Spellbound

Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10:

Charlotte and Melly walked off the bus. Melly hugged her and left, still laughing about something that had happened on the bus.

Charlotte waited for Jonathan to get off the bus, and walked next to him. "Hey! Want to go around the neighborhood now?" He smiled "Show me the best places to hide those bodies?" "Well, that'd be this way," they started walking together. When they got to the playground, it suddenly started pouring.

It wasn't the kind of rain that gradually got worse over an hour or so, but the kind that ten seconds ago it was perfectly dry, five seconds ago you thought you were imagining that one drop that hit your hair, and now it was like the sky was falling.

She pulled him under the playground thing. It was an old one, with the ladder going up and the slides were like gutters. Giant gutters.

They were currently sitting on a tire swing, soaking wet, though they had been in the rain for less than five seconds.

They looked at each other. His currently green-as-summer-grass eyes into her blue-as-summer-sky eyes.

Then they both started laughing. It was the middle of February. It was freaking cold. He looked at her and grinned. "You look cold. Maybe we should huddle for warmth?"

Charlotte could not stop a smile from appearing on her face. "Perhaps we should." As hard as it was raining, they wouldn't be able to get very far.

It's hard to get home if you can't see three feet in front of you.