever did. I tried connecting with him, but after what happened, he cut me off.”
Storm turned to Hunter. “Look, I know that Solo messed up, but he used to be our friend and I want everyone to be at the reunion.”
Hunter’s jaw was set and he didn’t look forgiving at all. “If you invite Solo, Willow and I won’t be there.”
Willow’s lips disappeared in a thin line.
Throwing his hands in the air, Storm sighed. “Fine, but at least think about it. For all we know, Solo might be married by now and have kids. Maybe you could drink a beer with him and laugh at what happened back then.”
Hunter snorted, lifting the edge of his upper lip. “Not fucking likely.”
Willow’s hands were playing with her hair and her eyes glazed over as she looked out the window, no doubt long gone in memories from her time with Solo.
“What happened exactly?” I asked because only vague memories of hearing about a falling out between Hunter and Solo came to mind.
“I don’t want to talk about it.” Hunter’s tone was dismissive and he walked over to stroke Willow’s back in a soothing manner.
Storm crossed his arms. “Alright, then forget about Solo, but what about the rest? Do we invite the old people or just us young ones? I mean, Archer and Kya are a must, but what about Boulder and Christina? They kind of built the school so I want to invite them too.”
“You invite everyone, of course,” I said, as to me it was a no-brainer.
“Even Lord Khan and Pearl?”
“EspeciallyPearl and Lord Khan. They came up with the idea to create the school to begin with and the school is named after Pearl.”
Hunter nodded. “I agree, but there’s no way they’ll come. I mean Lord Khan is our ruler. I doubt he has time for us.”
I leaned against the wall, my arms folded. “The school was always important to him and Pearl. If they have time, they’ll come.”
Storm’s eyes widened as if he’d just thought of something worthy of a genius. He spoke with excitement. “What about Magni? You think we could get him to come? It would be the biggest scoop ever to have him there.”
I angled my head. “How is it a bigger scoop to have Magni come than his brother, the ruler?”
Storm scrunched up his face. “It’s fuckingMagni Aurelius– the man is a living legend. He’s my hero.”
I narrowed my eyes. “Do I need to remind you that he almost killed me that time when he thought I’d slept with Laura?”
Storm and Hunter burst into grins and spoke at the same time. “It was epic. He almost crashed his drone when he came for you.”
“I thought Magni was going to kill you for real. He looked like an avenging demon coming straight out of hell to kill you.”
I spoke in a dry tone. “I’m glad you two were entertained.”
Storm rocked back and forth with sounds of suppressed excitement.
