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The door burst open behind me and I nearly jumped out of my shoes as two more young women strode in.
“Coriander,” the first one shouted out joyfully. “Did you make those cookies?”
“They smell amazing,” the other one added.
The two women could not have been more different physically.
The first was tall and athletic with blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail and bright blue eyes.
The second was petite and slender with a cloud of long raven-colored hair hanging around her shoulders, and dark eyes so large they gave her a hungry look.
“Who are you?” the big blonde asked, noticing that I didn’t belong.
“Guys, this is Bella. She’s new,” Cori said. She looked pleased, like she had invented and built me herself. “Bella, this is Kendall, and this is Anya.”
She pointed to the blonde first, and then the dark-haired girl.
“Nice to meet you,” I said.
“Legacy?” Kendall asked, her face blank.
I blinked at her, at a total loss.
“Did anyone else in your family ever attend this school?” dark-haired Anya asked me quietly.
“Wh- oh, no,” I said. “Definitely not.”
“Hm,” Kendall hummed dismissively, and turned back to Cori. “Cookies?”
“They’re forafterthe ceremony,” Cori said with just a hint of a question mark at the end of the statement.
“Ugh,” Anya sighed. “I almost forgot that was tonight.”
“Once a month,” Cori shrugged.
“I’m totally having one now,” Kendall decided, spotting the plate on Cori’s desk.
We all watched as she took a cookie off the top of the pile and bit off a big bite.
“See you out there,” she said over her shoulder with her mouth full as she headed out.
“I don’t know how she wound up in our house,” Cori said thoughtfully.
“The Bellwethers are pretty laid back,” Anya said. “You’ll like it.”
I did like the sound of that.
Cori sat down on the edge of her bed and Anya sat beside her.
“What was all that about a ceremony tonight?” I asked, sitting on my bed, opposite them.
“Oh, it’s just this dumb thing we do every full moon,” Cori said.
“A witchy thing?” I asked, trying not to sound as curious as I felt.
“Yeah, kind of,” she said. “How much do you know about this school?”
“I only found out it existed last night,” I admitted.
