Discount Diva (Zodiac Girls) by Hopkins Cathy

Author:Hopkins, Cathy [Hopkins, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

More planets!

At break, Hannah and Georgie had to go and do library duty so Megan and I headed out into the playground. It was a lovely sunny day so we made our way over to the nearest empty bench and rolled up our sleeves ready to soak up the sun.

“I wonder which birth sign the sun is guardian for?” Megan mused as she got an apple out of her bag and started munching it.

“I’ll find out,” I said and got out my phone and quickly texted a message to Nessa asking which planet looked after which birth sign.

“Do you think maybe that they all hang out in Osbury?” asked Megan as we waited for Nessa to reply.

“Why would they?” I asked.

“Maybe it’s like Stonehenge or Glastonbury or one of those places, you know, a sort of sacred site. That would make sense, like some places just have a good vibe and Osbury definitely does. I always like going there and you said that Nessa told you that the guy with the computer shop is one of the planet people.”

“Uri. Yeah maybe,” I said. “Nessa said that they are ten planets walking round in human form so I guess they have to hang out somewhere, but… how weird does this all sound?”

Megan shrugged again. “I guess it does sound odd but who really knows who anyone is or where we’ve come from or what it’s really all about? Maybe being a Zodiac Girl is magic.”

“For you maybe, but you know I don’t believe in magic the way you do, Meg.”

“Yes you do,” she said. “You just have to open your mind to it. Magic doesn’t have to be weird. It’s all around us. Everywhere. We live with it every day.”

“Yeah right,” I said. “Megan’s off in la-la land again.”

“No, really, Tori,” she said then she picked a pip from her apple core. “Like this, this is magic.”

I patted her on the head. “Megan, my lovely, mad mate. Are you on drugs? I hate to upset you but that there is the pip from an apple.”

“Ah yes. Tiny isn’t it? Looks like nothing, but plant it in the ground and it will grow and grow, big, bigger than us. It will turn into a tree. A tree that bears fruit and has leaves and flowers.” She held the pip up in the air. “And can you see any of that now? No. It’s a pip. An insignificant pip but from it, all that can come. No that’s pretty magical isn’t it?”

I hadn’t thought about it like that before but the way she’d put it, I thought, Wow! Actually that is magical and I’ve never questioned trees or flowers growing from nothing as being weird.

“I guess. But that’s nature. That’s different. These tiny people in the phone and Nessa, what’s that all really about, oh small-but-wise-one? I’ve been trying to make sense of it all morning. Like, is it some kind of astrology club and they’re all members? See Megan, I was worried that Nessa might be an escaped lunatic.

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