“I have some child painkillers in my bag, I’ll get them and give them to you Nix in case you want to use them.”
“Thanks, Justice,” he replies.
Justice stands and walks to the hall for his medical bag.
“I’m off to the shop. Nix you have the day off,” Sal tells him standing up.
Nix nods. “Thanks, Sal. I might pop in later though.”
“Thank you for staying with me Nix. Can we sit on the sofa and watch films?”
Nix groans. “Only because you’re injured will I suffer through Disney films with you.”
Nora giggles and looks at Cam, the smile falling off her face. “Can you stay as well Cam?”
I smother a laugh, mind you I’m not the only one. Nora has pulled out her, I’m too cute to say no to and not feeling great look.
Cam laughs. “I have nothing urgent on today, I can stay for a while.”
“Take the day. If anything urgent comes up, I’ll cover for you today,” Adhan tells him.
“Thanks,” Cam says to him. “Disney films it is then little Miss.”
“Can Connie join us?”
As they're talking, Justice comes back with a packet of tablets and hands them to Nix. “She can take two of these, they will cover her for about six hours. They are quite strong so Nora might fall asleep.”
Nix takes them and grins. “Thanks, Justice. Here Doobs, take them now, then you’ll be asleep for most of the day and we can avoid Disney.”
We all laugh at that, except Nora who frowns.
“No, bad Nix,” she says, scowling at her brother. She looks at Cam. “Cam tell him to be nice, I’m injured.”
Cam looks at Nix shaking his head. “Be nice to our sister, she’s injured. Bad Nix.”
“And on that note, I’m leaving,” Justice says, laughing at them, bending down to kiss Alfred goodbye.
“I’ll walk out with you,” Sal says, kissing Jude quickly.
“I need to go as well,” I say, kissing Adhan bye before standing up.
In the end, the three of us leave together.
CHAPTER 18
It’s mid-morning and all anyone can talk about is the events of the haunted walk last night. The town chat has gone crazy. Everyone thinks it was part of the walk and are wondering what is planned for tonight. Through the family chat, it was decided that all of us witches would be out and about tonight, split between the haunted walk, the haunted house and the funfair.
The shop door opens and the bell jingles, Sly and his family walk in.
I smile their way and walk over to see them. “Have you recovered from last night’s adventures?”
“It was so much fun,” Enoch says, smiling brightly.
His fear of me seems to have gone thank goodness.
“The scarecrows came alive and tried killing people with their swords. They could only be destroyed when they were injured and when they blew up. Straw went everywhere and the headless horseman hologram tried to kill Ebby, but he was saved by another witch and then Sly collected up all the straw and made this amazing bear,” as Enoch talked, he waved his arms around.
I laugh along with his brothers. “It’s a shame I missed it. I hope you have a photo of the bear.”
