Destruction: The December People, Book One by Sharon Bayliss

Author:Sharon Bayliss [Bayliss, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620075142
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2014-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

The meal that required the combined efforts of eight people—although mostly Mom—cooking over the course of about six hours took about ten minutes to eat. This time, they all managed to eat together without yelling or magic.

After eating, Mom, Dad, Jude, and Emmy sat in the living room watching football, although Mom did more sleeping on the couch than actual watching. Xavier and Evangeline went upstairs to do something weird, no doubt. And Samantha did dishes alone in the kitchen.

Patrick suddenly had the desire to do dishes.

Samantha did dishes as she did everything, gracefully. Patrick heard only the occasional splash of water.

“You don’t have to clean while everyone else sits around being lazy,” Patrick said. “It’s very Cinderella.”

She smiled. “I don’t mind.”

“Want help?”

“If you want to.”

Patrick took the plate from her hand and dried it. Somehow, he made more noise with a dishtowel than she did stacking plates.

“Are you upset about your parents?” he asked.

“Of course, I am,” she said.

“I guess it was a stupid question.”

“A little.”

“I’m sure they’ll come back.”

“I suppose so,” she said flatly.

“I don’t think Evangeline is a very good magic teacher,” Patrick said. “Either that, or I just really suck.”

“You want me to teach you?”

“Yeah.” He hadn’t thought about it until she asked… but that worked.

“I probably can’t. I can’t seem to teach Jude and Emmy anything. It’s like I’m practicing ballet and they’re practicing rugby. We can’t connect.”

“Because your magic is different from theirs.”

“And yours. Maybe you should ask Jude. He does fine without anyone ever having taught him anything. That’s pretty rare, I think. He’s a powerful wizard.”

Yeah, yeah, I get it. He’s a god among men.

“Maybe my magic isn’t like his, either,” Patrick said. “I can’t connect with my other siblings, anyway.”

“You just aren’t thinking about things in the right way,” she said. “You’re still thinking Mundane. At some point, you’ll just get it, and then it’ll be easy.”

He moved closer to her, and her hip touched his. One way or another, he would probably end up breaking some dishes.

“Jude says you have a crush on me,” she said.

His stomach lurched. Thoughts came at him like bullets. His first instinct—deny everything. No, what? That’s crazy. I don’t even like you. You’re gross. And why the hell did Jude tell her? Someone had finally noticed how much he stared at her, but Jude? Magic fighting started to sound pretty good.

“Maybe,” he said.

She sucked on her cheeks as if she tried to hold back a smile… or to keep from laughing at him.

“Is that okay?” he asked, feeling like an idiot as soon as he said it.

“Yes.”

She handed him a clean dish and wiped her hands on the towel he held. “I think I’m going to go to bed early,” she said, then left.

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