Odd Stuff by Nelson Virginia

Author:Nelson, Virginia [Nelson, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dpgroup.org, Fluffer Nutter
Amazon: B00MALTBVG
Published: 2014-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

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I awoke when Vickie landed on the bed, smelling of snow and little girl.

She curled up with me. “Mom, Sven said you had to go to some circle thing tonight and that you probably wouldn’t care if me and him, since tomorrow is Friday and we don’t have school because of that teacher day thing—”

“He and I,” I corrected automatically. I ignored the run on sentence.

“Yeah, he and I took my friend Jordan to the new Pixar movie.”

“Any homework?” I kissed her head and vowed I was never, ever going to tell her I was disappointed in her. I don’t care if she grows up to be a hobo, I will tell her that she was the best hobo I ever met.

“No, I did it at school.”

“Lemme see the backpack.” She obediently fetched it, and I crawled out of bed. I was becoming a night person, sleeping in the daytime and running around with dead guys at night.

Refusing to believe she was dead, I knew I had to find Mia. Somehow it seemed I would know if she was gone, like the world would be a little darker if she weren’t in it.

Vickie showed me the work she’d done at school and, after dinner, I waved at her, Sven and a little blond girl as they left for the movie. While I still had the front door open, Julia appeared across the street waving. I went back upstairs, re-bagged all of the munchies and carried them downstairs.

I flipped the sign to closed, locked the door, and crossed the road to join Julia in her car. She had a nice car. I pulled on my seatbelt. “Is it okay, do you think, to close Odd Stuff early?”

“Mia always closes it for the circles. I wouldn’t worry about it.”

I nodded. “Where are we going anyway?”

“The beach.” She hummed to a song on the radio.

“Aren’t we going to freeze?”

She laughed. “Eat this and you will be fine.”

She passed me a granola bar looking thing. It was soft and looked like it had chocolate chips in it. “What is it?”

“A potion of sorts. Just eat it.” Well, last night I drank a shot from a vampire bar, so this probably was considerably less harmful than whatever that was. I ate it, and she pulled into Walnut Beach. On the sign that read Walnut Beach, a smaller sign had been posted saying the park was closed for the season, yet it looked like someone plowed the driveway free of snow.

I shifted in my seat, suddenly hot and pulled off my coat. Still warm, I pulled off the sweatshirt I had on over a T-shirt and was still warmer than I wanted to be.

I looked at Julia. She wore a coat, but pulled it off now that we had parked to reveal a bikini top.

“What is in that protein bar? I feel like it’s summer, but I see snow—”

“Magic. Told you, sweetie, we’re witches. It will wear off in a couple of hours.” With that, she got out of the car and I followed.

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