Chapter 1
In Which a New Chapter of Our Old Friends' Lives Begins
The bus pulled to a stop and the driver's hoarse voice squeaked shrilly through the vehicle. "Market Chipping outskirts!"
Meganne sighed and tore her out-of-focus eyes away from the crystal blue water of a harbor across the street. What would be worse, she wondered: staying on the bus or leaving it? She could either stay and get lost somewhere and delay The Visit, or she could go meet the old hag.
The Visit was something that she and her mother had discussed all through the end of the school year. At the beginning of the summer, her mother and father were going to travel and open a chain of bakeries (it was the family business). Meganne would be off in the quaint, old-fashioned town of Market Chipping, visiting Grandma Sophie.
Her mother claimed that Meganne had met Grandma Sophie before, but of course, that had been when she was a small child. Grandma Sophie wasn't even Meganne's grandmother. She was an old friend of Meganne's mother, apparently. Some people had Aunts that weren't their real aunts at all, and Meganne had a grandmother that wasn't her real grandmother. Go figure.
The worst part was that Sophie was a witch. Not like the ones in fairy tales that rode around on brooms with pointed hats. Much worse. She was the kind that had weird books laying around, full of spells that went something like
'Invisibility spell
Crush two dandelion heads
Mix with juice from a ripe green apple
Say bibbiti bobbiti boo'.
Meganne wanted no part of Sophie and her bizarre rituals. Nope. She would steer clear of the 'witch' as much as she could.
Chapter 1 Song:
Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Yo listen up here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees
Is just blue like him inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him and himself
And everybody around
Cos he ain't got nobody to listen to
I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
I have a blue house with a blue window.
Blue is the color of all that I wear.
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too.
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.
Blue are the people here that walk around,
Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside.
Blue are the words I say and what I think.
Blue are the feelings that live inside me.
I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
I have a blue house with a blue window.
Blue is the color of all that I wear.
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too.
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.
Blue are the people here that walk around,
Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside.
Blue are the words I say and what I think.
Blue are the feelings that live inside me.
I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
Inside and outside blue his house
With the blue little window and a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him and himself
And everybody around cause he ain't got
Nobody to listen to
I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
