Split

Chapter 10: Look Inside My Mind

Liam and Lisa sat in The Wheeler House but it was empty because Mrs. Wheeler was dead and Mr. Wheeler ran away. The house hadn't had people actually living in it for a  while as shown by the mass accumulation of spiderwebs around the corners of the house.

"What?" Lisa asked after noting Liam's eyes on her.

"I don't trust you," he said.

"I should be the one suspectant of you. How'd you even find out Ariana wasn't fully merged with Pheobe?" Lisa asked, returning the feeling of distrust.

Their conversation was interrupted by Ariana. "We were about to have sex but he ran off when he realized Pheobe wasn't quite around," she said, bewildering the two. She walked over to Liam and began to caress his hair gently, her eyes focused on his. "It's fine though. We still had fun. Didn't we, Liam?" She asked and winked at him causing him to blush uncontrollably as to his annoyance.

"We want Pheobe back," Lisa said.

"She doesn't want to come back," Ariana shrugged.

"How do you know?" Liam spoke up.

Ariana smiled at him. "Believe it or not, I can feel her," she chuckled and turned her attention back to Lisa.

"I thought you said you're fine with me taking over, Elisabeth – that she won't be able to handle it?" Ariana said with a smirk on her face. Lisa was clearly annoyed at her saying her saying her full name and Ariana knew that. "You're cute when you get all mad," she chuckled. Liam couldn't help but just watch as the two girls went at each other's throats.

Lisa took a deep breath of reassurance and got up to give Ariana her hand. Ariana accepted it and got up, still wearing her smirk. "Let's get her back," Lisa said.

"Um, sorry to interrupt, ladies but how?" Liam asked, still seated on the couch.

"We're going to find a seer and he or she is going to send one of you into my mind," Ariana simply said.

"Your psychotic mind?" Liam asked.

"Yes, my psychotic mind that you can't seem to get enough of," Ariana licked her lips and smiled. Liam scoffed.

"Gross. Let's go," Lisa said, quite detested. She walked over to the car quickly, followed by Liam and Ariana.

2 hours later
"Ah. Home sweet home, everybody," Ariana said as she joyously left the car. Liam and Lisa got out as well.

"This place looks like shit" Liam said worryingly. It looked like a sad place. Many of the houses lacked colour, most only painted grey. There were some trees but most of them were for herbs, presumably to make potions. You could however notice no homelessness as the witches actually made sure their people  had what they needed but when they got it, they had to protect it – fight for it or it will be taken from you. At one point, one could notice little kids bullying each other with magic and at another someone robbing an old lady.

"What's up with those kids?" Lisa asked Ariana.

"Around here, it's eat or be eaten. If you can't handle that, you're weak and if you're weak, don't expect to make it home for Christmas," Ariana smirked and chuckled. "I love it here," she smiled and earned corncered looks from both Lisa and Liam.

"Let's just find the seer. We can ask your dad," Liam suggested.

"Dad doesn't need to know a thing," Ariana hissed at him.

"Why not?" he asked.

"He'll think I'm irresponsible for suppressing the weaker side of his daughter," she shrugged.