Blue by Elizabeth Rose

Author:Elizabeth Rose [rose, elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RoseScribe Media Inc.
Published: 2019-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Johnny was so shaken the night before that Candy and I never told him about the money in the backpack. I was sure he didn’t know about it and that it was something Blue had done.

My mother went to the diner early the next morning to work a double shift, so I didn’t even see her before she left. Candy and I were at the kitchen table having bowls of cereal when Johnny bolted down the stairs.

“You bitches! What did you do with the money?” Well, there was no mistaking that it wasn’t really my brother.

“Good morning, Blue,” I said, looking down to the cereal bowl and not answering his question.

“Morning,” echoed Candy, continuing to eat as well.

“Oh, so that’s how it’s going to be.” Blue’s charm was gone – not that I thought it was real and would really last in the first place. “Tell me where it is or I might have to beat it out of you.” He pulled open the door of the fridge, yanking out some orange juice and drinking straight from the carton. He let out a loud belch and crushed the carton in one hand.

My head snapped up to look at him, and that’s when I saw something I hadn’t noticed before. “Are those . . . whiskers on your face?” I asked him.

“What about it?” He continued to glare. “You know I’m going to find it because I can find a needle in a haystack.”

“I thought once you got around haystacks you fell fast asleep,” I said with a giggle, making Candy laugh as well.

“Laugh all you want, but you’re going to have to get used to me because I’m not leaving.”

“What do you mean?” My heart skipped a beat.

“You’ve seen the last of your twerpy little brother, because I’m here to stay.”

“You can’t do that!” spat Candy, her eyes roaming from Blue over to me. “Can he?” she asked meekly.

I honestly had no idea if he could or not, but panic was setting in. If he could, then Johnny would be lost to the other realm forever.

“Where are my trumpet and jacket?” asked Blue, finding them and heading for the door. “See you two later,” he said, his words sounding more like a threat than a promise.

“What are we going to do?” asked Candy as soon as he left the house.

“I – I’m not sure,” I said. “Candy, let’s walk to school today instead of taking the bus.”

“Why?” she asked. “So we don’t have to watch the pompous Blue acting like an ass on the bus?”

“That, too,” I told her. “But I want to cut through the graveyard on the way there because there is something I need to do.”

Candy was hesitant about the idea and, to be honest, so was I. But Johnny was in trouble and I had to do anything I could to try to help him.

“Hurry up,” complained Candy ten minutes later as I stood there with my hands on Blue’s gravestone. “It’s cold out here and looks like it’s about to snow.

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