Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - BOOCarz

The first thing I heard when I could hear again was
laughter. Then the white faded away and I saw that we
were all arranged around Adam just as we had been
before, but now the bomb was gone and the night was
quiet and the only light in the cloudless sky was a full
moon. Miss Peregrine appeared above me and held
out her hand. I took it, stumbling to my feet in a daze.
“Please accept my apologies,” she said. “I should
have better prepared you.” She couldn’t hide her
smile, though, and neither could the other kids as they
stripped off their masks. I was pretty sure I’d just been
hazed.
I felt lightheaded and out-of-sorts. “I should probably
head home for the night,” I said to Miss Peregrine.
“My dad’ll worry.” Then I added quickly, “I can go
home, right?”
“Of course you can,” she replied, and in a loud
voice asked for a volunteer to escort me back to the
cairn. To my surprise, Emma stepped forward. Miss
Peregrine seemed pleased.
“Are you sure about her?” I whispered to the
headmistress. “A few hours ago she was ready to slit
my throat.”
“Miss Bloom may be hot-tempered, but she is one
of my most trusted wards,” she replied. “And I think
you and she may have a few things to discuss away
from curious ears.”
Five minutes later the two of us were on our way,
only this time my hands weren’t tied and she wasn’t
poking a knife in my spine. A few of the younger kids
trailed us as far as the edge of the yard. They wanted
to know whether I’d be back again tomorrow. I made
vague assurances, but I could hardly wrap my mind
around what was happening at this moment, much
less in the future.
We passed into the dark woods alone. When the
house had disappeared behind us, Emma held out an