Time After Time (Book 2)

Chapter 10

Hope walks into her room and spots Alyssa and Jed making out on the bed. Her bed. "What the hell?!" Alyssa scoffs before pushing Jed off. "Are you blind? I spelled the knob to 'do not disturb'." "I need my chemistry of magic textbook." Hope tells her as she walks over to grab it. "And more importantly, why are you on my bed?" "I thought it'd be nice if it saw some action. Since I heard you and little Josie have been abstinent since your little mishap." Alyssa smiles. "Sorry Hope." Jed apologizes as he walks out. "If you say one more word about the miscarriage, I will set your hair on fire." Hope warns her before walking out. "Seems like Josie is rubbing off on you, too bad that's the only thing rubbing off." Alyssa shouts behind her. Hope pauses and takes a deep breath before continuing. "I'm crashing at Josie's and Lizzie's."

"Have fun holding hands!" She hears Alyssa shout behind her in the hallway. Hope ignores her as she keeps walking. She pauses for a second as she felt like something came over her? Passed through her? She wasn't sure. She shrugs it off and heads upstairs. Meanwhile, Lizzie, the twins and Alaric are all trying to find ways to stop the sand lock from breaking. After Lizzie's attempt at freezing it, which only seemed the anger the dark magic inside and speed up the process. "Ok, that's enough. We're trying to stop it from exploding, not speed up the process." Alaric sighs. "We have tried twelve different spells, this is not a problem magic can fix." The twins examine the sand clock closer. "Well it's better than your solution of covering it in concrete and dropping it into the ocean." Lizzie rolls her eyes. "Maybe I deserve the black magic to just boomerang back to me." Josie sits down on the chair. "Ma, don't say that." Andrea rubs her back. "Why not? I'm probably right." Marshall shakes his head. "No, you're not." "Just cut yourself some slack, ok?" Alaric sighs. "You made a mistake." Lizzie suddenly comes up with a plan. "Wait, why don't we try dad's idea, but better?" She asks. "Instead of dropping the discount lava lamp into the ocean, we drop it in a place where magic can't escape. The prison world." "Absolutely not." The twins shake their heads. "No, no. No no. No!" They both stand. "Trust me aunt Lizzie, you don't want to do that." Andrea tells her. "But it's perfect. There's a celestial event tonight. A meteor shower, and that is what we need to make the ascendant work, right?" Josie stands. "Yeah, that and Bennett blood." "No, I said no! I will figure this out, ok? Don't do anything while I'm gone." Alaric warns them before leaving. "Come on twins." Lizzie begs. "Aunt Lizzie, drop it, please. For once, grandpa is actually right about this one." Marshall helps Andrea stand up. "But why? What's so bad about it?" "Your uncle Kai, that's what's so bad about it." Andrea sighs. "But we're making another one, not the one that he's trapped in." Lizzie shakes her head. "We still can't take that risk." The twins' watches both go off. "Crap, we're gonna miss training with mom, come on." Andrea grabs her stuff while Marshall grabs his gym bag. "Please, please don't do anything yet." Josie nods. They both give her a kiss on the cheek before leaving. "Tell your mom I love her!" She tells them. They give a thumbs up before the door closes.

"It's bad enough that Sebastian ghosted me, but now dad's acting like an annoying control freak. And your kids are taking his side. Where's the loyalty? I am definitely not buying them gifts on their birthday." Lizzie leans against the desk. "That's too bad, I heard you bought them their first cars." Josie smirks. "Like I have the money for that? One car, maybe but two? No way." She shakes her head. Josie shrugs. "You never know, maybe you marry some billionaire." "Well the twins won't tell me anything, they don't want to risk the future changing any more than it already has. I just wish we could at least try and send it there, you know?" Josie shakes her head. "They're not gonna let us anywhere near that prison world with our psychotic uncle Kai." "Then what if we send it to a different one? Make a new ascendant and a new prison world with no homicidal uncles." "It's gonna take a lot of magic." Josie points out. "We did it when we were five." Lizzie shrugs. "With aunt Bonnie. I mean, we can't do this alone." "Then I'll find someone. How hard could it be?" Lizzie asks.