“Sounds like fun.” Peering all around them, Cassie gestured at their snow-dusted car. The wind was still blowing, but only lightly this time. The blizzard she had arranged was now over. “No one is watching. Shall we just go?”
“I don’t feel like driving, so why not?” Bella shrugged.
All three laid their hands on the vehicle. It vanished with a soft white glow. Mike held out his hand to the two ladies. “See you in six months, then?”
“At the next winter solstice,” Bella agreed with a smile, reaching to shake his proffered hand. Cassie, never one to stand on formality, pulled both of them into a group hug, making her friends laugh. Like the car, they vanished in a soft glow of light. The wind stirred for a moment, swirling rapidly through the parking lot. It covered their tracks, obscuring the fact that the VW Bug hadn’t backed out or driven away, then gentled back down into a winter zephyr, stirring only a few flakes here and there.
From somewhere within the church, the strains of the “Wedding March” could be heard all the way out by the parking lot…had anyone been outside to hear them.