Everything is not always as it seems

Where do you think you're going?!

Evilini came out of nowhere, after her fish just told Alex and I her evil plan. Farrah go to bed. Now! Before I could say another word she zapped me back to my room. I *ug* and zap my pjs on, and get into bed. Got zapped away? Yep. Evilini? Yep. Tell us everything. My friends asked me as if they were a couple of girls waiting to hear the latest gossip.

I told them everything. Except about how I would sacrifice myself. Because I know they'd try to stop me. Alex pretended to take her side so that she wouldn't do anything bad to her, and then Crumbs came down the stairs, and tried to talk to them, but he walked away when they said they were having girl talk.

Where is your sister? I sent the girl to bed. I think I should be doing that for the night as well. When she and Alex were gonna retire for the night, she sent Alex away and zapped me back I was asleep, she took the water bucket that had the water in that Alex had been using to clean the floors and used her magic to dump it on me.

Clean this mess up! She called after me, as she kicked the bucket away. She cast a spell to pour water all over the bottom floor. Clean it all up, and no magic. She laughed evilly walking away. *Ug* I whine with a whimper. You know when the anime characters cry they have them with that crying face, that was me. I was so tired and this was gonna take me all night. At home our sub shop was having a slow day because of a lady dressed in a salad bowel driving away our business, and Max was being used to gain back our costumers.

Back at school, Alex tried to tell our brother about Evilini's plan, and volcanoland, and draining his powers, but he wouldn't listen to her, then asked where I was. Last Alex knew Evilini had sent me to my room the night before, it was a ew day now. And where had I been? Asleep with my head on the side of the bucket, and a mop in my hand surrounded by water.

I was soaked, and was gonna be in really big trouble. Good thing in the morning when my friends got up they saw me as they were walking down the stairs and saw water everywhere. OMG, they called in horror. Where's Farrah? There Jack pointed, turning my Justin's head toward where I was. My head had just fell into the bucket. They rushed to me, and pulled my head out of the bucket.

Farrah wake up. I gurgled out the water, and the guys used their magic to clean up the mess. Come on, you're soaking wet, we need to take you to our room and get you a fresh pair of clothes, Justin take one arm, I'll take the other. We'll help her get back to the room. Why are we walking her back? Because.... You got a point. They used their magic to take me back to my room, and carefully laid me onto my bed.

Farrah, I heard a gentle voice call to me in sing song, I couldn't really tell from much since my brain wasn't really awake at the moment, I could only see shapes, but the voice I could pick up like a drop of a hat, even if we hadn't seen each other in 10 years, which would never happen, it was made clear to me that it was Jack's voice. Easy does it, he called to me sitting me up, as I rubbed my eyes from sleep.

Ouch, I whined. What's the matter? I ran my hand to the back of my neck, my neck was in so much pain from laying the bucket during the night. Here sit forward, I'll massage it for you. No, no, no your hands are much to cold, I'd be flinching the whole time, the water was cold enough, I'd need Justin to come over and do that if that's gonna happen, but usually yes, I'd take you up on that offer, sorry Jack.

Justin came over and got to it, while Jack pulled out an outfit for me to zap into, since I was still in yesterday's clothing. Who did this to you? Justin asked me. Who do you think? I groaned. She needs to be fired, she's always causing you problems. No kidding. Here put this on. In a min, I want my neck to stop hurting first. Here then let me use my magic to zap you into it. Before I could object, my clothes were already changed (outfit 39)Meanwhile, Alex had gone to Crumbs about Evilini's plans, but his hands were literally tied, but he advised her that if she wasn't gonna go do research in the library to help our brother and stop her, that she should go straight to volcanoland itself, that he was telling her one thing, but his head nods were telling her what she wanted to hear, because he wanted to believe her, but she needed proof, hard evidence.

Our brother Justin was in denial that Evilini was evil because her name was Evilini that just because it was her name didn't mean that she was actually evil, but Alex and I and my friends were the only ones that knew the truth. When Alex and I and our friends met up for the 12 ball tournament that our brother was playing in, he hit the tattler, and that stated that if he did that he got an automatic win to the finals.

This was very bad. Farrah come with me. I can't. Sure you can, I'll just zap us there, and we'll find out information and prove it to Justin that we were right and that he shouldn't play in the 12 ball tournament. No, Alex I mean literally, I can't leave. Why not?! After I escaped, and now I'm back again they wanted to make sure that I could never leave here ever again, and stay Crumbs prisoner forever, so that there was no way that I could turn evil, I can try to teleport, but I'll always end up back in my room.

Try. Take my hand. She zapped us to volcanoland, and when she got there to talk to the lady in charge, she looked around, saw that she made it and turned to tell me.... See, that was easy, I told you.... Farrah? She was right! I'd been zapped back into my room. It was almost like I had an invisible ball and chain wrapped around my leg, weighing me down to stay here.

Farrah Jade Russo, I see you're trying to escape again. You can't leave me locked up in here! The staff at this school won't get away with this. We got away with it for 14 years, we can do it again. Why are you doing this?! One of the two of you will become evil, and you have the ability to be even more powerful then even myself, and I am the most powerful wizard in all the wizard world.

Then just take away my powers. No because if I do that, you have no chance to redeem yourself, to try and prove that you're not gonna use your powers for evil, that's why I keep you under lock and key so that I can keep an eye on you. What about keeping me from my family? You had no right to take me from them! I should cast a spell on your family to make them forget you ever existed. Now sit still and behave yourself, or I'll do one worse than that! What more?! What more could you possibly take away from me?! I cried.

I could cast a spell on your friends to make them forget about you and then you'll have no one. Is that what you want? You can't cast any spells right now your hands are tied! Who's gonna stop me from trying to do as I please since that's the case? You can't leave anyways, you're trapped here. You just tried to leave.

Meanwhile.... Alex has brought the lady in charge to our brother, he confronts Evilini, and tries to quit, but she casts a spell on him to make sure that he plays in the tournament. At home our family wins the food fight, and when they come to the tournament to see Justin play, the whole time he does Alex cheers for him to lose, and he tries now, now that he knows what Evilini is up to.

He believes her now, and he looks around for me, as does the rest of my family. Alex where is your sister? IDK, but she can't leave the school. What of course she can?! No, since she escaped they tightened security. And oh BTW Evilini wants Justin to win so that he'll get his powers drained at volcano land. They didn't believe her.

Justin won, I was able to escape my room at least. Stop! I cried, but it was too late. Farrah, you should be in your room studying Evilini mumbled to me. Alex and I saw no other way to win, until we did the truth spell. Security came to get her and arrest her. Wait! I hate Evilini as much as everyone here, but.... You win, take me instead, you wanna drain a wizard's powers? Farrah stop! Alex called to me.

I have the ability to be even more powerful than Crumbs, if you want the most powerful wizards powers, then take mine, then I'm useless anyways. Justin was glad Alex and I had been there to save him. Yeah, if only we could save you. What are you talking about? I will sacrifice myself because, I can't leave anyways. I'm trapped her. I try to leave and I get teleported back to my room, but you're staff you can take me where you want me.

And I will stay here at the academy, forever. Just please, if I'm the one you want, and you think I'm gonna end up turning into someone that I don't think I'm going to be then just take my powers away. I don't care about redemption, or about proving myself. I care about my family. You win Prof. Crumbs, I'll stay, I won't try to run away, or disobey, or leave ever again, just don't let anything bad happen to my family.

To my family or to my friends. Do what you want with me, but leave everyone else out of it. Dr. Evilini if you promise to leave my brother alone, then you have my word that you can take me instead. Farrah no! Yes I'm sorry but I don't want anyone to suffer because of me. This is my mess, and I need to fix it. No Farrah, I'm not gonna let you do that. I don't have a choice Alex, its me or its our brother, and for 14 years I've been trapped her, what's the rest of my life?

I'm gonna miss you. I'm gonna miss you too. She said hugging me. Justin Jack go with them. This is my punishment not yours. I don't want you trapped here too. I waved my wand to put a barrier on them to make sure they couldn't come back. Farrah no! I'm sorry, but its for your own good, you'll thank me someday. If we ever see each other again.

Then, then.... Both: We volunteer as tribute! No, you're not sacrificing yourselves for me. We'd do anything for you. My hands are tied guys, this is for your own good. Tears don't stop, as I wave my wand and get ready to cast the spell. Everyone watches me, Crumbs has a curious look on his face. I zap them away, I knew I'd never see them again. Please forgive me, but you all need to leave now too.

Farrah no, don't push anyone else away. Alex cries. If I'm to be evil, or be a prisoner here, and have no more of my powers, then I want the rest of you safe. I'm sorry. You all will continue your lives as if I was never there to begin with. Why are you doing this? Because I love you, and if you love someone you them free, and if they come back to you they're yours, if not then they were never yours to begin with

But YOU are ours. You were taken away and found your way back to us. But I'm still here Alex! Don't you understand?! I was brought here, left and came back, I belong here. And now its my turn to set the rest of you free. Free of me. I cry, and I cry, and keep crying. Goodbye. I flick my wand and say the spell. They disappear. I know that I will never see them again.

Evilini, I'm going with you, to volcanoland. You can use my powers however you wish. When I promise something I keep my word. She grabs my wrist, and teleports away. I can't leave. I go back to my room. But there is still one left out detail. And I make real clones of the 3 of my friends, they are also there, we have a spell on us that keeps us together. Our fates are linked to each other.

Farrah, you're still here?! You still have your powers! What part of I can't leave don't any of you understand. And of course I can't send you guys away, I could send you to mars and you'd still be teleported to where I was. What about your family? They're better off without me. I made a promise and I'm sticking to it. No you're not, and you know that, you have clones of us here, ones that don't fade through when you touch them.

A Farrah is staying, a Justin B and Jack are staying, just not us. Besides, do you really think you can't leave? I know I can't. No you just don't think you can, you don't want to, you don't want to get into trouble, you believe you need to be here. You told Alex no, so you stayed, you did what you wanted, you think you need to be here because the staff has told you, that you can't leave. You might as well have a ball and chain on you.

Yeah. I know. But.... Look again, there is none, you just don't believe it, you've been told one thing but, think about your family, think specifically about Alex. If you didn't have what you have then yes you would be stuck here, but what is that thing your sister gave you? You mean this? The necklace that.... The necklace that Alex gave me to make sure dark magic couldn't effect me! You're right. I CAN leave.

Back at home, they were trying to think about how funny it was that the human sized food was eating each other, but Alex cried and cried. She wished that there was something she could've done to save me. When the store closed up for the night, mom rubbed her back, and tried to cheer her up. Mom I could've done something, there could've been something I could do.

I know sweetie it's ok, you did what you could, but in the end it was her choice, and probably she's right. But she belongs with us, she's YOUR daughter, and she's MY twin sister, we didn't know her for 14 years, but now I feel like I've known her forever. I know Mija. I know. Come on let's go to bed. They go up to the house part of the apartment. Alex sits in her pjs curled up on the couch crying. As she fiddles with the necklace I gave her.

14 years I didn't know you Farrah, but I miss you now. Then there was a knock on the door, she wiped her tears away with her sleeve, and got up. Coming she called keeping her voice calm. She opens the door, speechless. Hi I'm Farrah Jade Russo, am I in the right place? At this point if this was a T.V. show this would probably be the part where the screen says to be continued, or goes to commercial.....

Honestly, if I hadn't had this I said pulling out my necklace she gave me.... I would've been stuck where I was being held, good thing there's someone taking my place almost like a clone, so that I could come back. Turns out I could leave all along, I just didn't believe it, if I didn't want to it didn't happen, turns out I just had to believe in myself and the power of the love of my sister.

She didn't say anything, she just wrapped my arms around me and cried into m. Oh my G-D she cried, now she was crying happy tears. I love you Alex. I love you too she said wiping her tears away. Alex who's at the door? Hi mom. Mija oh my mija. It's good to have you home again. Did Crumbs let you go? No, he has no idea that we left. We? Me and my friends are bound to the same fate, they get teleported to where I go.

Justin is back at Harper's, Jack is in the magic portal connected to our house. Everyone welcomed me back in. It's kind of like that moment where when Hannah Montana was ending when she had to reveal herself to everyone before she went to college, otherwise her and Lily were supposed to be roommates, and then she can't go, and then Lily opens the door at the end and there she is standing on the other side of the door.

Ok, ok girls now seriously, we should celebrate whatever in the morning, but for now its seriously time for bed. Si mama. Buenas noches. Buenas Noches mija. Goodnight Alex. Night mom.