A Second Chance
Chapter Nine
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“So, you’re serious when you tell me that Kev actually came here to see
Nicky?” A raspy voiced AJ questioned Brian.
“Yeah, it was hard on him too,” ABrian replied.
“I’m sure it was,” AJ shot back sarcastically.
“Please AJ, we’re all trying to deal with this, it’s been hard on all of us,”
Brian defended.
“Spare me the treatment here,” AJ spat back, folding his arms across his
chest. “Can you tell me why the hell he’s not here this morning of all
mornings?”
Brian shrugged his shoulders and slowly shook his head. This was the day
that Nick’s parents were to arrive to formalize the papers that would put
Nick in a private nursing home facility.
“I wish I could answer that for you, AJ,” Brian replied.
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Kevin’s hands shook as he dialed the number from the business card. After
five of the longest rings in his life, a sultry sounding female voice that
sounded ironically like Anonda Lewis, answered the phone.
“Hello?”
“Ah, um, yeah. My name is Kevin Richardson and I was hoping you could help
me,” Kevin stammered.
“How did you get my number?” the woman demanded.
“A card, it was from a card that was stuck in a book,” Kevin replied quickly.
“And for some reason you think I can help you?”
“I’m hoping you can help me, I’ll pay anything, anything at all, I just need to
fix what’s been done,” Kevin pleaded.
“Okay, were you the person that did whatever was done?”
Kevin was starting to lose patience with the endless questions and wanted to
lash out at her just help and not question.
He took a deep breath in and slowly let it out. “Okay, here’s the story,” Kevin
began. “I became interested in black magic and witchcraft about a year ago.
I found a thick leather book of spells and incantations at an antique store.
Your card was in the book.”
“Okay, what did you do?” Starrie pressed.
“Well, er. my family has this hereditary aging disease and I was starting to
show symtoms of it. I’m only 28 and I panicked, so I figured by casting a
spell, I could buy myself some time. I carefully read the spell and mixed the
ingredients as listed and gave them to a 20 year old,” Kevin stated.
“Then the spell was a success and you regret doing it now?”
“Oh god yes I regret doing this. It accelerated and now this kid is fighting
for his life. He has literally turned into an old man on the inside and all this
happened to him in less than three week’s time. I don’t want him to die, I
want this reversed,” Kevin begged.
“I see, what is the name of the book you used?” Starrie asked.
“Lemme check, please, don’t go away,” Kevin requested as he set the phone
down on the glass coffee table. He carried the book with him back to the
phone. “The name is sort of worn off. Wait a sec, I think it’s called Kashyap’s
Incantations and Spells of Witchcraft.”
“And you said it was a transferrence spell of the aging process disease?”
“Yes.”
“Page 2348. I can’t help you, you must do this on your own. Do not call me
again or the reversal will not work,” Starrie warned.
Before Kevin could ask her anything more, the connection went dead.
He quickly thumbed through the back of the book to the page Starrie told
him about. Running down the list, Kevin was relieved to discover that the
items listed were common everyday kitchen items until he came across two
ingredients: powdered sea weed algae and ground starling
entrails.
“How the hell am I gonna get that shit?”
+Chapter Ten+