Celtic Magic (5 page)

She nodded, “Oh yeah, I have got to get me
one of these.”

He laughed, “Well, you can share mine with
me any time you want” He told her pulling her to him.

He reached behind her head and ran his
fingers through her hair as he started to kiss her softly.

Chapter 8

The next morning she woke up to the sun
shining on her face and she smiled, enjoying the warmth. She looked
around the room and giggled; she had never spent the night with a
guy before, and felt a little naughty knowing that she had. She
turned over and watched Tom as he slept, one arm still draped
around her waist. They had kissed for what seemed like hours before
he finally suggested that she stay there with him, and after
reassuring her that he would not try any funny business, they fell
asleep, wrapped in each other’s arms.

He opened his eyes and looked at her, he
smiled as he grabbed a hold of her and pulled her close to him,
with her head laying on his chest.

“Why were you watching me?” he asked
her.

She giggled, “I just woke up and didn’t want
to wake you, but was trying to figure out a way to make myself get
off of this bed. How do you ever get out?” she asked him.

“Well, it’s normally not so hard, but waking
up next to you makes it hard to want to ever leave” he told
her.

She laughed, “I have to go to the bathroom,
badly, so can you help me get up?” she asked him.

He pushed her up from her bottom until she
was on her feet and she walked quickly to the bathroom before she
peed on herself. When she was done, she opened the door and he was
standing there next to it waiting for her.

“Give me a minute to use the bathroom, then
if you want to brush your teeth, I have some extra brand new
toothbrushes you can use.”

She turned her head quizzically to the side,
“Why do you have extra brand new toothbrushes exactly? Do you have
lots of girls sleep over?” she asked him, half laughing.

He shook his head, “No, my neighbor is a
dentist and she gives me tons of new toothbrushes all the time. I
think she really just tries to get rid of them and uses me to do
that” he answered her.

“I thought you had the only apartment up
here” she said, a little confused.

“Well, I do, but all of these restaurants
are connected so we consider ourselves neighbors. The lady to my
left is a dentist, and the guy to my right is a rich college
student who has never worked a day in his life. You know nothing at
all like me” he said with a glint in his eye.

She nodded and he shut the door behind him
and she waited outside the door while he was in the bathroom. When
he finally opened the door, he stood there with four toothbrushes,
still in their packages in his hands.

“Which one?” he asked her.

She grabbed the pink one and walked back
into the bathroom opening it up and stood next to him while they
brushed their teeth together. After they were done brushing their
teeth, he decided to take her by her apartment for a fresh change
of clothes, and then they were going to spend the entire day
together.

***

Later that night after he dropped her back
off at her apartment, she started to dance through the house,
loving how great being with him made her feel. She started wiggling
her fingers, pretending that there was faerie dust coming out of
the tips, just like they had in the old Disney movies she watched
as a child, when suddenly sparks actually came out of her
fingertips.

Her heart started beating so hard it felt as
though it was going to burst out of her chest at any moment. She
looked at her fingertips and was surprised to see that they looked
completely normal. She debated calling her dad and asking him if he
knew anything about what was happening to her, but she decided that
she had a better idea. She was going to go and talk to Jasmine
about it; after all she was open to magic, she owned a store with
magic right in the name.

She left her apartment, closing the door,
but not bothering to lock it, and headed down the elevator to the
lobby, ready to run across and catch the elevator on Jasmine’s side
of the building. After putting in her code for the penthouse, she
crossed her arms and waited patiently, hoping that Jasmine was
home.

When the doors opened up, she stepped into
Jasmine’s apartment and looked around.

“
Jasmine, are you home?
It’s Abby and I really need to talk to you about something” she
yelled out, hoping she would hear her.

She walked around the apartment, trying to
find her and instantly fell in love with her place. The rooms were
huge, at least twice the size of her small rooms and were decorated
in modern art, with black furniture and odd sculptures and
paintings everywhere she looked. She finally made it to the back of
the apartment and noticed a door was open at the end of the hall
that looked like it could be the master bedroom and just as she was
about to yell out Jasmine’s name again, she heard her talking, and
heard her name come up. She stood very still listening to Jasmine
talk to someone on the telephone.

“No, she hasn’t realized it yet” Jasmine
said to whoever was on the other end of the phone.

Abby held her breath as Jasmine was
listening to the person on the phone talk.

“As far as I know, there has only been one
incident, but I’m sure she hasn’t told me everything” Jasmine
finally answered.

Abby wished she could hear what was being
said on the other end of that call.

“Yes, she seems to like him very much,
hopefully there is a great love brewing. But, the magic hasn’t
fully come to her so she hasn’t consummated the relationship. That
is part of the spell Aine put on her when she was born.”

Abby gasped, she was talking about exactly
the same thing she had come to ask her about. Finally Abby couldn’t
take the suspense anymore, so she walked into her bedroom and
cleared her throat so that Jasmine would know that she was standing
there.

Chapter 9

Jasmine turned to look at her with a very
odd look on her face, as though she had been caught stealing money
from her mother’s purse.

Without taking her eyes off of Abby, Jasmine
said into her phone, “Oh, Abby’s here, gotta go. Bye Mark.”

Abby crossed her arms over her chest, “Where
you just talking to my dad about me?” she asked her.

Jasmine nodded her head, “Yes, but it’s not
what you think.” She said quickly.

Abby laughed, “Oh, so you weren’t talking to
my dad about some spell that this Aine chick that I had a dream
about put on me as a baby to make sure some supposed magic wasn’t
unlocked until I had sex with a great love?”

Jasmine’s face turned whiter than I even
thought possible, on her already porcelain skin.

“Well, that is pretty close. But, you should
not know any of this because you are supposed to figure things out
on your own. Oh, Aine is going to kill me if she finds out.” She
said, sitting on the bed and putting her head into her hands.

“Okay, who is this Aine woman? She came to
me in a dream the other night.”

Jasmine shook her head, “I cannot tell you
that, it is not my secret to tell.”

Abby groaned, “I really need somewhere to
sit down.”

Jasmine patted the bed next to her and Abby
sank down, not knowing what to say. Finally Jasmine looked up at
her.

“Please don’t be afraid of what changes your
body may be going through right now, and please do not be afraid of
the love that you hold for Tom.”

Abby turned her head and looked at Jasmine,
“that is exactly what Aine told me in my dream, why is it so
important for me to fall in love with Tom? I just met him. It is
way too soon to start talking about love.”

Jasmine shook her head, “No it is never too
soon to love someone. When it is written in the stars, it doesn’t
take long.”

Abby laughed, “Okay, I have to get out of
here before I think I’m going crazy, or you are.”

As Abby was standing up to leave Jasmine
grabbed her arm and when she looked over at her noticed that she
had a very serious look on her face, not one I had ever seen from
her before.

“Abby, please trust me and do not be afraid
to be with Tom, making love is a beautiful and natural thing” she
said in almost a whisper.

Abby pulled her arm from her hand, “I’m not
a freak just because I’m a virgin, I will have sex with him when
I’m ready, and nobody will rush me. Got it?”

Jasmine put her hands up in defeat, “Got it.
End of story, let’s forget this ever happened, see you in the
morning?” she asked her.

Abby nodded, “Of course, I wouldn’t miss
work, I love working at the store. See you tomorrow.” She said, and
then walked out of the room to the elevator, half expecting Jasmine
to come after her to talk more, but she didn’t.

When she got back to her apartment, she had
two texts from Tom asking her if he could meet her tomorrow for
lunch and she happily replied that she would meet him at the
sandwich shop at their usual time, then taking off all of her
clothes, she slid into bed, not even bothering with her
pajamas.

***

The dream started the same way as last time;
she was standing in the field with the large orange flowers. When
she turned toward the gazebo she already knew what was behind her,
she saw Aine standing there looking at her. Abby walked up to her,
and stood right next to her.

“
Hello Aine.” She said to
her.

Aine smiled, “You now need to know more
since you heard too much already from Jasmine. Please come and sit
with me in the gazebo, and I will answer some of your
questions.”

Abby’s heart started beating; she was
excited to have some answers, but she was a little afraid of what
she was going to be told too. As she sat down, she couldn’t think
of anything to say so she just waited until Aine was ready to start
talking. Finally she did.

“
Abby, you first asked
where you were. Well, you’re body is at home in bed in Dallas. I
have pulled your spirit out of your body and brought you here to me
in Ireland.” She said.

Abby’s mouth dropped open, “Ireland?!” she
exclaimed, unable to process how someone could pull a spirit out of
a body and fly it halfway across the world.

Aine nodded, “Yes, we are at the entrance to
a place called the Other World. It is a place for all of the lesser
gods to live in peace away from the evil of the mortal world.”

Abby nearly laughed, “Gods? You mean like
Greek Gods?” she asked her.

Aine shook her head, “No Abby, the Greek
Gods live on Mount Olympus, Celtic Gods live in the Other World. It
is actually located on the southern coast of Ireland, near present
day Waterford, but only magical beings with certain magical powers
can see it and enter.” She explained to her.

Abby shook her head, trying to clear it of
the confusion she felt, “So, what does this have to do with me? I’m
not a God, and I have no magical powers” she said to her, even
though she was thinking of all the odd things that were happening
to her lately. Aine put her hand on Abby’s shoulder and looked her
in the eye.

“
What I am about to tell
you will change your view on life forever, so are you sure you are
ready to know?” she asked her with a serious look on her
face.

Abby nodded and Aine continued, “I am your
mother Abby, and I am the Celtic Goddess of Love and Sexuality.”
Aine seemed to hold her breath as she waited for Abby’s
reaction.

“Do you mean like Aphrodite?” Abby finally
asked.

“Yes, Aphrodite is Greek though, I am her
Celtic equivalent” she said.

Even as Aine said the words, Abby could feel
that she was telling the truth, and had an odd suspicion ever since
she first came here that she was somehow linked to her. Abby
sighed, she did believe her, but there were so many more
questions.

“I can feel that you are telling me the
truth, but I was told my mother died in a car accident when I was
just a baby.”

Aine lowered her head, “I know. I had your
father tell you this story so that you wouldn’t feel as though I
had left you, but after leaving this place, I was in a lot of
trouble. They threatened to banish me forever and make me live a
mortal life, and after I met your father, I was ready to make that
choice. After I became pregnant with you, I had to make a choice.
Live with you and your father and risk you both being hurt in the
war that would have followed, or to leave you so that you could
have a normal life. I couldn’t bear the thought of you getting hurt
because of me, so I left, and it nearly killed your father when I
did.”

Abby rubbed her forehead in frustration and
confusion, “Why would there have been a war if you would have
stayed with us though, I don’t get that.”

Aine frowned, “I was actually more than just
a God when I left, I was the daughter of the Queen of the Other
World, and she was looking to retire. When I left, I forfeited my
rights to the throne, but my mother made a stipulation that only a
child of mine would be able to rule in my place. When I found out I
was pregnant with you, I was so happy that I came back here and
went straight to my mother to tell her the news. She wasn’t very
happy to learn that I was pregnant with a mortal’s child though,
and argued that you wouldn’t be born with any natural magic at all.
I disagreed, telling her that I could feel the magic you had inside
of me, but she still wasn’t happy that someone with mortal blood
would rule, so we made a deal. If the fairies could give their
blessings, then I could live with you in the open.”

Abby interrupted her, “Fairies? Are you
serious?”

Aine nodded, “Yes, quite serious. You see
the problem was that the Queen of the Fairies wanted all the power
for herself, so she didn’t give the blessings I needed. My mother
was smart though and saw through the Faerie Queen’s intentions and
told me that she would start a war against the fairies if I
believed in you, but that you could be killed in the process. I
could not let that happen, so I moved you and your father to
Dallas, as far away from Ireland as I could imagine, and put
certain spells on you.”