Chapter 123: Any Chance At Normal
Life went back to normal. If you could call normal, well, normal. Which meant everything was horribly wrong.
Okay, not everything. Only my missing power and the fact Quaid avoided me. It still hurt.
Which left me wide open to Brad. He seemed startled the first day I went back to school, and acted a little funny around me, but he still wanted to take me to prom. There was no need to turn him down anymore, so I was all for it.
Take that and stick it somewhere uncomfortable, Quaid Moromond.
As for my friends, they all acted like nothing happened and I wondered how much of the whole thing the coven managed to erase. Mia was back to her normal Pain self and as tight with Blood as ever. They were all waiting for me in the nook at the front door when I returned to school on Thursday after only one day off. All of a sudden it was same old same.
I mentioned Benjamin's name once and they looked at me blankly like I was nuts.
So I dropped it. Happily.
I had my friends back. That was good. Sort of. It felt weird and kind of wrong and very much like someone rigged it this way. I found myself pulling back from them a bit, only because I felt like such a fraud.
I cried myself to sleep every night, usually with Sassy on one side and Meira on the other, simply unable to cope with the silence and the loneliness that came with missing my demon. At least it saved me my little sister's wrath. I saw the anger in her eyes when I finally came home and watched it drain from them as she understood what happened. As much as my being a magical cripple dodged her fury bullet, I would have preferred if she was angry. Still, I was really happy to have them there, but also wished they would just leave me alone to wallow.
Mom and Dad were adjusting to living together. In fact if I wasn't so miserable I would have been happy for them. I caught them giggling and hugging each other a lot.
Ew.
So there I was, powerless, the coven at a loss, even my mother not sure why I wasn't able to access my human magic. And my demon was out there somewhere, still fighting Demetrius, needing me. Okay, I needed her. Same thing. I prayed every day for Anastasia to appear with news, for one of the coven to arrive and tell me they found the Chosen leader and knew where my demon was.
Every day was a disappointment.
Now the school year was wrapping up and I had yet another dilemma.
I was going to prom and I had nothing to wear.
End of Book Three
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Dedication
To my readers. Without you, this would be pointless.
Thank you for loving Syd as much as I do.
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