Spelling Bee by Adrienne Blake

Author:Adrienne Blake [Blake, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Coven Publishing
Published: 2019-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

The three judges were all huddled together, nodding profusely, shaking their heads one minute, then nodding wildly the next. At last, raising their hands in a show of unanimity, they returned to their seats to enter their final scores into their clipboards.

Up went the bubbles, a seven, a seven, then a ten and another ten. The numbers took forever to drift over the heads of the students, and I couldn’t help but shriek a delighted “Yes!” as the second ten settled over Pike’s head. She had won. Well, tied with Crystal at least. I couldn’t have been more delighted.

“Well done, children, well done,” Carter said, shouting over the roar of the delighted crowd and clapping his hands in appreciation. “Now it seems we have a tiebreaker. As you know, I have the casting vote, so, please keep your seats for a moment longer while I judge the two top potions!”

Crystal and Pike, ever the best of friends, now exchanged wary looks. Once this competition was over, they’d be happily hexing pixies together again in my flower-fest of a garden—but at this moment they were rivals, each determined to beat the other. Realization shone in Crystal’s eyes. She knew she wasn’t going to walk this one.

At the front of the table was a Styrofoam cup containing two final judging spoons. Carter selected one, then after studying the consistency and color of Crystal’s potion, which we could all see was a powdery pink, he dipped in his spoon and scooped out a sample. He sniffed it, then smiled, and sipped the contents of the spoon.

“Very nice.” He smiled at Crystal, discarding the old spoon in a plastic tub placed under the table. Then he selected the final, slightly larger spoon out of the cup and moved along to Pike’s potion.

All eyes were on Carter as he stirred the potion in the pot, then ladled out a small sample to judge. The moment it touched his lips, they flashed a strong shade of pink, almost red, and a glazed look came over his eyes before he closed them. Shit. I knew what that meant. We all did. The Head Wizard was bewitched!

I stared in horror at the vial with my daughter’s potion in it. Nothing had changed––it was the same shade of pink as it had been in my kitchen. I turned to check out the other judges, but all three were acting perfectly normal, and, in fact, seemed as amused by the situation as everyone else. So, what had Pike done wrong?

Carter’s eyes fluttered open and a stupid grin lit up his face. He turned slowly to face the audience, like a man without a care in the world. His gaze fixed on me and his smile widened.

“Hello, Tamara,” he said dreamily. “You’re looking very pretty tonight.”

Everyone around me began to laugh, and I sensed others nudging and pointing at me. I felt my color rising, and I got up. Damn, I had to do something. This was so embarrassing.

“I love your muffins.

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