A Girl Beyond (War of the Witches Book 2) by Weismantel Marjorie

Author:Weismantel, Marjorie [Weismantel, Marjorie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

35. Something’s Happening ‘Round Here

The incident with Abe and Abby was weird enough, but there were other strange happenings at school today. A few students I had never noticed before were smiling and nodding at me, as if they were old pals. A girl and a guy I had never spoken to, stopped me in the hall by name, and asked me how I was doing. It was more than friendliness. They were acknowledging a connection with me of some kind. Were they fellow luminars?

Word had also gotten around about the close call Tonya, James and Red had with the lightning. Kids were saying they were lucky to be alive, that they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was just a freak accident. I even heard some girls talking about how Tonya lost most of her hair because it was “fried off”.

And then something strange occurred to me in the cafeteria line while I was waiting for some food. A lunch lady bumped into me and dumped an entire chafing dish full of taco glop all over my sweats and T-shirt. I was taken aback and looked up to see a beast of a women staring at me. Her name tag said “Helga”. What was most surprising was her reaction. I waited for her apology but I didn’t hear a word. Helga was staring at me with great animosity, as if I just murdered her baby or something. Hey, I was the victim here! A teacher came over with another cafeteria worker to help clean me off. Helga picked up the chafing dish and stomped off without a word. Her hateful expression never changed.

I went to the Lost and Found box in the office to get another pair of lovely ‘worn-by- someone-else’ sweats and bumped into Mercy. After I changed, she went back to the cafeteria with me and we sat in the corner.

“Mercy, why was that Helga woman such a nasty witch to me?” I asked with a sigh of irritation.

Mercy looked at me in disbelief. “Don’t you know, Tess? Cause she really IS a nasty witch! I figured that out my first day of school here last spring. She always gave me a hard time so I learned to avoid her. ”

I was dumbfounded. “She IS?”

“Yeah, she’s totally wacked. I’m surprised they put up with her here. She must have someone bewitched or something,” Mercy said in complete seriousness. Then she added, “Tess, you have to wake up and develop a better sense for these things. As soon as I moved here, I saw a number of bad witches around this place. They’re the diaboles. Some of them deliberately showed themselves to me to flaunt their power, to intimidate me. They viewed me as being vulnerable so they loved to taunt me. I was pretty defenseless at that time.”

“Why are things better for you now?” I questioned.

Mercy looked at me like I was nuts. “Don’t you know? It’s one word, Tess. YOU! When you arrived the dynamics around here changed completely.

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