POV Narrator:

Laura and Bernadette had returned to the residence of their respective families to spend the winter recess before returning to Luna Nova and with this to firm the relationship that they so wanted to get involved in, that they so hoped for, that they were already with an enormous tension to be together, but for this they would first have to go through the ordeal that was to be away from each other for a month at the residence of their families, besides this time to reflect about the consequences of this decision that could be many times something that would give the first step to a relationship that would last for many years, besides Cavendish's future that was already living a huge tension in her family's residence.

As soon as she came back, she received a scolding about what happened at the ball and even then her mother didn't defend her when the girl tried to explain that she had almost been a victim of abuse, she even heard her mother saying that she shouldn't hit Paul Hanbridge and the other boys and that the right thing to do was not even let them do that, that it was all Cavendish's incompetence in allowing the abuse to happen even though she was the victim. Tracey Hanbridge, Bernadette's godmother, even tried to defend the girl, but to no avail, so that moment just became a huge tension, so much so that Cavendish was ordered by her mother to stay locked in her room until the next day.

Saturday, December 5, 1987

The day dawns in Weddinburgh, Scotland, Bernadette was waking up from another night of sleep, she didn't feel good about going back to her family home, even though her bed was much more spacious than the one she used to sleep in, the sun rays were beating down on her room and she looked out the window as the day was dawning, feeling like nothing, so much so that she went back to sleep, until a few hours later she hears knocking on the door, it was her mother who soon after entered the room, it was 9 o'clock in the morning. She wanted to say good morning to her daughter, but as always being very clueless, leaving entering, without even respecting the privacy of her own daughter.

POV Bernadette:

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse coming here, I see that I was dead wrong... What the hell... I came back here just to listen to my mother yell at me... Yesterday I couldn't even say anything, I just put my head down and went to my room... Fuck... Where did all that strength of determination go and all that stateliness... Laura... I'm already missing you... If she were here, I would probably send my mother to that place... Hehe... My mother doesn't even respect me, I can't even have my privacy to sleep the way I usually sleep... Well... She doesn't even respect me for that, so much so that when she comes in I wrap myself in the blankets hiding my body.

- Wake up! The day can't wait... And sleeping naked again? I told you more than once that this is not the way a lady should sleep, it is 2 degrees below zero outside and you are sleeping without clothes on, let's see how you like sleeping like this if I turn off the heat... I just don't do that because you might catch a cold and get sick... But anyway, I want to talk to you girl, so get up and come to the room, tell me everything that happened in Luna Nova, because I don't trust the letters that teacher sent to me, they may be fake and also she may have passed a cloth for your juvenile delinquency - She said and then left the room turning her face ... Damn... My mother only knows how to demand and demand... Now it's fucked up, I will have to lie a lot to talk about my time in Luna Nova... Even more if she finds out about Laura.

As soon as she leaves one of the maids closes the door at my request, so I get up, walk naked to my bathroom, from there I do my personal hygiene and take my shower, after everything is ready, I get out of there and go to the closet... All those empty clothes with no personality... I can't even wear the clothes that Laura gave me... All these clothes were so amazing and cool, and easy to put on... I wanted to put on a t-shirt and pants, but I don't want my mom to make a real show of me because I'm not wearing clothes that refer to my class, so I took a dress followed by a cold sweater and from there I left to go to the living room. Until I get there I run into my mom who was having tea... The funny thing about it was that she could wear different clothes, she was wearing the military clothes that she always used to wear, even at home, it was a green camouflage overcoat with the Scottish flag on the chest and her name, a pair of camouflage pants, dark military boots that went down to the shin and her hair was always tied up.

- Sit down girl - she said, pointing to the sofa, and I quickly sat down.

- Mistress Bernadette, if I may, here is your breakfast, enjoy this meal very much - said one of the maids leaving the food, so I went to get it and soon my mother started talking to me.

- Very well girl, you are at the most prestigious witch academy in all of Europe, you have been studying there for three months now, I hope you have been behaving there, I received some letters from Professor Finnelan and she honestly told me that you have been behaving a bit rebellious in each one of those letters, explain me why you are like this and everything that has happened, without lying or making a mistake for a single day and if you happen to lie to me, you already know the consequences - said my mother, all intimidating. Fuck... I can't even react because I'm so tense and she with this military uniform only makes things worse, I feel as if they were pointing guns at my head.

I took a deep breath and immediately tried to use my skills, I already knew that I would be faced with this kind of question for my mother, so I made sure to rehearse it very well these days? She doesn't know that raising children this way doesn't create obedient children, but rather ends up creating children who are liars? I then end up telling her everything, lying in a way that I never thought I was capable of lying or acting, managing to talk in the best way possible that was even very believable, I only mentioned the rebellious behavior, on the part of wanting to have a little freedom to be myself and that I didn't want to live smothered by Professor Finnelan all the time on top of me as if I were still living in a prison, I didn't mention once about the friendships I made because I didn't want my mother to destroy them, nor about Beatrice and Molly being possible bad influences, although on my mother's part it was totally okay for me to be Bea's friend... The whole time the opposite proved to be true. I am thankful to this day that I am not... Until after explaining everything to her, I just breathe a sigh of relief waiting for my mother's answer.

- So that was it? She spent her time just studying, although she doesn't even need to do that anymore... I'm not going to believe this too much, although I really know that my daughter's character is not of someone who gets carried away with wrong things, I know very well that she doesn't commit anything wrong and that she is also a pride when it comes to behaving, as I imagined you focused on studying about other things, very well, for your sincerity and for having said everything I will not leave you grounded in the room, today you can even walk around the yard and go free through the corridors of the house, but be sure to always be studying, so that when noon I want you to go see your grandmother in the library and I want you to be studying there... Just because Luna Nova is on vacation doesn't mean you get a free pass to go on vacation? Oh and at afternoon tea I invited Tracey to bring Paul here, maybe then I'll apologize to him, after all I don't want my future son-in-law to hold a grudge against my girl.

I walk around until I reach the small forest that is always there, I sit down on a rock that faces a small pond and I just stare at the sky and the leaves that were already falling... Reflecting... Thinking only of Laura and how she must be now... Laura... I can't stop thinking about her... My love... I don't even deny it so much now... I really love this girl, until I feel a magic energy going in my direction and quickly I dodge it, using a transport spell, when I reappear, facing this person I find out that the one who cast this spell was Daryl, after that came the explosion that even knocked down one of the trees that it hit.

- Are you crazy? Do you want to kill your sister? - I say angrily, as always my sister Daryl had her mind elsewhere and didn't care if she could hurt me with that spell...

- But you are a trained witch and you escaped, so you still live up to the rules that grandmother Isabella and mother taught us of never letting your guard down. I am honestly afraid of this girl.

- I am your sister, what need do you have to attack me? - I say until she gets in front of me... Damn there was no need for that, it was all to show that she is taller than me even though she is only 12 years old...

- I just came to see my sister... I can't? I thought we were so close that you loved me, what? Didn't you miss your little sister? I couldn't even see you yesterday... But what have you been talking to mom today? I left when I saw you talking to her. Have you lied to our mother again? How long will you hide your homosexuality? You can even act for my mother, but you can't fool me - she said as she passed around me and sometimes she even looked like a snake while I was standing still, sometimes she really acted like a snake, until I feel that she left me, at that moment I was only with my eyes closed with my guard ready for any attack from that viper.

- It's none of your business Daryl and besides, I have better things to do... Leave me alone in mine, if you came here just to disturb me you couldn't - I say to her who just stares at me with a malicious smile.

- I just hope that you really remain a lesbian, one day the mother finds out and there is no way you can act... It's only a matter of time before the grandmother dies and the one who will be the leader of the family is the mother... You are still three years old, don't forget, you can't hide it all the time, I can look into your eyes and see that you are still just a lesbian, but it's no problem, for the mother this is repulsive, but for me it's great, after all fingers don't reproduce, hahaha! - She said turning around, disappearing in practically the same way she appeared, she even looks like a crawling snake... Sometimes I wonder if that is really my 12 year old sister.

I hate this place... I can't even peacefully stay here and reflect on my passion for Laura or even have my moment, there is always someone who will want to put me down... Damn... Really, I have to put up with the pressure of being in this environment for a month? I would give anything not to have been born a Cavendish, all I wanted was just to be a simple girl who doesn't need to maintain an image of someone who has a name or who has a high income? I hate living like that... Fuck... I even throw a stone into that pond already crying with rage, so much so that I sit all curled up on a log until someone touches my shoulder.

- Don't cry girl, one day you will bring a huge greatness to the Cavendish family, be sure of that, don't let yourself be taken by what your family thinks of you, know that your presence is the sign of hope, is the sign of freedom that the family can breathe an air without prejudice... Don't give up because in you there is the whole future of the family - Said someone in a voice that I have never heard before until I look up and notice that it was a ghost, as soon as I notice this I go a little to the side and get scared.

- You don't have to be afraid of us, we are your ancestors, we are here to cheer you up, and inside you is one of the hopes for new times to come concerning us witches.

- My dear great granddaughter, we have been through many things as much as you have, whenever you are in trouble, know that we will be with you, just as Beatrix Cavendish is always with you to strengthen her, no matter what happens, we will always be helping the good side of the family and we will never let the magic die among us, not even the freedom to be ourselves. We are the three Diana Cavendish and we will always be with you to give any emotional and spiritual support - Diana's ghost said... Until the three hold hands and they suddenly disappear... I was in shock... Never before in my life has a spirit of an ancestor manifested itself to me... Even more of these three Diana Cavendish.

I was amazed by it all, as soon as I stopped looking up with the three of them disappearing into the sky, I noticed that into the pond fell a bottle that had a message inside, which I opened and made sure to read what was written... Am I really the one chosen to be part of something big in the family? Is this whole environment just an ordeal for me to hang on until I can show my greatness? These spirits must be no small thing, especially since one of them is the mother of my grandmother Isabella.

- Something big is coming for you Bernadette... The future is uncertain, but the predictions around you hint that you will be one of the great ones responsible for one of the great events in the world of witches, Whether for you or for the generation you will bring, the future around you will be something great and you are one of the great witches that will be in this generation. be strong, hold firm through all these trials. Become an even more powerful witch than you already are. Most important of all is that you believe in yourself and let your heart show you the way where you will go, the future is in your hands Bernadette Cavendish, you are blessed by the trinity of Diana Cavendish from this day forward.

Diana Cavendish... I have always listened and read the stories for which revolve around them... They are the three big witches of our family... Who have all their history erased today for being lesbians and always showing the world that they are just living their happy life, these witches did something great, they brought the fertility stone to us, they explained in detail how each one of the fertility stones work... This name is of enormous greatness, moreover, they have made our family great... I think this is a sign... I think I will name my daughter Diana, if I am blessed by the trinity of Diana Cavendish, then that means my daughter will be the fourth and will be with me when all this great stuff happens in the witch world.

I stayed a while reflecting about it, looking at the sky until my wristwatch beeped, it was already time to go to school, so I leave that place after much thought and reflection, I go inside, I pass by my aunt and grandmother who just waved to me and I waved back. They were nice, but not so nice, only when they agree with their thinking which is the same as my mother's, I even imagine that it was these two who made my mother think this way, since my grandmother was never like that. Until I get to the library and soon notice that my grandmother was reading some books, it was her mother's diary, as soon as I arrive I cough and she looks at me with a smile, even getting up.

- Bernadette - she said excitedly and going to hug me, soon I hug my grandmother too, in that very warm and welcoming hug... At least my grandmother was not like the whole house, she is different, she is open-minded, she recognizes that the fertility stone exists and even told me about it, she is one of the few people I trust to say that I am a lesbian.

- Grandma... I missed you a lot when you were in Luna Nova - I tell her.

- If you really felt it, you would have flown here many times by now... I'm just kidding my little granddaughter... So how was it over there? Did you enjoy the freedom you so much wanted? - said my grandmother, as always being nice.

- I'll tell her, but I don't want her to hear... You know who - I tell my grandmother until she takes hold of my arm and leads me to a more private room.

- Just tell them here, I'll inhibit the sound and no one can find out our little secrets that we tell each other, relax that I'll never tell your mother that you're a lesbian and as always I'll get little books for you - she said smiling at me and using a spell in the room.

I then take a breath with all the relief and even start to smile, I tell everything to my grandmother, how I enjoyed a lot all that freedom I could finally have, how I met new people, made friends, discovered myself even more as a lesbian, even told about some misdemeanors I did to try to fool my mother with the letters and my grandmother was just laughing about everything, I was still embarrassed to mention Laura and how much I liked her, but I managed to talk to her about everything, all the 3 wonderful months I spent there, the only bad part was to deal with Beatrice and Molly using drugs and with the teacher Finnelan who kept on demanding the same things from me as my mother did... I even talked about the Appleton ball, that I went all by myself, I went with clothes that I was comfortable in, and that's when I mentioned Laura.

- Laura... She was the one who told me that I don't have to wear clothes because of image, but because I feel comfortable in them... Laura McLaren is an amazing person, I went with a t-shirt, jacket, kilt and sneakers, instead of going with a dress all pompous, that teacher was bubbling with rage because I dressed myself - I tell my grandmother who is laughing and smiling at me.

- That's it girl, I am glad to see that these three months have made you a stronger Bernadette, better than before, more mature, you are not lowering your head to anything anymore. I felt a taste of passion while talking about her - said my grandmother until I blush when she talks about Laura.

- Laura... Eh... Grandma! You don't talk about her! I... Ahhh... I... She's... Ahhh Grandma... I can't... I really like her... I think I fell in love with a girl from Luna Nova - I tell her who was just finding my reaction cute while I was extremely flushed.

I plucked up the courage and went on telling her about all the times I had experienced incredible moments with Laura, how she showed me everything and helped me a lot to appreciate all the freedom, that despite the differences between her and me, we were able to appreciate each other, but that we still hadn't started dating because of the winter recess and we didn't want to go a month without seeing each other with me staying here and her there... My grandmother is even delighted with all that.

- That's so cute, I will be rooting for both of you... Know that you have my full support and no matter what your mother tries to do, she can't kick you out of here because I'm the one who runs this house, she doesn't have the authority to kick her own daughter out and if she does that I will take her to court, I don't care if it's my daughter, I will not tolerate Clarie continuing to act like a child when she is a grown woman and the mother of two daughters - said my grandmother which comforted me a little.

We stayed there talking a lot about what happened in Luna Nova, I told everything to my grandmother, it was a more joyful and relaxed moment, it made me forget all the weight that was to stay in that enclosure, I could finally feel comfortable with myself, just having a conversation with my grandmother, until after so much conversation my watch beeps again, it was time for afternoon tea so I say goodbye to my grandmother and go to that moment that would be talking to my mother and listen to her talk bad about me as usual, now there is no way to escape the moment of clothes...

- I'm going Grandma, it's always great to talk to you, I want the rest of the people here to know that I'm no risk to their integrity and their image of perfect - I say waving to my grandmother and leaving the room.

- To you too my little granddaughter... Oh, and I would love to talk to you more about these Luna Nova days, even more about this Laura McLaren, I've seen your eyes fill with emotion when you talk about this girl.

I leave the library, as I pass by there I notice that only the employees were putting the books in their places, I go to the meeting room of our residence, it was usually there that we had afternoon tea and chatted among the other families, I pass by the room and notice that my aunts were reading books as well as my sister Daryl who was reading a comic book... Wow my mom has given us the freedom to read comics now, we are not stuck with just books... Big deal... She will never release a TV here... Soon such a good thing, I enter the meeting room and soon find Paul sitting next to my godmother Tracey who was his mother and my mother on the other side who soon hit the couch calling me to sit next to her... I huffed and soon went to sit next to my mother.

- Now that my daughter is here we can get on with it, well Bernadette apologize to Paul Hanbridge - My mother says until I huff, cross my arms and just get full of myself.

- No - I say to all of them, and they are stunned, including my mother who is in shock, she has never seen me deny any of her orders, but this time I will not lower my head, I will show that I am not submissive.

- What did you just say? Bernadette Cavendish Stewart! - said my mother in a more serious tone that even made me a little afraid.

- I'm not going to apologize anyway, this one was with other boys and they wanted to sexually abuse me, why do I have to apologize for a harasser? The only one here who should apologize to me is the harasser himself for being with others, or even having that intention? Should I mention that Paul and the other boys were with a camera and wanted to force me to take naked pictures, as well as almost forcibly kissing me? I will not shut up or lower my head to any harassment - I said much more stately, in a way that even I was surprised that my mother was going to slap me in the face, but my godmother held her hand with a wand.

- No! Don't hit your daughter, Clarie! She is in her right, she didn't answer you, she is right, is it so hard to admit that your daughter is more right than you? What about you, Paul? Do you think it's right what you did? Do you think you are right to be colluding with your little friends with this kind of atrocity! You are already 18 years old, you behave like a man, you will graduate this year, and you don't know how to treat a woman with respect? - I told my godmother that she is a lovely person, she understands me at least.

- With women I show even a little respect, we learn to have respect with real women, with witches we don't need it, after all, witches are not people, in Appleton we will only visit you in Luna Nova because we have to be gentlemen even with those we least consider as people, so it is an excellent training for chivalry to use witches, since they are the most rotten thing we have in society... By the way I find it ironic how you said about me being a stalker Bernadette... I wasn't the one wearing rags that day at the ball, I wasn't wearing poor people's clothes, that was reason enough for my friends to harass you, you were dressing like a poor person so they understood that you accept everything for money - said that disgusting man? Really, my mother wants me to marry him? Especially this guy? Ah Holy Beatrix Lesbian!

- How is Bernadette Cavendish Stewart? What's all this about dressing like a pauper? What about the dress I told you to wear? - Said my mother getting angry and my godmother trying everything to hold back those hands that wanted to punch me with everything.

- I am not a label of wealth, I am not your little trophy, I am Bernadette Cavendish your daughter, I am a human! A witch! I have my own life and my own personality, I don't have to go out wearing what you tell me to wear for sheer image and that is the dumbest reason of all to justify sexual violence, Paul Hanbridge. If that's it then why didn't they go out attacking the other lower class girls? Why did you choose to target me? - I say, raising my eyebrow, which leaves him with no reaction and my sponsor even sends a thumbs up sign to me.

- I'm proud of you my goddaughter, that's the way it has to be, don't label yourself to what others tell you to do and Paul, you're grounded kid, I don't care if you're 18, I'm going to take your allowance and if you want to earn money, get a job, because I'm not going to support spoiled brats who have the mentality of a peanut, now go Bernadette I'll hold your mother, she's not very well right now - said my godmother while my mother got even angrier.

I just nod my head and leave the room quickly, and just stand outside listening to the whole argument, until I hear my mother let go and she headed towards the door, so I ran out towards my room...I didn't want to get caught at that moment, I even met up with my grandmother and got involved in it.

- What is it girl? - said my worried grandmother.

- Grandma, my mother... She wants to beat me - said my grandmother, who immediately stood in front of me, protecting me, and my mother even stood facing her.

- Let her go mom! I won't do it again! - Said my mother furiously as my grandmother stared at her, everyone around was coming over and looking at the whole scene, I felt even more embarrassed.

- Or what? Are you going to hit your own mother? Girl I am the leader here better respect me and if you lay one finger on your daughter I will lay more than one finger on you, don't underestimate the daughter of the third Diana Cavendish and her mother! You owe me respect above all, girl, I bet you want to beat your daughter because she didn't do anything," said my grandmother to my mother who ended up snorting and lowered her wand.

- Okay... I won't hit Bernadette, but she will be grounded for three days in her room without going out or seeing anyone. Know that if any of you allow her to leave you will be fired, understand? - said my mother to the house staff.

I just get a little down, but I accept to go to the room, at least this way I get rid of a good beating... I'll stay there for three days, isolated, but at least I can turn it into my nudist resort for three days too, so I don't see any disadvantage, just me and my books... I already went in there locking the door and just waited for the time to pass... I hate this place... I hate it more than ever.

POV Narrator:

Clarie obviously later ended up constantly beating Bernadette using a stick that she always used to beat her daughters to educate them, right that night while the youngest Cavendish was sleeping, soon after she locked the door and all that Bernadette's paradise for three days was also over, as she would have to stay dressed with the fear of her mother coming in at any moment of getting a beating. Tracey Hanbridge was even shocked that her friend was very violent and thought practically the same as her son who was another closed-minded person.

See you, Cavendish witches...

Full name: Isabella Cavendish

Date of birth: 04/13/1934

Place of birth: Weddinburgh, Scotland, UK

Height: 1,61m

Weight: 51 kg

Sexuality: Bisexual

Occupation: Doctor (Weddinburgh City Hospital 1959-1987) / Former student (Weddinburgh Magic Institute 1945-1952), (Weddiburgh Medical University 1952-1959)

Measurements (bust/waist/hip): 90/60/91

Hair color and appearance: Platinum blonde with greenish and gray streaks, wavy 2C, short, reaching down to the neckline, usually pulled to the side,

Eye color and appearance: aqua blue, western

Physical appearance: pale Caucasian skin, slim build, rectangular nose, medium-large breasts, some wrinkles on the face

Bernadette's grandmother and the only remnant still with the mentality passed on by Diana Cavendish III even though her mother died two years after the girl's birth. She was raised under the influence of Meredith Cavendish and because of this she had different ideals than Marie and Amelia, and because of this she even recognized the history of the fertility stone and wanted to pass it on from generation to generation, but unfortunately she couldn't pass it on to Clarie since her only daughter was born prematurely when the woman was only 18 years old due to a party she was invited to by one of her friends, She even ended up getting pregnant by an anonymous boy at a party who drank too much during the back-to-school party after the winter break, and ended up pregnant with her first child, asked to take care of the girl and let Isabella focus on her studies, but this was the worst mistake she ended up committing since besides being a single mother and nobody wanted her because of that, on top of it the daughter got influence of the aunts and ended up becoming a more intolerant person. Isabella is a very loving, polite, kind, and powerful witch, who made sure to train her daughter and granddaughters to the point that they became amazing and powerful witches with this training. She also shows that she recognizes the history of the fertility stone, keeping the book with the secret about it with all the care so that one day her oldest granddaughter, who knows she is a lesbian, will one day use it with her girlfriend.