Lavender Town ( English Version )

CHAPTER VI: "Contract sealed."

Pam walked home, her shadow casted on the sidewalk, and her hair flew with the wind. She sighed. They picked on her again. I didn't do anything wrong, did I? Pam thought to herself, her eyes started squinting to hold back the tears. But failed. She cried in the middle of a lonely road. Pam looked up, and glanced pass a house on her left just to see an old lady in a lavender-colored coat decorated with a white circle surrounding a hexagram and a dot of the similar colour in the middle of the hexagram. The old lady was staring at her the whole time without her noticing it.

"What seems to be the trouble, young lady?" The old woman asked, her fingers signalled Pam to go closer.

"Why should I tell you?"

"I'm just an old lady who wanted to help people in trouble. If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. I might help you, you know."

Pam walked away. What if she can help me for real? She thought, her feet stopped. Pam turned around, and walked to the old lady.

"Oh, a change of mind." The old lady said, but she didn't seem to be surprised at all.

"I constantly get bullied at school for three years straight, and I couldn't say a thing about it to older people, or else I'll be 'punished' by almost all of the students." Pam started "But I didn't do anything. And I have a drug-addicted mom." She added "How are you going to help with that? Even angels can't help me. I prayed a lot, but it was no use."

"Hmmm.." The old lady put her index finger horizontally on her wrinkled chin "If the angels can't help you, why don't you ask the demons for help?" She said.

"If it helps, then yes, I'll try." Pam replied "But, if I talk to the angels by praying, then how can I talk to the demons?"

"By this." The old lady handed her a dead lavender and a bottle of lavender perfume "At exactly 3:00 in the morning, soak a knife in the lavender perfume, and cut your hand with that knife. Then, use the blood from your hand to draw this symbol on my coat on the ground. Place the dead lavender in the middle of the symbol, and the demon will be summoned. After summoning the demon, say your name and your wish, and it will be granted. But remember, young lady, every wish has its own price."

Pam focused on the lavender and the perfume bottle the rest of her way home. She wondered about the authenticity of the old lady's words as her right hand reached the door knob and opened the door. Her house was always dark, even if it was the sunniest day of the year. She put the lavender and the perfume bottle on her table.

Maybe that lady was making up the story, who knows.

19:15

Pam walked into the shower cabin, and opened the water. She reached her right arm up to get the shower, but she immediately felt the pain from the bruise on her upper arm. Her left hand held the bruised part on her right arm. She leaned her head on the wall, her tears flowed down as she remembered all the things that the people at school dis to her. Pam let the water wet her hair, and let her wet hair cover her face. Those people who picked on her, beat her up, they should all go to hell. She had to take revenge on them all, on everyone. She turned the water off, the excess water drops fell down on her head. A grin appeared on her face.

"How do we summon a demon again?"

2:56

Pam walked silently in the kitchen, with her phone's flashlight turned on. She carefully took a kitchen knife, and went back to her room. She opened the lavender perfume bottle, and poured all the liquid on the knife, then, with a quick slice, a cut appeared on her left hand belly. She used her right hand's index finger and dip the finger in her blood, then drew a circle surrounding a hexagram, with a dot in the middle of the hexagram. She placed the dead lavender in the middle of the symbol, and waited.