Page 37 of The Mist of Stars
“They won’t even be here. But they wouldn’t care, anyway. They like you, dude.”
She smiles, and it appears marginally genuine.
One point for me for being a good BFF.
“All right, yeah, let’s do it.” Tension visibly erases from her shoulders, but then it instantly returns. “What will you do about the disarray of your house, though?”
Right. I almost forgot about that.
“Board up the window and clean the water mess.” I flit a glance at the ceiling where water spots are forming. “I need to call my parents and let them know what’s up.”
“Alex already boarded up the window, and I can take care of the water mess for you.” She rolls up the sleeves of her jacket and rises to her feet. “Those kinds of spells are easy-peasy.”
I push up, disregarding the dizziness in my brain. “Awesome. I’ll go call my parents while you work your magic, then.”
She wiggles her fingers at me as I exit the bedroom. I make my way back into the kitchen to get a look at the mess, seeing the window is, in fact, boarded up. The rest of the mess is pretty bad so, hopefully, Aislin can magic it to normalcy.
I head to the living room next. While I’m not a huge fan of seeing Alex again, I need to let them know Aislin is about to magically maid this house up. But he’s not in the living room. Neither is Laylen.
Scratching my head, I dig my phone out of my pocket and dial Laylen’s number—there’s no way I’m about to call Alex. He answers after three rings.
“Hey, I was just about to text you,” he tells me over the sound of a loud car engine.
“Where did you guys go?” I ask as I sink onto the armrest of the sofa.
“We’re paying Professor G. a little visit,” Laylen replies. “We want to see if he knows anything about what’s going on with this vision mess.”
“You think he’d know something?”
“Alex said he was acting a little suspicious when you guys came out of that first vision.”
“He’s right,” I agree then rub my lips together. They’re dry, and I realize how dehydrated I am. “You guys aren’t going to beat him up, are you?”
Laylen chokes on a laugh. “Nah, but maybe scare him a bit.”
“Well, be careful. You don’t want to get expelled.”
“We will,” he promises. Then Alex says something in the background. “Alex wants to know if you guys are okay?”
“Yeah. Aislin’s using a spell to clean up the mess, and I’m going to call my parents and let them know what’s up. I’m hoping my dad will talk to me about stuff.”
“I think, since you’ve been seeing visions, he has to, right?”
“You would think so.” But I have this twisting sensation in my stomach that it won’t be that easy.
I’d believe I was being paranoid, but with this foreseer ability looming over my head, I’m worried the feeling might have some truth to it.
No. There’s no way.
This has to be something bigger than me having foreseer powers.
“Where are you guys going after you talk to the professor?” I ask as I stand up and return to the kitchen.
The floor sparkles with a polished glow, the aftereffects of Aislin’s spell. A wave of colorful light wafts over the cabinets as her spell reaches farther into the house.
“Let’s meet up at the hideout,” Laylen tells me, “so we can go over what we all find out.”
“What’s with the secrecy?” I wonder, because the hideout is a place we only go to when we’re trying to keep secrets or keep hidden.