Page 4 of Outnumbered

With a snap of her fingers, she and I teleported out of the house and into the middle of Leona’s house.

Leona sat up with a start from the couch where she’d been reading a magazine on her couch. “Uh, hi.”

“Girls’ day,” Jolie growled.

Jolie’s eyes brightened. She leapt to her feet, grabbed her purse, and rushed over to grab Jolie’s hand. “Yes!”

Chapter

Two

Girls’ day apparently meant mani-pedis, tea with small sandwiches and scones, a shopping trip at a dress boutique, and lunch at a high-scale restaurant where we didn’t even have to wait to be seated. Talk about epic!

“This has been the best day ever,” I told them as I sipped on my mimosa and stroked a hand down my new dress. It was a sunny yellow maxi dress with thin shoulder straps that tied into a bow and had a slit up both sides of my legs up to my thighs.

Jolie and Leona nodded their agreement as they drank their mimosas. They also wore new dresses, and all of us had matching pink flip flops with rhinestones along the straps. Leona had also purchased us all matching silver heart necklaces.

“There are times it’s essential to get away,” Jolie said.

“You never did tell me what happened,” Leona said.

“They were picking on us,” I answered.

“I may have overreacted a little, but I’m pretty sure that was Rhys’s fault since he was at his parents’ at that time and was likely irritated with one of his family members.” Jolie shrugged. “It worked out in the end.”

“Why were they picking on you?” Leona asked me.

“We found out my birth name.”

Her eyes widened and she gasped. “What’s your name? What’s your animal?”

I groaned and dropped my head to the table. “Bunny.”

“What?” she asked.

“EmberRew is her birthname,” Jolie said.

“That is adorable! Why are you acting like it’s awful?”

Lifting my head I said, “Leona, I’m a bunny dating carnivores.” I took a drink of my mimosa to soothe myself.

She smirked. “Those men already eat you. What are you worried about?”

I nearly spit out my drink and started coughing.

“Don’t kill my future daughter-in-law, Leona,” Jolie said and patted my back.

Grabbing my napkin, I wiped my mouth and shook my head. “You two always catch me off guard with your comments.”

“You’ll get used to it,” Leona said with a single shrug of her shoulder.

I was completely ignoring Jolie’s comment, not even wanting to acknowledge it.

“So, EmberRew, have you tried shifting yet?” Leona asked.

“No.”

“Fox offered to teach her,” Jolie added.

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