Tales from Gulinger High Tale Eleven E-Book

Julie Steimle

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Valentines Day is fraught with dangers. A mysterious gifter is sending Selena Davenport amazing tokens of his love--and it is up to Tom Brown to.... uh... save her by sabotage. Meanwhile a bewitched perfume entraps the vampire-bitten Troy, leaving others alone yet rendering him helpless. His friends must combine to figure out what's wrong and undo the magic before it is too late. After all, who uses magic that only affects people with a vampire bite? Vampires.

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Julie Steimle

Tales from Gulinger High Tale Eleven

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Tales From Gulinger High: Tale Eleven

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A Hallowedspell Novella

Copyright © 2014 by Julie Steimle. All rights reserved.

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The characters, events, and locations portrayed in this book are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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"Special Delivery for Selena Davenport!”

Michael Cogan, one of Selena’s many admirers, jogged up the stairs into the girl’s dorms carrying an enormous bouquet of blood red roses. He looked mildly irked at the flowers, but he was under strict orders to make sure the flowers made it into her hands. There was fifty dollars riding on it.

Glancing out her room where she had just finished applying her mascara, touching up the rest of her face to make sure nothing was out of place, Selena reached out for the bouquet with a smile. “From you? Oh, you shouldn’t have!”

Ducking his head sheepishly, Michael set the bouquet in her slender, nymph-like fingers. “I didn’t. It’s from another admirer—But I got something for you if you wait right there!”

He rushed off to get his gift for Valentine’s Day; as would many of her other admirers through the course of the day, something she loved.

Selena’s roommate Christina hopped to her elbow peering at the large cluster of roses. “Wow! It has to be from Rick. They’re amazing!”

Smiling, Selena plucked the pink note card from the center of the flowers, opening it up. Her ever-changing liquid sea-blue eyes silently read the first line. Automatically her hands stiffened, dropping the bouquet to the floor as if it were infested with leaping fleas.

“Yick!” Selena jumped back into her dorm room.

“Huh?” Her roommate walked over to the bouquet, picking up the card which Selena had also dropped. She read it aloud.

My love for you is like a Red, Red Rose,

Beautiful, Loveliest Selena

X O X O Ewan

“Morning!” Tom Brown hopped into the girl’s hall with an unusually sprightly step. Jogging through it, the pale, impish, towhead tossed candy conversation hearts to all the open doors like he was on parade. He stopped the moment his feet almost stepped on the abandoned flower bouquet. Lifting his eyes from the flowers, he looked up at Selena, her horrified expression, to her roommate, then to the card in her roommate’s hands before blinking at the flowers again. Timidly, he craned in his neck towards Selena’s contorted frown. “Happy Valentine’s Day?”

Selena pointed at the bouquet, leaning back from it. “Get that…that…that offensive bunch of weeds out of here!”

Tom blinked his orange eyes at her again then at the roses. “I take it you don’t like flowers. Odd. I’ll add that to my what-not-to-give-Selena-on-any-special-occasion list. However, can I ask the reason they’re so offensive?”

She snatched the card from her roommate and shoved it into Tom’s face. “This! Ewan P. Steed!”

Plucking the unpleasant card, Tom held it farther back from his nose and examined the fancy scroll. Frowning, he closed one eye and said, “I take it you don’t like this character.”

Nodding vigorously, Selena snapped, “Rick was supposed to be protecting me from him! Rick should have been the one giving me roses! Not Ewan!”

Tom shrugged. “Rick’s dad only gives him twenty bucks per month spending money.”

“That’s no excuse!” Selena blustered. Her hands were balled into little fists.

Sighing, Tom glanced at the flowers again then at Selena. He nodded. “Ok. I’ll take care of it.”

He stuffed a conversation heart into her hand then strode to the unpleasant bouquet. Plucking it off the ground with complete flair, grabbing the blossoms with a twist, Tom flung out the petals, making a grand sweep. “Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!”

Selena stared at first, blinking while wiping the trace of tears off with the back of her hand. She glanced at the conversation heart and smirked.

You Rock

Tom immediately went skipping about the girls’ dorms, this time flinging the petals to Selena’s bouquet in every direction, the candy hearts in his back pocket. All the girls came out, breaking into laughter as he jogged through their hall then back into the stairwell, leaving a trail of red petals behind him. But Selena leaned on her door frame, breathing easier. However, the offending card was still there. That she crumpled into a wet soggy wad and chucked in the nearest garbage can.