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"For now, anyway."

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"So how about we celebrate your barflessness with a little Denny's run. I could so go for a Lumberjack Slam."

"Is that supposed to sound appetizing?"

"You're welcome to come, too, Mrs. B," Amber adds.

"I'm a little tired," my mother says. "But thanks anyway." She waves goodbye before getting in her car and driving away.

"I'm tired, too," I say, peeking over at Jacob; he's waiting for me on the sidelines.

"Oh, yeah, I get it," Amber says, giving me an exaggerated wink. "Just do me a fave and hang a garter or something on the doorknob if you're a little
preoccupado."

 

"A
garter?"

She rolls her eyes. "Leave it to you to not own one stitch of chic. My dresser: top drawer on the left. But the leopard-print one with the tassels is totally off-limits."

"You're crazy," I say. "Jacob and I are just going to talk."

"Knowing you," she sighs, "you're probably right."

While Amber, PJ, Chad, and Drea head off to Denny's, I join Jacob on a walk back to the dorms.

It's absolutely frigid and well past midnight. Jacob removes his coat and blankets it over my shoulders.

"I'm sorry_Lhit you," I say. "Are you okay?"

"I'll survive. I may never walk straight again, but at least I'll survive."

"I just wish I had trusted you."

"Well, I hope you can trust me now." He stops and I look up at him--into his pale blue eyes and at the strong set of his jawT--and feel my cheeks turn warm and pink.

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"How did you know where to find me?" I ask.

"I just knew," he says, wiping a stray strand of hair from my face. "I dreamt it, remember?"

I swallow hard and look down, my palms all sweaty from nerves. "Why are we stopping?"

He nods toward my dorm. "Because we're here."

"Oh yeah," I say, just noticing it. "Well, thank you. For everything. Maybe you'll stick around. I mean, I know you've done what you came to do, and I know it must have been hard for you to just drop everything and move here. You must have a lot of friends back in Colorado."

Jacob smiles and takes a step closer, so close I can feel the warmth of his breath against my lips.

"How could I leave?" he asks.

I look back up at him and my heart starts strumming inside my chest even harder than before. "I guess you can't."

We find ourselves back in my room, sitting on the floor with the chunky white candle my grandmother gave me between us. I unscrew the cap off my bottle of rose oil and pour a few droplets onto my fingers. The lush scent fills the air around us, reminding me of balmy beach nights, of hot passion fruit tea with dripping honey.

I sweep my oily fingers down the length of the candle to consecrate it. 'As above," I say.

 

Jacob dabs his fingers with the oil and then runs them down the opposite side of the candle. "So below."

We continue taking turns, moistening around the circumference of the candle until it's fully anointed. Then I light a couple starter candles, one for each of us, and together Jacob and I use them to ignite the white candle.

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"Blessed be," I say, looking up at Jacob as he extinguishes our starter candles with a snuffer.

"Blessed be," he repeats.

We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans forward over the candle, the shadow of the flame dancing against his bottom lip. I lean forward to meet him as well. It's a kiss full of promise, of trust, and of all that is magic.

THE END

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Homefree

Nina Wright

Easter Button just might have the worst mom in the world. Does she really think her slime-ball boyfriend will divorce his wife just because Mom is pregnant? Missing her best friend and her dad, Easter just wants to blend in at her new school, which proves difficult when she starts experiencing involuntary bouts of astral-projection. She can't decide which is worse: these mysterious jaunts or the antics of her selfish, eccentric mother.

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"I am going to get you...", one year later. It's happening again. Seventeen-year- old Stacey Brown is having nightmares--creepy dreams haunted by the ghosts of people who have been brutally murdered.

It's her senior year at boarding school, and what Stacey really should be focusing on are her classes and getting into college--not to mention the rocky path her love life has been taking lately.

But even if she could ignore the dreams, Stacey can't ignore the strange letters that she's been receiving. No return address, no signature--and the same cryptic messages she's been hearing in her nightmares.

What's worse is that she's not the only one having weird dreams. Jacob, a transfer student, claims that he's been having nightly premonitions of Stacey's death for months, dreams so realistic that he transferred schools to find her and stop the killer. It doesn't help that she's starting to have feelings for him even though she already has a boyfriend. But can she trust Jacob? Or will both their darkest dreams come true?

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