03 - Silver Is For Secrets by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Author:Laurie Faria Stolarz [Stolarz, Laurie Faria]
Format: epub
Tags: Young adult fiction, Girls & Women, Witchcraft, Juvenile Fiction, Bedtime & Dreams, Revenge, Fantasy & Magic, Extrasensory perception, Nightmares, Brown; Stacey (Fictitious character), Mysteries & Detective Stories, Magic, Fiction
ISBN: 9780738706313
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Published: 2005-01-31T10:00:00+00:00

nineteen

After devouring all the ice cream left in our cottage, Amber, Drea, and I end up falling asleep for a couple more hours. When I get up, in lieu of taking a shower, I pull a halfway-clean T-shirt and a pair of shorts off the floor and head into the living room to talk to Clara. Once again, she isn’t there.

Chad and Amber are sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast and discussing the fraternity fundraiser cruise tomorrow night—basically, who should room with whom with respect to finances, significant others, and loud and obnoxious snoring.

“Are you going?” Chad asks me.

“Doubt it,” I say, glancing toward the closed bathroom door and wondering if Clara’s in there.

“Yeah, that’s what Jacob said, too,” Chad says.

“Really?”

He nods, licking what appears to be Danish goo from his fingers.

“Good,” I say. “I’m glad we’re on the same wavelength.” Though a part of me wonders why Jacob didn’t ask me himself. I chew the thought over with a bite of dry cereal straight out of the box, and then take another peek at the empty sofa. “Who’s in the bathroom?”

“You need to ask?” Amber looks up at me, her face still red from the mud mask. “Who else takes over an hour to blow-dry her hair?”

“So where’s Clara?”

“Who cares?” Amber moans. “I think my face is sizzling.” She grabs a package of Popsicles and applies it to her cheek.

“The only thing that’s going to make your face any less burnt is time, real aloe, and this.” I grab a couple eggs from the fridge and crack them into a bowl, separating the yolks from the white parts.

“You’ve got to be kidding,” she says.

“Hardly. Egg whites are famous in my family for treating burns and, since I didn’t bring my aloe plant with me on vacation, it’ll have to do.” I direct Amber to tilt her head back.

Then I dip my fingers into the egg whites and smear the clear and pulpy mass down her face. The burn actually isn’t that bad; it’s more like a sunburn with a little bit of peeling on one cheek.

“Ahhh!” Amber moans in appreciation. “Who knew slimy rawness could feel this good? Wait,” she pauses. “Let me rephrase.”

“I think I just lost my appetite,” Chad says.

“Then can I have what’s left of your Danish?” Amber moves to nab it off his plate, but Chad is too quick. He takes a healthy bite and smiles at her as he chews. “Didn’t your mother teach you to share?” she asks him.

“Didn’t your mother teach you not to get egg on your face?”

“So hilarious,” she says, rolling her eyes.

Chad takes another bite, getting a clump of the raspberry goo stuck in his facial scruff.

“What’s that?” Amber asks. She leans forward and squints toward his face.

“What?” Chad rubs his chin.

“Is that a beard you’re trying to grow?”

I pinch her in response, hoping she gets the message.

“I don’t know,” Amber continues. “It kind of looks like one. But maybe it’s something else—dirt, hair dye, maybe.”

Chad’s mouth falls open, and I can’t help but laugh out loud.

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