No Happily Ever After (The Fairytale Diaries #1) by Amanda Gatton

Author:Amanda Gatton [Gatton, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1511880651
Amazon: B010U1PDJQ
Publisher: Headtrip Productions
Published: 2015-08-29T23:00:00+00:00

Part VI

Bad Hair Day

Chapter 19

"Hello?" said Stella Rampion, picking up her cell.

"I have some bad news," said her boyfriend, Eric Prince, without any prelude.

Stella's heart sank. Faraway had been entirely consumed with bad news of late, and she'd been taking it hard. She didn't know if her psyche could withstand anymore.

"Have you heard already, Stella?"

"No," she said bleakly after a tense pause.

"Kimberly Crimson's grandmother has been found murdered, and Kimberly is missing."

Stella instantly dissolved into tears.

"Ah, shhhh," Eric said. "I'm sorry, Stella. Please don't cry, I should've told you in person."

Kimberly was a loner, and Stella wouldn't call her a close friend by any means. All the same, she was a nice girl and a fellow student of Faraway High. Stella simply couldn't believe this was happening. Where were her classmates? Were they alive? Or dead? Were they safe and unharmed? Or injured hungry and cold somewhere?

And who would be next?

"So," Stella sobbed. "What are they saying about it?"

"Well," Eric continued soberly. "They've pretty much given up on any sort of murder-runaway scenario. Because of all that's transpired, they've even released Cailyn Pure's father from lock up. Even though they still haven't touched on how all this ties together, they are sure that it does. Tie together."

"I'm gonna ask my parents if you can come over tonight, OK, Eric?"

"Sure, Stella. Sounds good. Call me later."

***

Stella led an extraordinarily sheltered life.

She was her parents' miracle child. She'd heard the story a hundred times, at least. They'd attempted to conceive for five years before finally having success. They'd been through every conceivable fertility treatment to no avail. Every sort of alternative therapy. They even once spoke with a self-proclaimed witch who cast magic on them. And still they did not conceive.

It wasn't until her mother's best friend, Madre Bar, gave her a special pill that the magical event finally occurred. Madre found some sort of supplement extracted from the petals of a flower that had allegedly helped mothers conceive since the beginning of time. Mrs. Rampion consumed the flower for only a week when she became pregnant with her blessed daughter.

Stella always smiled politely when her parents happily recalled the story. Truth be told, she assumed that one of the many other medical treatments they underwent at the time had finally taken. But it was a nice story. And Madre Bar was her mother's most beloved friend and closest confidant as a result. Despite the close connection, they rarely saw Mr. Bar, nor had Stella ever particularly befriended their son, Benjamin. She often wondered how such a nice, normal lady had ended up with such an oddball family.

Not that she had much room to judge. Her folks were plenty strange. Friends at school often asked Stella if her parents were super religious because her shining blonde hair grew past her knees, just like the girls from Faraway's apostolic church. Though it was beautiful, it was so long it was a nuisance and she mostly kept it in a single braid down her back.

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