POV Narrator:
The days went by in Luna Nova since Morgana came to visit the girls, and she even went so far as to pretend to be one of the students for a day, until she returned home on Sunday after a full day of karaoke that all the girls could enjoy to rest before the last weeks of classes in Luna Nova before the winter break, the girls there were already doing their exams and tests, in those last weeks things were more complicated, many of the students were even more stressed, with the exception of Bernadette and Laura who were always exceptional.
The two girls had one major concern about them, and that was when they would come back from winter recess, whether they would reveal their feelings for each other or whether they would just drift apart. This was very noticeable during all these days that they spent ignoring each other, avoiding each other, even avoiding exchanging glances, it was strange, and at the same time it showed a lot of sexual tension between the two of them that sometimes even came close and stared at each other for a while. That is until Cavendish stopped spending his days in the red team's room playing videogames and didn't even go out with the girls on the weekend. McLaren always went out, but she felt much more different than usual, she wasn't as rude anymore and didn't even cuss as much, on many of those days she just stood around the other girls who were having fun. In the training it was something more different at least, at that moment the two turned off that they were in a sexual tension between one another, they even kept a little bit of proximity but it was many times that they ended up in an almost kissing position, although they always ended up stopping and returned to their concentration to train, even because of this the results slowed down, they didn't have so much improvement in relation to the training they had done.
After the days passed in Luna Nova, the students finished all the tests and exams, they would only need to stay a few more days to reach the academy's deadline, besides these being days that recuperation exams are held for students who couldn't reach the averages for that term. Most of the girls got enough marks so that they could be approved, which was great.
Friday, December 4, 1987
The last day of school, at that moment the autumn leaves had already fallen for the most part, signs that the snow was close to happening were very clear, besides the temperatures giving a good drop. This would be the last moment for the students in Luna Nova in 1987 until they would return in 1988 to continue their journey to become witches. So much that in the physical education class that was the last of the day, the girls spent more time having fun playing a volleyball game in which they were forming some teams. In the end of the last game Laura, who was in a team, decides to leave and she follows Bernadette when she saw that the girl was leaving.
POV Laura:
She's not going to leave like this without at least giving me a good-bye or a goodbye? No old man, I've had enough for now, I'll talk to her, I'll say goodbye to Bern if only to say a dry goodbye... So much so that I ran out and found her in one of the corridors where I soon board the cabbage, she turns to me.
- Bern... - That was the only thing I could say... I was still very tense.
- Laura... I was just going to change my clothes, I'm not leaving without saying goodbye to you - she said... How does this girl know? She could tell by my reaction... These two weeks have been useless... I'm just liking her more and more I'm lost in feelings for Bernadette.
- Then meet me in the square that goes to the Ley line, in the same place where we first met... Which was near the tower... I promise to be there in half an hour, let's at least have a goodbye to each other... - I say, holding back my tears as much as I can, while she nods her head in agreement.
We each went our own way, I went to my room, where I packed my bags, changed and soon came across Rose and April whom I made sure to say goodbye to, giving them both a very tight hug... All I wanted was for that time to go by and I could just be with Bernadette... Just me and her... E... Our love... I can't hold on any longer... I really love her
- Laura... - They both say to me as I hug them and was already crying.
- I'm going to... I'm going to stay at my house for a while this recess... I have a lot of things going on in my head and I also want to see my family again... I'll see them in 1988... - I tell them until April puts her hand on my shoulder.
- I live close to your house, we'll still see each other for a while, I'm only here for a little while because of Scarlet... I don't want to leave her alone, but soon I'll be back to spend Christmas with you, you can be sure that I will - April said comforting me. These days she's been a much more mature and companionable person. I love this girl.
- I am going to stay for a while in Scotland to see my family and also to see my boyfriend, I will be waiting for you here in 1988, it was very nice to meet you Laura McLaren... You really exceeded my expectations, with you I had one of my best friends... April was right when she said that you were amazing, keep being this fucked up person that you always were Laura, I don't regret a bit to have talked to you after that moment with Beatrice... I also hope that this time will help you to reflect about this little heart that beats for Bernadette Cavendish, I know very well that you both have feelings for each other and I really root for both of you... I know you like her a lot, I'm going to wait for you to come back, my best friend - said Rose, who soon after hugged me and I even ended up crying, but soon I wiped those tears, grabbed my bag and left that room, just thinking about saying goodbye to the person who made me feel love for someone for the first time in my life.
POV Bernadette:
I have already taken my shower and my bags are ready for the moment I am leaving here... This place caused me a false sense of freedom from Laura, but it also caused me a sense of prison? Even more by that teacher Finnelan that every week made me have to say everything I did here, I didn't have the freedom to be myself for a long time... But that ray of sunshine appeared in my life, a ray of sunshine that looked like the Scottish winter sun, it was so cold, but it lit up anyway... Laura McLaren... She made me change a lot these three months that I was here, I could stop being the girl that lowered her head to everything and I could let bloom who I really am and that I am not only the perfect Cavendish that everybody thinks I am... I will miss all the girls so much... They are amazing people... I soon leave the room with my bags and run into Beatrice and Molly who were just talking to each other until they notice me leaving.
- Bernadette? Are you leaving already? - Molly asked.
- I have to go... My mother must be waiting for me and I don't doubt it at all... - I tell them until Molly gets up and runs to give me a hug. She has always been very nice.
- I will miss you Bern, seriously you were an amazing person in these 3 months, although we were not so close for one issue or another, I could see what a wonderful person you are and how your presence here just did not make me that silly, I thank you so much for coming here and I will look forward to seeing you next year... See you in 1988 - she said until I hear some knocking on our dorm door.
- Goodbye Bernadette, see you next year - said Beatrice as dry as ever until I opened the door to our dorm room and was met with hugs from April who jumped up to hug me tightly and Rose who came next to hug me calmly.
- Bye Bernadette! You're fucking great girl! I'm going to miss the hell out of you and your moments with Laura... Seriously, you gave me a real good friend - April said, all excited and hugging me.
- Goodbye Bern, it was very nice to meet you, look... If you want we can meet in Weddinburgh, I'll be there soon, I'm sure I can help you with all your questions at your residence, so, I'll see you there Bernadette... I love you - said Rose very nicely, "I soon understood the question she was talking about... I'm sure it's something to do with Laura...
After that hug between me and the girls, I left the blue team's dorm with my bags and quickly made my way to the same place where Laura had booked, but as soon as I pass the halls I am obviously approached by Professor Finnelan... What does she want at this hour? I can't even say goodbye to my friends, will she want to talk to me and bar me from going to see my family even? Wow... What an exaggeration.
- Come with me Miss Cavendish - she said, already holding my hand.
She took me to her room as usual... It had been a long time since she took me there, I am sure it must be my mother who finally answered the letter or something like that... Well, I hope so or I hope not, or maybe it's just the winter recess... Well, let's see... At least this time she was polite to me and offered me a place to sit down and filled me a cup of tea.
- Here we are Miss Cavendish, the last day of school this year, I just want to say that your behavior was a little below my expectations and that I am roundly a little disappointed by it... I expected more from you Miss Cavendish, even more for being a Cavendish, your demonstration of juvenile rebellion was something that surprised me because your mother never showed this kind of delinquent behavior, she was always well behaved, but I very much hope that in January you come back as a student more behaved and that the time you spend with your mother will make her open her eyes, she still has not read the letter I sent her ... Well I say goodbye to you for now and see you only in January 1988, from now on your responsibility is with your family, I'm sure I did a good job, even though you failed in behavior with me - said the teacher speaking those atrocities and that I honestly wanted to swear at her for being the last day before the winter recess, but I don't want to throw anything away?
- Goodbye Professor Finnelan, I expect the same from you, that you open your mind more and understand that I am not having any delinquency, but I just want to have space to be myself, it is not so difficult to fulfill my desire - I say leaving that room ... Now I am relieved of that weight... At least for a moment I will live away from having any of my movements supervised... As if I were a criminal.
As soon as I get out of there I only think of one thing... Laura! I don't want her to think I'm gone! So I quickly run off to find her soon... I really hope she is still waiting for me... I don't even know if I am late, but anyway, I won't stay without saying goodbye to her, even if I have to fly to Ireland to do it, I will say goodbye... To the person I love the most...
POV Laura:
There I was waiting for Bernadette sitting on that cold bench, at least this time free from wearing the Luna Nova uniform, I could wear my own clothes? Good, I just sat there waiting, while I also looked at some pictures of us from one of the photo albums we took between us, I kept looking at how relaxed we all were in each of the roles we took, the tears falling... Each moment of that I lived very well... The pictures I took with Bernadette and how in the beginning I tried to show that it was something different, that it was friendship, but certainly it was anything but friendship... Damn I am going to miss them so much... I really enjoyed every moment with these girls... I never had friends this close before... Nobody ever wanted me this much, they only think of me as an object of desire because I am hot or they think I am rude and afraid of me... But in this place, even though I thought it would be bad, it was kind of fun... I am not in it to exceed my magical knowledge, because regardless of the academy of witches I had already exceeded it because of my training... I think I will change my thinking from when I stepped into this place... Luna Nova is not as bad as it seems to be... It has its faults, but every place has its faults, no place is perfect.
I stood waiting and soon I noticed a glint coming from behind me and it was possibly Bernadette coming from Ley's line, so I got up and she followed me and we ran towards each other until we found each other and held hands, she facing me and I facing her... We stared at each other with our eyes already filling with water, and we were also blushing a little.
- Laura... I was a little late... I'm sorry... Miss Finnelan wanted again to act like she owns my steps and everything I do... But now I'm here to say goodbye to the girl I like so much... Not only like... Laura McLaren in all those days that I spent ignoring her I couldn't help but think of something else... It was to try to keep a feeling from taking over... Laura... I... I love you... I can't stop thinking about you and all the love I feel for you, every moment I see you I can't hold on... I feel a very strong need to hug you, to flirt with you... To be by your side... I only want one thing... When we get back... Do you promise you'll accept my proposal if after this recess I am more determined... Will you accept to date me? - Did she really say that? I can't believe I'm having a Lesbian panic here... She asked me to go steady... I'm cool with it... I'll take it after this time of recess for sure... I can't believe we've come this far.
- You know... I take it very well... Then you can be sure that in 1988 I will also make this request to you... I also had this in mind, I didn't want to let our feelings blossom because I thought that we would be far away from each other when we started dating, I wanted to wait for this winter recess to pass... So much so that I even thought of going back home, so that I would refresh my mind and relax more than continuing in Luna Nova, where I wouldn't stop thinking about you? Imagine looking at that room and just imagining the two of us there, playing, doing what we always do every two days, only to spend the whole month without that, without seeing you there... Bernadette Cavendish Stewart, I never imagined that I would fall in love and even feel love for someone like you, but I realize how the girl who was thought of as the perfect little princess was actually the best person I have ever met... I have let go a lot of my somewhat showy way of being... I matured a lot with you... I've come to appreciate the little things and stop complaining a little... I love you Bernadette - I tell her until I stand on my tiptoes and we seal our lips...
I feel for the last time that year those lips pressing against mine, the sweet lips of Cavendish... For the last time the taste of her tongue touching mine, it was very cold at that time, but little by little we warmed up, the poor thing had to bend down to kiss me while I was on my toes, we stayed for a long time in that kiss until it was time to stop and we both separated from the seal with that little bridge of saliva connecting our mouths... I find it so cute when this happens, I even give a little suck which she finds disgusting, but I soon start laughing.
- What's wrong? I can't taste you one last time, since you won't let me try the Scottish tea then I'll taste something else - I tell her and she starts to laugh a little.
- Oh, oh, oh... Only you could be like that Laura... I'll miss your perverted and a little bit silly way too... I love you so much freckles, and since then I have only one last thing to thank you for... Thank you for showing me a freedom that I could never have... Thank you for showing me that I am free, that I have to stand up for myself sometimes and not give up for anything in this world... You are the most important person in my life... Goodbye Laura McLaren... See you in 1988 and maybe you can try your Scottish ham and tea - she said, which made me blush to the point of turning into a statue, so much so that the cabbage rubs her hand on my face and gives me a last lip seal with a silly kiss, flying away with her broom... I just watched this beauty disappear into the sky for a long time.
Bernadette... Why the fuck her... My heart went straight out to pick the perfect little princess... To think that I wanted to date a tomboy or a troublemaker girl like Morgana or April... I thought I was going to find this girl around here, that we were going to live moments of being a slut for Luna Nova... But honestly it would be no fun... I had much more fun with Bern... She was very amazing, an experience that I am loving to live since the beginning... I remember well that first moment she defended me and even apologized when she went to Ley's line... The same moment that we met for the first time in September we are saying goodbye in December... I will miss her a lot... Actually, I am already missing Bernadette a lot... Well, let's fly home, at least this way I can forget about it, I can see my father, my mother, Chelsea and Miss Elisabeth? I grab my broom and soon I'm taking off in the direction of Ireland. Next stop is Dublin, home of the McLaren family.
POV Bernadette:
Laura has gone to her home... I will miss her very much... I am going to mine... I think I will take a moment to think about all the times we have lived together these past three months and how I was able to have a good time with her there... I thought it was just going to be another time at another witch academy a little less pressured than the Weddinburgh Magic Institute, plus it was further away from home and it was a boarding school, so I was away from home, from my mother... Aunts Marie and Amelia... Daryl... All that pressure they put on me to be the perfect little lady, they never give a damn if I am happy or not with all that, they only want to demand that I am an object of pride, but from now on all this will change, I will impose myself and show that I am no longer that little girl who lowers her head to everything ... They can wait for me if they think they are going to control everything I wear, what I do, how I have to act, what I have to like, because from now on I am Bernadette Cavendish.
I just keep on flying towards my family's home... As I got closer and closer, I got lower and lower, it was as if I was walking down a corridor where everything was corrupted, through England into Scotland... It seemed like everything was getting darker and scarier around me and I felt weaker and weaker, it was like everything was getting more and more imposing... I actually felt a little more afraid... Damn it.
POV Laura:
I arrived in Dublin, it was not so slow, I flew fast enough to get there, what really fucked me was the extremely cold wind ripping my skin... Damn... I love flying in the winter, but when I am wearing a scarf, otherwise the wind just rips my face... Until I land at home, I walk to the entrance, as soon as I arrive I find my father vacuuming the MBI 355 and I immediately lean on the car door
- Hey there, old man! - I say winking at my father, who looks at me and then smiles.
- Laura! You finally remembered you have a home girl, did you come to stay? Or are you just visiting family? - said my old man.
- I will stay until Christmas this time. I'm going to go if you want to call me for a ride, I'll go, especially if I'm in the pilot, I'm going to go see mom and my sister - I tell my father.
- Go on girl, they must be missing you terribly... I was thinking today of taking Chelsea to learn to drive, go see the girls - said my father as he continued to vacuum the car.
I enter the house and soon hear that a cartoon was playing on the TV in the living room, until I arrive and find Chelsea sitting on the couch having hot chocolate and my great-grandmother sitting in an armchair reading a book, she as always all intelligent... My mother I didn't see, but soon I went towards my sister and put my hands on her face over her eyes.
- Guess who? - I say with my hands over my sister's eyes, and she quickly takes her hands away and jumps off the couch hugging me.
- Laura! You came to see us! Aeeee! Are you staying? Say you're staying! I'm on vacation! Please tell me that in Luna Nova the winter recess has started! Will you stay here for Christmas? Say yes! Please my sister! - she said pleadingly until I put my hand on my little sister's shoulder.
- Relax girl, I'm going to stay here a lot longer, we are going to have a lot more fun, I'm going to stay until Christmas, I will... Oh and hi great grandma, it's great to see you again, I missed you and give... Mom... - I say this until I am almost knocked down by the hugs of my mother who has just kissed me... Oh fuck, I thought my mom was at work today.
- Laura! Laura! You came, girl! You remembered you had a house - she said... Really... Dad said the same thing, Mom... What an exaggeration, she saw me every race report and now she is all attached to me... But how cute.
- Of course I came... I won't stay without seeing my wonderful family, I was really waiting to come here and see you guys, I'll soon tell you everything that happened in Luna Nova, it was kind of cool there, I thought it wouldn't be because of the first days, but little by little it got better - I say to my mom, who immediately holds my hand and takes me to the kitchen and Heather was there, what a fuck.
I soon get April's mother and stay in the kitchen eating a little... A little was overdoing it, because my mother made sure to stuff me full of food until I couldn't eat any more, for the nine lesbian witches I never ate so much cake and so much candy in my life... But at least it was pretty good, wow... My mother is always a very good cook, if she wasn't a journalist she would be the best cook in all of Ireland. After we ate, dad called me, Chelsea and mom, so we went straight there.
- Come here girls, today we're going for a little drive... Joanne can I let Laura drive today? she's just going to a more secluded field, I want to see her teaching Chelsea how to drive.
- All right, Laura can drive to a more open field, but no speeding, girl, this is not a touring race to be speeding all the time, that goes for you too Mark Irvine, I will keep my ears very attentive so that you don't speed with this car, Mark Irvine McLaren, I am not stupid, stop stimulating your daughter to commit traffic violations and you also Laura, do not even think about sinking your foot on the accelerator - said my mother... Damn ... I'm not even going to risk it, she called my father by his full name, even the old man was afraid.
We soon got in the car... I started the car and sped a few times with the car stopped just to provoke mom, who looked at me with a serious look, while my father in the back seat just laughed, then we took the car out and drove to a more open field, I drove slowly because my mother would be listening, but when I got a little far from home I made sure to twist my foot on the accelerator at times, until we arrived.
- You like to test your mother's patience, be careful with that girl, don't get in trouble, now let your sister drive and I want to see how you will teach her - said my father.
So me and my little sister got out of the car and we changed sides, I taught her very well, telling her to first of all start the car with her foot all the way on the clutch, then put the first gear on, still with her foot on the clutch, then put on the handbrake, release the foot from the clutch and accelerate slowly... She often makes the car die, but that's ok, it always happens, it's her first time driving, until after a few times she dies, I also make sure to warn her to brake with the right foot and step on the clutch every time the car stops completely, besides braking gently, but it wasn't uncommon for her to give those sudden brakes and I was just laughing, we stayed like that until after a while Chelsea got the hang of it and even managed to shift to second gear and drive around the block. She even drove home, but what the fuck, I teach her very well, I am very good.
POV Bernadette:
I arrived on the scene... At home... In the lair of evil... The castle of lamentation... And I don't know... I am just at home, as soon as I arrive I am received by the house maid, Zoe, that lady was quite nice to me, she takes my bags, gives them to the butlers and I am taken by her to where my family was, they were all in the living room, my mother was talking to my godmother Tracey, my sister Daryl was reading a book and my grandmother Isabella was the first to notice my presence.
- Bernadette, how nice to see you here, it seems your recess in Luna Nova has begun - said my grandmother until they all turned their gazes to me.
- Mistress Bernadette has returned to our premises, I will leave her things in her room, if you will allow me I will retire ladies - Zoe said, bowing her head and leaving the room... I wonder what is going on in the heads of these employees, they are always so inexpressive? I've never seen them talking to each other, they just spend all their time working to serve us.
- Bernadette, you finally thought to visit us, so girl, how is Luna Nova? Did you like the dress you brought to the Appleton prom? Speaking of which, what was this story your godmother told me about her son hitting you in the lower parts during that ball?
- Sorry about that one my godmother... But your son tried to abuse me along with other Appleton boys by trying to take my clothes off in a dark hallway of Luna Nova, all I did was just to defend myself - I tell them which soon makes Tracey put her hand on her chest and my mother still looked with disgust.
- Well it was your fault for being in this hallway, but I will let this one go, it is good to see that you are finally home, I hope that this time in Luna Nova has not turned you into a disobedient girl.
- I'm sorry about my son my goddaughter, I really don't know what goes through Paul's head, but now I know that it's not all his fault, that it was his right and I can't deny that it was the right thing to do, well I'm also glad you're here Bern - said my godmother she was always nice and understood my side.
POV Narrator:
The winter recess started in Luna Nova, most of the students decided to travel to see their relatives, to rest from classes, so that they could have fun after such a hard period that was the month of November. But Bernadette and Laura were the ones with dilemmas about their crushes, which they felt very strongly for each other, this time they were each in the residence of their respective families, showing the contrast of living between each of their families.
See you, vacation witches...
