T*Witches: Dead Wrong (10 page)

Cam let her sister explain and put her arm around Alex. “Sara was really heroic, Als. You knew that.”

“I just never knew how heroic,” Alex admitted, so relieved and grateful to have Cam to share everything with. She had so many mixed emotions. And Cam understood them all.

“Apparently,” Cam was saying, “I snoozed, too — and had a little visit from Karsh.”

“He told you about Sara?” Alex asked excitedly.

“No, it was all topic Miranda. I don’t think Karsh knows our mother’s fate, but he told me to ‘put the pieces together.’”

“And?”

Cam took a deep breath and recounted every fact, and what she now believed her vision meant.

Alex finished the thought: “That picture of Thantos outside that ‘clinic,’ that sanatorium. What if he wasn’t there as a patient, but as a visitor?”

Wherever that picture had been taken, wherever that institution was, that’s where their mother might be — sick, or even desperately insane, but alive!

They didn’t say it aloud. They didn’t have to. They were two with one thought.

“We’re beginning our initial descent into the Boston area.” Coming through the sound system, the flight attendant’s voice jarred them. “Please fasten your seat belts, stow your tray tables, and bring your seat backs to the upright position.”

Alex smiled suddenly and looked out the window. The lights of Boston twinkled below. “Home sweet home,” she said to Cam.

“I wasn’t sure whether you considered it home yet,” Cam admitted, smiling sheepishly.

“I don’t,” her sister said.

Cam’s smile faded. “Then it’s still Montana?”

“Montana, Massachusetts, Coventry Island — Sister T*Witch,” Alex said, “wherever we’re together, that’s home.”

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

H.B. Gilmour
is the author of numerous best-selling books for adults and young readers, including the
Clueless
movie novelization and series;
Pretty in Pink,
a University of Iowa Best Book for Young Readers; and
Godzilla,
a Nickelodeon Kids Choice nominee. She also cowrote the award-winning screenplay
Tag.

H.B. lives in upstate New York with her husband, John Johann, and their puppy Harrison, one of the family’s five dogs, four cats, two snakes (a boa constrictor and a python), and five extremely bright, animal-loving children.

Randi Reisfeld
has written many best-sellers, such as the
Clueless
series (which she wrote with H.B.); the
Moesha
series; and biographies of Prince William, New Kids on the Block, and Hanson. Her Scholastic paperback
Got Issues Much?
was named an ALA Best Book for Reluctant Readers in 1999.

Randi has always been fascinated with the randomness of life.… About how any of our lives can simply “turn on a dime” and instantly (
snap!
) be forever changed. About the power each one of us has deep inside, if only we knew how to access it. About how any of us would react if, out of the blue, we came face-to-face with our exact double.

From those random fascinations, T*Witches was born.

Oh, and BTW: She has no twin (that she knows of) but an extremely cool family and cadre of BFFs to whom she is totally devoted.