I'm a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni

Author:V.S. Santoni
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

1 Week After Extraction

Alison barged into my room around nine on Sunday morning. “You know what this thing is?” she said, waving the book we’d found in the library.

Getting back into bed, I rubbed my face against the coarse sheets, muffling my voice. “No.”

“Look at this, J.”

I stared at the words on the page. “Remove the wire by opening the diameter of the lower wire holes the lifting wires attach to. This gives an opening for the lifting wire to slip out and be removed . . .” I rolled onto my back. “It’s instructions for fixing a clock.”

“Exactly. Don’t you want to go investigate this?”

I rolled over again and groaned. “No.”

“Why not? What’s wrong with you?”

I covered my head with a pillow and ignored her, so she crawled on top of me, yanked the pillow away, and threw it on the floor. Then she flipped me over and pinned me to the bed by the wrists.

“Ali, just leave me alone. I don’t feel good.”

“Seriously, you weren’t this upset after we almost got killed.”

“I wish Todd and them had just killed me.”

She tightened her grip on my wrists. “Look, drama queen, you’re going to tell me what’s going on, or I’m going to tell Hunter you suck your thumb to fall asleep sometimes.”

“Go ahead. He wouldn’t care, anyway.”

She slackened her hold. “Is this about Hunter?” I didn’t reply. “Johnny, you’re not allowed to be this weird over someone whose wardrobe consists of fifty shades of gingham.”

“Just get out. I want to be alone.”

“I can’t believe we’re trapped in a creepy magic school, and you’re sitting in here worrying about some dumb boy,” she said, finally getting off me.

I turned back over and covered my head with the blanket. Alison slammed the door behind her.

With the room quiet again, I rolled over and found she’d left the book behind. Sitting up, I gave it another look. It really was just a journal on building, setting, and fixing old clocks. If a book on horology was all we had, we were never getting out of here. I pushed the book away until it fell into the space between my bed and the wall.

It briefly crossed my mind to look for Hunter and talk to him again, but that would’ve been too awkward, so I stayed in my room all day.

Come Monday, lack of sleep coupled with heartbreak had left me looking haggard, with dark rings drooping under my eyes like brimming grocery bags. When Alison saw me looking like a waterlogged zombie, she knew to skip the usual spiel about why men aren’t worth it. She handed me a backpack. “Here. Got you a new one.” I packed my books up and we left for school.

Outside, the clouds sputtered with thunder. They had been doing it all weekend. We splished through a few shallow puddles on our way to Odin Hall. “You feel like talking yet?” she asked.

“I guess.”

“What happened? I mean, obviously this place sucks, but you’re, like, a lot sadder than last week—”

“Hunter kissed me.

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