Poppy Mayberry, Return to Power Academy by Jennie K. Brown

Author:Jennie K. Brown [Brown, Jennie K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, action adventure, fantasy, paranormal, supernatural, social issues, friendship
ISBN: 9781946700209
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC
Published: 2017-10-10T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Last year, if you’d asked me if I wanted to have two powers, I’m not sure how I would have answered. Really, I had just wanted to be good at one. And if I knew two powers would be dangerous to me, then I definitely wouldn’t have wanted them.

Ellie, Logan, and I sat in Headmistress Larriby’s office, waiting for her. She didn’t know we were here. She hadn’t bothered to change the combination on the lock from last year, so we simply typed it in and voila. No need to use powers of any sort.

Last year’s challenge was a way for us to not only prove our powers, but also to realize our true potential as cuspers. As much as I wanted to believe that the disappearances of Sam and the other cuspers was another challenge, I had a bad feeling about it. This wasn’t just something concocted in the strange minds of Larriby and Grimeley. We weren’t playing with missing jewelry, athletic equipment, musical instruments, and dogs. Human lives were at stake this time.

The doorknob turned slowly.

“What the—” Mrs. Larriby said, obviously taken aback by our appearance in her office.

She sighed. “I know why you’re here,” she said, taking a seat behind her desk. You just can’t let that thing with Mark Masters go, can you? she thought to me, her eyes burning into me so hard that I thought I would catch fire right then and there.

“There is something strange happening here, and we want to know what,” I said matter-of-factly.

“And we don’t plan on leaving unless you tell us,” Logan chimed in.

“Hmmm,” Larriby sighed, giving us the same nervous look she did when Mr. Fluxnut entered the room on the first day of camp. He had told her something that frightened her, and I had a feeling that she was about to tell us. I used my Thursday power. Should I or not?

“I feel like we need to know what’s going on,” Ellie said, gingerly, and innocently batted her eyelashes. “First that thing with Mark, which Poppy obviously told us about.” Headmistress Larriby scowled at me. Ellie continued, “And then Sam disappears. And then Veronica show—” Ellie paused, her eyes meeting mine. “I mean, we just want to know what’s going on.”

Beads of sweat began to form on Larriby’s brow. She looked terrified. She scooted her seat into the desk and leaned toward us.

“Okay,” she said, puffing out a lungful of air. She made up her mind to tell us. “You really should know because it has everything to do with you.”

Ellie’s arm lifted and pointed to the office door. It slammed shut.

“Someone’s doing something with some of the cuspers,” Headmistress Larriby whispered.

“Excuse me? What?” Ellie demanded.

“Well, we’re not entirely sure what is happening. Let’s just say, for a bit of time, some cuspers have … well, just be careful,” she said, without finishing her original sentence. Luckily, my Thursday power was now strong enough to read from her mind what she wanted to say: vanished.

“What do you mean, vanished?” Ellie asked, obviously reading Larriby’s mind, too.

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