The Retail Witches: An Urban Fantasy Witch Novel (Retail Witches Series Book 1) by Les Goodrich

Author:Les Goodrich [Goodrich, Les]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DV8NOW Publishing
Published: 2017-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Girls Night Out

At ten p.m. Claire parked on the street, texted I’m here to Jordan, and walked up the stairs to Jordan's carriage house. She turned onto the porch landing and Jordan opened the door to see her in brown pleated nickers tucked into tan knee socks and brown high heels covered with buttoned tweed spats. She wore a cream ruffled pirate shirt that spilled from under a tight brown and green sweater vest. She had a brown leather waist bag with brass buckled pouches on each side.

“You look great,” said Jordan at the open door.

“I need a hat and some goggles though,” Claire said. “Or else I look like some kind of preppy pirate.”

“Mims has a hat and goggles for you. We have to pick her up on the way. Is that cool?”

A high-pitched cat screech burst from the courtyard below and Jordan jumped past Claire to the balcony rail and saw Luna running from the main house side yard at top speed. Nettle the graveyard hob was riding her and he barely clung to a dirty old shoelace he had used as a lasso and the two made speed across the dark grass. Two times Luna rolled and tossed and tried to dislodge the rider and they were covered in grass clippings and dirt as Jordan turned the corner at the stair base and intercepted them on the side path to the street.

“Son of a bitch!” Jordan yelled.

“What the hell?” shouted Clair as she bounced back down the stairs.

Jordan cornered the cat under the stairs and against the garage wall and Nettle fell to the ground laughing. Relieved of the rider the cat leapt to Jordan who removed the shoelace and threw it at Nettle. He disappeared laughing into the hedge and barely dodged a kick from Jordan. Claire slowed at the bottom stairs.

“What the hell?” Claire asked again.

“It’s nothing,” Jordan said. Maybe a neighbor kid chasing her. Halloween and all. Let’s go back up.” Claire turned and climbed stairs and Jordan followed her carrying Luna who twisted in her arms.

“Neighbor kid?” Claire said and she looked down from the rail as she climbed.

“Ha, um, well, tonight should be fun.”

“Oh yeah man. Are you excited?” Claire asked.

“Yeah yeah. Mims is too. We’re gonna have a blast.”

“You know this isn’t a steampunk scene don’t you?”

“Oh I know,” said Jordan. “It just sort of turned into that. Hope you don’t mind.” They went inside.

“No way man I think it’s awesome. If it wasn’t weird it wouldn’t be us.”

Jordan made sure nothing snuck in behind them and closed the door. She dropped Luna who promptly vanished to some secret cat spot.

Jordan and Claire had been friends since elementary school and although Claire was not a witch she considered herself a pagan and she loved the Earth and nature and all living things but she had not seen Nettle. She loved beauty and fun and going out in the boat or to the beach and she loved living in Florida. She had a boyfriend named Alex whom she also loved.

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