The Magical Summer of Miranda Stone by A.D. Brazeau

Author:A.D. Brazeau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, lgbt, paranormal, lesbian, young adult, contemporary, teen, ya
Publisher: Evernight Teen

Chapter Thirteen

The glow in the sky indicated the sun was on its way.

We’d been in the car for what felt like hours when really it had been far less. Neeta drove, her mouth a straight line as she concentrated on the uneven road. She hadn’t spoken a word since we started out on our strange journey at a time when most people were still in bed. As Billie, no doubt, wished we were.

She slept, her head cradled by a bunched-up jean jacket wedged between her temple and the window of the passenger seat in which she slumped.

I wished sleep would find me. As it was, nervous energy tingled through my limbs in one unrelenting spasm after the next. I fidgeted from one backside cheek to the other, playing with the back door lock, the windows, anything that could hold my attention for a handful of seconds.

I directed Neeta down the dirt road. The stone building, in the same sad state as it was when I’d first seen it, materialized in front of us. It somehow looked smaller, more fragile than it had when I’d been there before. The field around us glowed with the dawn. Gnats clustered around the tall grasses, more visible now than at any other time of day.

Billie yawned as she stepped out of the door, immediately smacking the back of her neck. She grumbled, “Missed. How many more do you think are out here?”

“Millions,” Neeta said, her eyes on the building. I wondered if Neeta had ever been tired in her life. She certainly didn’t appear it now.

“Great,” Billie said with a groan. “If there’s a mosquito within a hundred miles of my flesh, they can sniff me out. It’s like I emit some sort of beacon that says suck my blood.”

“It’s because you’re so sweet. Now stop complaining, we have work to do.” Neeta marched up to the box, jumping straight over the two crumbling steps. With her fit, lithe body, she could have been an athlete. I imagined her throwing javelins and jumping over poles that hovered twenty feet over the ground.

I followed, Billie right behind me.

“Wait a minute,” Billie said as she stepped over the threshold. “Where’s the bathroom?”

We had been there less than five minutes, and I could already feel my skin prickling. “The bathroom is anywhere you want it to be.”

“What Miranda said. Where you decide to pee is the least of our problems.” Neeta turned in a slow circle. “How should we begin? Miranda?”

I shrugged. Why did they keep looking to me like some kind of expert?

Billie swatted another blood sucker. “Didn’t you say control was the most important first step? Seems so to me. I can’t lose my shit with every John. Let’s start there.”

“We can’t lose our shit with anyone,” I said, kicking loose stones out of the way.

“These damn bugs,” Billie huffed, swatting the air for the tenth time. Her voice held less of a whine and more of an edge. She waved her hand through the air with more force, a wave of blue energy bolting from her palm.

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