DEVI stare at Mom over the orange juice. “No, it isn’t.”She puts her phone down. “Check.”“I don’t need to check. The last one was…” I stop because she is already giving me that look.“Dev.”That tone worked better when I was twelve. I pull out my phone anyway, mostly so I can prove her wrong and finish my toast without turning breakfast into another argument about the moon. The first search result kills that plan. Total lunar eclipse tonight. Blood moon visible after sunset. I put the phone face down.Mom watches me. “Now do you understand why you’re not going?”“I understand there’s an eclipse.”“You know what I mean.”Unfortunately, I do. I pick up my toast again, but whatever appetite survived Nico and Victor gives up. “Mom, we are not doing this again.”Her face tightens. “We are absolutely doing this again.”“When I was twelve, you took me to some woman in India who told us I was cursed. I remember. I also remember being terrified for about a year because every time the moon d
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