Breaking Free [1]

Liza

Joey

"Koshy. Liza Koshy." She answers.

"Where's the other?" I ask showing my bracelet.

"Oh, that? Yeah, my mom never found another person to give it to. So she gave it to me. I can give it to whoever I want, whenever I want." She replies.

"Than give it to someone! I don't want this curse!" I yell.

"Calm down!" She starts.

"No! Don't tell me to calm down! I am six months and 16 days away!" I yell back at her.

"I can make it shorter. I can see it's already kicking in." Liza replied as she pointed at my hair.

"No!" I scream. "Give me the bracelet or give it to someone! I'm so close!"

"This is fun. I've never met royalty." She jokes.

"This isn't." I reply and see just laughs.

"Joey, stay calm. This is the curse! This isn't you!" Lauren whispered to me.

"She's right." Liza starts. "You also have the spell book. That's dangerous you know."

"I'm well aware of that." I reply. I do not like this girl. She may look cute and innocent, but she's a witch!

"Follow me. I wanna show you something." Liza says and we wall up a stair case and through a dark wall.

"See this?" She asks and points to a huge machine with a small animatronic running in a wheel like it's a hamster.

"What is it?" Daniel asks.

"It runs time. About a day ago, it was going really fast. Someone messed with it and next thing you know, a year passed." She says. Whoops, that was us.

"Why are you showing us this?" I ask.

"For this. Zz, get off." Liza says to the little animatronic. It jumps off the wheel and it immediately started slowing down. She then grabs my wrist and with one hard tug, the machine stops and Daniel, Lauren, Meghan, Tyler and Alex freze.

"W-what?" I ask.

"I froze time. But if you're holding this gem, you don't freze. But I'm also holding your wrist, so you don't freze. But if I let go of tour wrist, you would freze like them." Liza explained to me.

"And why are you showing me this?" I ask.

"To go through time, again. I know you messed with the time last time." She smirked.

"Why?" I ask. She then yanks on the wheel and wind starts blowing and just like last time the clock it going faster. She then stops it and puts Zz back on it.

"Because it's fun." She says and everyone unfreeze's. "You now have five days. Good luck." She finishes and with a swish of her hand we are back in the hide out.

"Five days. Five days. Five days!" I say as I pace back and forth.

"We can steal the bracelet from her." Lauren says.

"Impossible." I say. "She has magic."

"So do you!" Meghan notes.

"She has point." Daniel agrees. "There has to be a spell for this."

"Yeah right." I say. They are all against me. It may be the curse talking, but it sounds like they're are putting me in danger, or us all.

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We eat dinner and I decide to go for a walk. Daniel tags along.

"So, this curse...." Daniel starts.

"Maybe we could sneak into that place again, reverse time and find the bracelet! And everything will be okay!" I  interrupt.

Daniel laughs. "That's crazy. Yeah, we may have been talking about wanting to do it, but, maybe there isn't a bracelet. Maybe you just have to live like that."

"But I don't want to. I'll will probably hate everything."

"Nah. You won't hate us."

"I don't think I can really promise that." I say as tears start in my eyes.

"It will be okay. Like I said, if you don't love me when this curse happens, I know the real Joey will." He said back to me as he whipped my tears.

A/N: Remember! I could update any book at 5 or more than one!