Celtic Magic (15 page)

She walked to the kitchen and made herself a
sandwich and while she ate noticed that she had gotten used to him
being around, and that the quiet was too much for her to bear so
she decided that she would surprise him at home. She went to her
closet and changed into one of the new skimpy little lingerie
outfits she had recently bought and pulled her longest jacket over
it.

She had seen people do this in the movies
and she always thought it looked sexy, so she figured she could try
it too. She closed her eyes and flashed herself just right outside
of his door.

Once she landed she rang the doorbell and
waited. She heard what sounded like two people talking and stepped
back looking at the number on the door, making sure she had the
right one. She was sure he told her he was going to go to bed
early, but it sounded like there were at least two people in
there.

The door opened and she saw Tom before he
noticed her, he was looking behind him getting his wallet out of
his back pocket. She looked over his shoulder and saw a girl
sitting on his sofa with her arms and legs crossed, like she was
annoyed about something.

She had shoulder length curly brown hair and
was much thinner than she could ever imagine being healthy, and as
she looked over at her, she noticed that she had dark brown eyes
that pierced her from across the room.

Finally Tom looked over at her and when he
saw that it was her, his mouth dropped open and he started to
stutter.

“Oh uhm, well, uh, hey Abby” he finally got
out.

Abby felt her stomach start to tie into
knots, and she was afraid to open her mouth, because she felt like
she just might throw up. As soon as the girl heard her name, she
stood up from the sofa.

“What the hell is she doing here?” she asked
in a pointed tone. Abby looked back up at Tom.

“Is that Nicole?” she managed to squeak out.
Tom nodded and Abby turned to leave, she didn’t want to see any
more.

“Wait Abby!” Tom yelled to her. She stopped
but didn’t turn around. He came up behind her.

“It’s not what you think” He said in an
apologetic tone. Abby felt a fury rise up inside of her that she
had only felt once, when she was facing Elysia. She turned around
and knew from the look on his face, that her eyes had turned red
again.

“You have no idea what I’m thinking!” she
yelled back to him. He looked down blushing, not knowing how to
handle her being so angry.

“Why did you come here? Is everything okay?”
he asked.

Abby laughed, “Why did I come here? I came
here for this!” she yelled as she opened her jacket to show him
what she was wearing. He looked down at her with a dumbfounded look
on his face.

“But you had to go and ruin that didn’t
you?” she said to him again, and before he could give her an
answer, she felt the heat in her fingertips, so she pointed to the
floor in front of him and watched as a spark of fire flew from her
fingers and hit the ground.

Tom jumped back with a yelp, and as the
smoke cleared she saw that there was a picture of a heart that was
bleeding burned into the floor. He looked back up at her finally
looking scared as she disappeared. She landed back in her bedroom
and crumbled onto her bed where she finally started to cry, and she
cried until she finally passed out from exhaustion, still wearing
the lingerie and coat.

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The sound of knocking woke her up and as she
crawled out of bed and walked toward the door, the events of the
night before came swirling back into her mind. She felt as though
her heart was breaking all over again and felt her eyes burning as
the tears welled up ready to fall at any minute.

When she finally reached the door and opened
it, she saw a delivery man standing there with a large bouquet of
red roses.

“I have a delivery for Abby Kane” he said
without looking at her.

“That’s me” she managed to croak out, which
made him look up at her. She saw his eyes widen when he caught
sight of her, so she must look as bad as she felt, but when his
eyes traveled down, she realized for the first time that she was
still wearing the lingerie.

She closed her jacket quickly, before he got
too much of an eyeful and took the flowers from him in silence.
Closing the door, she looked down at the flowers and frowned, she
just knew they were from Tom, but she wasn’t ready to even
acknowledge what had happened, but she couldn’t resist pulling out
the card and opening it.

‘Dear Abby, I hope your first month has gone
well, and I can’t wait to meet Tom. Love, Daddy.’

Abby looked up from the note, surprised that
it had only been a month since she moved in and started working for
Jasmine. It seemed as though a lifetime had gone by since the day
her father had told her about her mother’s offer.

She looked back down at the note and felt
her heart break all over again at the thought that her father was
so anxious to meet Tom, knowing that she had fallen so deeply in
love with him.

She needed to get away, so she decided to go
and see her mother, but after catching a look at herself in the
mirror, knew that she needed to take a shower and make herself at
least decent.

***

As Abby stepped out of the shower, she felt
relaxed for the first time since the night before and decided that
she wanted to get ready fast so she closed her eyes and wished that
she was wearing comfortable jeans and a loose t-shirt. She stood
there for a few more minutes waiting for the heat to come over her
body, the way it always did when she used magic to dress herself,
but it never came.

She opened her eyes and looked down at her
body, frowning when she saw that she was still wearing her towel.
Shrugging her shoulders, she walked to the closet and quickly
dressed in the outfit she had in mind before.

After pulling a brush though her hair, she
closed her eyes once again and thought of the castle in the Other
World, but once again, nothing happened. She was starting to feel a
little scared when she decided that she needed to talk to Jasmine,
if anything Jasmine can take her to the portal at the gazebo.

She grabbed her purse and ran out of the
apartment, not even bothering to lock her door and she was so
anxious that she didn’t even wait for the elevator; she decided to
run down the stairs. She figured exercising would at least pull her
out of her funk a little bit.

Finally she arrived at Jasmine’s door, out
of breath and she rang the doorbell. After just a few seconds,
Jasmine opened the door and when she got a look at Abby, her eyes
went wide.

“Abby, what’s the matter? Why didn’t you
just flash in here?” she asked her curiously. Abby walked into the
apartment, trying to catch her breath.

“There is something wrong with my magic” she
finally managed to wheeze out. Jasmine led her over to the
sofa.

“Sit down, I’ll get you some water” she told
her as she ran toward the kitchen. Abby sat down and focused on
slowing her heart beat and taking deep breaths. Finally Jasmine
came back into the living room and handed her a tall glass of ice
cold water.

“What do you mean there is something wrong
with your magic? You did beautifully yesterday when we practiced”
she asked while Abby drank half of the glass of water in one
drink.

“Well, I tried to use magic to get dressed,
and it didn’t work. So, I tried to flash in to see my mom, and
nothing happened. I don’t know why I can’t use any of my magic!”
she yelled hysterically.

She felt as though she was about to lose her
mind, but as always, Jasmine knew exactly what to say to her.

“Maybe you are just stressed out and need to
relax a little bit. How about I take you to the gazebo so you can
see your mother?” she asked.

Abby sighed in relief knowing that Jasmine
would make sure she got to her mother and grabbed her hand, closing
her eyes and finally feeling the heat go through her body letting
her know that she was finally going to the Other World.

When they landed, Abby looked out at the
orange flowers and for the first time realized that she was scared
that they would have turned purple on her. Since they were still
orange then she must have only lost her magic temporarily.

Abby sat down on the bench while Jasmine
disappeared again to go and get her mother. She didn’t even want to
walk through the portal; she would rather just sit here and talk to
her mother in privacy.

After only just a few minutes she saw the
tiny orbs of light and Jasmine reappeared with her mother next to
her, and just the site of her long red hair made all of the
emotions she was hiding inside of her come out at once and she
burst out in sobs.

Her mother ran over to her and sat next to
her, putting her arms around her.

“Abby what’s wrong? Why are you here? You
could have just popped in to see me, I was at the castle” her
mother said.

Abby shook her head and put her head down on
her mother’s shoulder, reveling in the fact that for the first time
in her life, she had a mother’s shoulder that she could cry on, one
that would listen to her and make her feel better.

Jasmine walked over and sat next to her on
the other side and put her arms around the both of them rubbing
Abby’s hair while she continued to cry. Abby felt the air around
them start to stir with a warm breeze and as she closed her eyes to
enjoy it, she realized that she had stopped crying.

She felt as though she had no emotions, she
didn’t feel sad, happy, angry, or even scared; she just felt calm.
She pulled her head up from her mother’s shoulder and looked over
at Jasmine, whose eyes were closed.

“Did you do that?” she asked quietly.
Jasmine opened her eyes and looked at her.

“Yes, I couldn’t stand to see you hurting so
badly” she answered her.

Abby sighed as she enjoyed not having to
feel anything, even if it was just for a few minutes. She looked
back over to her mother.

“Now that you are calm, please tell us what
is wrong?” her mother asked her. Abby took a deep breath and
started to tell them exactly what had happened.

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They both listened to her in silence while
she poured her heart out to them, and when she was done they looked
at each other, as though talking to each other in silence. Finally
after what felt like an hour, her mother spoke.

“I know your heart is breaking right now,
but things are not what they seem” her mother told her. Abby
finally felt an emotion, and it was surprise.

“What do you mean? I saw her in his
apartment, and now my magic isn’t working. Do you think it has
anything to do with being so sad?” she asked her mother.

Her mother nodded, “Yes, you are grieving,
and I think because of the original spell I put on you to have your
magic unlock only when in love, there is a lingering effect causing
the magic to stop working for you. I can pull the rest of the spell
but, I think you were too quick to judge the situation. Things are
not what they seem” her mother repeated.

Abby looked into her mother eyes and knew
that she was trying to get her to understand something, and not
trying to make the situation just seem better than it was.

“Yes, I do want you to take the rest of the
spell off, but what do you mean by it’s not what it seems?” she
asked. Jasmine touched her arm.

“You need to see something that might make
you understand a little better” she told her opening her hand. Abby
saw that it was the Seer’s Orb, still small and marble like. She
looked back up to Jasmine.

“Will it work for me?” she asked. Just as
she asked the question, Abby felt a warmth go through her body. She
looked up to her mother, whose eyes were closed.

“The rest of the spell is now lifted” her
mother said. She looked back to Jasmine.

“So it should work now?” she asked her.

Jasmine nodded, “Yes as long as you are
calm, your magic will work” she said.

Abby nodded and took the
orb from her. She held it in her hand and took a deep breath and
closed her eyes and thought,
show me what
Jasmine wants me to see
, and she felt the
orb grow hot and let it go.

As the orb flew up into the air and grew to
the size of a bowling ball she saw the images in it start to clear
up. She leaned forward and focused on what she was seeing, it was
Tom sitting in his apartment reading a book, but the name of the
book was too small to see what exactly it was that he was
reading.

Suddenly she heard a knock at the door and
watched as Tom looked down at his watch and walked over to open the
door with a smile on his face. As the door opened she saw Nicole
standing there in the doorway, but she watched Tom’s face as he
realized who was standing there. He started frowning, not the big
smile she expected to see.

“What the hell are you doing here Nicole?
How did you find my apartment? You know I have a restraining order
on you, I will call the police” he said. His voice sounded very
angry as he turned toward the chair he was sitting in, where she
saw that he was reaching for his cell phone. Nicole ran into the
room and grabbed his arm.

“Tom wait! I’m not here to cause problems, I
want to apologize for how I treated you and to tell you that I’m
happy you have found someone” she yelled at him. Tom turned back to
her.

“How do you even know I’m dating someone?
That tells me right there that you are still stalking me. You
haven’t changed at all have you?” he said back to her with a look
of pure hatred on his face that Abby had never seen before.

“I’m telling you the truth, I have been in
therapy for a while now and have been working on my issues. I’ve
actually started seeing someone back in Houston, where I live now”
she told him, still hanging on to his arm. Abby heard another knock
on the door and watched as Tom pulled her hand off of his arm.