A Shade of Myself: A Humorous Paranormal Women's Fiction (Magic After Midlife Book 4) by Deborah Wilde

Author:Deborah Wilde [Wilde, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Te Da Media Inc.
Published: 2022-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

16

It was almost 9PM when I got home. I dragged myself inside and kicked off my shoes next to a pile of teenagers’ runners and flip-flops. So much for my hopes of a quiet night in. Sighing, I walked into the living room. “Greetings and salutations, youngsters.”

“Hi, Miri.” Sadie’s boyfriend Caleb dumped chips into a bowl. I nodded in approval at today’s T-shirt offering of Calvin and Hobbes. His parents had raised him well. “Sparky, your mom’s home!”

My niece Nessa peeled herself off the couch where she’d been watching the twins, Aiden and Olivia, shoot zombies. Eli must have loaned us his game console. “Auntie Em,” Nessa said, using the nickname she’d given me after I first showed her and Sadie Wizard of Oz when they were little. She preened like a cat, showing off her new pixie cut. “What do you think?”

Cutting off six inches of black hair gave the seventeen-year-old a fresher and more mature look that made those Chu cheekbones pop. Poor Sadie had missed those genes, getting stuck with my rounder cheeks. “Love it.”

“Now to convince Mom to let me get a nose piercing.” Nessa crossed her fingers.

“Good luck with that.”

She rolled her eyes. “Too true.”

Sadie wandered out of the kitchen, her arms filled with pop cans that she deposited on the coffee table.

“Green or purple?” Her friend Kai held up two nail polish bottles.

“Definitely purple,” my daughter said.

“Told you,” Kai said to their other friend Emily, a lanky blonde.

“Fine.” The girl placed her hands flat on the table for him to do her nails. “But you didn’t have to be so bossy about it.”

I snapped my fingers. “Hands off that bottle, Kai. You’re a menace.”

“Come on, Miri. I was twelve when I spilled the pink polish. And besides.” He raised an imperious eyebrow. “The floors you got after looked way better than that ugly carpeting. Really, I did you a favor.”

“Spill a drop and you’ll end up like Sadie’s sister.”

He waved me off with a flick of his black-painted nails.

“Child?” I tugged on Sadie’s elbow. “A moment?”

I pulled her into the kitchen and stopped short. “Nadi, why are you making grilled cheese?”

The petite girl in a bright green headscarf flipped one of the sandwiches browning on the stove. “Because you were out of peanut butter.”

Not what I meant, but this was what happened when you spent years encouraging your daughter’s friends to make themselves at home. “Just put everything back in the fridge when you’re done.”

“Will do.”

I motioned for Sadie to follow me onto the back porch, shutting the door for privacy. “You know I don’t mind you having friends over, but you’re supposed to give me a heads-up.”

“Text and voice mail.” She crossed her arms. “What’s the point of you having a pricey cell plan, young lady, if you aren’t going to check your notifications?”

“Very funny.” I checked my phone to find two unread texts and one voice mail from her. “All right, my bad. Just keep everyone downstairs and out by eleven, okay?”

“Deal.” She skipped off back to her friends.

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