If we ever find anything even remotely like a knife in your belongings again, you'll be sent home before the excuse is even halfway out of your mouth.” “You have successfully used up your Get Out of Jail Free card during the first bag check.” She stopped suddenly on the trail and turned to me. “Congratulations,” Margaret said as we walked away from the director's cabin, my bag a bit lighter on my back. I was afraid my voice would crack, but I managed to shake her hand rather firmly. I nodded.īev placed the knife next to her on the chair and repacked my bag. She held the knife in front of her face and stared at me until I met her gaze. “Other behaviors, those that might endanger yourself or others, are cause for immediate expulsion, if not also police involvement.” She picked up the cigarettes and, with an almost imperceptible flick of her wrist, pitched them cleanly across the room, where they landed softly in a trash basket. “But some behaviors are not appropriate for this environment, and will not be tolerated.” “We understand that you may have come here with old ways of being, old patterns of behavior, old habits.”īev lightly tapped the cigarette pack with her index finger without looking down at it. She took out the sock that I had stuffed in the second boot, and pulled out the cigarettes, and then the knife. She took out first one hiking boot, and then the other. She took out the underwear, the socks, the rain poncho, the flashlight. Only after that has been established can we focus on the areas of your personal growth.” “What's most important to us, however, is your safety.

I blushed and played with the seam on one of the couch cushions. With so many fault lines threatening to derail his hopes for the year, Sam is forced to face the fact that the very love of magic that brought his group together is now tearing them apart-and there are some problems that no amount of magic can fix.Īlso set in Georgia: Late to the Party - The Color Purple - Simon vs.She pulled out the unicorn notebook.

And James reveals that he got mixed up with some sketchy magickers over the summer, putting a target on all their backs.

Delia wants to get into a hyper-competitive magic college, which makes casting spells with her friends look increasingly like a waste of time. Sam may or may not be in love with James, who may or may not have a crush on a girl from his church. But as soon as senior year stars, little cracks in their group begin to show. Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon, he needs their friendship-and their time together in their school's magic club-to see him through to graduation. Sam doesn't know where he'd be without James and Delia. Georgia: The Fascinators by Andrew Eliopulos

The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin