I’d been waiting to hear something like this from him since the very beginning.
“That would be wonderful, John. Say the word, and I’m there.”
When you’d waited this long for a boy to ask you out, you didn’t waste time playing hard-to-get. And, we didn’t exactly lead normal teenage lives. So something normal like a date sounded amazing.
Johnathan smiled and his eyes lit up.
Wow, he is SO hot!
His hands on my shoulders tightened. His smile faded slightly and he licked his lips, making me think—hope—that he was going to lean in for a kiss, but, he didn’t. He smiled again instead, and then turned to take down the wards so we could safely go inside our home-of-the-week.
I fell to my sleeping bag, exhausted, and drifted to sleep with a smile on my face.
eth reminded us that it was again time for a full moon. The supernatural world always seemed to kick it up a notch during a full moon. Thankfully, they came only once a month. Okay, twice a month, once in a while—that would be the
blue moon
so often talked about.
Johnathan and I slept only a few hours after our adventure to Edwards High; our three companions couldn’t seem to keep quiet after they all woke up. It was late morning/early afternoon when I dragged myself out of my sleeping bag and showered in our makeshift bathroom. Seth was great at tinkering with things like water pipes. He almost always managed to tap into a functioning water pipe in the ceiling, below the main floor of the buildings on top of us, in order for us to have some sort of running water. It was easy enough to heat the pipe with a spell for a semi-warm shower.
I dressed in my clean set of clothes and carried the dirty ones out to my corner. It was a strict rule that everyone be fully clothed when in front of the others. That meant we undressed in the confines of the designated bathroom and carried our clean clothes in with us so we could re-dress before going back out. The rule was necessary, thanks to Alec. He used to love to parade around in his boxers. Johnathan put a stop to that when he saw how uncomfortable it made me.
I joined the others in a corner of the room where we could all sit on the floor with our backs against a wall. Johnathan had already briefed them on what we’d found and overheard.
“Well, there’s something going on there for sure. What’s our next step?” Alec asked.
“I’ve been thinking about it all morning,” Johnathan said. “I think we need to go undercover for this one. Any ideas how we can get into high school without parents to sign for us?”
I thought Seth was going to choke on his own spit.
“You want us to go to school? Like,
students
?” he asked.
“Well … yeah. That
is
what I was thinking. Do you have a better idea of how we can find out what’s going on there? We
are
teenagers, you know. We’ll fit in.”
“I know we’re teenagers, Johnathan. It’s just that … well … it’s been a while since any of us were in school. I’m having flashbacks right now of the entire computer lab going up in smoke when I tried to turn a computer on. And lights flickering out anytime I got too near. The office could never make an announcement over the intercom when I was within ten feet of it.” Seth shivered.
He was being a little dramatic, if you asked me.
“Yeah, I’ve thought about that, too,” answered Johnathan. “We’ll just have to be very careful about the classes we pick. No computer classes, obviously, or anything else that might include technology.”
I joined in the conversation. “I see a couple of obstacles to this plan. You already mentioned the parent thing. Even if we could get around that, wouldn’t we need our records from a previous school?”
“I don’t think it would be too hard to get our hands on some records,” Johnathan said. “We don’t
all
have to do this, although it would be best if we did. We could spread out that way and maybe find out what’s going on quicker. I’m going to spend
“That would be wonderful, John. Say the word, and I’m there.”
When you’d waited this long for a boy to ask you out, you didn’t waste time playing hard-to-get. And, we didn’t exactly lead normal teenage lives. So something normal like a date sounded amazing.
Johnathan smiled and his eyes lit up.
Wow, he is SO hot!
His hands on my shoulders tightened. His smile faded slightly and he licked his lips, making me think—hope—that he was going to lean in for a kiss, but, he didn’t. He smiled again instead, and then turned to take down the wards so we could safely go inside our home-of-the-week.
I fell to my sleeping bag, exhausted, and drifted to sleep with a smile on my face.
eth reminded us that it was again time for a full moon. The supernatural world always seemed to kick it up a notch during a full moon. Thankfully, they came only once a month. Okay, twice a month, once in a while—that would be the
blue moon
so often talked about.
Johnathan and I slept only a few hours after our adventure to Edwards High; our three companions couldn’t seem to keep quiet after they all woke up. It was late morning/early afternoon when I dragged myself out of my sleeping bag and showered in our makeshift bathroom. Seth was great at tinkering with things like water pipes. He almost always managed to tap into a functioning water pipe in the ceiling, below the main floor of the buildings on top of us, in order for us to have some sort of running water. It was easy enough to heat the pipe with a spell for a semi-warm shower.
I dressed in my clean set of clothes and carried the dirty ones out to my corner. It was a strict rule that everyone be fully clothed when in front of the others. That meant we undressed in the confines of the designated bathroom and carried our clean clothes in with us so we could re-dress before going back out. The rule was necessary, thanks to Alec. He used to love to parade around in his boxers. Johnathan put a stop to that when he saw how uncomfortable it made me.
I joined the others in a corner of the room where we could all sit on the floor with our backs against a wall. Johnathan had already briefed them on what we’d found and overheard.
“Well, there’s something going on there for sure. What’s our next step?” Alec asked.
“I’ve been thinking about it all morning,” Johnathan said. “I think we need to go undercover for this one. Any ideas how we can get into high school without parents to sign for us?”
I thought Seth was going to choke on his own spit.
“You want us to go to school? Like,
students
?” he asked.
“Well … yeah. That
is
what I was thinking. Do you have a better idea of how we can find out what’s going on there? We
are
teenagers, you know. We’ll fit in.”
“I know we’re teenagers, Johnathan. It’s just that … well … it’s been a while since any of us were in school. I’m having flashbacks right now of the entire computer lab going up in smoke when I tried to turn a computer on. And lights flickering out anytime I got too near. The office could never make an announcement over the intercom when I was within ten feet of it.” Seth shivered.
He was being a little dramatic, if you asked me.
“Yeah, I’ve thought about that, too,” answered Johnathan. “We’ll just have to be very careful about the classes we pick. No computer classes, obviously, or anything else that might include technology.”
I joined in the conversation. “I see a couple of obstacles to this plan. You already mentioned the parent thing. Even if we could get around that, wouldn’t we need our records from a previous school?”
“I don’t think it would be too hard to get our hands on some records,” Johnathan said. “We don’t
all
have to do this, although it would be best if we did. We could spread out that way and maybe find out what’s going on quicker. I’m going to spend
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