Fairy, Texas by Margo Bond Collins

Author:Margo Bond Collins [Collins, Margo Bond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Solstice Shadows
Published: 2014-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The party was still in full swing at Josh’s house. Mason had shifted us into the ethereal not far out from the workshop, and we had flown home wrapped in gauzy quiet.

Now, he landed lightly in the front yard and prepared to set me on my feet.

“Wait,” I said. “We can’t walk into the middle of the party looking like this.”

Mason glanced down at our clothing, spattered in various unpleasant substances—vomit, blood, and something on Mason’s shoulder that I suspected might be a fleck of torn demon wing. Plus Mason’s face and arms were bruised and scratched, though I could already see the abrasions healing. Josh was right; fairies healed faster in the ethereal plane.

Mason nodded. “Okay. Don’t let go of me. I think I can keep you here if you don’t let go.” He dropped me to my feet. I waited until he reached behind his neck and took one of my hands to unwind me from him.

We moved through the crowd, unseen, unfelt. At one point I brushed by a girl I recognized from English class. Her shoulder bumped mine and I started, worried that I’d give us away, but she ignored me entirely, oblivious to my passing.

“So,” I said, aiming for a light tone, “Ever do this in the girls’ locker room?”

Mason blushed a bright red.

“Oh my God, you have!” I said. I started to pull away from him, but a tug of his hand on mine reminded me not to let go.

“Can’t you just hold the questions until we’re safe?” he muttered.

I had relaxed a little bit, but I was immediately on alert again. “I thought we were safe once we got inside Josh’s,” I said, as I tried to look in all directions at once.

“Almost,” Mason muttered. He pulled me through the living room and into the kitchen. “In here,” he said, pulling me into the walk-in pantry. He slowly swung the door shut behind us after making sure no one in the kitchen was watching.

“Hold the door shut,” he said. He finally dropped my hand so that he would have his free. I held on to the doorknob while he felt along the edge of a shelf until his fingers hit something.

“In here,” he said. The pantry shelves swung back on a door, and revealed a staircase illuminated by a bare bulb. “Come on.” Mason gestured me ahead of him and closed the door behind us.

At the bottom of the stairs we turned a corner and stepped into a fairly standard basement rec room. A big television dominated one corner, a pool table another. Absolutely normal. Except, of course, for the fact that this one was reached by a secret staircase behind the pantry.

But I didn’t spend much time examining the room. An older man, maybe in his forties, stood in the middle of the room. We’d clearly interrupted him as he paced back and forth.

His eyes were exactly the color of Josh’s.

“Mason,” he said, relief coloring his voice. “You okay?”

“Yes, sir,” Mason replied.

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