These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling

Author:Isabel Sterling [Sterling, Isabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2019-05-27T18:30:00+00:00

14

WHEN WE GET HOME, my parents start the stress cycle of Who can take the day off to watch the kid? After I protest, multiple times, about being labeled a “kid,” I finally convince my parents that I’ll be fine. Dad heads into work to prepare for court, and Mom leaves for her classes after making me promise a million times to be careful.

Once I’m alone, though, my bravado fades. The Witch Hunters are back, and not back in a general, out-there-in-the-world sense, but here. In Salem.

I spend the morning in a cocoon of blankets, hiding from the reality of it all. I write and delete at least twenty texts to Veronica. It hurts that she’s not messaging me. That she’s not reaching out. A few months ago, this kind of news would have sent me rushing into her arms. Though I don’t regret our breakup, I do miss having someone to lean on.

Instead, I’m alone, which is the last thing I want to be right now.

The sun climbs in the sky, and it’s a scorching day. My weather app is promising a full day of sun and an unseasonable high of eighty-five when a text comes through.

BH: My parents are out of town. Care to collect on that pool day I owe you?

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