Sweet Tea & Spells by Bella Falls

Author:Bella Falls [Falls, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evermore Press
Published: 2018-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Pleased but exhausted after the class, I lay down for a mid-afternoon nap. I woke up groggier than when I first fell asleep.

My spell phone rang as I brushed my teeth. “Hello?” I answered with a mouth full of paste.

Lavender’s happy voice chirped, “If you don't have anything planned before dinner, can you come to my place? I think Alison Kate has some good news she wants to share.”

I squealed and spit toothpaste flecks all over the mirror. “Did Lee pop the question?”

“You'll have to come over and find out for yourself. Get here as soon as you can.” She hung up the phone and I rushed to pull myself together.

The entire bike ride over, my heart skittered with happiness for my two friends. Unlike Mason and Logan, it took Lee too long to clue in on Alison Kate's affections for him. It took a disaster of a singles mingle event thrown by a failed cupid to get them over their shyness. Thoughts of big, poofy, flouncy hideous bridesmaids dresses danced in my head all the way to the house.

I parked my bike and ran inside, not waiting to knock on the door. “Here comes the bride,” I sang off tune.

The angry expression on Blythe’s face stopped me cold. “What's she doing here?”

“I’m pretty sure this is an ambush,” she said, crossing her arms.

Alison Kate entered the dining room from the kitchen with a platter full of baked goods. “It's not an ambush, it's an intervention for two of our closest friends. It's a friend-tervention.”

“No one needs to intervene on my behalf,” I protested. I'm not the one with the problem.”

Blythe leaned forward. “And I am?”

I unleashed all my frustration and let it pour out. “You're the one who won't talk to me. I could barely get two words out of you at Ms. Althea's. Frosted fairy wings, I didn't even know you were working there. You’ve barely talked to me for months.”

“You're the one who treated me like everything had changed,” she accused. “I’m the one who had her head messed with. Do you know what it's like to have no control of your own thoughts? Or not know whether the thought in your head is yours or was planted there by someone else? It's no picnic with fried chicken.”

“I know,” I yelled back. “I was there, unless you can't remember. I'm the one who took on the vampire who did all that to you. I risked everything to make sure you were safe.”

Blythe’s voice cracked. “You don't think I know that? You could have died for me, and I would have to live with that. You wouldn't have been in that situation if I'd been strong enough to fight Damien myself.”

She clasped her hands over her mouth, but a sob escaped. Blythe was the strongest girl I knew, and I could count on one hand the amount of times I'd seen her cry. But she needed the release, and the whole room erupted in tears.

I rushed to her side.

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