Flipping the sWitch

Chapter 14

Andi and Jessie were sitting side-by-side on the curb outside of Maddie's house when Emma walked up.

"Hey..." Emma started.

Then she saw that Andi wasn't alone.

"...guys," she finished, barely hiding her surprise.

"How's it going, Jessie?" Emma said, finally. "I didn't know you and Maddie were friends?"

"We're not," Jessie said, cheerfully.

Despite the fact that Jessie had tricked her that one time, Emma had never held it against her. In fact, Emma was always pretty nice to her. Even when everyone else seemed annoyed by her presence.

Jessie had never had a sister before, but sometimes she felt like Emma fulfilled that role. Maybe one day they'd be sisters for real. She was dating her brother after all.

Emma cocked her head to the side, thoroughly confused by Jessie's presence.

"She's with me," Andi said with a sigh.

Emma's head snapped to look at her friend. She hadn't been expecting that.

"Um, why?" Emma asked, dumbfounded. "No offense, Jessie. I thought you two, errrr..."

"Loathed each other?" Andi finished for her.

"I was going to go with 'didn't get along,' but yeah, okay," Emma said. She looked over at Jessie to see if Andi's comment had hurt the younger girls' feelings. But Jessie seemed fine with it. Better than fine, actually.

She seemed happy.

"We don't get along. Well, we didn't. Now, well, I don't know," Andi said, looking over at Jessie with a look on her face that Emma couldn't decipher. "It's kinda complicated."

"Cliff's notes version?" Emma asked.

"I caught her using magic," Jessie said.

"Then promptly blackmailed me into taking her to the mall," Andi continued.

"Where I had to come up with a plan to keep Maddie from seeing us," Jessie said.

"And then she forced me into doing a spell to make her a birthday cake," Andi said.

"But little miss new witch messed something up and we ended up zapping back to her house," Jessie concluded. Then she frowned. "I still haven't gotten my cake."

Emma looked stunned. Eventually, she shook her head in disbelief.

"Well, lets keep all the spell-casting under wraps for now," Emma said when she'd digested all the new info. "No reason to add fuel to the fire when we tell Maddie what's happened."

Andi let her head fall back and groaned loudly.

"Are you sure we have to tell her at all?" Andi asked. "Can't you just go in there, work your magic and fix everything? Or maybe it'll just fix itself if Maddie and I are in the same room together?"

"I don't think it works that way," Emma said, sympathetically. "Come on, maybe Maddie will be so happy to find out where her powers went to, that she'll just forget to be mad about it."

"I don't know about that..." Andi said, doubtfully. "Have you met Maddie? You know she's gonna have a conniption."

"What's a conniption?" Jessie asked as the girls stood up and walked toward the house to face the music.