“McKenzie Enterprise will commit all of our considerable resources to identifying what happened here and why.” Heslipped into the SUV and closed the door, ending any further conversation.
The live feed stopped, and the newsroom reporters went on to talk about how the unaffected world leaders were on their way to an undisclosed space to discuss how to handle the unfolding situation.
Unaffected?
Who were all theaffectedand how did we make it stop?
At least my daughter didn’t seem to be inflicted with the strange happenings.
“Does this mean I’m not going to college?” Piper shot me a worried look, and she gnawed on her bottom lip.
Hysteria rose up inside me at the implications of this worldwide catastrophe. Would life ever be normal again?
Keep it together, Tempie.
I put on my most confident face and prayed she didn’t see the sheer terror beneath the surface.
“Let’s just see what happens,” I told her gently and stroked her cheek. “Trust the people who can do something todosomething.”
She nodded, but that little wobble in her bottom lip cracked something under my ribs.
I nudged my shoulder into hers and pushed the hair out from her face with my free hand.
“Seriously,” I said as confidence bled into my words. “Maybe it was a worldwide gas leak and it’ll be out of our systems soon. There’s nothing we can do but speculate right now.”
Piper tore her gaze from mine and glued it to the television screen as if the news suddenly had more information that would make more sense.
“We got this baby P.” My assurance was for the both of us. “We always do.”
And it was the truth.
We’d made it this far together and it hadn’t exactly been easy.
My empowered thoughts vanished out of existence when I saw movement in my peripheral.
A small furry creature walked across the TV stand and wiggled its nose in the direction of the reporter. “Humans are hardy. This is for the best. You’ll see.”
Piper’s hand squeezed mine as a terrified mewl crawled out of her throat.
“Mom, did that mouse just talk?”
Chapter Two
Welcome to Magic School, dears
Two Months Later…
“I’m too old for this shit.” I stared at the enormous beige-colored castle in front of me, unsure if I had made the right decision.
I felt too old to go back to school. But ever since Piper left for college a month ago, home was too quiet. Especially after the chaos following “the incident.” Learning of a magical realm connected to ours, and that a portion of humanity now had magic inside them, created a giant clusterfuck in our world.
That’s right.
The world was now full of uncontrolled magic and everything was in chaos.
But, like, we still had to pay taxes and go to work, though.
It took all of two months, but McKenzie Enterprise eventually created a temporary solution to the magic madness.
