Disclaimer: I do not, never have, and never will own WITCH (unfortunately)

"Will!" Susan Vandom called after her daughter "It's a school night! Where do you think you're going?" Her daughter had just abruptly stood up from her spot on the couch and practically sprinted to the door.

"Exactly! Right, it is a school night, which is why… I need to run to Hay-Lin's and get that stuff for the uhh science project that I left there umm earlier" With every word her daughter seemed to step closer to the door.

"Will! Hay Lin's is too far to walk! I'll drive you."

"NO! I mean uh… you don't have to cause Taranee forgot something there too so I'll just run to her house and we'll get a ride with her brother."

"But!"

"See yah later Mom!"

"Will!" SLAM! The front door shut behind her daughter as she ran out of their apartment in a hurry. Susan Vandom shook her head as she turned off the television show they had been watching. The only thing they had done together in what seemed like weeks. Sure, when they'd first moved to Heatherfield Will had almost never been home. Things had been pretty strained between the two of them then. Less than a month ago though, her daughter had seemed to have a permanent smile on her face replacing the worried frown that was usually there, and had seemed to have de-stressed almost in the blink of an eye. Susan had had no idea what caused the change. Perhaps her daughter had finally adjusted to Heatherfield. Then just this week Will had gone downhill again. The worry lines were back, and with it was the bad attitude and the random disappearances to her friends' houses. Susan did not know what to make of it.

She got up from the couch and turned down the hall toward her bedroom – she had to be at the office early tomorrow. Turning her head to the left briefly, she caught a glimpse of her daughter's room through the open door. Did Will ever clean in there? Piles upon piles of laundry flooded the floor, and the chair, and even the foot of the bed. How could that girl find anything? The only thing that seemed free of clothes and clutter was the wooden bedside table, illuminated be a beam of Moonlight. On the clearly designated space on the top was the frog alarm clock she had caught Will talking (yelling) at the day before, and a small book with a black cover and a ribbon book mark on a page in the middle. Susan picked it up and opened to the first page. It was unlined paper with the words The Diary of Will Vandom scrawled across the middle of the page. In the corners were doodles. In the top left corner was a picture of a smiling frog. On the right the word WITCH was written in capitals diagonally across the corner. On the bottom was a drawing of a necklace that Susan had seen Will wearing often (she claimed it was a gift from Hay Lin for her 14th birthday. It was a mysterious circular jewel that hung around a chain which traveled across the bottom of the entire page.

Susan looked at the book in her hand. She knew Will had been keeping a Diary since the fourth grade. Susan had gotten her this one at the beginning of the school year. Never once had she entertained the thought of spying on her daughter's thoughts when they had lived in Fadden Hills that type of invasion of her daughter's privacy had seemed appallingly wrong to her – it still did, but now their relationship was strained and stress-filled. Susan had no idea what her daughter's life was like here. Will didn't tell her ANYTHING! She wanted to know what had caused this change in her daughter. What better way to find out what she desperately wanted to know than to hear her daughter's own words about it. Maybe she would understand and help Will with whatever had her so stressed lately. Susan desperately wanted to understand her daughter again. So, with that in mind, she took the diary back to her own room, sat down on her bed, and settled down to read. She flipped the book open to the latest entry.

Elyon is back at Shellfield again. Who would have thought School would be more fun than ruling Meridian! Then again I guess it's the same as having my normal life to come back to in-between WITCH dramas. I still can't decide what's worse though: Algebra or the KOV? Hmmm… suffer through calculating slope-intercept form or go head to head with Gargoyle? I might actually choose Gargoyle – I actually know why I'm doing that and I know it serves a worthy purpose fighting him and the other KOV. (Even if I didn't exactly sign up for it).

Speaking of the KOV: They haven't been back to mess with us since we foiled their plan to frame us for Elyon's disappearance a few days ago. Literally Corny totally trashed sandpit!

Now, they've started harassing the Palace Guards who switched sides. Burning their homes and terrorizing their families. Elyon has them guarding their own houses in shifts! And WITCH has been put on Alert. (Even if we haven't caught them at the scene of the crime yet) Next time they show up, I'm hoping I can throw Raythor right back in Prison and actually focus on life in Heatherfield for a while.

I still don't know who broke them out of prison in the first place. The woman seems to have vanished into thin air.

Have to go, I'm going to watch some TV with MOM tonight, I'm praying Taranee doesn't call.

Susan set Will's diary down in her lap and stared at the entry from earlier tonight. What in the world was meridian? How was Elyon ruling it? And who were the KOV and WITCH! She was more confused than when she'd decided to start reading. She wanted answers now more than ever before. What secrets was her daughter actually keeping from her? She flipped to the front of the diary and decided to start from the very beginning.

So what do you think? Should I continue it?

:D Litara