Wickford High 1 - The Revelation by Karen Fuller Read Free Book Online

breath. “I’m just trying to decide just where you fit into all of this.”
    She shifted nervously in her seat. The memory of her father’s confession was fresh on her mind. She felt a compelling need to tell him what he wanted to know, but she didn’t know if she really should. “It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, Luke. I like you. I really do.” She looked away again. “If the rumors started here too, my dad would pack us up and move again.”
    He reached across the table again and placed his hand over hers and squeezed it. “I won’t tell a soul,” he whispered.
    She tried to blink back the tears and decided to tell him. “A group of . . . concerned citizens .
    . . tied my mother to a stake . . . and burned her alive,” she said bitterly. She looked back into his eyes. “My dad packed us up in the middle of the night and brought us here.”
    He sighed heavily. “So, she was a witch,” he said solemnly, he wasn’t asking. “If she was a witch, you must be too for your dad to whisk you away like that.”
    Her heart raced, and she swallowed hard. “Now you know.” She looked away. “I don’t suppose you want anything more to do with me now.”
    He put his finger under her chin and made her look at him. “Don’t be silly. You fit right in this God forsaken town more than you know.” He sat back.
    Her bottom lip quivered. “Are you telling me that you’re a witch, too?”
    He smiled and shook his head. “No, I have my own peculiarities that I’m sure you’ll discover soon.”
    She smiled grimly. “I’ve noticed a couple.” He lifted an eyebrow and waited for her to continue. “You know a couple of peculiarities in you.”
    He smiled. “Such as . . .”
    She grinned. “You seem to have a talent for just appearing and disappearing from seemingly nowhere.” She shook her head. “Take this afternoon. I turned around to tell you good bye, and you were just gone.” She shrugged. “I couldn’t find you anywhere.” He smiled and shrugged.
    “What I did find was a dark wolf staring at me from the edge of the woods.” She shivered and he turned white. “Are there many wolves around here?”
    He looked away. “There are a few. Don’t worry about them. They don’t usually bother anybody.” She gave him a strange look for his last statement. He smiled. “I guess this also explains why you refused to listen to my warning about Sara.”
    She looked away. “Luke . . . Sara is a witch. She um . . . she yanked me into the bathroom after lunch.” She rubbed the knot on the back of her head. “She tried to scare me.”
    His eyes flashed with anger. “Did she hurt you?” he growled.
    She shrugged. “I have a lump on the back of my head, but I’m okay.”
    “I’m going to make her pay for that one,” he growled.
    She shook her head and looked away with guilt. “Luke, that won’t be necessary.”
    “She can’t be allowed to run all over you and get away with it,” he said through clenched teeth.
    She shrugged again. “She, uh, didn’t exactly get away with it.”
    He drew his eyebrows together in a frown. “What do you mean?”
    She shook her head with guilt, her eyes still refused to meet his. “Luke, I really don’t want to tell you.”
    He squeezed her hand. “I don’t understand, why not?” he said gently.
    She shrugged. “I don’t want you to think I’m a freak either.” She shook her head. “Sara made me angry, and I don’t like what my temper does to me.”
    He grinned. “What did you do to her? Did you punch her or scratch her?” She shook her head guiltily. “Oh, come on, Vicky, whatever you did to her, she deserved it. She has been terrorizing that place for far too long.”
    Her eyes met his. “I used my magic against her.”
    \He quickly looked down at the table. “Oh, I see,” he said in a clipped tone.
    Vicky looked up in the air. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
    “You used black magic against black magic. I get it.”

    She rolled her