Time After Time (Book 1)

Chapter 6 Part 2

"I wasn't even showing at the wedding, how is this possible?" Jo asks. "Your families crazy coven magically implanted them into Caroline when you died! She's their birth mother." Alaric sighs. "Caroline?....so, you two....?" "No, she married Stefan Salvatore, who died at their wedding too. But that's a long story." "They're still very close." Lizzie quickly interjects. "We opened the school together." Alaric tells her. "She's overseas right now doing some very important recruitment work. I'm Lizzie, after my mother's mom." Josie turns towards Jo. "And I'm Josie. Josette." Jo looks at her, shocked. "Me?" She asks. Josie smiles and nods slightly. "Ok, enough of this. Could one of you girls please go get the lie detector orb from Hope please? And don't tell her what it's for. We don't need more people knowing she's here." Alaric instructs them. "I'm not going anywhere near her room, who knows what the two of you have been up to?" Lizzie asks Josie. "Lizzie!" Josie blushes. "It doesn't matter who, just please get it." Alaric sighs.

Josie makes her way to Hope's room. "Hope?" She knocks. "Are you in there?" Josie waits a few seconds. When she doesn't hear an answer, she frowns. She doesn't want to just go in unwelcomed but she doesn't want to return to her dad empty handed. She spots Andrea and calls her over. "Hey, Andrea!" Andrea jumps out of her skin. "Jesus Christ Josie. Don't do that." "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. Do you think you could get something for me?" She asks. Andrea squints her eyes at her. "Depends, what is it?" "Um, my dad wants me to get a lie detector orb from Hope's room. She's not in right now but I didn't want to just go in. I was wondering, if I siphon it, could you go in and get it?" Josie bites her lip. Andrea nods. "Sure, I guess?" Josie siphoned the magic from Hope's door before it opens. "You owe me." Andrea tells her as she walks in. She glances at the photos on the walls of her family. Missing pictures of her and her brother obviously. And photos of her mom's. She goes to the dresser and spots a necklace on top of it. She goes to touch it when she cuts herself on one of the sharp edges. She bites her lip and sucks her blood clean before it heals. She gets the orb out before closing it. "There you go. Do I wanna know why you need this?" She asks her Ma even though she already knows why. "Trust me, you don't." Josie shakes her head. "I'll see you at the party later tonight! Thanks for helping set up everything by the way! Oh and please don't tell Hope about this!" Josie goes back to her father office and hands him the orb.

Andrea goes to find her brother. "Marshall, where the hell are you?" She whispered to herself. "Looking for your brother?" Penelope asks her. "Yeah, have you seen him?" She shakes her head. "Nope, but I gotta get ready for the party. Maybe your mom has seen him. See you later." She winks. What? What the hell did she just say? Does she know? No, there's no way in hell. Andrea thought. Andrea goes to the cafeteria and spots him lifting the chairs. "Marshall!" She taps him on the shoulder. "I just remembered what happened!" Marshall turns towards her. "Yeah, it was the day Ma and aunt Lizzie were born." He smirks. "Not that, you idiot! It's their birthday, which means mom is trapped with Raf and ma is with her bio mom and aunt Lizzie." Marshall sighs. "Well we can't just get mom out, she's meant to be in there for a few hours. I remember when we were five how Ma told me that she was so excited to get to know her bio mom. We can't take that away from her." "You mean you want to let her get buried alive?" "You know that's not what I meant!" "Twins please!" Penelope shouts between them. "This isn't about you Penelope!" They both shouted. "No, but it is about your mom's so I suggest you two pipe down before I'm forced to raise my voice and the whole school hears about this. Or at least two thirds of the school." Penelope smirks.

"What do you want Penelope?" Marshall asks. "I'm just wondering how the hell you got here. You're clearly not from this time. And I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to come here. So, spill." Penelope takes a seat on a chair. The person that was about to lift it, stares at her. "Oh, you can just leave this here. Thanks." She waves him goodbye. "I thought you were going to get ready for the party Penelope?" Andrea asks her. "Eh, I was but then I thought. Getting dressed for a party that's probably bound to be lame considering Lizzie is getting everything set up? Or sit here and torment you two for some answers? Yeah, this one wins hands down. So....any day now." Penelope waits for them to start.