HouseBroken: Thanks. Same here. That stuff is scary! peterpeter: haha I think Alex would do ANYTHING if it meant keeping Olivia from Jenny. dove in love: (kisses and hugs) Aww, I think we've shared a lot together. Thank you for forgiving me. I still owe you a story. I like her being nice, too. I know it's not completely accurate, but I think Liv deserves a good mommy. FrozenPurple: Thank you! I'm glad you liked the past two chapters. Now I kinda feel like writing a flashback. Hmm. Rhonda Petrie: Poor Olivia, indeed. I'm glad you thought it was scary though. :) Dee Hensley: Thanks again! The usual ones? Oh no! I hope they aren't Freddy Krueger related. :( Those are the worst! Megan: I hope I didn't make you wait too long. :) juicetroop82: She'd do just about anything for her little girl. :) litafan82: It's Liv, Abbie, and Alex, they're smart girls but still not all there. haha. You'll get your answer in this chapter. :) I think I made Liv into too much of a mommy's girl. haha. lachach: haha no worries about the overanalyzing. I think it's awesome. I tend to be the same way. Jenny will factor into things, but mostly in the next story when her room is right next door to Liv's.


After Olivia's shower, Alex and Olivia joined everyone in the kitchen. Olivia wanted to squeeze in some quality make-out time with Alex, but Alex flat-out refused. She knew Olivia was turned on because of Jenny and not her. Olivia insisted she wasn't, but Alex didn't want to take her chances. Instead, she stayed in the room with Olivia as she got dressed and threw her hair back in a messy ponytail. Olivia wanted to curl her bangs and put some make-up on, but Alex didn't give her time for that. All Alex thought about was her girlfriend fantasizing about Jenny and it disgusted her to the point where she could barely look at Olivia. She knew Olivia couldn't control her thoughts, but Jenny affected Alex that much.

Alex led Olivia to the kitchen table and Olivia sat down in between Alex and her mom. Olivia was put in an awkward position. She didn't know if she should rest her head on her mom's shoulder or her girlfriend's. Before Olivia could make up her mind, Serena put her arm around her at the same time Alex did. Both women pulled away at the same time and exchanged awkward glances, which made Olivia feel even worse.

"I have to let her go eventually," Serena said and smiled at Alex.

Olivia mouthed a quick thank you to her mom and scooted her chair closer to Alex. There was no doubt Olivia was a 'mommy's girl,' but she knew there had to be a way to balance being her mom's daughter and Alex's girlfriend.

"Let's get started," Abbie urged. "I want my best friend to be demon free."

"It's not a demon," Olivia and Serena said in unison.

"Don't mind them," Aunt Lorraine told Abbie. "What are you, sweetheart?"

"I'm Baptist," Abbie said proudly. "Alex is Protestant."

"Lori and I are Catholic," Aunt Olivia told them. "Sare's been an atheist since she was five and she passed that on to Livvy."

"I raised my little girl right," Serena said in her defense.

"And yet out of all of us you two are the ones being possessed," Lorraine told Serena. "I think that means you need religion."

"I think that means you need to mind your own damn business," Serena responded.

"Let's not start another Holy war," Aunt Olivia urged her girlfriend. "Lori, Sare is entitled to her beliefs, or lack thereof."

"Can we just get this started?" Serena asked. "My daughter is traumatized."

Olivia squeezed Alex's hand and Alex finally started to feel at ease. Olivia was hers, not Jenny's and Olivia was always going to be hers.

"Babe, don't break the circle this time," Olivia urged her. "It's important."

"I wont. I promise," Alex said and then started kissing Olivia. What started out as a quick peck turned into another and then another. When the Eskimo kisses and 'I love you' and 'I love you more' began, Abbie was forced to separate them.

"I put up with this all the time," Serena told her friends. "These two are always kissing and gazing into each other's eyes. The other day, I made them sit on separate sofas while they watched a movie and they just gazed adoringly at each other the whole time. I started laughing when, after fifteen minutes, Alex said, 'Olivia, I can't bear to be apart from you for another second.' Then Olivia said, 'Alex, I love you so much. Our love is strong enough to survive any distance.' At that point, I didn't want to hear anymore of their melodrama, so I just let them sit together again. Alex made her way over to Livvy as quickly as she could and the two of them started holding each other like they had been apart for years instead of sitting on different sofas for fifteen minutes. Now, I see Olivia's class ring on Alex's finger"

"They're so cheesy," Abbie told everyone. "I'm glad my girlfriend and I aren't like that."

Serena started laughing. "Eddie, you and your girl are an entirely different breed. I remember coming home from work and finding Alex and Olivia innocently kissing each other on one couch while you and your girlfriend were on the other couch. She was straddling your waist while your hand was up the front of her skirt. I didn't even want to deal with that. I just walked by and tried to forget everything I saw."

"I get mine," Abbie said jokingly.

"So did Serena," Aunt Olivia told them. "Senior year, all the guys had a rhyme that spread around the locker room. 'Sare, Sare, you can feel her up and she don't care.'"

Serena glared at her friend. "My personal favorite was 'Olivia Jones, spread her legs and bury your bones.'"

"Okay!" Lorraine told her friends. "Now that we've got that settled. Let's get going with the séance before you two kill each other over some rhyme."

"What do we have to do?" Abbie asked.

"It depends. What did you see?" Aunt Olivia asked.

"Alex and I didn't exactly see anything," Abbie admitted. "I heard everything that happened with the car and I saw the flat tires, but I didn't see them get flattened and I didn't see any type of apparition."

"So it was just Olivia?" Serena asked.

"Yes," Alex responded. "What does that mean?"

"This is good," Aunt Lorraine reassured them.

"Aunt Lori!" Olivia said. "This isn't good! I'm having visions of things I shouldn't be having visions of."

"It only targets the people it feels need to be targeted," Aunt Olivia informed her niece. "When we did the séance, all three of us saw something, nothing as frightening as what Serena saw, but it still targeted all three of us. Whatever it is, only wants you. Abbie and Alex are completely safe."

"I think that makes me feel worse," Alex admitted. "I'd rather this thing take me instead of Olivia."

"I'd rather it take me than you, babe," Olivia told her. Even though everyone was looking, Alex couldn't resist giving Olivia another kiss.

"So does this mean Alex and I are pure?" Abbie asked and everyone started laughing.

"I wouldn't go that far, Eddie," Serena told her. "It just means there's nothing it wants from you."

"Don't break the circle again," Abbie urged Alex.

"Okay, I get it. I'm sorry," Alex said, frustrated.

"You three are going to do the séance around the table. You're not going back to Creekmore," Serena told them. "Emma was real, but it's not her that the three of you contacted. Somewhere along the line, something went wrong. I'm not going to blame any one of you in particular because I know neither of you had ever done a séance. These rituals are better left to actual mediums and not teenage girls pretending to be mediums. The three of us learned that the hard way and now the three of you are learning it."

"There's some more candles in the cabinet. You need to have a number divisible by three," Lorraine told them. "The more candles, the better. These entities are drawn to the warmth."

Olivia got up to grab some candles. She found nine of them and a few matches. Olivia thought nine was a bit excessive, but if her aunts said the more candles you have, the better, there was no way she was going to go against that.

"Olivia, you have to be the medium again," Aunt Olivia informed her niece. "It's only going to make contact with you, not Abbie or Alex."

"Abbie, Alex, you two can ask questions," Serena told them. "Just keep in mind that you aren't talking to Emma. The three of us are going to be sitting outside and if anything goes wrong, we'll be able to hear you and intervene. Alex, once again, do not break the circle. I know it's a normal reaction, but breaking the circle only allows for the negative entity to remain with Olivia. Olivia, you need to remain calm and in charge. If this starts to get out of control, imagine your circle encompassed by a white light and keep imagining that until the three of us are able to properly intervene. Everything will be quiet, so we'll be able to hear you right away."

Over the next couple of hours, Olivia's mom and her aunts told the girls everything they needed to know about the séance. The girls didn't want to be left alone, but they knew it was up to them to stop this.

As soon as they were alone, the Cabenmichael girls started arranging the candles in the center of the table and lighting them. They turned the rest of the lights off so the entity would be drawn to them instead of an outside area. Their previous chant was directed at Emma, so they had to learn a new one that could be directed to an unknown entity.

When they sat down in a circle around the table, Abbie and Olivia made sure to hold Alex's hands extra-tight so there was no way she could break the circle even if she wanted to.

The chant they had said to Emma was comforting, but this one made them nervous. In fact, the whole process made them nervous.

"Spirits of the past, move among us. Be guided by the light of this world and visit upon us," the girls chanted and received no response. As soon as they had finished chanting for a second time, Olivia felt a chill go through her body and she started to squeeze their hands even tighter.

"What are you?" Abbie asked, but the entity wouldn't answer.

"What do you want from Olivia?" Alex asked and there was still no response.

"Why did you choose Olivia?" Abbie asked.

"She never had innocence," the entity said through Olivia.

"Yes she did and she still does!" Alex shouted.

"Alex, calm down," Abbie urged her. "We have to stay focused. It's just trying to get a rise out of you."

Alex noticed that her girlfriend was crying. "Baby, we're going to get rid of this," she told her.

"Fuck you, she's mine," the entity said.

"No, fuck you!" Alex said angrily. "Olivia is mine and I will do anything and I mean anything for her. I'm not going to let you have her."

"I already do," the entity told her. "She's mine and I can do whatever I want with her."

Abbie saw that Alex was furious. She was glaring at Olivia. The words weren't Olivia's but Alex couldn't help but glare at their source.

"She doesn't want you," the entity told her. "She's had Jenny. She's had Connie. She could have anyone she wants. Why would she want you?"

"Because she loves me," Alex said angrily. "She loves me! Not them."

"She isn't thinking of you when you fuck her," the entity told Alex. "She may be using your body, but it's Jenny she's picturing."

"Olivia loves me," Alex said as she stood up and started yelling at the entity inside Olivia. "You don't know what love is. You're incapable of feeling anything. I have Olivia and Olivia has me. Our relationship can survive anything, including whatever you may do to us. Olivia is better than you, stronger than you, and there's no way you're going to have a stronghold on her forever!"

"Alex, it's just trying to get a rise out of you," Abbie reminded her.

"Stay out of this," the entity said to Abbie. "Nobody cares about you. Not even your own mother wants you."

"Shut up!" Abbie yelled, forgetting the advice she had given Alex.

"You failed your mom just like you failed your baby," the entity told Abbie and started smiling.

"You bitch!" Abbie said angrily, completely forgetting about the entity speaking through Olivia. She forcefully let go of their hands and lunged at Olivia, sending them both to the ground. The flames were suddenly extinguished and Alex started screaming.

"What the hell happened in here?" Serena asked when she flipped on the light switch. The three of them walked in the room and found Olivia pinned to the ground by Abbie. "Livvy, your nose is bleeding!"

"Abbie lunged at her and when I tried to break them apart, she smacked Olivia," Alex said frantically. "Baby, is your nose broken?"

"No, it's just bleeding," Olivia said, looking down at her blood-stained shirt. "Abbie, what the hell?"

"I'm sorry," Abbie said and then helped her up. "It's just the things you were saying to me."

"But it wasn't me!" Olivia reminded her.

"I just never expected those words to come out of your mouth though," Abbie said.

"Come on, Livvy. Let's get you cleaned up," Serena told her daughter and led her to the bathroom with Abbie and Alex in tow.


After Olivia was cleaned up, Serena gave her an ice pack to hold on her nose to keep the swelling down. The Cabenmichael girls changed into their pajamas and then retired to their bed with Olivia lying in between the two of them.

"Having an ice pack on my face sucks," Olivia said to make Abbie feel bad.

"I'm sorry, Liv. I really am," Abbie repeated.

"And you broke the circle," Alex added.

"But I think it's going to be okay," Olivia reassured them. "I don't feel the entity anymore. All I feel now is this throbbing, excruciating pain in my nose."

"I'm sorry, Liv," Abbie said softly. "You know I love you."

"I love you, too," Olivia told her.

"I expected this trip to be pure fun, but it was actually educational," Alex told them. "We learned to never, ever fuck with the netherworld."

"You can say that again," Abbie added.

"I don't know," Olivia said hesitantly. "In retrospect, it's actually kind of cool. It's the kind of story we can tell our future children. How many people can actually say they were possessed by an entity?"

"Not many, I guess," Alex said. "Even fewer can say their best friend smacked it out of them."

"Abbie should probably do that for a living," Olivia suggested.

"Abbie Carmichael, beating the living hell out of people since 1992," Alex teased.

"Literally," Olivia added.

"Demon, be gone!" Abbie shouted and all three of the girls exploded into a laughing fit.

"Ow, my face hurts even more when I laugh," Olivia said. "I hate you so much, Abbie."

"No, you don't," Abbie told her and then cuddled up to Olivia.

The Cabenmichael girls fell asleep easily that night. They were going home the next day and even though they had a fun spring break, all three girls were looking forward to returning to school and returning to their normal lives.