How to be a Badass Witch by Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Anderle [Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-11-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Kera jerked awake to the sound of her phone going off. A bleary look at the clock showed that it was 11:02AM, early enough that it probably wasn’t Cevin. He knew she was a night owl; her job required it, after all.

She picked up the phone and sighed when she saw who it was. She had no desire for another motherly lecture at this hour, especially when she was bone-tired from doing magic.

Which, of course, she couldn’t explain to her parent.

“What did I ever do to deserve this?” she asked no one in particular. Then she swiped a finger to answer the call. “Hello, Mom.”

“Hello, Kera, dear.”

Kera flopped back on the bed and closed her eyes. “Uh-huh.”

“I just wanted to say hello and check how you were doing,” her mother continued. “Since we live so far away, we can’t see you every week.”

Yeah, that’s terrible. “Uh-huh. Um, I was asleep, so…give me a moment to get my bearings here, okay?”

Her mother sighed loudly. “It’s after eleven in California. Is it really necessary for you to sleep in so late? Kera, if you’re hoping to get a job in an office, how are you going to answer calls about interviews? How are you going to present a professional image?”

Kera stared blankly at the ceiling. “I…don’t…” I want to go back to sleep.

“For example, have you made any progress toward what we talked about last week?” her mother asked.

Kera wracked her brain, trying not to succumb to her rising confused low-level panic.

The magical forces of thaumaturgic memory bleach seemed to have struck again. She had no recollection of having spoken to her mom on the phone last week. She could not say with any certainty what they’d discussed.

“Dear?”

The answer came with a shaft of sunlight and a choir of angels. Her mom was more or less a broken record, which meant…

A boyfriend—a boring boyfriend—or job things.

“I’m making progress, Mom. I’m just doing it at my own pace. There’s plenty of time.”

“Kera, you don’t understand how quickly time can go by.” Her mother sighed. “At this rate, you’ll still be working at the bar when you’re thirty and the tips won’t have gotten any better, and all of the people from your class will have gone far beyond you. It doesn’t need to be that way. Someone of your intelligence and potential can go on to much bigger things.”

“Yes, I know.” Kera stifled a groan.

“I was heartened when you said you were trying to develop a product,” her mother told her.

What product? Crap. “Uh…”

“I can’t imagine how you’d make ‘mind bleach’ work, but I’d certainly like to try it if you invent it.”

Her mother was clearly joking, but Kera started to smile.

“Actually, I’ve made some good progress on that.”

“Oh.” Her mother didn’t seem to know what to say. “Well, why didn’t you say so, dear?”

“I just woke up and was getting my bearings,” Kera reminded her.

“I see.” Her mother didn’t sound convinced. “Now, what about a boyfriend, hmm?”

The woman was relentless. “If

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