Another twenty minutes passed while Star awkwardly sat on the porch next to Cassie, as the older girl glared off into the night. Finally, Sky appeared around the corner of the house. He nodded a little breathlessly to Star and took another moment to try to compose himself then.

He was now fully dressed, but his pale skin was obviously flushed from his recent orgasm. And that orgasm came to him quickly during that activity, despite all his earlier misgivings. As much as he lived to be inside Star every second, it had been three long years, and several other experiences, since the last time he had ever felt what it was like to be inside a girl who was that untouched. And that feeling definitely made it more than easy for him to climax inside her; that is, once her pain ceased and he finally let himself begin moving above her to bring her to her own climax, which was also just as easily achieved, considering his vast experience level.

Crista had since dressed and shakily gone back into the house through the back door to avoid being seen by her parents or her sister while coming through the front door. Star and Sky looked to each other once more as each took another breath before Sky left the yard through the side gate, and then made his way out to the street, only to turn back toward the front gate of the house. As he came through the front gate then, as though just now arriving to pick Star up and take her home for the night, Cassie centered a glare on him as well; not that that welcome was unexpected.

“Great now I have to pretend I have any desire to speak to either of you?” Cassie scoffed as Sky awkwardly made his way up the walkway.

“Just here to pick Star up” he told her apologetically, he and Star’s eyes both moving over her, watching for any sign of their spell working.

“Well I’ve already had to put up with her for half an hour too long. Don’t know why she couldn’t have just waited inside with the little bitch who actually likes you two freaks” Cassie complained angrily.

“Like I said, I really wanted to talk to you” Star said gently, “try to talk to you” she corrected, “and try to apologize.”

“That goes for me too” Sky managed as he moved to the porch to take a place on the other side of Cassie’s chair, casting Star a furtive look behind the girl’s back. “We really never meant to hurt you, Cassie” he added for weight.

“Well then maybe you should have tried not throwing me off a cliff with your minds” she growled bitterly.

The two gave each other another look as they stood on either side of Cassie, Star moving to stand as well, and clasping Sky’s hand behind the chair as Cassie still glared off ahead of them into the night. Star held Sky’s hand tightly and dared to move her other to Cassie’s shoulder in an apologetic manner, Sky doing the same. Though, since the girl thankfully could not feel their touch, she did not cringe at it at least.

Star then bravely spoke again, “we were only fourteen then, and had just both lost our virginity, which is exactly when you caught us” she began the confession, which did cause more than a bit of shock to pass over Cassie’s face as they continued to stand there behind her, one hand in each other’s, one hand on the older girl’s shoulder, “and because of you thinking...” she shook her head, “with you screaming at us like that, it just got away from us.”

Cassie scoffed, wishing she could turn back to see their faces then, “what got away from you?” she asked angrily.

“Our power” Sky forced out that bit of the confession. “We couldn’t control it then, especially then” he added, “but it’s been three years, Cassie. We can control it now. We can keep it from hurting anyone now” he stated gently.

Cassie just scoffed again, “so you’re finally at least admitting that you are witches?”

Star took a brave breath, “we admit that we can do things that don’t make sense. And, before we understood it, you were terribly hurt because of it. But now we wanna try, hard as we can, to make it up to you” Star finished with a slight sniffle.

Cassie scoffed again, “and how the fuck do you think you could ever do that?” she asked, though as she spoke, she turned angrily in the chair to look back up at them. Sky and Star both then just smiled in amazement. “What the fuck are you smiling about?” Cassie asked.

Sky and Star both let out another amazed chuckle as Sky spoke to her, “you just turned around, Cassie. We did it; we finally fixed what we didn’t mean to break at all” he whispered as tears of joy filled all three of their sets of eyes then.

With Monday being the life-shattering school trip, Tuesday the marathon of sex between them, and Wednesday being their first real foray into mixing serious witchcraft in with their own unexplainable abilities; the two teens were hoping upon hope that Thursday would be completely uneventful.

Though they were still thrilled by Cassie seeming to honestly be healed, finally, they still had plenty of worry over the after effects of the spell on the younger of the Sampson sisters. Or more specifically, the effects of Sky being Crista’s first; especially after their sincere warnings to her the very day before about why that would be a mistake.

As fate would have it though, they found themselves not having to deal with any of those residual feelings Crista was sure to have that day. At least, not yet anyway. Crista’s family were spending the day at the hospital with a team of doctors trying to make any sense at all of Cassie’s miraculous recovery, and Crista went with them, just to be sure that Cassie would keep the real secret behind that recovery safe.

However, they did not actually get through the day unscathed after all. Between second and third period, Star was called to the office, causing her and Sky to share a worried look, for more than a few reasons. Once Star did shuffle into the principal’s office, she startled a bit as she saw her mother and a rather well dressed woman who was a stranger to her as well. And Brie looked more than a bit uncomfortable, which never boded well.

“Miss Vargas” the principal greeted her, “Miss Lewis needs to speak with you” he stated, gesturing to the well-tailored woman before heading out of the office again to leave them to their discussion.

“Star, right?” the woman gave her a worried smile as her eyes moved over Star’s dark black clothing and makeup.

“Who are you?” Star asked warily as she took a seat between her mother and this Miss Lewis. Her discomfort only increasing at the fact that they had only asked for her, not Sky as well. And any stressful or unexpected situations felt even more unmanageable when the two of them were forced to deal with them separately.

“I’m the lawyer representing Alana Thomas” she stated as she cast another look over the young woman before her.

“Lawyer?” Star swallowed slightly.

“Yes, we’re looking to find character witnesses that can give us a more detailed picture of the accused” she stated as she looked down at the file in front of her.

“It’s not like I hung out with him. If I ever could avoid him at all, I did” Star stated stiffly.

“Yes, we’re aware that you are definitely not friends with Mr. Spencer. That’s why we’re hoping you can help us” Miss Lewis continued.

“Why me?” Star asked with further discomfort, casting a glance at where Brie continued to silently stare at the floor of the office, looking like she was simply just trying to hold herself together at this point.

“Alana told me that, the morning before the assault, Curt implied that you and he had possibly had... an encounter” Lewis decided on as Star tensed further and Brie’s breath caught.

“Encounter?” Star choked on the word, trying desperately to sort the memories of one world’s Curt from the memories of the other, especially when speaking to someone like a lawyer.

“Not a pleasant one” Lewis replied quietly.

Star took a deep breath as she looked over at Brie, who still appeared to be barely holding back her own emotions then, “He cornered me alone, like the second week of school, and... and it was a little scary” she forced herself to admit, as Brie choked back another wave of emotion.

“Scary how? We need these details, Star” Lewis told her, forcing gentleness to her tone. Star just looked between Lewis and her mother, feeling her heartbeat speed up. Lewis then prodded further, “did he rape you too, Star?” she asked in a near whisper.

At that Brie couldn’t hold back that next sob, which caused Star to quickly try to struggle for words, “no! Sky got there before... before he could” she choked on the last words, which caused at least some relief to break through her mother’s sob.

“But, he did try?” Lewis swallowed a bit.

“Do I really have to say any more than that?” Star pleaded, knowing what her mother already thought about her sexual behavior, and not wanting to throw any more fuel on that fire at all.

“Like I said, these details could be what gets him put away. You do want him to go to jail, don’t you, Star?” Lewis pressed.

Star sniffled slightly, “but that won’t undo what happened to Alana either. Maybe if I had said something when it did happen...” she just shook her head as she wiped away a tear. “Twice now I could have saved her. And I failed, both times” Star whispered as she had to bite back her own sob then.

Once they got to lunch, Sky took his seat next to where Star was more than a little shaken by her trip to the office earlier. He looked around to be sure of no prying ears, then whispered, “what the hell was that all about this morning?” he asked urgently.

“Alana’s lawyer” she swallowed, “she wanted to know about the day under the bleachers” Star whispered back.

“I’m guessing you left out the part about how we stopped Curt that time?” he asked her worriedly.

“Of course I did, but still, she wants me to testify against him” she swallowed another lump in her throat.

“What? You can’t” Sky told her with the same urgency.

Star just scoffed, “what happened to wanting to put him in jail?” she asked as she looked up at him questioningly.

“We’ve both seen courtroom dramas, Star” he told her with the same worry, “not only will you be under oath when we’ve got two different realities tangled up in our heads. But in one, he attacked me not you. In one, he forced us to do that with each other” he then dropped his voice, “in one, we killed him” he reminded before forcing himself onward, “and Curt’s lawyers, they will rip apart everything you say” he then sighed sadly, “they’ll prod for every detail, especially when it comes to anything remotely related to sex! Or Curt. They’ll tear you apart, Star. And that’s not even mentioning the shit about our so-called abilities, which I’m sure they’ll also try to bring up” he added for weight.

Star shook her head and sniffled again, “we already failed to save her from him twice, Sky. I don’t know if I could forgive myself for not at least trying to make sure we don’t fail any future victims too.”

Sky sighed softly, “but Star... we just fixed Cassie to try and save ourselves from being anyone else’s victims. And now you wanna put a bull's eye on yourself? Star, think about it. You know I’m right” he pleaded with her again.

“And I know I can’t live with any more guilt, Sky. And if we don’t do all we can to keep him from hurting another girl, or boy” she had to add, “and he goes free, and it happens again?” she sniffled once more, “I can’t do that, Sky.”