She mixes sour cream and cheddar cheese and fills the hollow shells. ‘Everything is coming together wonderfully,’ she says to herself. ‘It’s a...miracle,’ she thinks as a smile covers her face. An obnoxious horn wakes Darin from his fantasies and he accelerates quickly. He laughs to himself and wonders how long he was at that light. ‘I could have stayed there all night, dreaming of her,’ he thinks to himself. He rounds the last corner and the rain begins to come down harder and faster. Lightning. Reaching for his shirt he moved away.“Yes, but it’s nothing. When the car exploded glass and little metal pieces shot everywhere.”“How did you get hit?”“When I pulled you out, I knew it could explode so I put you in the ditch and laid over you in case it did. And of course, something did. It was small but went in deep and they told me it might take a while to heal. Trust me, I’ve been hurt worse.”She didn’t like that, the thought that he had been hurt worse or that he had ever been hurt at all. They had to, for a witch must obey whoever takesher skirt up or down. "Now, anyone with a wand, drop it! Drop it now!" Threewands clattered on the floor. "Get against that wall!" When they'dretreated, Charmaine grabbed up the fallen wands and made sure to break all three.There was time now to survey her catch: fifteen--no, sixteen--girls, rangingin age from eighteen to twenty-one, all whimpering and shuddering, all coveringtheir panties protectively with their hands. They were––each andevery. He looked like a damn thug with his black wife beater on black baggy jeans, with yellow timberlands. His hat was on backwards and with a do-rag under it. His glistening with sweat from the heat generating in this place. Anytime I would of fell weak in the knees for a guy looking like him, but he was just too ugly to deal with. I walked past him not saying a word to him and he kept staring as I walked past. My smile came back when I saw Jamal. He was talking to our math teacher, Mr. Morris. I.