Whispered Magics
“The wind rustling the winter-dry branches outside my window almost masked Ben’s whisper.
“Ready to see the ghosts in Neverland?”
His voice was low, but I could hear the challenge. He didn’t expect me to go. He didn’t expect me to believe him.
“Sure,” I said, and scrambled out my bedroom window onto a branch, and dropped to the grass.
We ran through the deserted streets of downtown. Neither of us spoke until we were almost to Neverland Park. Then Ben said, “We’d better hide.”
He still expected m...e to scoff—or to run back home.
I shrugged.
Even in the dark, I could see his surprise. As if ghosts playing in the town park weren't as strange as the two of us being outside together at midnight: Ben, the school’s bad kid, and I, Anna, the best student in school.
Ex-best student.
“Here’s where,” he said as we pounded across the grass toward a line of thick shrubs. Leaves skittered behind us down the pathway, driven by the chilly wind that numbed my lips and made my eyes water.MoreLess
“Ready to see the ghosts in Neverland?”
His voice was low, but I could hear the challenge. He didn’t expect me to go. He didn’t expect me to believe him.
“Sure,” I said, and scrambled out my bedroom window onto a branch, and dropped to the grass.
We ran through the deserted streets of downtown. Neither of us spoke until we were almost to Neverland Park. Then Ben said, “We’d better hide.”
He still expected m...e to scoff—or to run back home.
I shrugged.
Even in the dark, I could see his surprise. As if ghosts playing in the town park weren't as strange as the two of us being outside together at midnight: Ben, the school’s bad kid, and I, Anna, the best student in school.
Ex-best student.
“Here’s where,” he said as we pounded across the grass toward a line of thick shrubs. Leaves skittered behind us down the pathway, driven by the chilly wind that numbed my lips and made my eyes water.MoreLess
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