Living with Your Past Selves (Spell Weaver) by Hiatt Bill

Author:Hiatt, Bill [Hiatt, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13: MAKING PLANS

I got through my parents grilling me about the party—barely. I wished I could have erased the memory of Ms. Winn’s effort to seduce me and truly joined their enthusiasm. From their point of view, to be among the few high school students invited into Awen was yet another sign I was destined for success, and I didn’t begrudge them their excitement about it. Nonetheless, the whole conversation gave me a headache, and having to conceal it from them only made it worse.

By the time breakfast was over, I was daydreaming about what life would have been like without my sudden “awakening” at age twelve. My grades wouldn’t have been as good, my band would still have been terrible, but I would have been friends with Dan without all this complicated weirdness to wade through, Eva would still have been my girlfriend, and the two of us would doubtless have been going to tonight’s homecoming dance together, losing ourselves in the music and not having a care in the world. Most important, I would not have to worry what mythological monster I was going to have to tackle next, or what new strategy Ms. Winn was going to use to threaten me, or whether or not I was going to go over to meet Stan and find his bloody corpse in the gutter.

Well, enough feeling sorry for myself for one day! Apparently, I was stuck with the life I had, for better or worse, and the old one was as dead as I would be if I didn’t figure out a way to play the hand fate had dealt me.

After school I had a meeting with Nurse Florence and finally told who my enemy really was. To say that she was upset with me for not having talked to her earlier would have been a huge understatement.

“Do you have a death wish?” she asked in a tone of voice that cut into me with her disappointment.

“What was I supposed to do?” I countered defensively. “Either one of you could have been the enemy, but neither one of you ever mentioned the other. Suppose I had guessed wrong and told the enemy about my ally. Wouldn’t that have been worse?”

“I suppose,” she conceded. “But how could you have not known, after seeing so much of me?”

Because I was trying not to be superficial and assume that the hot chick had to be the good one.

“You have done a lot, especially helping to rescue Stan, but wouldn’t a clever enemy have tried to lull me into a false sense of security? And Ms. Winn wasn’t exactly acting like the spawn of Satan, well, at least until last night.”

And that brought us to the truly awkward part of the discussion. I felt I needed to tell Nurse Florence about the attempted seduction, but that’s a pretty awkward topic for a teenage guy to take up with a woman. My dad would have been a better choice—if he would have believed a word of it.

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