Off to Seek a Wizard... -2- Tweet On You by Erin Halfelven

 
I went back to the lounge and sat down in one of those hard plastic seats. Then I got up again and looked, it felt like I was sitting on something squishy but there wasn't anything there, so I sat back down.

A guy sitting across from me, a real pudge monster, nodded at me about three times too many and said, yup, yup, yup, like some character from the Simpsons or something.

I sat there and fantasized about making him disappear, maybe in a puff of smoke while I dropped him through the stage into a piranha tank. #nomnomnom

I looked at the schedule clock and it still said our flight was delayed. Did you know that Kansas City is in Missouri? What were people thinking when they named the place? #4reals

I took a deck of readers out of my purse, yes, I carry a purse! Girls don't have pockets, 'cause if they did then they'd be kangaroos. #stuffmymomsays

So I was practicing, stacking and reading and seconds and palming when this other guy comes up and sits next to me. Not a pudge monster, he looks okay but like I care?

"What are you doing?" he asks and I'm all, leave me alone but I don't say that cause that would be rude and girls have to be polite because boys sure won't. #seelasttag

So instead I said, "Pick a card," and I forced the Jack of Hearts on him and I said, "Don't tell me what it is, just put it back in the deck," and I turned my head away but watched him in the corner of my eye.

So he stuffs the card into the middle of the pack and I turn back to him and shuffle the cards and -- no Jack of Hearts. "You didn't put it back," I said, annoyed cause he's ruining the trick on purpose.

And he reaches up and pulls a card out of my hair and turns it over and it's the Jack of Hearts. "This what you're looking for?" he says all smug.

"Oh," I said. "You must be George Marion." Cause that's the name of the boy who won the boy's part of the contest and he says, "I must." #whatajerk

Then he says, "You must be Stephanie Dale," and I said, "That's what my student I.D. says," cause I don't want to lie. Except professionally like when I tell someone, "Nothing up my sleeve" but I'm not wearing sleeves.

So we talked about magic and high school and I had to talk around a lot of that stuff cause he thinks I'm a girl and I don't want him to know that I'm not but he's kind of a nice guy and fun to talk to.

Then they call our flight and I have checked everything except for a small carryon and my purse but he offers to carry my bag for me and then I know -- he's been hitting on me the whole time! #thejerk