Small Town Witch (The Fae of Calaveras County) by Kristen S. Walker

Author:Kristen S. Walker [Walker, Kristen S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kristen S. Walker
Published: 2013-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

While Mom drove Heather home, I found my dad in his study. “Knock, knock,” I said from the open doorway. “Can I talk to you?”

Dad put down a stack of papers on his desk and waved to the empty couch. I saw his mouth move, but I had no idea what he said.

“I hope that was a yes.” I flopped down in the middle of the couch. “Look, I need to talk to you about something, but the first thing that you need to know is that I can’t hear anything. You’re going to have to write stuff down for me to understand.”

Dad frowned and rummaged on his desk for a minute. He found a pad of paper and a thick black marker. Normally it was hard for me to read his handwriting, but he wrote carefully in big block letters. “What’s wrong with your hearing? Do you need to go to the hospital?”

I pointed to my ears and started to explain my little adventure all over again. I finished with, “Now Mom says she won’t do anything to help me, because it’s my fault. You’re a doctor. Can you look at my ears and figure out what’s wrong with them?”

He looked down and thought for a minute before writing. When he held up the paper, it said, “I think that your mother does what she thinks is best when it comes to your magical training. I can’t really say if her methods are the best, because it’s not really my area of expertise, but if you have a magical problem then I can’t help you.”

I leaned forward. “But it’s not fair! I knew that I made a mistake the moment that I lost my hearing—and it was painful for a few minutes, too. But do you think that it’s right to leave me like this, without even trying to find a way to fix it, all in the name of trying to teach me a lesson?”

He frowned and the marker moved across the paper. “Well, she did promise to try helping you if your hearing doesn’t return on its own in a few days. It was a little harsh, but you ought to know by now that you can’t be reckless with magic.”

I shook my head. “I don’t think that the extra time will help me learn that lesson any better. That’s not harsh, it’s needlessly cruel. If I knew how to fix it—or if I knew a spell that let me create light, or anything else useful, which she keeps refusing to teach me—then I wouldn’t need her help. But I do need her help, and she won’t help me.”

Dad shrugged. “I leave those choices up to her. I’m sorry that it’s tough on you.”

I clenched my fists. Maybe he didn’t realize how much he was letting her get away with, like the spells in my room. “Do you even know about all of her choices? What about her snooping—“ I stopped, distracted by a movement by the door.

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