Anton smirks at me, searching my face as I laugh. “What’s so funny about being called Tony?”“Because!” I exclaim, shaking my head at him, brushing my hair away from my face, getting my words out between laughter. “You can’t be a ghost named Tony – Tony is like, the guy who works in the sandwich sho
“Yes, Jesse, that’s the gist of it,” I say, smirking a little in pleasure as I cross my arms and watch as Orion slumps in his chair.“It’s so much more complicated than that,” Orion sighs, resting his temple against his fingers and not meeting Jesse’s eyes.“Easy for you to say!” Jesse shouts. He sn
“He does!” Midnight confirms, continuing to do severe damage to the cake. Part of me wants to urge her to go easy so she doesn’t make herself sick. But she’s so slim, and she’s enjoying it so much that…I lean forward quietly and slide the whole plate towards her, indicating that the whole thing is f
I mean, Midnight is weird and sometimes mean - but god, she’s certainly brave and spirited and…kind of hilarious.“Yeah, Mids!” Jesse says, exasperated. “You should be loyal to me, and to Juniper the Rat! Because we’re your family now and we’d never betray you!”“And to me, please,” Anton says, lean
“All right, all right, no tears,” Jesse says while he laughs, sitting and wrapping an arm around Midnight’s shoulders and tugging her close. “So, we’re doing this? Fortune telling or…whatever?”Orion sighs, looking around and then heaving a big shrug of his wide shoulders. “I mean, if you’re all goo
“Oh, you’re just being nice because June’s upset,” Anton sighs. I turn to glare at him, but he just shrugs, unwilling to budge from this point.“Seriously, Jesse,” Orion says, leaning forward with interest. “If you heard, without Juniper there, that she was engaged to this guy – what would your impr
“Quiet,” Laila breathes, her voice a hush. “Let me concentrate.”Even as the six of us lean forward to get a better look at the map and the divination tools scattered across it, we remain very quiet, waiting, barely daring to breathe lest we disturb something.Laila looks left and then right at both
Jesse whips his head to Anton in shock and then turns towards Orion with a snarl, his canines extending. “If you fucking touch any of my baby sisters –““Whoa,” Orion says, his hands snapping up in a plea for mercy. “Whoa, whoa – all of this is news to me, okay?”Anton and I go still as Jesse contin