Heroes & Witches Urban Fantasy Multi-Author Boxed Set: Urban Fantasy novels about witches and wizards, shifters, mages, ghosts, angels, demons, mutants, ... Urban Fantasy and Super Powers Book 1) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Katherine sighed when she walked into the room and saw the secretary’s desk was empty and the door to the assistant’s principal office was closed. It was a tiny box-like room with the secretary’s desk taking up all the space not used as a pathway directly between the door that led to the hallway and the door that led to the assistant principal’s office.

For moment, in the empty passageway, Katherine had peace. She drummed her fingers against the plywood of the door that she leaned against and reluctantly pushed herself away from its comforting embrace. Walking the four steps that marked the distance from one door to the other, she raised a fist and knocked resolutely on the door.

“Come in,” said a male voice.

Katherine pushed the slightly ajar door open without further invitation. In the slightly larger room that served as his office, Katherine found Mr. Nielsen standing in the corner and shuffling through some papers beside his file cabinet.

He looked up quickly at her approach and said, “Ah, Ms. Thompson, I’ve been expecting you.”

A solemn look broached his face. A slight smile crossed hers. She happened to find Mr. Nielson to be one of the more approachable administrative officials in the schools. Once or twice she had even come to talk to him on her own accord.

He finished shuffling his papers and rapidly stuffed the sheath in a folder before slamming the file door shut and walking toward his desk.

Gesturing at a chair, Mr. Nielsen said, “Please, sit down.”

Katherine promptly took the indicated metal and leather seat that had seen better days. This school was the only one in town for more reasons than one—they couldn’t afford to run two school buildings for separate middle school and high school curriculums, although they had a large enough student body to maintain such a quorum if needed.

As Katherine settled in the squeaky chair, she turned calm eyes on Mr. Nielsen, waiting on his pronouncement, whatever it might be. After all, he said he had been expecting her, which at the very least, meant he had something to say to her.

Mr. Nielson, for his part, folded his hands and rested his chin on the bridge they formed.

“How are you doing, Katherine?” he asked in a calm tone.

“Fine.” Katherine shrugged, wanting to get this over with.

He nodded and reached out for a candy dish. Picking it up, he held it out to her. “Toffee?”

She shook her head quickly. Could he just get on with it? If he gave her a legitimate excuse to leave, she was gone. But if her mother heard that she had pressured the human administrator into excusing her from her classes, she’d never hear the end of it. Never mind that Katherine would never do such a thing. Not without a darned good reason, anyway.

“Fine,” he said simply while popping a rejected toffee into his mouth. “Let me be blunt. First you became withdrawn in class, then you stormed outdoors to deal with something best left alone, and now this…your has sister passed away.

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