The Trouble with Spells by Lacey Weatherford

Author:Lacey Weatherford [Weatherford, Lacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Lacey Weatherford
Published: 2011-07-09T16:13:52.609496+00:00

Chapter 13

I forced myself to stay away from Vance for one evening so I could have a girl’s night out date with Shelly. I noticed she was beginning to feel sorely neglected.

It wasn’t like I could just break out and tell her all the things happening in my life. She wouldn’t even come close to understanding. I wanted to tell her though. I missed having her as a confidant. It was hard keeping secrets from her.

Even now, Vance was out there, lurking somewhere on the grounds of The Fountains at Fontane. I couldn’t stand to be too physically separated from him still. It was hard enough to drag my thoughts away from him, let alone my body.

I plopped in the middle of Shelly’s four poster queen-sized bed, crossing my legs underneath me so I could look at pictures of her and Brad from their homecoming date.

Shelly had been upset with me when Vance and I had declined to go on the group date with them to the dance. Actually, the two of us avoided homecoming completely. It had been held during the early days of our binding spell, and there was no way we could’ve attended that party and not drawn attention to ourselves. We probably would have clawed the clothes right off each other in front of everyone.

Of course, there was no way for me to explain this to Shelly. She took it as a personal insult since she had been in charge of the decorations for the event. And to make things worse, in the weeks following, I’d only ever seen her at school and ditched her at every available opportunity to be with Vance. I had a lot of making up to do.

I turned my full attention to listen to Shelly explaining each picture in a tired, sort of dejected tone.

“It would’ve been way more fun if you’d actually been there,” she said with a sigh, casting me a sideways glance. She gathered the photos and went to place them on her dresser.

“I don’t know how else to apologize to you,” I said softly. “I’m sorry I wasn’t feeling well.”

That at least was the truth. I just couldn’t tell her I’d been going crazy with desire.

“I know,” Shelly replied. “I’m trying to be understanding and adjust my way of thinking. I had all these ideas of how we were going to spend this year together, and then Vance came along, and well ….”

I intensely studied my fingernails, not knowing what to say.

“You really like him a lot, don’t you?”

“No, I don’t just like him a lot,” I said with a short laugh before looking her straight in the eyes. “I’m in love with him. I couldn’t imagine my life without him.”

Shelly paused for second before she laughed and waved her hand to the side.

“You don’t really mean that. Girls our age always think they’re in love with someone. Then a week later they’re mooning over someone else.”

“That may be,” I replied, feeling a bit hurt by her dismissal of my feelings.

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