No Communicado

Regardless of how I was feeling about Starla at the moment, I knew I had to talk to Ben right away. I couldn’t let him continue to think that whatever Starla had said to him was true. Who knows how she’d taken what had happened and blew it out of proportion? Letting out a loud sigh, a started to go around the counter to the kitchen area, but the waitress I’d seen earlier, Velma, according to her nametag, stepped in front of me. “Hi there, sweetie,” she said, giving me a look that said I might be a mage but I was still a child in her view. “How can I help you?”

“I need to talk to Ben right away,” I said, stopping in my tracks but still leaning toward the door where my boyfriend had just disappeared.

Velma positioned herself so that she was leaning on either side of the counter, blocking the only entry point t