Witch Ways by Tate Kristy

Author:Tate, Kristy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

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My phone started buzzing when I got out of the shower. The international number told me it was my mom.

“Pansy?”

“Mom!” I pinned the phone between my ear and my shoulder while I stepped into my clothes. “I have so much to tell you!”

Mom’s comforting laugh sounded over the airwaves. “I’ve missed you, baby. How are you?”

“So strange . . . so many crazy things have been happening.” I pulled my sweater over my head and glanced out the window at the dark clouds forming over the horizon.

“Mmm, sounds like you need a trip to India, you’d love it here. There are monkeys, poppy fields that stretch forever, endless blue skies, and warm trade winds.”

A few raindrops pinged against my window.

“That sounds nice, but I—”

“You know you don’t have to take care of your Uncle Mitch, right?”

“I know . . . Mom, Uncle Mitch is . . .” I didn’t know how to find the words.

“He’s what, baby? Sick? Difficult?”

“No, he’s . . . Birdie gave me some of her spell books.”

“Evie! I told you not to listen to her!”

“You told me everything she said was a lie, so what harm could a love potion do?”

“You made a love potion?” Mom sounded more amused than concerned.

I told her about me and Bree making the potion, letting it steep in the moonlight, and leaving it out on the counter.

“And Mitch drank it?”

“Janette, too, I’m pretty sure.”

Mom huffed or laughed, I couldn’t tell which. “And now they’re in love?”

“Uncle Mitch is downstairs, right now, practically swallowing Janette Starks whole.”

Mom’s laughter rang out, and I had to hold the phone away from my ear.

“It’s disgusting!”

“I bet he doesn’t think so! I assume Janette doesn’t mind being swallowed?”

“No, she’s been bringing him baked goods for years and years. But don’t you think it’s strange that now, the morning they drank a love potion, they’re suddenly all kissy?”

“Don’t you think it’s strange your uncle waited until he was almost fifty to get kissy?”

“There’s more weirdness.” I told her about the sudden appearance of the dog and about Bree falling out of the tree after I told her to.

The laughter in my mom’s voice faded. “Sweetie, there’s a thing call connectivity. It’s a principle that thoughts are tangible and real—like organized energy.”

“That sounds like, as Uncle Mitch would say when he isn’t so dopey with love hormones, malarkey.”

“Ask him. He’ll tell you thoughts are degrees of light, invisible to our human eye, just like molecules, atoms, or protons. Thoughts are just as tangible as the chair you’re sitting on.”

“I’m not sure I believe that, but even if I did—so what?”

“Sweetie, when you control your thoughts, you control your world.”

“But I can’t control Uncle Mitch.”

“Of course not. But maybe by making the potion and leaving it available for him to drink, you subconsciously gave him permission to act on his pent up emotions.”

“Sounds like the M word, Mom.”

“Maybe so, but I promise you, your mind is much more powerful than a book of spells, or your grandmother and her voodoo.

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