Gwendolyn's Revenge by Carrie Cross

Author:Carrie Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: friendship, magic, middle school, witchcraft, bullying, wizard, potions, popular girls, skylar robbins
Publisher: Carrie Cross

11

A Wicked Smile

“Gwendolyn?” Skylar and her parents said at the same time, staring at her with their mouths hanging open.

Gwendolyn arranged an amused look on her face. “Hello.”

“What…you?” Skylar’s mother sputtered.

“Had a facial? Grew my hair?” Gwendolyn guessed sarcastically, planting a hand on one hip. The other hand was in her pocket, fingering the now-wilted flower containing the last Dubious Wish Bead. Skylar gaped at her cousin, dying to take a picture and text it to Alexa.

“You look beautiful,” Skylar’s father said nicely, patting Gwendolyn on the shoulder gingerly, as if he were afraid to touch her.

“Thanks, Unc.”

“Shall we all go relax in the den and have a cocktail?” Gwendolyn’s father asked, ushering everyone out of the living room. Skylar raised her eyebrows at her mom, who was also amazed at the drastic change in Gwendolyn’s appearance.

While her father poured their drinks, Gwendolyn stared at Skylar smugly. “So, Skylar, what’s new?” she sneered.

“My name, for one. I go by Sky now.”

“OK, Sky. And you may call me, Gwen. Like all the popular kids in Malibu do.”

“What happened to you, Gwen?” Skylar asked under her breath while their parents toasted to her mother’s birthday.

“Oh, I’ve just been taking care of my skin and hair, et cetera. And my muscles got toned from all that exercise I got weeding the garden and tending the nasturtiums,” Gwendolyn retorted, smirking in satisfaction.

“What?” Skylar asked, clamping her jaws shut as Gwendolyn walked away laughing. “Excuse me, I need to use the restroom,” Skylar said to no one in particular, running down the hall and digging her cell phone out of her pocket. Slamming the door, Skylar spun around, sat on the toilet, and dialed frantically. It only rang once.

“Hi, Sky.”

“Kat,” she whispered. “The gems. Quick. Who stole them?” Skylar asked with her heart pounding. “Tell me.”

“Not Gwendolyn.” Kat breathed heavily into the phone. “Some pretty girl with thick, long brown—”

“That’s her! Call you back,” Skylar spat as she ended the call.

She flushed the toilet and stared at herself in the mirror, her blue eyes narrowing. If I accuse Gwendolyn of stealing the gems, she thought, then I’ll have to tell everyone about the witchcraft, sneaking down to the beach at midnight to search three caves for magic seeds, the Gem Seed Spell…I’ll get in trouble and so will Kat. This won’t work. I have to figure out another plan.

After dinner, while their parents were talking over coffee, Gwendolyn and Skylar met in the kitchen, stuck with doing the dishes. “So, what were you saying about the nasturtiums?” Skylar asked politely while glaring at her cousin’s back.

Gwendolyn whipped around, tossing shiny hair away from her face. “Nothing, Skylar. You asked me to water them after you left, and I just kept my promise.” She let a chuckle escape. “Boy, did I,” she said gleefully, shoving a clean frying pan into a cupboard with a bang.

“What about them, Gwendolyn?” Skylar asked.

“Oh…” she answered thoughtfully, folding thin arms across her chest while she stared at the ceiling, “it wasn’t really the nasturtiums themselves that were so interesting.

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