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The promised books arrived just as doc Evans predicted – two days after he proclaimed that it was time to brew! I envied his enthusiasm, really. We were faced with some real danger here, the crazy Mayor was gathering an army of rogues, a stalker that may or may not be connected to him, a probable active healer acting against us and a dormant healer with absolutely no knowledge or skill whatsoever. And he was still smiling and bouncing around the house like a fan girl at backstage of
her favourite band. Sweet.
The house nowadays reminded me more of an army base, not a cozy B&B I’ve stumbled upon all these months ago. I was never, and I mean NEVER alone anymore. Most of the time I still was with Lena, but Nick made it his duty to check up on me almost every hour. And if I were to step outside
for some fresh air, I was surrounded by several wolfs at the same time, and a couple more patrolling around the house to double check. The only times I was allowed the luxury of solitude was when I needed to go to the bathroom. Even at night I wasn’t alone. Lena now shared a room with me. But I didn’t really mind if it meant staying alive and unharmed.
Concerning the books… Being the nerd I am, I managed to read through all of them in a days time. Not that there were many, but still, my brain was exploding from all the information. There were 4 books in total, and they were not that big, and mostly there were recipes of different potions, smears, lotions, teas and stuff, but for now we decided not to go too deep in that, we needed to figure out which ones exactly we needed and read carefully through all the side notes, annotations and explanations. The one factor that seemed to complicate everything – everything was in handwriting. Sometimes I wouldn’t get to understand what exactly it said, so from time to time we would gather with ‘the grownups‘, meaning Hannah, doc Evans, Jonathan and Shirley and would try figuring out what the writing meant. At one point I got fed up with trying to sort through the scribbles, took my laptop and started digitalising it all.
At first ‘the grownups‘ were outraged, because how dared I, a child of corrupted values, how could possibly be allowed to dishonour the traditions like that… That’s right, I struggled to understand what they meant as well until I did. Turned out they were just some old fashioned dinosaurs, who didn’t really know what a computer was. So with a light laugh and some reinforcements in two identical faces of the twins, who used their social media pretty actively, we managed to lay it all out for the old guys, as to why it would benefit all parties involved. The key argument was the ‘find in text‘ tool. When they finally heard my patient explanations that it would make searching for a specific something easier and faster, they gave up and there it was, almost three days later and everything was typed in a neat excel file.
At the same time we were banking in our living room doc Evans received a call from Lisa, that the contact with my previous university was established and she would be heading there in a weeks time. Things were happening. Really happening.
Meanwhile my relationship with Nick kind of stuck a bit. We still would be exchanging glances, touch each other lightly, he would suddenly come up to me to stroke my cheek, or fix a stayed lock of hair behind my ear, but that was all. We didn’t talk much, going on dates was out of the question
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as well. And definitely no kissing. Hell, we were never alone, and kissing in public was not my cup of tea. Mildly speaking, I was upset. I understood that it wasn’t the right time for any romantic quests, but still, my heart longed for Nick. I began feeling lonelier than ever and it reflected in my eating habits. Shirley and Hannah thought, that it must be the stress of the situation, but I knew there was another reason for my lack of appetite. It was the lack of my mate.
The only reason I did put some effort in taking some care of myself was my baby girl. I even started searching for a name for her, the only thing I came up with was Hope. She gave me hope of happiness. Even if Nick decides to back out of all this mess, she would still be with me. No matter the outcome, she would be a constant in my life, my Hope. So I started addressing her by the name, but never shared my resolution with anyone. Frankly, being so exposed to everyone bothered me, thus the need to keep something to myself.
