Breaking Curses

Sixth Chapter

You groaned as soon as you woke up with a painful headache. An inaudible commotion could be heard from the background of your hearing.

"Can everyone please be quiet?" You weakly plead.

Silence followed your words, making you release a shaky sigh of relief. You opened your eyes to a blurry image of a ceiling. You sat up and saw that everyone was gathered around you.

"Aww." You held your aching head. "What happened?" You asked.

"Red Shoes brought you and Merlin here unconscious and wet," Arthur answered. "But he woke up earlier than you." He gestured Merlin beside him.

"What time is it?"

"Almost midnight,"

The pain you've been feeling suddenly disappeared when you heard Jack's answer. You quickly stood up, surprising everyone inside the room. You grabbed your cloak that was hanged beside the bed. Thankfully, your veil was still on, so you didn't worry about it. You were just about to leave, but you were stopped by all of them.

"Where do you think you're going?" Merlin firmly asked.

"Yeah. You just woke up since you lost consciousness." Red lightly held your arm.

"I know, but I need to go." You ran past them, not giving them a chance to say anything else.

Three cute wooden bears surprised you when you got out of the room but you needed to leave. You heard Merlin's call from inside when you got out of their house. You hurriedly shifted into an owl to see your way home in the dark and flew away. You decided to enter your home through your bedroom. You flopped on your bed as soon as you arrived.

"Finally." You breathed and removed your cloak and veil, tossing them anywhere. Your mind kept shouting to take a bath so you did what it wanted.

When you got out of the bathroom in your pajamas, you remembered it was almost midnight when you left. You stood in front of the mirror, staring at your green eyes and obsidian hair. Then purple mist swirled around your figure. The color of your hair and eyes faded back to its original color. Your skin tone paled and your features softened. Releasing a deep sigh, you lied on your bed, closed your eyes, but you couldn't sleep. You stayed like that for a couple of minutes, but sleep does seem to come. You decided to go to the library and spend your time there. Before you could even reach the library, you suddenly remembered that you left your satchel where the spell book is. It's not like they shouldn't see what inside but, yeah maybe they shouldn't. They're not supposed to know the other way to break their curse.

All lights were off when you arrived at the house, which wasn't a surprise since it was already past midnight. Unfortunately for you, someone was still awake. You can see a silhouette walking by one of the windows downstairs so you decided to shift into the least noticeable creature. An ant, a form that you trained two months ago. Crawling into holes that would lead you to where the figure of a human was seen, you were slightly nervous. Last time you sneaked like this when your mother was still alive.

"Where is that moisturizer?" You heard Jack's irritated but quiet voice coming from the living room.

'Seriously?' You nearly said it out loud. 'Why is this guy awake at past midnight just to search for a moisturizer?'

You heard few mumbles coming back and forth at the living room and library. You just let him do his business and continued to do what you came here for. Snow was on deep sleep based on her even breathing and relaxed muscles. Waking her up because of any sound you'll make wasn't the problem at all. Your satchel was nowhere to be found. You then remembered that there was a dim light at the library and there probably was someone Jack was talking to just now.