Spells We Cast, The by Jason June EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jason June
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
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I’VE BEEN EXPECTING SOMETHING BIG TO HAPPEN FOR WEEKS. I JUST didn’t
think it would be getting dumped.
“I’m breaking up with you,” Jeremy says while his mouth is still full of
taco, a Torchy’s “trashy” taco, so the extra queso it came soaked in dribbles
down his chin while he stabs the knife in my back.
My fingers itch to drop the tortilla chip frozen in midair over our shared
guac and put a curse on him right then and there. Maybe I’d make that
dribble of queso un-wipe-away-able, or, I don’t know, turn the jalapeños
poking out of his corn tortilla so spicy that no amount of milk drinking,
tongue wiping, or praying would ever make it go away.
But no…Meema always says to be a Barrett means to never do harm
with a spell. So instead I set the chip back in the basket, put my hands out
of view below the table, and tug on my leg hair sharp and quick to send a
jolt up my shin that distracts from the constricting in my heart.
“Say something.” Jeremy’s deep brown eyes are round with worry, but
not like he’s afraid my feelings are hurt. More like he’s concerned that I
haven’t reacted the way he wants me to. Maybe he wants me to beg him, or
thinks I should burst into tears.
“Why-y?” I ask, and curse my freaking throat for catching. Not literally
curse it, of course, but I’m convinced if I let one tear fall, I’m going to lose
it. The last place I want to have a meltdown is a crowded restaurant with an
audience of frat boys chugging a pitcher of margaritas one booth over.
“It just makes the most sense.” Jeremy starts ticking reasons off on his
thick fingers. “We just graduated, you’re taking a year off and I’m going to
Duke, you said you thought you’d be busy with work this summer. It just
seems like we should end it now. Long-distance college relationships never
work out, right?”
“So you’re just going to throw away the past fourteen months?” My
hands are shaking, and it’s taking everything in me not to use them to pool
magic in my fingers and make devil horns sprout from Jeremy’s forehead.
“I thought you’d be relieved,” he says. “You’ve been so busy lately,
you’ve hardly had any time to hang out. Weekly taco dates aren’t really
enough for a whole relationship, you know?”
“I haven’t been busy,” I snap, but as soon as the words leave my mouth,
I know it’s a lie. In between cramming for Calculus and US History tests so
I could just barely graduate from Lake Travis High, Meema was teaching
me how to create air pockets that would protect her hair from Texas
humidity, or to turn the coyotes that like to shred her chickens into harmless
armadillos. Ever since high school started she’s made me treat magic like a
whole other class—like six other periods of class, actually, every day for
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