Will Power: A Djinn Short

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Author: Laura Catherine
you know where they went?” I asked.
    Tam bit her lip. She knew something, but I must have been setting off a lot of warning bells for her — a stranger asking about a girl …
    “Why are you looking for her?” Tam asked.
    “She’s my cousin,” I replied. “I thought I’d visit her. I’m on a road trip with some friends and I just had to say hello.”
    “Oh, cool. You’re so lucky to have that much freedom. My dad would never let me do that. Well … yeah, like I said they left a few months back. Didn’t they tell you?”
    “I’ve been out of signal range for a long while. So do you know where they went?”
    Tam twirled her hair around her finger and shuffled closer to me. “I did overhear Stella on the phone the day she left. She was talking to her dad. She said something about heading south.”
    “South where?”
    “She didn’t say. A few minutes later her dad picked her up in their old blue Ute and I never saw her again.”
    “Thanks, Tam. You’ve been a great help,” I said.
    Tam shifted on the spot and touched my arm. I couldn’t feel it; she was doing it so lightly.
    “Are you planning on sticking around for a while?” she asked.
    “Will,” Mia called.
    She had a look of disdain as she approached Tam and I.
    “Hey,” I said. “Mia this is Tam. Tam, this is my friend Mia.”
    “The one you’re road-tripping with?” Tam asked, glaring at Mia.
    “Will, we should be going, don’t you think?” Mia said. “We have stuff we need to be doing.”
    Tam grabbed hold of my arm. “You don’t have to go, do you?”
    I smiled at her. “Sorry, but thanks for your help.”
    Mia practically dragged me to the car.“What the hell was that?” she said once we were inside.
    “What?”
    “We’re supposed to be looking for Kyra.”
    “I was.”
    “Really? Because it looked like you were flirting with that girl.”  
    “Maybe he was multitasking,” Pyke suggested, and gave me a thumbs up.
    “I wasn’t flirting with Tam,” I said.
    “Oh, Tam, is it? Well she was definitely flirting with you. Twirling her hair and touching your arm …”
    “Well there you go. Will wouldn’t have noticed that,” Pyke said. “He can’t feel it.”
    Mia growled. “We didn’t find out anything.”
    “Well I did. I know where they lived and have a lead on where they were going.”

Chapter Seven

    We found the old house where Malcolm and Kyra were living, a block away from the school. It was easy to spot — the only house with a green roof.
    It was late and everyone was safe in his and her own home. Street-lamps spotlighted the road, and a cool chill carried on the breeze.
    Mia and Pyke stood beside me in the house’s backyard, hidden in the shadow of a leafless tree.
    “Remind me why we’re doing this again?” Pyke asked, shoving his hands deep into the pockets of his leather jacket.
    “We have to make sure there are no clues here,” I said. “The rest of our lead isn’t much to go on. We can’t just keep heading south and hope we come across them.”
    Pyke grumbled, pulling his chin closer to his chest. Mia was wearing a jumper under her jacket. It must have been pretty cold. My breath puffed out in little clouds.
    Mia had made me wear a jacket despite my objections. Whatever anger she’d had earlier had simmered. I was glad to have her focused again.
    We moved up close to the house and I elbowed one of the small square windows in the back door.
    A clatter of glass hit the inside floor and we paused to make sure no one had heard. Pyke reached in and unlocked the snip on the door.
    We stepped inside, closing the door behind us. The kitchen was classic — black and white tiles with stainless steel counters.
    “Mia, check the basement,” I said. “Pyke, you have this floor and I’ll go upstairs. We search for fifteen minutes, then we are out of here.”
    They nodded and we split up. I made my way through the kitchen to the lounge. A small wooden staircase twisted up to the second level. I
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