Bewitch Me [Book 1 & 2, The Witch's Fate]

Chapter Twenty Eight - Desperate Cindy

Xander has always been there for me. Even though we try to ignore the attraction between us, we find ourselves coming even closer at the end of the day. I'd want to do anything to see him happy.

With a serious look of concentration and determination on my face, I picked up a chalk and traced some of the lines to the main circle. With a deep breath, I channeled the jumbled emotions within me into the patterns that were similar to that of the ones in my Grandma's grimoire.

Infusing with my magic, the chalk shimmered and sunk into the floor, glowing alongside with all the drawn patterns around me now. The smaller circles which I've drawn around the main circle began to rotate in different directions slowly as some glowing words began to detach themselves from the wards and hover above my figure. Rays of light shot out from the intersected lines and engulfed me from all sides completely. It felt so good that I didn't even realize that I was levitating the whole time!

Awesome, I can fly!

"Focus! Don't lose it!". Minuet yelled from the other side of the room, like to encourage me, but right now he was distracting me!

I took another deep breath to calm myself down even more and closed my eyes to make this whole thing more relaxing, just like a meditation in yoga would do!

I felt some sparks within me flow across the joints of my body and as this was happening, I immediately felt cozy, warm and happy all of a sudden.

The positivity around me was so strong that I thought I'd lose it any moment from now. I'm guessing it's something related to that of side effects...cause I was embarrassing myself by blurting out things about my feelings for Xander non-stop.

How embarrassing....

"Yea, I knew you had feelings for Xander, your knight in shining armour...your sunshine and all that..". He mumbled with a snort.

Wait what-

"You never stopped talking about your knight and how he swooped in to save you, it was a very good bedtime story for my perfect beauty sleep in my cat form".

Dammit! He's making me lose focus slowly...

I don't want to end up being fried by these shields!

I'd have to save the process for anytime I think.

"Oh my bad, you'll have to get used to me being boring". I rolled my eyes with a small frown and flickered my arms to discontinue the warding. I recited the words backwards and watched as the circles gradually fade off as if they were never even there. I let out a sigh of relief when I could feel my feet back on the ground once more as height was my greatest enemy.

"But it's okay, you're useful to me when I've trouble sleeping". He chuckled behind his knuckles teasingly. "You should do that often".

"Ugh, yea I get it...my story's boring. I mean who would find a story about a desperate Cinderella looking out for her prince interesting?".

"Why not? Of course I would...". He whispered behind my ears as he stood behind me. "I mean which weirdo doesn't love that tale?".

"Huh?". My face went red from the sudden closeness.

"Why was Cinderella so desperate?". He gave me that cute sharp grin again as he asked the question.

"Uhh Minuet, you do know that I'm actually referring to myse-".

"I know...it's about the desperate troublemaker and her sunshine". He cut in, walking away from my figure to the bedside.

"Hey! I'm no troublemaker, I'm more of a peacemaker...". I pointed out, stalking him from behind with annoyance. He says I'm trouble when he barely gives me rest!