Pillars of Fire by Laurice Elehwany Molinari

Author:Laurice Elehwany Molinari
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

The dining room table was littered with Chinese takeout boxes as everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to Nora. Leaning over the dining room table, Nora admired her birthday cake despite the fact that it bore little resemblance to an actual cake. The white frosting was sloppily spread onto the top, and red and yellow sprinkles littered the icing in clumps. It looked pathetic, but Mom still smiled.

“Happy birthday to you!” everyone sang.

“Blow out the candles,” Dennis said to Nora.

“You did a great job on it,” she said, looking at the cake.

“Sorry, I’m not much of a cake maker,” Vero said.

“You can say that again,” Mr. Atwood snickered aside to Angus.

“I bet it tastes good.” Mom took a deep breath and blew out the candles.

Everyone clapped except for Clover. She was too busy looking at her cellphone.

“Clover, you want to cut the cake for me?” Mom asked.

Vero elbowed Clover. She flashed him a nasty look then went back to texting.

“Clover,” Dad said in a scolding voice. “Your mom’s talking to you.”

“Oh, what?” Clover glanced up from her phone.

“What’s so important?” Mom asked.

Clover set her phone on the table. “Kira’s upset. So I just sent her a photo of Two Dimension to cheer her up. It’s our favorite band.”

“Why is she upset?” Mom asked.

“Danny Konrad practically attacked her in the library today.”

“He did not!” Vero yelled a little too quickly.

Clover looked at Vero suspiciously. “Since when do you defend Danny? The guy hates you.”

“Yeah, he does,” Angus smiled. “Lots of other people do too.”

Mr. Atwood laughed. Mrs. Atwood slapped Angus on the back of his head.

“Unless you were there, I wouldn’t comment,” Vero told his sister.

“Davina saw him do it. I heard she’s going to break up with him.”

Vero paused for a moment. The thought of that made him feel really bad for Danny. He knew Davina was a very positive influence in Danny’s life. Her kindness toward Danny had brought out the best in him. But if Davina were to shut him out, Vero feared that Danny could go back to his old mean ways. Danny was his ward, and Vero’s job as a guardian angel was to keep him on the right path, even if he wasn’t a full-fledged angel yet.

“Not only that, Danny sent a bunch of kids a threatening email,” Clover said.

“I doubt that.”

“It’s true.” Angus nodded his head.

“I’ll cut the cake if nobody else will.” Dad shot his kids a look of disapproval and picked up the serving knife. “Vero, why don’t you go grab Mom’s gift?”

Vero ran to the kitchen and picked up a wrapped present the size of a shirt box. He dashed back to the dining room.

“This is for you,” he said handing the present to Mom. “You’re gonna love it.”

Nora excitedly took the present and began to unwrap it. “I wonder what it is?” she said.

Dad smiled. “Clover picked it out and said you’d love it.”

Clover frowned and looked away.

Nora’s excited face dropped when she saw an apron lying on top of tissue paper inside the box.

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