Total pages in book: 30
Estimated words: 28845 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 144(@200wpm)___ 115(@250wpm)___ 96(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 28845 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 144(@200wpm)___ 115(@250wpm)___ 96(@300wpm)
The moment I spoke the words, the three of them all looked down at my swollen belly.
I took a few steps back and pressed my hand to my stomach. The baby decided to kick at that very moment.
“It was four of you!” Mom exclaimed.
Sarah closed her eyes. “And we used moondust.”
My mother gasped. “Oh my gosh.”
Lucy waved her hands around to get everyone to call down. “Okay, well, let’s not panic until we know what’s happening.”
Mom walked over to the teapot, picked it up, and filled it with water. “I’ll get some tea going. Meanwhile, get Kristin over here. We need to make sure she actually stole Lucas’s hair and not Matt’s.”
I gasped. “Wait, does this mean Matt is…”
My words faded as I looked around at the three women. Mom smiled, Lucy looked worried, and Sarah looked sick to her stomach.
“He hates witches,” Sarah whispered before dropping down into a chair at the breakfast table. “He’s going to kill me.”
Lucas called out to signal he was home, and the five us all jumped up and rushed into the living room. Standing next to Lucas was Matt. He had a strange, dreamy look on his face, and when he saw Sarah, his eyes lit up.
Sarah clutched my arm and whispered, “Oh God! Oh God.”
“What?” I whispered back.
“He wants to do a lot more than kiss!” Sarah stated.
I turned to look at her and smirked. “Well, clearly from your reaction just now, so do you.”
Glaring at me, she pushed me forward until I was standing in front of her.
“Well, if the gang isn’t all here,” Lucas said, dropping his keys in the bowl by the door and giving each of us a pointed look.
“He seems the same,” Kristin said as she slowly shook her head. Then she covered her mouth with her hand. “You have the same color hair as Matt.”
I closed my eyes and moaned. “You had one job, Kristin! One! Job!”
“In my defense,” my best friend said, her hands on her hips, “I was trying to go fast, and I was standing behind him at the time. Look at the two of them. They have the same build! The same hair. It was an honest mistake. Oh, but wait.”
Turning to look at her, I asked, “What?”
Kristin chewed on thumbnail then dropped her hand. “Well, I didn’t think one strand was enough, so I snuck back in and got another strand, and I might have taken one from each of them.”
I looked at Lucas. “You don’t feel any different?”
He narrowed his eyes and focused on me. Then, as if a lightbulb went off, he slowly shook his head and scrubbed his face with his hand.
“Yes, Matt!” Lucas snapped.
Matt looked confused. “Yes to what? I didn’t ask you anything.”
Lucas jerked his head and looked at me. I couldn’t help but smile.
“The visions?” he said.
I nodded.
“I thought I was just imagining that I was sensing things before they happened.”
With a shake of my head, I smiled. “Welcome to the coven.”
Lucas closed his eyes and drew in a few deep breaths.
“That poor child doesn’t stand a chance if both of her parents are witches,” Kristin said with a giggle.
“Are you ready to admit it yet?” I asked Lucas.
He simply sighed in defeat—but he still hadn’t admitted it.
“Okay, so while we wait to see if the spell worked on Lucas, what’s going on with this one?” Kristin asked.
We all turned to look at Matt. He was holding a pencil and moving it in a circulation motion. “I command you to turn into a toad!”
I followed Matt’s gaze and had to cover my mouth when I realized he was trying to turn the key bowl into a toad.
He squeezed his eyes shut and said, “I could really go for some pizza.”
“I hope you made pizza,” Lucas said.
“She made enchiladas,” Lucy responded.
“That really stinks; doesn’t pizza sound good right about now?” Matt asked as Sarah let out a sigh of frustration.
“We don’t have pizza, Matt!”
The doorbell suddenly rang, and Matt opened it. A young boy wearing a T-shirt that said Mario’s Pizza stood there looking confused.
“Um, I don’t know why I’m here—maybe I got the address wrong. Did you guys order pizza?”
Matt grinned. “Pay the man, Lucas!” He took the three boxes of pizza out of the boy’s hands and headed toward the dining room. Lucas glared at Matt as he walked to the door and asked the kid how much we owed.
Lucy, Mom, and Kristin all followed Matt into the dining room while Kristin declared that if there was pepperoni and mushrooms, she wanted a piece.
“What about the dinner I made?” I asked.
Kristin gave me a one-shoulder shrug. “It’s Mario’s, Hollie!”
I rolled my eyes and watched Lucas walk up to us.
“That’s been happening all day,” he said. “A woman’s blouse just popped open in front of us and gave Matt a clear view of her chest after he wondered what her breasts looked like.”