Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 13

Cherry found the bathroom, locked the door, after she did her business, she washed her hands.

'Look at how much you've grown...' a voice said to her.

Cherry glanced around, hearing the voice, not recognizing it at first. "Hello...?"

'I'm surprised you don't recognize my voice.' The voice said to her.

Cherry tried to think for a moment. "Ben?"

The voice laughed and an image of the deceased horror novelist appeared in the mirror, taking her reflection.

"Whoa!" Cherry jumped back a little.

'Hello, there, my dear, how have you been?' Ben's image asked.

Cherry glared to him. "You're not here... I took away the spell book and locked it in my closet..."

'Or did you?' Ben asked her. 'How do you know a witchling didn't sneak in there and take it from you?'

"Impossible!" Cherry argued.

'Oh, no?' Ben asked, then showed a vision of Penelope sneaking into her room and taking the book, reciting the awakening spell.

Cherry glared still, but looked worried as she saw what she saw. "What did you do!?"

'I used that witchling to read the reawakening spell.' Ben smirked evilly.

"You MONSTER!" Cherry snarled.

'And thanks to her and you, The Darkness will take over those twins like their father.' Ben grinned wickedly as always.

"Me?" Cherry looked at him. "What did I do!?"

'Oh, well, by trapping me in that book with that witch!' Ben glared.

'Hurry it up, Ben, we're getting impatient!' A second voice exclaimed.

'Don't worry, I'm almost done...' Ben reassured.

Cherry removed her glasses and rubbed her eyes. "I'm having a seizure, this isn't really happening..." she muttered to herself.

'Oh, yes, it is.' Ben smiled evilly.

Cherry growled to him.

"Happy Halloween, lonely little mortal...' Ben laughed and his image disappeared.

"This isn't good..." Cherry whispered, not only did they have to face the Darkness, but now the return of Ben himself.

Cherry then left the bathroom, catching up with the others.

"You okay, Cherry?" Mo asked. "You were in there a long time."

"You look pale too." Patch added.

"Pale, me, I'm not pale..." Cherry said, sounding nervous oddly enough.

"He's free, isn't he?" Atticus asked, knowing that look in her eyes.

"Yes..." Cherry gave in.

"Who?" Camryn, Alex, Patch, and Mo asked.

"Ben Ravencroft," Atticus said. "An evil novel writer who is also a warlock, a descendant of Sarah Ravencroft."

"I think I read some of his books..." Mo tried to think back.

"A warlock now!?" Alex grunted, this was just the craziest day for her.

"Yeah and we trapped him in the same spell book with his ancestor, but it should seem that somehow, he's now free." Atticus said.

"Why do you even have his book?" Camryn asked Cherry.

"You can never be too careful," Cherry said. "I didn't wanna take any chances of someone else getting the book and somehow freed him... But it appears even my shot was cut short."