Instead of Elena surviving the car accident that killed her parents, it was Jeremy and his twin sister, Juliana. No one knows how they survived, except for her. She knew that her magic had saved her and Jeremy that night. When danger comes to Mystic...
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Juliana Gilbert looked out her window of the car. It was a stormy night, something that she usually enjoyed, but considering everything that had happened, the fact that she was coming back from the mental hospital the next town over, she really wasn't in the mood to appreciate the rain. Jeremy was looking bored as hell. Juliana was sure that he was happy to see her after three months of her being in the mental hospital, but now on the drive back, it was boring.
It was funny that when a person is younger and claimed things, it was cute. But when a person gets older and claims the same thing, it's worrying and possibly has something to do with a mental illness. Of course, no one told Juliana to stop claiming she was a witch when she got older and kept claiming that she was one. Maybe that was was why she had no friends besides her brother, but he didn't count.
The rather unpleasant mood had worsened when the road that they were supposed to take to get back home ended up blocked so they had to go through Wickery Bridge to get back home.
Juliana really hated Wickery Bridge because she always felt like bad things happen on that bridge; things that were never talked about and kept well-hidden. Things like a few drunken college guys risking a walk across the bridge and somehow falling to their deaths; maybe there was a few suicides...and perhaps a few murders as well. Sometimes Juliana is surprised by how dark her mind can go.
"I don't like the idea of medicating a teenage girl," their mother was saying.
"And I don't like the idea of her running around claiming that she's a witch," replied their father. "She almost burnt down a barn while having one of her delusional episodes. She needs to be medicated so she doesn't get killed or accidentally killed someone. We just have to...make sure that another repeat of the past doesn't happen."
Juliana frowned at how her dad had phrased it. She also didn't want a reminder of that incident because she still felt guilty for accidentally leaving behind a burning candle, which caught the barn on fire.
"How will people react to finding out that she has delusions?" snarled Miranda. "Small towns don't like freaks."
Juliana felt a pang in her heart at that. Her mom thought that she was a freak?
"Lia's not a freak!" exclaimed Jeremy angrily.
Juliana took Jeremy's hand and gave it a squeeze as thanks. Jeremy shook her hand away from him.
