Dancing in the Rain (The TUSH Duology-Book 2)

Week 11

Sunday, November 1

The day after Halloween. The Christians call it All Saints' Day. (I never thought I'd be talking about Christians as if I wasn't one of them considering I was one for nearly 19 years.) Anyway, some serious shit happened on Halloween night, and we had to fix it.

I knelt in front of George holding the black gloves as he sat on his bed. "Georgie," I told him in a firm but gentle tone, "I told you wear these gloves at all times. It's the only way you can keep from using dark magic."

"I've been wearing them," George said.

"Oh, really?" I raised a couple sarcastic eyebrows.

"Saide told me not to wear them on Halloween. She said the skeleton gloves went with the skeleton costume."

That makes sense coming from someone who used to be part of Circe, but he might have also been deflecting. "But Halloween is the night when dark spirits are most powerful," I informed him. "It was more important than ever that you wear the gloves on that day."

"Sorry, Aunt Willow," George sighed.

"It's alright." I put a hand on his shoulder. "It'll never happen again, right?"

"Right." He took the gloves from my hands and put them on.

Luckily, November 1 is the most powerful day for light magic, so Kora and Kai are busy scouring the house for dark magic traces that might throw George off of his groove. Mom, Dad, and Anne were at church, so they had the whole house to search without getting found out.

"Willow, you live here?" Kora asked in disgust.

"Yeah," I answered. "You got a problem with that?"

"It's all full of crosses and 'live laugh love' hangings."

"None of the wall hangings say 'live laugh love,'" I said.

"They're all in that same vein." She looked back at me. "It just looks so...white."

"Well, my family's white," I reminded her.

"Sorry." Kora began hovering her wand around one of the many crosses hanging on the wall. "I grew up in Hawaii. I must have higher expectations."

"You also grew up in the same house as Taylor," I remembered.

"Yeah. We're both a bit judgmental. We must get it from Dad. He's a to-the-letter sorcerer."

"That makes sense."

Saide emerged from the bedroom and looked down at us from the balcony. "How long are you gonna be here? Willow's parents are gonna be back soon, and we can't have them knowing about all this magic."

Kai peeked his head out of Mom and Dad's bedroom door. "Scouring an entire house for dark magic signals takes time."

"But don't you have a spell that purges dark magic in an instant or something?"

"The one I did with Matt?" I put my hands on my hips. "We could only do that while Matt was pregnant with Stella. Also, he's not here."

Saide pointed at Kai. "What about Kai? He's a spirit daddy. He has that kind of power, doesn't he?"

"I mean, I could..."

Saide gave a wide smile. "Really?"

"But I wouldn't chance it. With my power being channeled into the tower, I'm not sure if I'd have enough."

"It's the day of sorcerers. That's why you're here. Of course you have enough!"

"When you put it that way..." Kai began to think.