For a while they talked about clubs. Lately there had been a fad at school of making up secret clubs that no one except the club members were allowed to be in, or even know about. “We ought to have one,” Paige said. “We could call it the P and A Club, for Paige and Abby. And we’ll have more secrets than anyone.” “Okay,” Abby said. “What kinds of secrets shall we have?” Paige thought for a minute before suggesting that they could have secrets about the fact that they were both adopted and their real parents had been wizards. Paige had been reading Harry Potter recently. After they’d decided a lot of stuff about what had happened to their real parents and how they’d ended up living with Muggles, they switched to making up secret clubs for some of their classmates. They decided, for instance, that Margot and Heather should start a secret club called the Barnett Pets, which you couldn’t join unless you were the teacher’s pet in most of your classes. In between making up clubs, they played a new computer game that Paige said was really insane (fabulous, that is), even though it seemed to be a lot like most of the other games they’d played recently.
