Hunting Mya Jones (First Rewrite)

Moment Of Peace

        "What happens if Montgomery can't Kick him out?" Misty asks and Walker looks up at her.

We are all sitting around a table in another room now. A bright light above us casts a yellow hue over the cards on the table. It seems as though Misty was getting a reading done while I was freeing Montgomery. "Then I'll go in again and do it again," I say without thinking.

"No, you can't go in again," says Walker.

"Then what?" I ask him.

"Then We'd have to try something else," He lays another card down on the table and looks at it for a while.

"There is something else to try?" Misty asks, "I thought you said there wasn't?"

"Technically no, that's mostly because they all just get even more dangerous as you go," Walker continues to read the cards.

            I think back to the conversation I had with him in his head. He understood that he needed to be completely open, and so he was. That's one major benefit he has from growing up in the lifestyle, he knows to just go with whatever strange thing if it means getting free. I don't doubt that he'll have questions when he's out and this is over. I have no idea how to address what he admitted. Mantis in Montgomery, I'm not a fan; actually Montgomery, however, is different. I don't know what it is, but there is something about the awkward blushing smart boy that gets to me. He's not the brooding, motorbike-riding bad boy, or the possessive, stalking, rude, ghost-witch; he's just Montgomery. I thought he was rude in the beginning, but I saw a different side.

         "What do we do once Mantis is out of him?" Misty asks, it pulls me from my thoughts and back to the conversation.

"We find a way to get rid of Mantis once and for all," I say.

"That won't be easy," Walker sets the deck of cards down onto the table, "I fear this is only the beginning when it comes to him. He will come and go until you finally convince him that fighting for you is not worth it. Until then, he will keep finding new ways to try."

"How will we know that Montgomery got him got?" Misty, asking all the important questions that I'm too distracted to think about.

"He should come here, and I'll know," Walker nods, "We have powerful wards that keep out evil."

Misty shifts the topic to the cards, "Anything I should know?" She says as she points to them.

"You will find love, it won't work out, but then you will find real love, he will be taken, you will have to fight to get him back and all will be well," Walker smiles.

"That doesn't sound like the best kind of love story," She comments.

"What is the best kind of love story?" I ask her.

Misty throws her hand onto her forehead in a dramatic fashion, "One full of passion, longing, love, respect, and something left pure; that last one is what's there to pull on your heartstrings!"

I burst out into a roar of laughter, Walker even chuckles. I needed this, something to laugh at, "This is why we are friends!" My phone rings and I look down at it, I had it sitting on the table, "It's Montgomery," I say as I pick it up.

"Well, answer it!" Misty tries to not jump out of her chair.

I put the phone to my ear and get ready for whatever this conversation will be.

ME:

Hello?

Montgomery:

Mya, it's so good to hear your voice! I got Mantis out! Where are you?