Magic Unmasked by Megan Crewe

Author:Megan Crewe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Another World Press

Chapter Ten

Amy

“Oh my God, I want this so bad.” Lori gazed at the record of Blondie’s “Call Me” she’d just pulled out of the rack. “But my summer job money is almost all gone and I’ve still got a month and a half to go before I can get more.”

Denise trailed her fingers over the records as she ambled down the store aisle. “It’s on the radio all the time. It’s not like you don’t get to hear it.”

“But not whenever I want.” Lori crinkled her nose like she always did when she was trying to decide something. “What do you think, Amy?”

“Hmm?” I jerked myself out of my daze.

Normally I’d have loved browsing a record store with friends, but under the Elton John track playing on the store’s sound system, the hum of the yellow lights was prickling at my thoughts. The whole mall had that tinny hum. It made the murmur of magic quiver around me at a weird erratic frequency, even more intrusive than it’d been since Jonathan had heightened my awareness of it.

“Earth to Amy,” Denise said, laughing. It wasn’t a mean laugh—Denise always paired her ribbing with a warm smile—but her teasing made me even more edgy. She and Lori had been hanging out together since the beginning of high school, and I’d just dropped in at the beginning of junior year. I liked them and I thought we were on our way to being close, but I didn’t feel quite as comfortable as I had with my old friends back home yet.

I ran back through the conversation I’d only been half listening to. “Um, I think if you still want it after it’s been on the radio so much, you should get it. It’s not that much money for a single.”

“True.” Lori tilted the record in her hands as if that would help her decide.

The magic jittered against my skin. Was the hum getting louder? I stepped away from my friends, hoping Lori made up her mind quickly. Between the music overhead and the lights and my sensitivity that seemed to be growing by the minute—

My fingers fidgeted, tapping a random rhythm against my thigh as if that would drown out the other sensations. The magic around me twitched and jolted. A kid farther down of the aisle flinched.

“Ow!” he said, pulling his arm to his chest. A red mark was forming just below his elbow as if someone had smacked him there.

My heart lurched. Had I done that? I hadn’t even meant to— But there was no one close enough to have actually smacked him.

A wash of chilly nausea swept through me. For a second I felt too dizzy to move. Then I bolted for the store entrance.

Lori and Denise caught up with me in the mall promenade. I’d sat down on a bench, my head leaned into my hands. The nausea had faded, but my shakiness hadn’t.

“Hey,” Denise said. “Are you okay? You went, like, completely white.”

“Yeah,” I said. “I’m fine. Just felt really sick for a second, but now that I’d sat down for a minute, I’m sure I’ll be okay.

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