The Magic Makers

Chaptere 17

"I'm telling you they're making advances upon the Curatoria." Ariana said to Elsa and Katherine. It had been three days since Katherine had become okay. She and Zack were dating now. Ariana was still concerned about the Lapidoss. "They hypnotise Katherine into gathering all the information about the Curatoria and it's enchantments from you Elsa. Thank god you hardly knew anything." Ariana continued as Elsa huffed indignantly. "We have to be really careful from now on." Katherine said and the other two nodded. "Should we let the guys, except Luke, in?" She asked. "I don't think we should. We don't have any evidence, just a hunch." Ariana said, dismissing the suggestion. "We can't let Luke out of our sight. Elsa, that job is for you. Hang around him as often as you can and anything suspicious, call us. We'll be there." Elsa nodded mournfully. "I hope you're wrong.." She whispered, looking at Ariana. Ariana returned her gaze. "I hope so too.." She whispered back.

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"Tonight, then? What time?" The voices came from the janitor's closet on the fifth floor. "After lights out." A female voice whispered. "Yeah, okay. Tell the others. We'll have to be careful. I don't know how His Highness got the information though." "What information?" "About the first protective enchantment of the Curatoria. It's the Crystallium enchantment. We're supposed to unlock the Curatoria by countering the enchantments in order. First comes Crystallium, then Insedium, Imbrus, Terranium and then Auranium. We know the Auranium counter enchantment. Now His Highness knows how to counter the Crystallium enchantment. I wonder how he got to know." "How do you do it?" "Do what?" "Counter the Crystallium enchantment?" "I'll show it to you there itself. So tell everyone to gather here at thirty minutes past lights out. I'll meet you'll here. Okay?" "Yeah okay." "Fine then. Let me step out first and then you come out after ten or fifteen minutes." "Okay."
The closet door opened and Luke stepped out into the sunshine pouring in from the tall glass windows. He looked around, messed his hair up a bit, shoved his hands into his pocket and walked away, whistling, as if it were completely normal to come out of a closet and walk to class. Ten minutes after this, the door opened again. A blonde with heavily lined eyes peeped out. She stepped out of the closet and almost tripped on her five inch heels. Courtney looked around, ran a hand through her dull blonde hair which reached the hem of her extremely short skirt and walked away with her head held high.
Both of them were unaware of the gorgeous redhead standing as still as a statue in the shadows. She stepped out and the sunlight lit up the suspicion in her stunning grey eyes. Elsa had seen everything.

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"What's so great about Luke and Courtney coming out of the same closet?" Elsa argued, trying to mask the jealousy in her voice. "Luke's a womaniser and Courtney's a slut. Why would I be bothered." She finished with a huff as Katherine burst out laughing. Ariana looked hard at Elsa. "You like him, Elsa. It should bother you." She said softly. Elsa looked at her and suddenly the tears started to fall. Katherine and Ariana ran to her side. "I'm.. I'm fine.. it's just that.. Ugh! I'm behaving stupid!" Elsa scolded herself and accepted a tissue thankfully from Ariana. "It's just that.. I like him. And I don't feel very nice when he does all this shit." Elsa explained, controlling her tears. "Can I ask you something? How did you know he was on the sixth floor?" Ariana asked Elsa, hoping it was safe to ask her to explain things. It was. "You see, I did as you asked me to. We were busy with our practicals when he suddenly got up and left. I noticed so I left too. I saw him enter the sixth floor closet. I hid waiting in the shadows. Courtney sashayed in after a while and entered the closet. They stayed in there for around twenty minutes and then Luke walked out, followed a little while later by Courtney. I.. I couldn't move for a really long time. When I finally did and went back to class, Luke was there, looking as if he'd been right there all the while. I felt like sticking a thousand icicles into him!" Elsa said fiercely, controlling her tears. They were replaced by rage and jealousy. Ariana stared thoughtfully into space. "Pity you didn't hear what they talked about." She muttered. "How do you know they talked about something?" Katherine asked her. "Well, you see, if Luke and Courtney weren't talking, Elsa would've heard some really loud and awkward sounds." Ariana explained. Elsa sniffed and looked up suddenly. "Yeah Ari you're right. I didn't hear anything.. embarrassing.." Elsa said thoughtfully, clearly relieved. "So, you see, Luke and Courtney were talking about something. I don't know about what, though." Ariana said regretfully. "We'll have to look out for anything weird that Luke does. He might've been talking about something important in that closet." Elsa and Katherine nodded. Ariana looked at Elsa. "Cheer up, Elsie! Luke didn't do anything! Don't worry. You would've heard if he did." Ariana comforted Elsa, who still looked a little worried. "I'm not worried about that, Ari." She whispered softly. "Then what is it?" Katherine asked her. "It's just that.. what if you were right?" Elsa asked, looking at Ariana. "What if Luke is upto something.. dangerous. Something he might regret. Ugh! I just can't imagine him behaving like that. He.. he doesn't look like the sort to get mixed up in anything wrong. And he didn't behave suspiciously. I don't know what I want to believe: him making out with Courtney or him doing something so bad that.. that he might pay dearly for it because both are equally horrible!" Elsa said and her eyes filled with tears once again. Ariana patted her awkwardly on the back. She wasn't good with all this. "Don't worry Elsa, he'll be fine. I promise. We're not going to kill him or something." she said lightly. Little did they know that they were about to do exactly that.