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Jade sighed and looked down the football pitch. She couldn't spot any of Kyle's family in the huge crowd that turned out to see the big game. It was the final one before Christmas break and the excitement for the holidays was surpassed by the intense atmosphere by the chanting crowd.

A few nearby students looked in Jade's direction and whispered to each other. Jade flicked her hair behind her shoulder and walked by them - there was a time she would have just turned around and run away. People can still talk, despite the spell cast, whether or not what they were saying were good things.

The ball flew near Jade. She froze and threw her hands up, then looked at the guy who kicked it.

'Get off the pitch!' the footballer shouted. Jade recognised him as Daniel - one of Kyle's closest friends. She looked over to Kyle who watched it happen. She waited for him to say something.

He didn't.

Jade sighed again and clambered into the crowd. People backed away from her and whispered audibly:

'She's seeing Kyle - who knew?'

'I know, I mean I didn't know before, but wow, what a curveball.'

'It's come out of nowhere, same with her outfit.'

Jade could feel herself bubble with anger. The restraint that was holding her tongue suddenly snapped off. 'Listen ladies, you wanna talk about me? Do it, right now, to my face.' She waited for them to respond. She didn't recognise the girls.

'Oh, to be honest we really like the outfit. It's just not something you wore before,' one of the girls replied.

'Yeah,' the other girl said frantically. 'We didn't mean it in a bad way. We're really impressed you managed to bag Kyle. We're not something to look at, you probably don't even know who we are.'

Jade narrowed her eyes at them. She tried to think about who they were, if she had seen them before. Maybe she had, at the back of the classroom or on their own table in the canteen. They looked out of place, like Jade used to look, from the hordes of students around them.

'I think we may have Art together?' Jade asked.

They shook their head.

'English language?'

They shook their head again.

'Dinner break?'

They looked at each other before nodding. Jade smiled.

'Well, thank you. I appreciate the kind words.'

'How did you do it?' One of the girls asked. 'Get the guy?'

Jade gave her a little wink. 'Black magic.' They all laughed before Jade turned around to hunt for Kyle's family. Throughout the entire game, she was stopped by girls, and sometimes even guys, applauding her for her transformation. At first, Jade felt great from the compliments. Once the game ended, she had become sick of hearing the same thing. Her patience had run out, and she started to feel annoyed at Kyle.

As people poured out from the field, Jade spotted Kyle's parents. They stood on the pitch, waiting for Kyle to finish cheering with his team mates. Jade walked to them.

'Hi,' Jade said to them once she got in their line of sight. 'I'm Jade, Kyle's girlfriend.'

The mother appeared stunned at first. Then she melted from an initial cold exterior. 'Jade. Lovely to meet you. Please forgive me, I had no idea Kyle had a girlfriend.'

'Don't worry, Mrs. Soran. It's a very, very recent thing. We only made it Facebook official this morning.'

'Oh,' Mrs. Soran laughed. 'I don't have the Facebook so that explains it. I'm sure Kyle would have told me had he seen me. This is the first time I've seen him in a few days.'

'Yes,' Mr. Soran chimed in. 'Our boy is quite the socialite. Very rare to see him around the house these days.'

'He has invited you to our family dinner tomorrow night, hasn't he?'

'Family dinner?' Jade asked, feeling a little deflated.

'Yes. Everyone important in our family is going to be there. Some are flying in from Australia. Oh, that reminds me, I must phone Jackie to confirm the chauffeur for the airport. Please excuse us.'

Mrs. and Mr. Soran walked away from Jade, both pulling out their phones and, within seconds, were talking to someone on the other end. Jade looked over at Kyle. He was finally coming over.

Once he reached Jade, he kissed her on the lips. 'Hello baby,' he said. Jade couldn't help but think his greeting sounded a little... mechanical. She shook it off.

'Hi,' Jade said with a smile. 'Great game. Not that I got to see much of it, I was too busy looking for your parents.'

'Sorry about that.'

Jade waited for a follow-up, but he just looked at her. She continued, 'So, family dinner tomorrow?'

'Yeah, it's going to be great to see everyone again.'

Jade again waited for him to say something else. He didn't.

'Your parents were lovely to me just then. They told me about it, sounds like it's going to be a big deal for the family.'

Kyle nodded, only then realising his parents were standing further down the field, walking further and further away the more they talked into their phones. 'I'd better say hello to them,' he said.

He started walking away from Jade. Annoyed, she followed. 'Are you going to invite me to your family thing? Your mum said it's important. If your own girlfriend doesn't go, then they might think I don't mean anything to you.'

► 'Do you want to go?' He asked, still walking to his parents while Jade lagged behind.

'Yes! But I want you to invite me, to want to invite me.'

'Then come if you want.'

'Why are you so passive? Why aren't you making any sort of move. I want you to invite me and really, really want it. I want you to want me to meet your family and be part of your life. Are you going to say anything at all?'

'Hey baby, tell me your name, I got a fever for you, I just can't explain. But there's just one problem, I'm a bit old school, when it comes to lovin' I ain't chasing you...'

'Do you want to go to my family dinner tomorrow?' Kyle finally asked, giving Jade his full attention now.

Jade smiled. 'Yes.'

Perrie sat in her final class of the day. She usually enjoyed Science, but she was distracted by Blaine. He sat a couple of rows across from her, and from what she could tell, he never took his eyes off her. He sat there, big brown eyes on her, watchful of every movement she made. Whenever she caught his eye, he flashed his beaming white teeth.

'Blaine Galik,' the teacher suddenly interjected. 'Is there something in Miss Edwards' teeth, or are you just staring at her in the hopes that she'll turn into a bunsen burner? Because I know how interested you are in this subject.'

Blaine snapped his attention away from Perrie and looked at Mr. White. 'I... I... was just...'

'I know what you were just doing,' Mr. White said, scolding him with an intense glare. 'I'll appreciate it if you pay attention. This will come up on Friday's test.'

Everyone moaned. Perrie looked at her fellow classmates; they buried their heads in their hands and looked desperately out of the window for some hope of escape. Her heart sped up when an idea came to her mind.

'Mr. White?' she said, calling his attention away from Blaine. 'Is the test on Friday absolutely necessary?' Perrie knew that Mr. White liked her anyway, but she hoped that the Black Magic spell - which made everyone see Perrie with a little more esteem - might have rubbed off on her teachers.

'How do you mean, Miss Edwards?'

'Well,' Perrie started, unsure how she would talk her way out of this one if the spell didn't work. 'Everyone in this school has been on edge for the past few weeks, ever since what happened to Eliza.' She noticed the students sitting near her started to look to their desks and at the floor.

'What happened to Eliza O'Brien was horrific, but surely it's been enough time for people to have studied for this test. Everyone was given ample warning.'

'Yes,' Perrie stuttered. 'But, perhaps not enough. I know my closest friends have been really affected by it, and I'm sure my other fellow students have too. It's so much to ask of us - and you know I wouldn't bring this up, but I feel it was important to say. We need some time to process.'

Mr. White hesitated and fumbled with the chalk in his hands. 'Mmmm,' he sighed, 'very well. You do have a point Miss Edwards. The test is postponed. I'll talk with the Head of Science and come up with a solution.'

The atmosphere in the room lifted. Perrie could feel everybody beaming at her, whereas only a few weeks before, a lot of them would have shunned her or laughed at her for speaking in class. It was a hugely satisfying feeling, and she could not stop smiling for the rest of the period. Even Blaine, who was told off for it, kept his gaze on her with the look of absolute adoration.

The class finished, and Blaine headed straight for Perrie. A few of the nearby students gave Perrie a warm 'thanks for that' before heading out. Mr. White rubbed off the words he had written on the chalkboard.

'That was amazing,' Blaine told her as she swooped in for a kiss.

Perrie accepted it and wrapped her arms around his neck. 'Just happy to help.'

'Using what happened to Eliza; I never would have even thought of that.'

Perrie froze, then dropped her arms from him. The words struck her, and 'using what happened to Eliza' repeated over and over in her head. Her face dropped. 'That's not what I... I didn't use it to get us out of a test. I mean, I did. But it's true. I haven't stopped thinking about it. My friends haven't. I'm sure everybody hasn't. She was beaten on school grounds by a pack of bullies and...'

'Well, that isn't confirmed, it could have been someone off the street.'

Perrie stared at him. 'No, it was bullies. She had been bullied every single day since the year started and it never stopped, ever. That's why Leigh-Anne started the anti-bullying society, to help her. Then that happened and...'

'If you say so,' he interrupted, and stopped her from speaking with the seal of a kiss. Perrie accepted it again, but this time with reluctance. She didn't like his dismissal of the subject - it was important to her.

But she felt a suffocating wave of guilt. Had she accidentally used Eliza to get everyone out of a test? Was it cockiness from the spell that changed her ethics and made her do something she was regretting more and more the longer she spent with Blaine.

Mr. White called from the front of the room, 'class is dismissed. Make out at home, will you?'

Perrie snapped out of it and followed Blaine out of the classroom. He led her down the corridor by the hand as he pushed past people who were in their way. 'Stop doing that,' Perrie told him, and he did as she asked. When they reached the end of the corridor, he pushed the entrance doors open.

He was about to lead her to his car when she stopped him. 'I have to meet my friends,' she told him.

'You don't want to come straight to mine?'

'I want to,' Perrie assured him, though she wasn't sure she assured herself. 'But, I have some things I need to go through with them, for the anti-bullying society.'

'I'll come with you!'

'No!' Perrie almost shouted, which she didn't mean to do. 'I mean, this is something I have to do on my own. If I need you, I'll text you, okay?'

'Okay,' Blaine replied obediently. 'I'll just wait at home. Let me know if you need anything.'

'I will.'

Perrie watched as Blaine drove away. She sighed and felt her heart heave. It had only been a few hours since casting the spell, and for some reason, she was already regretting it. She wanted him, and now he's hers. She wanted acceptance from her classmates, but she didn't feel satisfaction from it. The confliction tore her heart in two.

She turned around and almost screamed. Standing right behind her was the woman from the magic shop.

'Having fun with the spell?' The woman asked.

'Jesus!' Perrie screamed. 'What are you doing here? Why are you creeping around like that?'

'I'm just checking in,' she answered. 'I could feel a shift in the cosmos and I knew you girls cast that love spell.'

'It's more than a love spell,' Perrie told her bitterly, resenting the term she used. 'It was a spell to change people's perceptions of us... and it's a bit of a love spell.'

'I know what kind of spell it was,' she said. 'I'm sure I cast it myself when I was your age.'

Perrie eyed her suspiciously. 'And have you come with some sort of warning?'

'In a way.'

Perrie waited for her to speak. 'Care to elaborate?'

'It's more... advice... that I want to impart. Don't let the spell change who you are. If you can remain yourself through the entire time the spell is effective, then the spell will always be effective. But, if you start to feel that you're changing, you must cancel the spell.'

'What will happen if I don't?'

'Well,' the woman said as she deepened her tone to sound cryptic. 'You'll always remain that changed person forever. You'll look in the mirror and not recognise who you are. You'll resent yourself and the people around you - but then it will be too late. You'll be stuck with that version of you forever.'

'But if I have everything I ever wanted... love, respect...'

'You may have to take a step back and think to yourself - is it worth it?'

Perrie stopped to think.

'Just heed my advice and I'm sure you'll be fine. If you ever need me, you know where to find me.'

The woman started to walk backwards, keeping her eyes on Perrie. Then, she turned, and walked away down the street. Perrie watched her, only for a moment.

In a panic, she pulled out her phone, and sent a message in the group chat with the girls.