Beautiful Creatures.

Chapter 38

(Love Is Crazy.)

It was a brilliant first night at sea.

The sky covered their heads and reminded Opal of a black sheet she sat in bed under as a child and read by flashlight countless novels, when the household had gone to sleep.

The light of the moon was close and dusted her face with glowing fingertips, as the flashlight once did.

The water cantered, splashed and rolled in waves around the sides of the yacht.

Moments later a huge wave curled itself into monstrous shapes, rising up and opening like a paper fan before the boat. Almost like a flick of the hand, the fan snapped closed and the wave relaxed into the ocean.

Opal yawned as she held on to the side of the upper deck, she whipped her hair to the side with a dash of her head and from the corners of her eyes, she saw Buttercup walk the back of the yacht.

Buttercup had not seen Opal. She stood where the propellers spin the water into a sudsy strip. She transformed, spread her wings and soared.

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Now it was j