Amethyst Tears (YA Paranormal Romance) (Luminescence Trilogy) by J.L. Weil Read Free Book Online Page B

been merging dreams with another guy.”
    “Bingo. That and the fact that I stumbled into Lukas in real life,” I added.
    “Boys. They can be so irrational. Boy witches – worse. What does this Lukas mean to you?” She was totally loving this.
    I shrugged. “I don’t really know. I always thought he was just a figment of my imagination. Now that he is not, I don’t know what to do about him.”
    “Being a witch has its advantages. There is a spell for everything. If you really want to know where your heart lies, it’s simple magic.”
    Her advice sucked. “Simple magic huh? It just so happens that I am not that educated in simple magic.” I picked at the chipping paint on the bench arm.
    She tsked her tongue. “We’re going to have to change that.” The smile she aimed my way reminded me of the Cheshire cat.
    S uddenly, I had an overabundance of teachers. For seventeen years witches were something only in fantasy books for me. Then in a just a few short months I found myself surrounded by the real deal.
    But c ould they all be trusted?

     
     
    Chapter 7
     
    I WOKE UP MONDAY MORNING before my alarm with a mother of all headaches. The icing on the cake, dark circles under my eyes. I felt like I’d been sucker punched. This dreamscaping stuff sucked. It took the regenerating energy my body needed from sleep. It was like being up all night partying and waking up with one killer hangover.
    Not that I would know how that feels, but I figured this was pretty darn close.
    Forcing myself to sit up, I waited for my head to stop spinning. God, I thought it was going to split open. I needed drugs. Strong ones.
    Stumbling to the bathroom, black dots swirled behind my eyes. I braced my hands on the sink and took long deep breaths, praying the pain would subside for just a moment. Filling a glass with water, I downed two aspirins. Now I just had to wait for the relief to kick in and standing wasn’t helping.
    Crawling back under the covers, I threw them over my head hiding the sunlight that began to stream through the widows. The darkness didn’t seem to aggravate the pain as much, though it was only a matter of time before my alarm started buzzing in my ear.
    Or Lunar purring.
    No sooner had I pulled the covers over my head did Lunar poke under them snuggling against my neck. I groaned. His incessant purring was normally comforting. Today it was driving me absolutely nutty.
    “Lunar hush,” I muttered.
    Luckily for me he was a lazy kitty. Before long his purring stopped and he was fast asleep. I on the other hand, was counting the beating throbs drumming at my temples.
    By the time my alarm finally rang , I was semi-functional again. The pills had worked a little magic of their own. There was still a dull ache but nothing compared to earlier. Now that the pain had mostly subsided the events of yesterday came rushing back. The headache might be gone but the hole in my heart was still there.
    How was I going to face him?
    What did I say to him?
    All I knew was I needed to talk to him. I needed to tell him about the dream last night. That wasn’t an ordinary dream, but what she said… was it true? One thing I was certain, Gavin would know. Now all I had to do was figure out how I was going to get him to give me the light of day.
    Passing my reflection in my mirror , I gasped. What I really needed was to learn some beauty spells for sprucing or at least something so I didn’t look like death. At this point I was beyond helpless. I made a metal note to ask Sophie to teach me and grabbed my bag off the floor. She never looked like crap.
    Then my gaze past over the circular hole beside my door, and my heart cracked all over again like the plaster on the floor. Damn. I was going to have to do something about that after school before my aunt saw it.
    Dragging ass, I arrived at school knowing that this was going to be a hellish day. I wasn’t sure I had it in me to see the condemnation in Gavin’s eyes, especially while