Storm Warning by Nicholas Edwards

Author:Nicholas Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Square Fish

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In the meantime, though, Zachary was trying to leave the house—which she didn’t want him to do. She closed her eyes so she could concentrate, and tried to picture where he was at that very moment.

Okay. He was scratching at the door.

She sent him a quick “Stay!” instruction, and had the sense of him instantly stopping what he was doing and looking around guiltily. She didn’t want his feelings to be hurt, so she thought, “What a good boy!”

With luck, he was wagging his tail.

Then, she imagined his big cushioned dog bed, and him lying down and sleeping blissfully. Within about thirty seconds, she got an image of him sprawling across the couch—which maybe wasn’t ideal but was a lot better than him running through the streets to come over to the school.

Which he must have sensed had flickered across her mind, because she was pretty sure he was scratching at the door again.

So she let herself fully picture the couch, and how comfortable it was, and what a nice place it would be to take a nap.

“Why are you drawing a couch?” Karen asked.

Emily looked down at her paper, where her originally very nice hurricane drawing was getting wrecked all over again. “I, um, seem to be getting static in my head. From”—she didn’t want anyone else in class to overhear them, or guess what she was talking about—“you know who.”

“We’ll have to find some tinfoil and make you a little hat,” Karen said cheerfully.

Emily nodded. “We can make you one, too, and then, we’ll both be really, really popular.”

“We’ll look awfully pretty,” Karen agreed—and since she was always very optimistic, Emily had a sneaking suspicion that she might be halfway serious.

She picked up her eraser again and began erasing the couch, although at this point, the drawing was probably a lost cause. While she was erasing, though, she made a point of picturing the couch again and what a nice, soft place it was to sleep—and hoped that Zack was getting the message.

Just in case he still had other ideas!

* * *

It was her father’s “early day” at the college, so he picked her up after school. He gave Bobby a ride home, too. They ran a couple of errands on the way home, including a stop at the grocery store.

“Don’t forget to buy milk and bread, people!” Bobby shouted, when they went inside. “Protect yourselves!”

Emily laughed, but noticed that just about every single grocery cart did have milk and at least two loaves of bread—since that was what Mainers always bought to prepare for storms. No one seemed to know why, but everyone did it, anyway. Eggs, too, usually—which didn’t make sense, either.

Once, before a rumored ice storm—which had never arrived—Emily had asked her father why he was buying so much bread and milk. He had blinked, thought for a minute, and then said, “Well, because.”

She had waited for a better answer, but that was all she got.

Emily, personally, saw absolutely nothing wrong with stocking up on

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