Truly Charmed (Part 3/3)

Chapter 13

Through most of breakfast the tension just got worse. Chris sat on the other side of the table, next to Melinda. Wyatt and I were forced to sit next to each other on the other side.

Maybe if I bury myself deep enough into my cereal this whole situation wouldn't be as awkward.......

I thought to myself.

You'd need a portal to another dimension to get away from this tension......

I heard Wyatt's thought.

I smiled to contain a little giggle. I glanced up and saw the pained and hard look in Chris' eyes.

Suddenly there was a small ringing sound and then Pandora and Payton appeared.

"Wow the tension in this room." Payton said.

Great. Even a fifteen year old empath can tell something is wrong. Wyatt and I both forced a smile.

"Uh we need to talk. People have been murdered in town recently." Pandora announced.

Everyone dropped their spoons and froze.

"You just made it ten times more awkward." I heard Payton whisper to her older sister.

Today is going to be interesting. I can tell...

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Myself, Wyatt, Chris, Melinda, Payton and Pandora were all in the attic looking in the Book Of Shadows.

"Yeah it looks like one of them is back." Wyatt said.

"How do we kill it?" Melinda asked.

"Well there is a luring potion or we could just dangle one of us in front of the Succubus and wait for her to come." Chris answered.

"No way." I protested. "You're not being bait for that thing. Neither is Wyatt."

Everyone's eyes were on me as I fought to keep both Chris and Wyatt safe from a sex crazed demon.

"Maybe we should wait for more evidence..." Payton said.

"What? Payton no. You want to wait for more people to die?" Pandora scolded her little sister.

"Pandora I'm just saying that we don't exactly know that it's a Succubus. It could be something different. It has happened before. I'm just thinking that before we attract the wrong demon we should wait to see if its the right one first." Payton explained herself.

There was a long pause before anyone spoke.

"I suppose she's right. I don't think it could do much harm if we wait a day or so." Melinda finally spoke.

Pandora didn't agree to this. And I'm sure Wyatt wasn't one hundred percent on board.

"One day." Wyatt said.

I heard a buzzing noise. I looked to Wyatt and it was his phone. It was a text message. He looked down at the text and a smile creeped up on his face. I tried to listen to any of his thoughts, but if he was thinking something, I couldn't hear it.

"Uh Anna you want to come to Magic School with me? Kill some time." Pandora suddenly asked.

I was taken aback for a second. Pandora didn't seem the type of girl to want to hang around with the type of girl like me. Especially to just 'kill some time'.

"Ookay." I managed to say.

Chris' face was mixture of expression that I couldn't identify. He always does that when he doesn't want people to know how he's feeling. I doubt it did much good with two cupid children, one of them an empath, in the room.

Pandora took my hand and she beamed us both to Magic School.

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Pandora and I lulled around the great hall, reading books, trying simple spells and scratching our brains out with boredom.

I closed my eyes to block out the dull room and leaned back in the chair I was sitting in.

I suddenly felt someone pulling me backwards and I gasped. When I opened my eyes, I was standing up. Magic school looked a little different. It was grey and dull. I could see the colours but they didn't have any life to them.

Then I saw Chris standing in the middle of the hall.

"Chris?" I asked. "What are you do-"

I stopped when I saw Pandora and Caleb coming through the door. She was fixing her hair, she had different clothes on and she and Caleb were giggling.

Chris' face was a sea of sickness and repulsiveness.

"Well if it isn't the peeping Tom." Pandora grinned.

"Trust me, that was the last thing I wanted to see in my entire life. Why the hell were you in one of the storage rooms?!" Chris said sickened.

What in the world is going on here?.....

I looked around to see if anyone was here. I tried to call for someone but nobody could hear me. I didn't even think that anybody could see me.

I turned my attention back to Chris and Pandora.

"What do you want Chris?" She asked.

"Do you know why my mother has let Anna stay with us?" Chris said with a furrowing brow.

"Why do you care?" She grinned.

"That's not what I asked." Chris answered bluntly.

"I'm a Cupid Chris. I can sense these things about people." Pandora replied.

"Half Cupid." Chris bit back.

What was happening? I'm living in the manor....

Oh no....was I in someone else's memory?....