Chapter FourBy the time I eventually got home, after two buses with Polly chattering away, I was more than a little relieved to find that Nicola was still at work.
I wasn’t at all ready for her nightly routine of asking me how the school day had gone.
What was I meant to say? Oh yeah, it was great. I got into not one but three altercations with my best friend’s girlfriend. I somehow threw her across the room without even touching her. And oh, I broke my wrist, but it’s better now because some beautiful stranger healed it by chanting some weird gibberish at me.
I could still remember the hot, uncomfortable tingling sensation that had radiated from the woman’s hand.
There was no way in hell, Nicola as a hospital nurse, would believe what I was saying. She’d probably call one of her docto
