Cupcakes, Crystals, and Chaos by Jessica Lancaster

Author:Jessica Lancaster [Lancaster, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Back home, my mother’s parrot flew around the living room, taunting August to chase him. On my brief glance inside the room, I watched August crash face first into the arm of a chair as Julian fluttered around and perched high on shelves and picture frames on the wall.

“Mother?” I called out, walking into the kitchen with my book of shadows in my arm and my handbag hung on my elbow.

“Yes?” she replied, standing beside me with a finger click. “You girls finished demonising me?”

“Demonising?” I laughed, planting my book firm on the counter. “Oh, Goddess, you love the drama don’t you.”

“Well, you all think I have something to do with it, don’t you?”

I turned and held out my hands. “Give me,” I said, taking hers. “I know it wasn’t you.” The familial bond of truth and trust.

She exhaled and squeeze me a little. “I knew there was a reason I kept you around.”

Pulling my hands from hers. “You’ve not visited in years.”

“I did wonder why you looked older, haven’t you been using the youth spells I gave you all those years ago?” she asked, pushing the skin on her forehead. “Talking of which, I could definitely use one of those right about now.” She placed her hand on my book.

Slapping her hand away, my mother’s intentions were unravelling. “Except, you’re not,” I replied. “Is that what you’re here for?”

“No, of course not, I came because you were in need, and I’m a mother that gives when her daughter needs.”

I unloaded my bag on the counter beside my book. “I’d like to grow older with grace, anyway, and you know those self-serving spells aren’t good for you, if anything they pull at your power faster.”

My mother dug inside her lilac chiffon blouse and fished out a pendant. “This keeps me topped up,” she said.

The crystal hung on a chain. It glittered and pulsed. I saw it once before, revealed after her scarf came free the night of her arrest. “What is it?”

“Expensive,” she said, dropping it behind her blouse once again. “Rare, and some would say powerful.”

I had my suspicions. “Is this how you’re able to flit around without any consequence.”

“Flit around,” she laughed.

“Yes, teleporting yourself to and thro.”

“Oh, that.” She waved a hand at me. “Possibly.”

I watched as the clock on the wall clicked over 5 P.M. “Oh, I have a dinner date this evening,” I said, raising a smile from my mother. “You’ll have to eat alone.”

“Dinner date?” she asked with intrigue, pursing her lips into an O. “Do tell, darling.”

“The doctor,” I said. “We’ve been flirting for a while.”

“And he’s coming here, is he?”

I laughed. “Oh, good heavens, no, I’m not exposing him to more of this, he’s already seen his fair share of weirdness.”

August raced after me, right between my legs. Julian followed, flapping around in the air before landing on my mother’s shoulder.

“You have a date?” August asked, nuzzling his nose at my ankle.

“What? You heard all that from in there?” I asked.

My mother chuckled.

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