Chapter Nine – Justin
Juliet is coming back!
For all the stress, the confusion, the fear of this night, I couldn't stop thinking about that. I kept pushing it out of my head. There were other things, more important things right now. I needed to take care of Alex, I needed to make sure Mason wasn't a threat, I needed to figure out what Max wanted with Alex's vomit…
I am never going to understand what Max wants with Alex's vomit.
But right now I needed to learn what had happened to Mason. We sat in the living room. Max had disappeared. Now it was me, Mason, and Harper.
"So, what happened?" I looked at Mason. "What did Alex's spell do to you?"
Mason looked slightly defiant for a moment. Oddly enough it was Harper who knew what to do.
"You see, we don't know what exactly she did. We need to know what the spell did in order to help her." Harper has her moments.
Mason paused, silently thinking about what he had experienced. "I was in Transylvania. I had just finished eating one of those adorable fawns out there. They were really quite tasty. Then I sat down for a nap." He was quiet for another few seconds. "Then I felt weird, it smelled like sulfur and your sister, her wizard scent, pine tree and brick, paper and paint. But the sulfur smoke almost drowned that out. I haven't smelled that in a long time."
"Please, can we talk about something besides my sister's smell?" I asked him.
"Oh, I am so sorry. Well, after the smell there was the crash. I felt my body being ripped out of my soul."
Harper was looking freaked out by now. It was kind of comforting to know she hadn't changed. "Don't you mean the other way around?" She asked him.
"No, it feels like something is being ripped out of you when you have your body changed by magic." I explained. It felt good to be able to explain something.
Mason continued after we were done. "It felt awful. After I felt my bodying being pulled out I felt something being pushed back in. I suddenly was in my old body, and I was in your sandwich shop. And I was naked. Speaking of which, do you have anything more comfortable to wear?" He gestured at Alex's dress.
"Nope, I don't want you getting dog hair on my clothing." I smirked. I liked him just the way he was.
That isn't horribly weird at all.
"Now, get on with what happened." Mason nodded.
"I smelled sulfur here. And I smelled Alex. I thought it was a dream, a wonderful dream. And then Max came along. Your brother has a way of shocking you out of such preconceptions." Mason smiled apologetically.
True, but he is my brother!
"We are still totally not cool." I reminded him.
"Please just let me stay for tonight. I really don't have anywhere else to go." Mason looked somewhat nervous.
I was just so close to kicking him out when Harper brought up another good point. The girl was doing that a lot tonight, especially for a girl who was wearing a cardigan wrapped in Christmas tree lights in late February.
"Justin, have you thought that he might actually be useful? We don't know exactly what Alex did in her spell. It might be a bad idea to make him leave right now." The girl had a point.
Anyway we should keep watch on Mason, just in case my sister actually turned him into a zombie or something."
"He can sleep in the Lair, with it locked from the outside." I announced.
Juliet is coming back!
And it was way passed my own self imposed bedtime. I really needed to sleep if she was coming back.
