The Witch Is Back
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“What’s wrong?”
I hated telling her this, but she deserved to know what was happening.
“Well, when I was down there with Eve, she said something that could be really bad if she was telling the truth,” I said, slowly. “She said we didn’t actually kill Samuel that night.”
It was almost as if Abby had been waiting for this news for months and she just stood there waiting for the rest.
“And she said that he was coming back,” I finished.
Abby grew pale and stiffened as I said this last part. She never had told any of us what had happened when the reverend took her, but it would be naive to think it wasn’t horrible. This was probably the worst news I could have given her.
Way to ruin a beautiful moment, Hadley.
“What are we going to do?” Abby asked, almost in a whisper.
“Same thing we always do,” I answered. “If he comes back, we plan, we train, we fight.”
Colette bounced into the room then, walking past both of us and collapsing onto her bed. “Why’s the vibe so wonky in here? I thought Eve’s spell had worn off by now.”
“It’s nothing. Just a long day, that’s all,” I answered, giving Abby a look that said not to repeat the news about Samuel. Then, I turned to our other roommate. “Why are you so happy?”
“Hudson just asked me out,” she said, squealing happily.
“Wait. Asher’s roommate, Hudson?” I asked, in disbelief. “Isn’t he a jock or something?”
“Yep. A jock who digs smart girls,” Colette said, pushing her glasses up on her nose with a flourish. “We’re going to hang out tomorrow night. Now what should I wear . . . Oooh, there was this supercute jumper thing that Aunt Betsey had in one of her shows once that could be superiffic!”
My head was spinning with how quickly she was moving around the room. “One of her shows?” I asked. “Colette, who is this aunt of yours, anyway?”
Colette stopped moving and found her phone. Flipping through a few pictures, she finally came to the one she was looking for and passed it to me.
“Your aunt is Betsey Johnson?!” I exclaimed, flipping through dozens of pictures of Colette with the famous fashion icon. It all made sense now. The incredible outfits. Colette’s wacky personality. Her insistence on being an individual.
“Yeah,” Colette said, plainly. “Who did you think she was?”
“Betsey-freaking-Johnson,” I muttered to myself as I shook my head in disbelief. “Incredible.”
Colette continued to flutter around the room, picking out tops and pairing them with skirts and then throwing them in a pile and moving on to the next outfit. I turned back to Abby who just shrugged in response.
“I think we need to tell the others,” Abby said, going back to the conversation we’d been having when Colette had walked in.
I nodded. “But not tonight,” I said, yawning and falling back on my mattress. Immediately, I felt it lifting into the air. “Let’s give everyone one last night of uninterrupted, nightmareless sleep. It may be the last one we have for a while.”
And then I was out before the bed had even stopped moving.
© RYAN GIELEN
BRITTANY GERAGOTELIS, a former Olympic-bound gymnast and magazine editor, is a self-professed pop culture junkie turned author. Her paranormal YA thriller, Life’s a Witch, received 18 million reads on the writing site Wattpad.com. Her print debut, What the Spell, is the first book in the Life’s a Witch trilogy, and The Witch Is Back concludes it. Brittany lives in New York City with her husband, Matt, and two cats, Murray and Cohen. Visit her at BrittanyGeragotelis.com.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Geragotelis, Brittany.
The witch is back / Brittany Geragotelis.—First edition.
pages cm.—(Life’s a witch)
Summary: After leading her coven into battle against the Parrishables, teenaged witch Hadley Bishop is looking forward to a relaxing, love-filled summer with boyfriend Asher, until his ex-girlfriend, Brooklyn, shows up and a power struggle ensues.
ISBN 978-1-4424-6688-3 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-4424-6692-0 (eBook)
[1. Witches—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.G29348Wi 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013028192