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'I have something to tell you guys,' Jesy said as she stormed into Leigh-Anne's bedroom. The girls had agreed to meet there following Perrie's SOS text. The cauldron was still in the middle of the room, the candles long extinguished. Once Jesy closed the bedroom door behind her, she pulled out her hand - there was a ring.

'SHUT UP!' Jade shouted, falling back on the desk chair. She straightened herself up. 'Are you serious?'

Jesy nodded with a beaming smile on her face. 'Hughie asked me to marry him!'

Jade, Leigh-Anne and Perrie all sat motionless, unsure of how to react, wary that their faces may give away their shock and confusion.

'Is that not a little too soon?' Perrie asked with genuine concern. 'Is marriage really something that you want while he's under a spell?'

'Are you saying that he would never marry me unless he was under a spell?' Jesy asked, offended.

'Not at all!' Perrie replied frantically, realising how offensive her question was. 'It's just... so sudden.'

'Yeah,' Leigh-Anne agreed. 'At least wait until you know what he's like as an actual boyfriend. You might end up hating the way he does things, like leave the toilet seat up, takes up all the bed...'

'Wipes his snots on the sofa,' Jade chirped in.

'Vile, but exactly,' Leigh-Anne said. 'Marriage is so... wow.'

'I'm speechless too,' Jesy said, sitting next to Leigh-Anne on the bed. 'Who would have thought that Hughie would confess his undying love for me and ask me to marry him minutes after putting a potion down his neck?'

'Yes, who'd have thought?' Jade said, rather sarcastically.

'Sorry,' Jesy said after breaking off a dreamy look. 'What was the SOS about?'

Perrie stood. 'The woman from the magic shop visited me outside of school today. She warned me that the spell will change us and we won't be able to change that if we don't break the spell.'

'BREAK THE SPELL?' Jesy shouted, then laughed. 'We just cast it! Do you remember why we cast the spell? To make those guys who made us feel like shit love us because we deserve it. How is that bad?'

Leigh-Anne, who had been rather quiet, finally spoke up. 'I'm glad I cast the spell - Gary's been having a really hard time and I think the spell will help him as much as it will help me. I do love him and I think the spell is helping, not hurting him.'

Jesy pointed to Leigh-Anne. 'See, it's helping other people too!'

'I must admit Perrie,' Jade said as she joined in. 'Things are finally happening for us. We can't give that up yet. So what if it changes us a little bit? We're better than what we were before. Change is good.'

'Not all change is good,' Perrie said, looking down at the floor. 'I used Eliza to get out of a test in Mr. White's class, to get the whole class out of it. I feel so bad about it.'

'Has anybody been to see her in hospital?' Leigh-Anne asked. They all shook their heads. 'Then that's another reason to keep the spell going. What happened to her was because people turned a blind eye to bullying. They saw she needed help and nobody gave it to her. We saw she needed help and we were too late. She told the police it was a bunch of guys before she went into a coma...'

'I wish I knew who,' Jade said. 'I'd give them a bit of this...' - she swiped her hand down - 'and a bit of that...' - punching an invisible enemy.

'I just felt, in that moment of using Eliza's situation to help everyone out, that I didn't recognise myself, you know?' Perrie said.

The others looked at her sympathetically.

'Yeah,' Jesy said as she grabbed her hand. 'I get what you mean. It's just different, is all. You don't have to worry about what that witch said. She was probably just wanting to scare you. Maybe she wants us to go back to her shop to buy more things, so it could have just been a stunt.'

Perrie smiled. 'Yeah, you're right.'

'I managed to get an invitation to Kyle's family dinner tomorrow - it's a event for his family, so I was very lucky to be invited. I had to nag him because even though he asked, it felt like he was just saying it for the sake of saying it.'

'Well done,' Leigh-Anne said. 'I know how much you love Kyle; that's a big thing!'

Jade shrugged. 'Yeah, I just hope his family like me.'

'They definitely will,' Perrie told her. 'Everyone you meet likes you.'

'Everyone we all meet likes us now,' Jesy corrected her. 'Do you know what we could do with that?'

Leigh-Anne stood next to Perrie. 'Let's not get too crazy. Remember, we don't want to hurt anyone.'

Jesy rolled her eyes. 'Of course I don't want to hurt anyone. I mean considering the girls at school are so degraded every single day, look at Eliza! I heard a rumour that the reason she started getting bullied was because she refused to put out. Some of the guys got mad.'

Jade huffed. 'Those dickheads think they can get away with anything.'

'That's why we started the anti-bullying society, Mixers, to take action right now,' Leigh-Anne told them. She felt a load of power in her voice - it was something so important to her.

'What can we do now while school is finished for the day? It won't help anyone right now,' Perrie said.

'Let's message, text, WhatsApp, Facebook, tweet... all of the social media, to the girls at our school. Every single one. Right now we only have four members...'

'Us,' Jesy pointed out.

'...So let's rally the numbers while we have some power. Convince people to join.'

The other three girls nodded and pulled out their phones. 'It's going to be a long night,' Leigh-Anne told them. 'But starting tomorrow at school, we give a voice to the girls who need it most.'

'Everyone should be here by now,' Leigh-Anne said to the girls.

They were waiting in the auditorium. After a long night, the girls messaged at least fifty of the other societies in the school, asking them to attend the first meeting of the Mixers. They had a lot of responses, but nobody was showing up.

'Is this spell faulty? Because I thought we had some sort of power and respect? Jesy asked. She couldn't hide the disappointment.

'Maybe it doesn't exactly work over message?' Perrie theorised.

'So?' Jade said, impatiently walking down the stage steps. 'We got a lot of people who said they would come. This school is full of flakes.'

'Should we go to the societies directly?' Leigh-Anne asked as she looked at her watch. 'I'm sure a lot of them are meeting up themselves for their own regular meetings. If our influence doesn't work online, maybe it will work in person?'

Jade stopped next to her. 'Not a bad idea actually. Maybe they have to be in our presence to actually want to help us?'

'We can't tackle all of them, which ones should we go to?' Jesy asked.

They all thought for a moment. 'I know for a fact the Bohemian society are meeting now,' Perrie said.

'And the Drag Queens society,' Jade told them. 'I have always, always wanted to join that society, not going to lie.'

'The Biker Girls society is also running,' Jesy said. 'I can knock on their door.'

Leigh-Anne grabbed her purse. 'I know the convener of the Women of LGBTQ+ society. I know she'll want to join. Okay girls, let's do Eliza proud.'

The girls all went their separate ways - heading to different parts of the school in search for the location of the societies. Since it wasn't long before the start of classes, the hallways were empty, but people were already starting to pour in.

Perrie found the meeting place of the Bohemian society first. It was in a separate building to the main school, and the cold air outside did not deter her from her mission. She looked through the glass on the door first and saw a decently-populated classroom. She knocked gently on the door before letting herself in.

'Hi,' Perrie said to the group before anybody had a chance to talk. 'I'm Perrie, I believe we messaged last night regarding the anti-bullying society?'

The leader of the society, who Perrie recognised as Cheryl, stood. 'Yes, we did. That is what we're meeting about actually. It's never been done before, but the possibility of merging societies to tackle the bullying problem in this school is rather exciting for us. You can bet all the women in this room have been bullied for one reason or another, not just by men but by other women too.'

'That's exactly what the Mixers stand for - not just female empowerment but empowerment for everyone. Bullying doesn't have a sex, it's all down to the individual and the hate they want to spread, whether it is to do with sexism, homophobia, and everything else that turns people against one another. The Mixers stand together against that.'

'We are just a little scared about the consequences if we fail,' one of the women in the classroom said. Perrie looked at her and saw genuine concern on her face - all of the girls were concerned.

'Taking a stand is risky, that's for sure,' Perrie announced, now dominating the entire space, not just from the magic spell but from her own heartfelt words. 'But we need to do it now more than ever. One bad person can affect someone's life and make it worse. Look at Eliza. I've been told I have cankles and now I can't look at my ankles without being reminded of it. Don't you all want that to stop?'

► The women in the room nodded. 'Someone said I look like the Nutty Professor,' one of the girls said.

'I was told I'm a hippy freak,' another spoke up.

'Come to the auditorium so we can work on ways to stand up against bullying. All of us together can change the world.'

The women, silent now, looked at each other. Slowly, they started to smile and Perrie could see the hope in their eyes. The women of their school never had that hope before.

They all began to rise and Perrie led them outside. More and more people had arrived to the school, filling the courtyards. They remained grouped together, walking past some of the immature guys and bitchiest girls of the school. They stood firm.

'Hold up, no you didn't bow, bow. I ain't the chick to walk behind you round town. Just 'cause you're packin', packin', whoop, down south, that don't mean I'm ever gonna take it lying down, baby, oh...'

The auditorium had never been more full. Women of all colours, shapes and sizes lined every single chair. Not only had the societies that Perrie, Jesy, Leigh-Anne and Jade all went to came, but as soon as they saw that one society had joined, they all followed.

Leigh-Anne high-fived her girls and stood at the front of the stage. Everyone fell silent.

'Thank you all for coming to the first official Mixers meeting,' she said, and the room burst into applause. Once it quietened down, she continued. 'It is extremely important that we all stand together against anyone who discriminates against others for any reason. That is not welcome in our school anymore.'

'We have a really simple solution to ensure that everyone is happy and safe in our school, and that's communication,' Jesy told the room with a powerful voice. 'That is not sitting idle when you see something happen that is wrong. It sounds simple, but it is so important that we all know that we are not alone.'

Perrie followed Jesy's speech. 'We will set up groups so that we can prevent bad words and actions against our friends and fellow students. Report what is happening. If we keep our numbers up, then confronting bullies to stop what they're doing should be easy. It is all of us against them - the many against the few.'

Jade then took control of the room. 'We can do this, we can change this school and make it much better for everyone. The bullying stops today, it stops now. We have the power to do it if we stick together. Who is with us?'

The auditorium roared, and everyone looked at the people around them. A lot of them were strangers, but now they felt bonded, empowered, by what they heard. They never would have stood up for the stranger sitting next to them, but now they would.

The girls looked at everyone from the stage. Their hearts burst with pride at seeing strangers come together for one common goal, against a common enemy. They had a group hug before joining everyone off the stage.

But at the back of the auditorium, several of the school's biggest bullies watched from behind an open door, enraged by the display of defiance.