Diane Duane - Wizard 05 by The Wizard's Dilemma

Author:The Wizard's Dilemma
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-05T12:24:10+00:00

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Tuesday Morning and Afternoon

Nita’s father took the blame for her lateness when he delivered her to the school’s main office, and when her dad left, Nita went to her second-period social studies class feeling more or less like she’d been rolled over by a steam shovel—she was nowhere near recovered from the previous night’s exertions. She waved at Jane and Melissa and a couple other friends in the same class, sat down, and pulled out her notebooks, intent on staying awake if nothing else.

This was going to be a challenge, as the Civil War was still on the agenda, and the class had been stuck in 1863 for what now seemed about a century. Mr. Neary, the social studies teacher, was scribbling away on the blackboard, as illegibly as ever. He really should have been a doctor, Nita thought, and yawned.

Neets?

She sat up with a jerk so sudden that her chair scraped on the floor, and the kids around her looked at her in varying states of surprise or amusement. Mr. Neary glanced around, saw nothing but Nita writing industriously, and turned back to the blackboard, talking about Abraham Lincoln at his usual breakneck speed while he wrote.

Nita, for her own part, was bending as far over as she could while she wrote, trying to conceal the fact that she was blushing furiously. Kit—

I was starting to think you were avoiding me!

No, I—

Where’ve you been? Don’t you answer your manual anymore?

She could have answered him sharply… then put the urge aside. That was what had started this whole thing. Look, she said silently. I’m really sorry. It was all my fault.

All of it? Kit said. Wow. Didn’t think you were gonna go that far. The Lone Power’s gonna he real surprised when It finds out you let It off the hook.

His tone was dry but not angry… as far as she could tell. Please, Nita said. I’d like to be let off it, too.

There was a pause at Kit’s end. Where’ve you been? I’ve got some stuff to show you.

It’s, uh, it’s been busy. I—

Look, Kit said, save it for later. Wait for me after school, okay?

Okay.

She felt him turn away in mind to become engrossed in the test paper that had just been put down in front of him. Nita turned her attention back to what her social studies teacher was doing at the blackboard… and was astonished to find that she could. Just that brief contact had suddenly lifted from her mind a kind of grayness that had been hanging over it since before her mom went into the hospital. And now, she thought, even if Dairine can’t help, maybe Kit can.

But could he? And what even makes me think that after the pain in the butt I’ve been, he’s going to want anything to do with what I’m planning? She desperately wanted to believe that he would want something to do with it, but she’d been pretty good at being wrong about things lately. And

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