Faelorehn

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Author: Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Young Adult
barely fought back a smile.
    “Oh, duh.  Of course,” I answered with my own grin.
    “So what’s the plan for tonight?”  Robyn asked, as if her sacred obsession with Celtic myth hadn’t been scandalized by our ignorance.
    I cringed.  “My parents think I’m going to the dance.”
    To my great surprise, Robyn actually nodded.  “We’ll just go for an hour and watch the lemmings paw at each other, then we can ditch,” she said with her usual indignant flare.
    “What are we going to do afterwards then?” I wanted to know.  “My mom thinks I’m going to be at the dance ‘til ten.”
    Tully was good about checking in with her parents.  It made me feel guilty.  My own parents trusted me too easily.  Of course, I never so much as faked being sick to stay home from school, but now that I was a teenager they ought to be a little more strict.  Not that I would ever do anything too scandalous.
    Robyn grinned. “Hello?  All Hallows’ Eve?  We’re going to go down into that swamp near your house and light a bonfire.  Duh.”
    She glanced at me in the rearview mirror, the red glitter eye shadow she’d caked on reminding me a little of that raven.
    I shivered and cast the demented bird from my thoughts and instead focused on what Robyn had just said.  That’s right; another pagan festival was upon us.  I wondered if Will and Thomas would join us this time.  During the last ‘festival’, Will had had an allergic reaction to Robyn’s harvest cakes and Thomas had felt weird about the poem she’d recited.
    “That sounds more interesting than the dance,” I said, adding my two cents.
    Sure, Robyn’s little ‘pagan parties’ were bizarre, but I couldn’t say they weren’t interesting.  But first we had to endure the dance . . .
    Ugh, I hated dances, at least at our high school.  First of all, I couldn’t dance, second of all, the music they always picked out was just noise to me, and last of all, I didn’t need some freshman or sophomore boy pawing all over me and then bragging to his friends later about how he had hit it off with a junior.  No thanks.  I may be one of the outcasts, but that didn’t make me immune to the truly desperate.
    “I’m in too,” Tully piped. “I’ll just have to let my parents know.”
    Robyn laughed. “Now we just have to convince the boys.”
    During our lunch break later that day, we outlined our plans for the evening to Will and Thomas, including Robyn’s idea of ending the night with a little Halloween fest down in the swamp.
    “Sure, why not?” Will shrugged.
    I returned to my lunch, not bothering to wait for Thomas’ response.  As far as I knew, his parents were comfortable with the idea of Halloween, but not so much so with the origin of the traditions behind it.  I knew he would come up with some excuse about taking his brothers and sister trick-or-treating.  We all knew his family was uncomfortable with Robyn’s beliefs and we didn’t blame him.  But he must have felt rude about turning down Robyn’s invitations time and time again, because he always seemed to make such an effort to politely decline.
    “Do we have to wear a special costume or something?”
    I nearly choked on my yogurt.  Both Tully and I looked at him with wide eyes.  He merely shrugged off our reaction with a rather reserved look.
    “What?” he said. “I’m tired of everyone pushing me around.  I’m curious to see what Robyn is always going on about.  I told my parents I was going to the dance and then to Will’s afterward.”
    We were all slightly shocked.  So much so that Robyn, instead of laughing out right and crowing on about her obsession with the ancient Celts, mumbled a submissive, “Well, your Halloween costume should be fine.” She warily eyed his thrown-together zombie motif.  “It’s just a bonfire really, nothing too freaky.”
    For the first time in her life Robyn seemed humbled, but I kept staring at Thomas, waiting for him to fold under the
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