Sorry that I took forever to get this out. I had a lot on my mind that was causing a writer's block. Since its summer vacation for me, I'm gonna try to update as frequently as I can. So for those who had been waiting for an update, here you go
"It's true." Joe intervenes. "It took me about a month to actually get a full sentence out when I first met Selena."
"You're talking to me and you just said a full sentence." Demi said to him.
"Hey, that was fifth grade, I have improved since then." He pulled up a chair that he saw available and sat down. He took off his glasses and he put on another pair that had magnifying glass in front of the lenses and a small bright light. "Can I see your phone?"
"Oh, yeah." Demi pulled her phone out of her back pocket and handed it to the boy.
"An iPhone, it's going to take longer than I thought it was." He stated.
"Why?"
"iPhones or any smartphone are a little bit more complicated than any regular phone, but it doesn't mean I can't do it." He began to carefully take apart the phone without damaging anything.
"How is he still in high school?" Demi asked the older girl.
"He doesn't want his father to know how smart he is. So he pretends that he's just an average high school student." Selena answered. "He thinks if he shows his father how smart he was, that his father would take advantage of him."
Then out of the blue, the doorbell went off. "Hey, I'm going to go get that, I'll be right back." Demi walked out of the attic and walked downstairs to the front door. She opened it to find her best friend on the front porch. "Miley, what are you doing here?"
"Can't a friend stop by and say hi?" Miley asked.
Demi crossed her arms, "Not without a good reason."
"That depends." Miley began and Demi gave a look to continue. "I was walking in the hallways of the school."
Selena got tired of just standing there, so she decided to take a look around the attic. The big green book on the podium was definitely grabbing her attention. She immediately walked over to it. She opened and flipped through the pages.
"Should you be touching that?" Joe asked.
"What can I do? It's not like anything would happen if I recite any of these spells."
"Then I stopped in front of Ms. Lang's room and I found Selena in there talking to her." Miley said.
"Why would that seem so unusual that you had to come here and tell me this?" Demi asked.
Selena stopped on a page that had caught her attention at the Objection spell. She figure no harm could come of this, so why not cast the spell. She took a deep breath a recited the spell in front of her. "Let the object of objection become but a dream as I cause the scene, to be unseen." Nothing happened after the first second, so she figured that of course it didn't work. Until she saw small golden lights surround her body.
"I think that maybe she has been going to see Ms. Lang to do more than just catching up." Miley said to her best friend.
"Selena would never do that." Demi stated.
"How would you know? You barely knew her for two days."
"I'm just saying be careful what you assume, Miley. I promise you that there is nothing going on between the two."
Miley scoffed, "You don't have to lie to protect her, Dem. By tomorrow, everybody's going to know what's going on."
"Miley, you're making a big mistake."
"I just made a mistake." Selena stated.
"What are you talking about?" Joe looked up from what he was doing to look at his friend. He flinched when he saw Selena. "Whoa." He gently set down the phone and took off the glasses that he was wearing to get a good look at the girl. She was wearing a short red skirt with a yellow belt, a blue shirt that was cut short so he could see her abs and it had a big red 'S' in the middle of the shirt, red boots that went up to her knees, and a red cape. Then he made another observation. "Your hair is longer."
"What?" She walked up to the full body mirror that was in the attic and saw that her hair went pass her shoulders. "Oh my god. Demi is going to flip when she sees me."
"I don't think I am. See ya at school tomorrow." Miley walked off and Demi had closed the front door.
The younger girl made her way back to the attic not expecting what she would find when she entered the room. Her body froze in the doorway when she took in what she saw in front of her. "What. The. Hell?"
"I told her not to be touching the book." Joe said as he was still working on the phone.
"Shut up, Joe!" Selena said. "Demi, I didn't mean to. I mean, I didn't think anything would happen if I read a spell out of the book."
"You're a witch?" Demi asked.
"I don't know, maybe. Can you help me?" Selena pleaded.
"How could you not tell me that you're a witch?"
"Because I didn't know!"
Demi shook her head and walked up the podium where the book was. She saw the spell that the older girl used. "It's an easy fix." She tried to keep eyes focused on the spell book in front of her but she kept finding herself sneaking peeks at the older girl next to her. She saw how the girl looked beautiful without the glasses. She noticed how toned Selena's abs were.
These little peeks didn't go unnoticed by Selena. She crossed her arms over her chest. "You like what you see, Halliwell?"
"Oooh, she using the last name. She must really like you." Joe said as he was still concentrating on the younger girl's phone. "You know she just gonna stare you down until you answer her." He said when he noticed that his best friend staring down Demi.
Demi looked at the older girl, who now raised her eyebrow, waiting for an answer. "Y-Yes." Demi managed to get out but she knew that the girl already knew her answer. Selena wanted her to say it out loud. She quickly turned her attention back to the book in front of her. "Before I say this spell, what were you thinking when you said it?"
"Just what I would look like if I decided to be a superhero." Selena looked into the mirror to look at herself once again. "It looks whole lot better than what I imagined it would be. I'm beginning to think I'm in over my head."
"Why do you think that?"
"I just found out that I'm not only watching out for human bad guys, but the supernatural kind also. I don't think I'm ready for that. If they could hurt me once, they could do it again and you or your brother wouldn't be there to save me."
"Maybe if I could get my dad to help you train these powers, you wouldn't have to rely so much on me."
"Would he be willing to do that?" Demi nodded her head. Selena let out a sigh of relief. "Oh good. I need talk to my mom tomorrow."
"Yeah, that wouldn't be a good idea." She closed the spell book, already knowing what spell she would use.
"How come?" Selena was curious on why the younger girl thought it would be a bad idea,
"That was Miley at the door. She saw you and Ms. Lang talking in the classroom." Demi looked the girl in the eye. "She thinks that there is something going on between the two of you."
"What do y-" Selena began to say but then she realized what the girl meant. "Oh no." She brought her hands up to her face. "Like I don't have enough problems as it is." She removed her hands from her face. "What is she going to do?"
"She's a school journalist, what do you think she's going to do? The whole school is going to see the paper the first thing when they walk into school. I tried to talk her out of it but she wouldn't listen to me, I'm sorry."
Selena groaned. "For somebody who claims to be a big fan of my dad, she doesn't really care if she embarrasses his daughter."
"Not if it's true, which it isn't. You can embarrass her by telling her the truth. I told her not assume anything especially when doesn't have enough evidence."
"I am so quitting the school newspaper." Selena walked until she was standing beside the younger girl. "So how are you going to fix this?"
"I just have to repeat the same spell but while at the same time I would have to picture you in your regular clothes." Demi answered.
"That simple?"
"That simple." So Demi did what she told the girl that she was going to do. Within seconds the older girl was back into her regular clothes.
"Glad that's fixed, thanks." Selena said as she was smoothing out her clothes. She walked towards the table that Joe was working at. "How's it going over here?"
"Smoothly so far but it's going to take some time." Joe answered without taking his eyes off the phone. Selena looked over her best friend's shoulder for a minute or two to see what he was doing but walked back to the younger girl when she couldn't understand what Joe was doing anymore.
"So how are you going to handle the rumor?" Demi asked the older girl.
"Just by telling the truth." Selena answered. "Miley needs some major work if she wants to be a journalist because she is doing a poor job of being one." Demi nodded and looked off into nowhere. Selena was about to walk away until something stopped her. She groaned and turned back to the younger girl. "Could you at least wait until I was out of mind reading range before you fanaticize me in a superhero costume?"
Demi blushed, "Sorry." She turned to look at the older girl. "But you did you look pretty hot in that costume."
~…~
The two girls were in a building after Selena dropped of Joe back in Kansas. "So what are we doing here again?" Selena asked. She looked around the room "And where are we exactly?"
"Magic school." Demi answered. "We're here so my dad can help you train your powers."
"I already know how to use my powers." Selena said as she crossed her arms.
"Not the powers that I was talking about."
Selena sighed with annoyance as she plopped herself into the nearest couch. "Where is he?"
Demi walked over to the older girl. "You are so impatient." She sat down next to the girl. "He's in a meeting with some parents." The older girl leaned her head back against the couch.
"Sorry for keeping you two waiting." A middle-aged man appeared in front of the two girls. He had brown hair with touch of gray, showing experience. He looked over to the raven-haired girl. "Hi, I'm Leo, Demi's father." He stuck out his hand for her to shake.
"Selena." She shook his hand. She released his hand as she got up from the chair. "Demi told me you're great teacher."
"I didn't become the headmaster for nothing." He smiled. "So tell me about your abilities." He folded his hands behind his back, waiting for her to answer.
"I can tell you about superhuman abilities." Selena answered. "But I don't know anything about my witch abilities. I just found out about them when I casted a spell."
"Demi told me you are a telepath, that's typically a witch power."
"It's not a witch power, my dad barely developed that ability and he's not even a witch. Hell, he's not really human."
Leo opened his mouth to speak but Demi spoken up first. "Do you think it's possible that the witch in her helped her become a telepath sooner than she was supposed to?"
"Quite possibly." Leo answered. "What do you mean that your father isn't even human?"
"He was born on a different planet. He's practically the only living survivor after it was destroyed." Selena answered.
Leo nodded and continued. "Telepaths are just bit more powerful than you think. They can do more than just read minds. If they are trained well enough, they can channel any other powers, good or bad." He waved over to Demi, telling her to stand beside the girl. "We're gonna try something easy. Selena, close your eyes and take a deep breath." The girl did as she was instructed to do. "Feel the energy that is radiation off of Demi. Once you feel like you have enough, think of a location and let it take you."
"Don't worry, I'll follow." Demi said as she grabbed the older girl's hand.
Selena was feeling the energy like she was told. She had a place pictured in her mind and she let it take her along with Demi. She felt herself orbed out of magic school. When she orbed in the Halliwell Manor, they appeared in mid-air before landing on the floor. The younger girl groaned while Selena sat herself up. "I did it!"
"Now we just have to work on your landing." Demi said as she was still lying on the floor.
"Who the hell are you?" A female voice said. The two girls looked in the living room where the voice was coming from. It was Demi's mom but she looked much younger. They got up from the floor.
Selena was about to answer but Demi stopped her and whispered. "Don't say anything." The older girl nodded. Demi looked at the younger version of her mother. "What year is it?"
Piper looked at them suspiciously. "2004." She answered.
"Great. Just great."
