Chapter Three: Secrets Revealed...
Author's Note:
Okay, guys! It's time for Chapter Three: Secrets Revealed. Here's a little chapter background: Alison is now living with Kim, and Wilson and Bonnie, nor anyone else, can remember where Kim's location is, meaning that they can't remember Alison running into the forbidden forest. The search is still on, and there will be a little mystery at the end. For now, secrets are revealed! Also, this chapter will feature the song, "Frozen Waters" in the flashback scene. It's only the shortenedversion. Thefull version will be on fictionpress(dot)compretty soon.It's an original song that I wrote, so it is copyrighted on Fiction Press. Enjoy! Until Chapter Four: Re-Encounters, see ya! ;-) Also, chapter five will be featuring my original song, "Now That I Can Fly." Look out for that after Re-Encounters! ;-)
-CelestialTime93
Alison awoke to find herself on the feather stuffed bed. Kim was cooking soup in a cauldron, feeding Mimi, and baking apple pie, all at the same time! Kim looked exhausted.
"What happened?" Alison asked.
Kim was startled and practically yelped. She whirled around and sighed of relief. "You're awake. For a minute there, I thought you weren't gonna make it."
Mimi looked up from her milk bowl, and got excited. Mimi jumped onto the bed beside Alison, and looked at Alison sweetly.
"Mimi wants to be petted." Kim explained, slicing apples for the apple pie.
Alison petted Mimi lovingly, and Mimi mewed happily and purred.
"I sure wish I had a cat." Alison said.
"Now you do." Kim said, soaking the apples and placing them in the pastry pan.
"Are you saying..." Alison brightened, hoping to hear the answer she wanted to hear.
"You're living with me now." Kim replied with a smile.
"Yes!" Alison exclaimed. She got out of bed and hugged Kim. "Thank you, Lady Kim!"
"No problem!" Kim giggled, and hugged Alison back.
"We only have two days..." Wilson muttered, as he paced back and forth in the Living Room that afternoon, "Not to mention Alison ran away."
"We can't look for Alison and stop the curse at the same time, can we?" Bonnie asked.
"No, that's impossible." Wilson replied, "The maids will be working, and the search crew already searched every legal and illegal area."
"What about the forbidden forest?" Bonnie suggested.
"No." Wilson replied, "Too dangerous. Besides, Alison will never go through there. She was warned by me and her friends. The Witch's Cabin is behind those trees. Who knows what she can do to us."
"True." Bonnie frowned, "What can we do? The curse was layed upon us, and we have no idea how to break it."
"And how can we do the instructions to break the spell anyway, when Alison didn't give us a second chance?" Wilson wondered out loud, "She ran away before we got a chance to!"
"I just wish the witch never found us in the first place." Bonnie scowled to herself, "Who knew the witch can walk out of the forest? Who?"
"No one." Wilson replied.
"Exactly." Bonnie said, "And why did she decide to lay the curse on us anyway? What did we do wrong?"
"Whatever we did, it also inflicted on Alison somehow." Wilson replied, "For some reason, I feel like Alison is tied into all of this..."
"How much longer 'til the pie's done?" Alison asked as she helped Kim wash the dishes in an bucket of water.
"Just two more minutes." Kim replied.
"Y'know." Alison explained, "Um... how do I say this... Lady Kim, do you know those stories, when another person takes the character in, and the character starts missing their real family?"
"Yeah." Kim replied.
"I don't feel like that." Alison replied, "I'm happy I left my dad and Bonnie! But... still. I miss my mother."
Kim smiled reassuringly. "I miss her, too." Kim replied, "I used to know her in college. That was another way how I knew your mother. Zoey Beatrice... now I remember! She was in the Writer's Workshop Club! Not to mention the Yearbook Club. Yep, she even played the flute in the school band. She was a magnificent dancer. You should've seen her at the talent show! All of those tales that she wrote herself and told the whole school. And, the best of all, she was never scared to do so. She was also very fond of dolls."
"That explains the dolls she gave me." Alison giggled.
"You got that right." Kim replied, "Zoey was a new member in our circle of friends. Infact, she was the only friend I had in Upperton. My other friends were stuck in Middleton and Lowerton."
"Monique and Ron..." Alison muttered, "Were they good friends?"
"They were great friends." Kim replied, "Zoey was so much like both of them. Friendly and funny like Ron, and beautiful fashionista like Monique. She reminded me so much of my friends. We first met in the Yearbook Club. I was incharge of taking the photos, and Zoey was incharge of editing them on the computer for the yearbook. Also, she chose the cover and the first page. She was so creative..."
"You guys really were close friends." Alison smiled.
"When I heard that Zoey was pregnant, I started freaking out! Back when I was nine, she was only in her last year of Junior High School. I found out that Zoey wanted to stay at the school longer, so she shrunk back a few ages with her own magic, and started school again. Just for the fun of it."
"So, my mom was four years older than she was when she died?" Alison asked.
"Yep." Kim replied, "She was one smart witch. She used her magic to transform herself four years younger to attend freshman year with me!"
Alison giggled. Mimi joined in the fun. Kim giggled also.
"Finally, when we graduated, I went onto living by myself. My parents gave me about a hundred dollars to start off with, hoping that I would find a job when I got to Upperton. Things didn't go as planned, so, I decided to make my own house."
"And you already told me the rest." Alison said.
"Exactly." Kim nodded with a smile, "We still stayed in touch. You did know that you had a baby brother, didn't you?"
"Yeah, but he was sent to the orphanage on my dad's wishes." Alison replied.
Kim just noticed Mimi. "Oh, Mimi. You're back. Did you bring the new member?"
"Mew..." Mimi replied.
"Okay, bring him in." Kim said.
Mimi jumped off of the table, and ran to the door. She picked up a bundle with her mouth, and came back in. She gave the bundle to Kim.
"Who's that?" Alison asked.
"Alison," Kim said, revealing the baby's face, "Meet your brother, Edward."
Alison's heart burst with joy. She was reunited with her baby brother! The one that she lost when her mother was starting college again!
"How could I ever thank you, Lady Kim?" Alison sobbed happily, accepting the bundle from Kim.
"No need to." Kim replied, "This is my thank you to you. You changed my life to the way it used to be, Alison. Reuniting you with your baby brother was the least I could do. He's supposed to be five years old, but he never learned how to walk. That's why he's so big."
"Again, Lady Kim." Alison said happily though tears, "Thank you. I will always thank you for this."
Kim smiled. "You're welcome."
The doorbell to the Lockhart Mansion rang.
"Annabelle, get the door please!" Bonnie called.
Annabelle, one of the youngest housemaids, ran over to the door, and opened it, to see a woman in a black cloak with golden ropes. Her hands and feet, even her face, were hidden by the cloak.
"May I come in?" the woman asked.
"Of course." Annabelle replied, "Ma'am, sir, a visitor is here."
"Who could it be during this time of the day?" Bonnie wondered out loud.
Then, the woman stepped into the Living Room.
"My senses have told me that you are in search of a way to reverse the spell that a white witch had cast on you." the woman said mysteriously.
"Yes." Wilson replied, "But, how can we help you?"
"It's not what you can do for me," the woman answered, removing the hood of the cloak, "But what I can do for you. I can reverse the spell that the white witch had cast on you."
The woman had pale skin, blood red lips, piercing black eyes, and jet black hair. The woman clasped her fingers together, revealing her bony white hands. A smirk crept on her face.
Wilson and Bonnie looked at each other, then smiled menacingly. "We accept your service." Wilson replied, "On one condition, you get rid of the white witch, once and for all."
The woman smiled. "My, that is the only way to break the spell. It's to make the white witch useless!"
Kim led Alison to her room, where a comfortable bed was made, and her doll collection was put up on a large shelf, where each doll had space. The little doll of Kim was seated beside the neatly made bed.
Kim was tucking Alison in, when Alison suddenly said, "Lady Kim, can you tell me a story?"
"What kind of story?" Kim asked, sitting beside Alison on a rocking chair.
"One of the adventures you went on." Alison replied.
"Alright." Kim replied, "One day, I was flying through the air, changing the season of fall to winter overnight, making bright, white snowflakes fall down from the sky. Each snowflake was unique. But, while I was changing the season, I saw a girl below, skating on the fresh, smooth ice..."
(Flashback)
It was the year 2010, and it was the night before the first day of winter. Young Kim flew into the humid spring sky, and held her crystal wand high into the air. The Jade Crystal Star glowed a bright white, and left a trail of snowflake sparkles. Each sparkle got high into the sky, until it can't be seen. When they were out of the eye's sight, they expanded, into clouds that sprinkled snow to the ground lightly, covering up the streets and roads, and the top of houses. Lakes were instantly frozen solid, and the outdoor skating rinks turned from a swimming pool to a skating rink. The ice was smooth and glassy, waiting to be carved up by the skates of young hockey players and figure skaters.
The surface below me is shining so brightly
Reflecting the moonlit sky
The surface a mirror, a window, a glass
Made from the hands of God
Frozen tears fall from the sky
Engulfing the autumn scene
Icicles forming
Melting ice dripping
When can I see the
Windows and doorknobs were tinted white with the fog of the winter wind and icicles formed on gutters and lightposts.
The sparkles soon travelled to the grounds, covering the ground with fresh, white snow, waiting for the little kids to jump into and play in. The final leaves of fall were buried under the cold snow, as the trees were now bare and gazed at with awe in the morning. Snow formed stripes on the trunks of the barren trees, and evergreens were piling up snow on the branches.
Young Kim flew above the sky, and lowered her wand. She looked down at her bag. "It's okay, Mimi. You can come out now."
The young black kitten poked it's tiny head out of the warm handbag, as a snowflake landed on Young Mimi's nose. The young kitten licked at it. Soon, Young Mimi stuck out her tongue for snowflakes to fall on it.
Young Kim giggled. She looked below, and gasped when she saw a familiar sight.
New day
When can I dance upon the frozen mirror
I will skate far away
On the frozen waters
With my wings made of snow and the sun
I will fly
It was Zoey Beatrice, from school. Young Kim flew down to the skating rink as Young Zoey put her skates on.
"Hey, Zoey." Young Kim greeted, "What are you doing? You're not supposed to skate yet! Not until tomorrow!"
"You know how impatient I am, Kim." Young Zoey replied, tying her dirty blonde hair with a hair tie, "I can't even last thirty minutes off of newly smoothed ice. It's like skating on a giant window."
"You are very poetic, my friend." Young Kim complimented, "Very well. But, when you are done, I'm going to smoothen out the ice again. Without a Zamboni!"
The two girls began to giggle.
Shining bright moonlight
Making the ice glow
When can I finally seep through the snow
Through the wilderness
Into the light
And finally show
My endless light
Young Kim gazed at Zoey's graceful body, skating gracefully on the glassy ice, the moonlight reflecting off of it, making it almost glow.
Oh,
It's a new day
When can I dance upon the frozen mirror
I will skate far away
On the frozen waters
With my wings made of snow and the sun
I will fly
Young Kim held her breath when Zoey did a triple lutz. She then let out her breath with a sigh of relief when Zoey landed perfectly. She was a perfectionist. Young Kim knew that.
The surface below me is shining so brightly
Reflecting the moonlit sky
The surface a mirror, a window, a glass
Made from the hands of God
Frozen tears fall from the sky
Engulfing the autumn scene
Icicles forming
Melting ice dripping
When it was all done, Young Kim applauded and praised Young Zoey as she got off the ice. After Young Zoey went home, Young Kim smoothened out the ice once more with her winter magic. Then, she flew back home.
(Repeat Chorus until fades)
(End of Flashback)
Kim looked down to see Alison rest peacefully. She smiled, tucked her in, and kissed her goodnight. If only Ron was her new father.
Kim walked downstairs with Mimi, then gasped when she saw black and purple smoke, forming a meter away from her. When the smoke dispersed, a black witch stood there, cackling quietly.
"Grizelda..." Kim muttered. She was in for grave danger. Especially Alison!