After Shawn repeated the verse, Kristin said the last one. “Break and dissolve, bless and set free. As it is now, so mote it be.”
Shawn repeated her words, and I realized I had been holding my breath the entire time. I slowly exhaled and looked back at Sarah who simply nodded and smiled.
“Now you’ll want to take the two incense stickes and cross them over the dish,” I explained. “Light them. As they burn, they’ll uncross all the negative energies and the spell I put onyou. You’re going to have to let the candle and sticks burn completely down. All negative influences and spells will start to disappear, and you should start feeling like yourself again.”
Shawn nodded.
“Um, if the urges, you know, continue, you can repeat this with new candles and incense sticks for seven days,” I added.
“Okay,” Shawn simply said. “Do I need to do anything with the candle and sticks once they burn down?”
Kristin looked at me, and I replied, “You’ll need to bury them all and as you do, you say, ‘thanks.’”
“I say thanks?” Shawn asked with a hint of amusement in his voice.
With a nod, I replied, “Yep.”
“How do you feel?” Lucas asked.
Shawn looked around the room. “I mean, I don’t have an uncontrolled urge to hump Kristin like a dog, but I wouldn’t say no if she wanted me to.”
“And that is where I take my leave,” Sarah stated as she turned to head toward the front door.
“Sarah! Wait!” Kristin called out as she got up and walked toward my sister. “I knew the spell. How did I know the spell?”
With a wink, Sarah simply said, “Welcome to the coven.”
“No! No way,” Shawn said. “She’s a witch too?”
Spinning on her heels, Kristin flashed Shawn a shit-eating grin as she tapped her fingers together. “Oh, what to do with this new information…. What to do!”
After ordering pizza for lunch, Lucas and I decided to let Kristin and Shawn have some time together. With the way the two of them kept glancing at each other, I was sure the spell was gone, and I wanted them to have privacy to talk.
“Do you think anything will happen between them?” I asked as Lucas pulled away from Shawn’s house.
“I think they’re both ready to explore that possibility. And I have to say, it was your spell that caused them both to open their eyes and admit their feelings.”
“See? I knew it would all turn out okay.”
Lucas gave me aReally?look.
“Okay, so maybe the first few spells I’ve tried haven’t exactly worked out like I wanted them to, but I’m learning.”
He took my hand in his and kissed the back of it. “What do you think about Kristin?”
I moved in my seat to face him some. “Isn’t that exciting? And it makes sense why the spell with you turned out like it did. When more than one witch does a spell, it makes it that more powerful.”
“And explains what happened to Shawn.”
“That too!”
We fell into a comfortable silence before Lucas asked, “You knew Sarah was at the door before she ran the doorbell. Did you see her?”
I shook my head. “More like I sensed her. It’s happened to me in the past, but I always ignored it and thought of it as a sixth sense.”
“What if someone is planning a surprise, like a birthday party or something? Would you see that ahead of time?”
Thinking about his question, I wondered more about why he was asking it. “No, I don’t think so.”
