“AUSTIN, please don’t yell. Mom and Dad might hear you,” April pleaded. She was breathing heavily.
Her cell phone rang. April grabbed the phone back. Please be them. Please be them. She looked at the screen:
‘Grace calling…’
“It’s Grace, see?” April extended her arm to show the phone to Austin. “She and Eve will help me fix this.”
Her hands quivered as she answered the phone, “Hello?”
“So you’re the reason the circus is going down the street, huh?” Grace said with her typical sarcasm.
“Oh, sweet pea, you did it again, huh?” Eve asked, with her sing-songy Southern accent. They had their phone on speaker. But April pressed her phone tightly to her ear.
April hung her head low. Her eyes filled with water. As a tear fell, Austin came closer to her. He put a hand on her shoulder. She lifted her head and wiped the tears away.
“I know you can fix this. You fixed me and you can fix this,” Austin said looking into her eyes. His voice was much calmer and lower.
“Even your former furball brother knows you can fix this,” Grace said with a chuckle. April cracked a smile.
Austin glared at the cellphone. “What did Grace say?”
April cleared her throat. “She said that was really sweet, what you said.”
“I didn’t say that,” Grace spoke louder. “I said, he’d better watch out or you could turn him back into a FURBALL!”
Austin reached out to grab the phone. April stepped backwards to avoid his reach. “Wait a minute, you two. We have to fix this—not fight. Austin, can you go keep Mom and Dad busy? Grace and Eve, where are you guys?”
“We’re at Grace’s house. Remember, we were all going to meet at the park? My mom dropped me off earlier this morning,” Eve said.
“That’s right! The whole elephant thing kinda threw me off this morning,” April was talking really fast and throwing her left arm in the air. She started to pace.
“I know this whole being a witch thing is dramatic, but, save the drama for yo mama,” Grace said with attitude.
“If you were in my situation you would be freaking out too!” April quipped back.
Eve jumped in, “Whoa, whoa, girls, girls. We have to stick together and then we will figure out how to handle this. April, sweet pea, start from the beginning and explain, how exactly did you do this?”