HEX by Stacy Charasidis

Author:Stacy Charasidis [Charasidis, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781770973626
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2012-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

September

Tuesday, September 3

Barrington School Grounds

Despite the “university-like” party town evenings, supplies were bought, new clothes acquired, and school started like it did every year. Barrington’s two schools were located right behind the restaurants in Town Circle, but separated by a small wood. The two school buildings were more like large houses than institutions. There were only about two hundred kids in Barrington to begin with, so classes were pretty small and were held in large drafty rooms with archaic desks. In each building there was a small teacher’s lounge and a fairly large dining room where the kids ate their lunch when the weather was bad, although the older kids ate at the restaurants most days. Because the town was so small, the pub opened it’s kitchen for lunch and allowed the teens to eat there, but most of them went to The Fry Diner or to Joe’s Java Coffee House.

Both of the schoolhouses had entrances at the back into a small but perfectly designed gym where the kids could play basketball, floor hockey, or do gymnastics. The gym was free for use by the community in the evenings, so a third door at the back was for public use. Barrington had a lot of clubs and the town was generous when supplying equipment.

The school grounds were not extensive, but they were beautiful and picturesque like every other part of Barrington. At the front there was a small park for the little kids to play in and a field in the back for soccer and football. There were picnic tables interspersed in the small wood so the kids could eat and socialize outdoors.

The school area took up almost half the quad. The rest were houses, a rusty (but now working) windmill, and a red barn.

The elementary school kids were in a separate building from the high school students. This was to protect them from teenage “corruption” according to the principal, Mr. Linus Green. Not many of the kids liked him and called him “Sinus” or “Snot Green.”

Little kids with bulging knapsacks and excited faces milled around the front of the “Little House” schoolhouse, which is what the elementary building was nicknamed. Barrington County Elementary School was just too much of a mouthful.

The “Big House,” or Barrington County High School, was where you went starting in grade seven. It also was teeming with teens milling about the front and talking excitedly about their summer, and the festival, as they parked their bikes.

Nathalie stood at the edge of the wood and scanned the crowd. She saw Dean shepherding his twin brothers, who were starting kindergarten. His sisters were nowhere to be found.

Uh oh, Nathalie thought. The two precocious ones don’t look very happy.

Dean saw her and waved. When he arrived he gave her one of his wide smiles and kissed her soundly on the mouth. Some of the older kids made comments and kissy noises. Nathalie just smiled. The little boys looked disgusted.

“I don’t think you should do that in public,” Zach said, scandalized and looking around.

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