Out of Sight by Amanda Ashby

Author:Amanda Ashby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

A DATE. HER MOM WAS GOING ON A DATE. WITH someone who wasn’t Sophie’s dad.

How could this be happening? And why now? Especially considering how far she’d come. After all, it hadn’t been exactly easy to get an interview with the Djinn Council and to find the recipe to make Solomon’s Elixir. And don’t even get her started on learning how to fly and getting the floor plans for Sheterum’s mansion. For what? So that her mom could go on a date with someone else a week before Sophie was finally due to rescue her dad?

Suddenly she understood what the phrase “a day late and a dollar short” really meant.

It was like the Universe hated her or something. But that couldn’t be right because she and the Universe were as one. Not to mention the fact that she had been doing affirmations for the last four years to make sure that they would once again be a happy family. And nowhere in those affirmations had there been any mention of Mr. Rivers.

Just thinking about it caused Sophie’s heart to start pounding an anxious rhythm. It was such a disaster. And even worse, so far she hadn’t been able to stop it. Though it wasn’t from a lack of trying. She had given her mom some excellent reasons why she couldn’t go out on a date (ranging from the way he folded the towels in the guest bathroom to the fact that he was related to the evil Ryan the biter), but so far her mom had absolutely refused to change her mind about it.

In the past, Sophie had always thought that Meg was the stubborn one in the family, but since last night, it was becoming increasingly obvious who her sister had inherited the stubborn gene from. Oh, and to make matters worse, after giving her another lecture on how bad it was to fill her sister’s head with fairy tales, her mom had decided to give Sophie extra chores around the house for two weeks. And yes, technically, Sophie could use her magic to do them, but that was hardly the point. After all, Meg didn’t get extra chores, and she was the one who had broken her promise—

“Hello there.” Harvey’s hand suddenly appeared in front of her as the lunch bell finally rang. Kara had been excused for some special Wizard of Oz meeting, so they were going to catch up with her in the cafeteria. All around her students were talking and pouring out toward the exit like a tidal wave. She reluctantly joined the flow as Harvey shot her a quizzical look. “Is everything okay?”

“You mean apart from the fact that my mom’s going on a date tonight with the horrible guy who kept poor Malik ruthlessly locked up in his basement for a gazillion years, and I still haven’t figured out a way to stop it yet,” Sophie asked as they squeezed their way through the crowds.

“I thought that was an accident. Didn’t you say that he didn’t know Malik was in the vase?” Harvey scratched his chin in confusion.

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