After school, I finished my assigned reading and English and Environmental Science homework in the library. Still, I brought my work home for Drama and Geography to keep my promise to Raven. I drove home and put my books upstairs in my room.
Mom was waiting for me in the garden when I got home, enjoying a mug of tea. Once she was finished, we grabbed our purses and headed out in her vehicle to shop in the city. I'd brought my notebook to check things off as I purchased them. We found everything I'd written down in my notes and more for a spooky Hocus Pocus theme - mini cauldrons, three witch hats, several packages of glow-in-the-dark necklaces to play a game of 'Witch Pitch,' four old-fashioned straw brooms to play a game of 'Mount the Broom Relay,' balloon packages in the black, white, g
