She promised to text again when she arrived safely. Lou was pretty sure Marnie would be secretly grateful she’d left, giving Marnie a chance to monopolize Archer.She was welcome to him. Lou had bigger things on her mind now than worrying about which football player she wanted to date. It turned out the boy she liked was going to become a coyote by next summer, if she believed what he was saying. Trouble was, Lou did believe. She believed every weird, impossible word of it.When he’d started telling her the story of the curse, it had been like someone taking a page out of her diary and reading it back to her. Everything he described was exactly as she’d dreamt it, only his version was like a charcoal sketch, and she’d seen the Technicolor movie.She didn’t know how to explain those dreams to Cooper, how every moment had felt like something she’d experienced firsthand. But hearing him tell her his grandma’s theories, she knew there was truth in the story, no matter how crazy it seemed.Curses?A month ago Lou would have sworn up and down there was no such thing as a curse, unless dropping an f-bomb counted.
