Tutus and Talismans by H. K. Kahn

Author:H. K. Kahn [Kahn, H. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 43540337
Published: 2019-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

You’d think after a night we’d had this morning would have gone smoothly. Not so much. Ten thirty in the morning, Emmie came dancing out of her room in her leotard and tutu, demanding I take her to ballet.

“Your class isn’t until tomorrow, short stuff. Go and change. We have a house to paint this afternoon, unless you want to go hang out with Marge.” I was distracted, trying to make a detailed list of all the furniture I had stacked up in my house. Hazel hadn’t said anything about the disarray, but she’d noticed. And it was time. Emmie had been living with me for a month now, and I needed to get this place in order.

“But I want to go now!” She snapped her fingers in front of my face, and I dropped my notepad. I didn’t know she knew how to do that, but in the moment, I wasn’t impressed, only annoyed.

“Look, kid. You can’t go now. Miss Lily’s teaching a different class, and you have to wait until tomorrow.”

Call it stupidity or sleep deprivation, or whatever you like; it all had the same outcome. Emmie folded her arms, letting out a frustrated screech, and suddenly, I could see the faint outline of Miss Lily coming into focus in my dining room. I jumped to my feet. “Stop. Right now!” Emmie blinked and just as suddenly as it started, Miss Lily’s form faded away. Emmie shook her head and sat heavily on the floor, pale as a ghost.

Was that...slow motion teleportation? Emmie clutched her head in her hands with a groan and then jumped to her feet with a wince at the same time I did as Hazel’s words from last night echoed in my mind. I grabbed her shoulders and looked her square in the eye. “Did you send her back?” The urgency I felt was mirrored in Emmie’s face.

“I dunno! Oh my goodness, Uncle D! I just stopped it, but I didn’t think of a place! Did I send her into the ocean?” Her voice screeched in panic. “Did I just kill Miss Lily?”

I didn’t want to scare her, but I was just as freaked out as she was. Scooping her up, I ran for the jeep, plopping her in her car seat and starting the engine in almost the same heartbeat. “Buckle up!” I vaguely heard the click of her belt engaging as I squealed out of the driveway. The dance studio was only a few miles away, and I tossed my phone behind me. “Call Hazel and explain.” It was a lot to ask of a four year old, but I couldn’t even begin to describe it the way she would be able to, and I was driving like a maniac, probably breaking a dozen laws already. I couldn’t risk getting in a wreck.

“Hazel?” Emmie was frantic as well, and I wished to God I’d have had her put the phone on speaker. “I half blinked my dance teacher, but I stopped and she disappeared.

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