Hex Me, Baby, One More Time by Renee George

Author:Renee George
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Renee George

Chapter Eight

The parade was five hours away, and even though Mom had bought all the glitter and sequins in town for the first float, she stayed strongly optimistic that we could make this work. My shadow, at my request, was staying fifty feet away, far enough that I couldn't smell him and as long as I didn't look, I wouldn't see him. I kept looking anyhow, and I was getting sulkier by the minute.

"What's wrong?" Mom asked as we scavenged the local shops for kitsch to use on the new float.

"She's in love with a loser," Simon said. I booped him on the nose and gave him a silencing glare. He retaliated by whacking me in the face with his tail.

"I will make you walk," I threatened.

Mom stopped mid-step and faced me. "What does Simon mean about you being in love? Not with Monty? I had high hopes for that boy, but it turns out he and his mother are the worst kind of liars."

Wow. I guess I wasn't the only one hurt by this morning's revelations. "I'm sorry, Mom. I know she's one of your closest friends."

"Not anymore," she said. Her shoulders sagged, and for a moment, my mother looked little older.

"She's a fool, Mom. You are kind, considerate, and you are always there for the people in your life. Not just Lukas and me. I see you in every good thing in this town. I pointed to a mural of wide open hills with trees as far as the eye could see. "You talked the town council into giving Maddie Greives a chance to make the town more beautiful." I pointed at a bench sitting in a small garden with statues of creatures great and small. "That memorial garden for all the town folk who have gone on to the Next Adventure, you made that happen as well. You might be the only witch living in this town, other than me. But Dad's people, they love you. They would do anything for you. Including, throwing a gaudy spectacular festival every year, so you can ride through the streets in a bedazzled limo."

"Not this year," she said sourly.

"No. Not this year. But that's beside the point." I smooshed her in a hug until Simon protested being squeezed with a claw to my boob. "The point is. Anyone would be lucky to have you as a best friend because you are the best, and only a fool would abuse that friendship."

Mom sniffled. "You're a good daughter, Brita Jean."

"I know." I smiled. "You can say it."

"Say what?"

"That I'm your favorite? We don't have to tell Lukas, although, I'm sure he suspects."

"You're incorrigible."

"I get that from you."

She turned her attention back to the stores, a smile on her face, and both of us a little lighter in our steps. "Here," she said. "Let's go into Talons and Tools. Maybe they'll give me a discount on nuts or metal washers for the float. And while we're in there, you can tell me who you're in love with.

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