POV Narrator:

On one side Bernadette was crying and staying close to her little daughter Diana's crib, just thinking about her wife and waiting for a call from her wife through her cell phone, even more because Laura went out with her cell phone, that in that time they were only able to call and send short messages to the other person, and both of them had international chips to facilitate the interaction between them. Laura was going to April's house by car and because of that she didn't want to use the cell phone while driving mainly because of her wife's recommendation that didn't let her use the phone while driving, quickly without taking too long the McLaren soon arrives at her best friend's house and as usual she used to accelerate to call her friend, and as soon as she pulls the car over she waits a little bit for Jordan to show up, but the time went by and nothing of her best friend to show up, possibly she should be sleeping or she left, with this McLaren started to stay inside the car reflecting a little bit, thinking about Bernadette, so much that she took her cell phone and started to think about the option of calling her wife.

POV Laura:

Fuck... I'm all alone here... I lost my wife... My daughter... All in the same day just because fucking Daryl came in cowardly and inserted that curse in us... I swear she will still pay... But I have to stop whining, I have to plan now what I am going to do... How will I explain to my parents and Chelsea what happened? They can't know anything about what happened because if they don't, it will undoubtedly end up in an avalanche of events and I kept my promise to keep it a secret from the damned criminal, even though a criminal has no morals whatsoever, I do? And I'm not going to betray the trust even of someone I don't trust just like that? So I have to come up with the perfect excuse... And April? This bitch is taking too long... What the fuck? Well then I guess I'll call her... Just to see if we can still talk to each other even from far away... I pick up the cell phone, go through the contact list and look with a smile at Bern's contact that was under the name of "Fluffy Cabbage" and press the button to call her... I hope you can answer me love... Being just for a few minutes away from you is already being a real hell.

POV Bernadette:

I feel a vibration in my pocket. I think it must be Laura calling me... I pick up my cell phone and soon I notice that it really was, the contact of "Freckles" showed that it was really my love wanting to talk to me... It has not even been an hour and I am already missing her so much... I can only imagine for her... I hope she is not using her cell phone while driving, so I answer it right away, because I wanted to know how she was doing... I imagine how horrible, just like me... I hear that angelic voice of Laura telling me "Hello", so good to hear that voice again and I make sure to answer it, then we keep talking, the basic thing is to know if one or the other was ok and evidently not, I really wasn't very well, neither was she, but soon we try to talk about something else.

[Me: You wouldn't happen to be driving while talking to me?]

[Freckles: No love... I'm standing in front of April's house, that's why you're hearing the sound of the engine, but I'm not driving... You can relax, I just came here to discuss what I'm going to do when I get back to Ireland because you know things can't be that simple... My parents can't find out what happened to us otherwise Daryl could end up in serious trouble and with that she will go to jail and try to swear revenge for our side, not to mention her daughters and all that, I don't want to risk making your sister even angrier for our side... Understand, love... The situation is not the best in the world for our side anymore... I just want to do this for our Diana].

[Me: Yes love... I understand, things aren't the best in the world and to have my sister's hate on us... It's not enough what she did to us... But leave it alone, we'll be calm just thinking that we're submitting to Daryl, but soon you'll be back love, I'm sure].

POV Laura:

I hope so too... That damn curse with no cure... Why would anyone invent a curse that has no cure? That damned Margaret Ford... The evilness of a human being like that impresses me, not even Daryl's, but the one who created something like that... Daryl just disgusts me, how could someone like her get to the point of using the same thing as someone who only caused bad things to her family... Without even thinking about herself... Without having any idea that it could end up turning against her... What the fuck? I was on the phone still somewhat quiet listening to what Bern was saying until I heard some honking, it was April arriving with her car... I quickly look to the side and when I notice that it was the skinny girl, I tell my cabbage.

[Me: Honey, I have to go for now, I'll talk to you later, it seems April had left... Goodbye love, see you another time... I love you so much, I promise with all my strength that I will stay for years looking for a cure for our condition]

[Fluffy Cabbage: Okay Laura... Goodbye love... I believe in you, I know you will find a cure for our condition and that we will soon get back together as a couple, enjoy the moment with April, just don't make her have to act without thinking... Speak in a way that she understands how to act without ruining everything... Please love... I don't want us to have any more problems than we're already dealing with].

Soon she turns off her cell phone and so do I, I slowly open the car window and back up the car to April's side, I stand on one side and she on the other, so we could stand next to each other to talk, she also opens the window and stares at me a bit confused, I even make a point of turning off the car engine to hear better and April does the same.

- We need to talk April, it's important... - I tell her as I put the car in a parking space, she just nodded and went to park the car.

I was just watching her maneuver that MBI 536 until April has good taste for cars, if she is manual I will even want to go for a ride, seems pretty interesting, run with this machine, but let's first have a coffee and see what she is going to do. Soon I get out of the car and go into the house with April, I noticed that she was not with Megan, how strange ... As soon as I entered, the first thing I thought was to ask about April's daughter.

- April where did Megan go? - I asked her, opening the fridge and taking out a few cans of soda.

- Megan is in daycare... I get a little exhausted taking care of a child by myself... But she is a good girl, I just really need a moment to give it a rest, I will just pick her up later, but what about you Laura... Why are you so different, where is all the excitement? You didn't even come to give me a hug? - She said until I make a point of jumping into a hug in April... I burst into tears just thinking about Bern and Diana... Damn... I couldn't keep the serious pose...

- April was horrible... Everything fell apart... My life went to shit! - I was crying on April's chest and soon she started stroking me... How sweet... April taking care of me... I really needed all that cuddling, I was feeling a little bad without some cuddling.

- What is it Laura? Tell me girl... Did you fight with Bernadette? Did something horrible happen? You're safe here - April said, stroking me tenderly, until I pulled away from her embrace and put my hand on her shoulder.

Soon I take a deep breath after crying a little, take some soda, eat a little too, I really needed to cry the necessary, because I was kind of bad lately... Fuck... What the fuck... I am totally discredited by what Laura was able to do... What a fucking bitch... Well, come on... I'm not going to tell you everything yet, but I'll try to explain a little bit, without telling you what happened... I want to talk somewhere else... After that I decide to open my mouth.

- April, I was forced to separate from Bernadette, I don't know if you will understand anything, but basically Daryl forced the separation between me and Bernadette through a curse... Please... Keep it a secret, no one can know, Rose and I will investigate further about Daryl and I will try to find a cure for the curse, if anything happens it could put this whole plan in ruins... If you want I'll explain everything that happened - I say to April who was in shock and then hugged me.

- What a bitch, seriously Laura you don't deserve to go through this, she was the worst of the bitches forcing you to be separated from your love and your daughter... Even more than I imagine that this is a curse with no cure, since you are in search of her - April said comforting me and soon after we broke away from the hug.

With that I start to tell her everything, from the moment she told us about the curse, even talking in detail why that curse was so damaging, talking about the possible other dirt Daryl committed, not wanting to tell the police about what she ended up committing, because that would make her much angrier and also a little of the decisions Bern and I made about Diana, at least until we find a possible cure for this curse... Until after saying everything April takes a breath, gives me a hug and after releasing from the hug she puts her hand on my shoulder.

- Let's take a walk, relax a little, talk in the mountains, look at the open sky... Because I am fucking stumped, I can't believe how you handled all this Laura... This Daryl is a disgrace, this woman has ruined your life. I thought Scarlet's uncle... I thought Scarlet's uncle was worse, but the two of them are even worse for being fucking assholes, and I don't doubt that he was responsible for the ambush that killed her and almost killed us - April said about the day that was terrible for her, I remember well how she was down, I visited her in the hospital every day I could.

After that moment we took some food and put it in a thermal bag, in one we had the food and in the other we had the soda, with this we put it in the trunk of her car, I took the opportunity to take a look around, I also took a look inside and noticed the manual gear shift handle. So it looks like April has an interesting machine, I would love to drive around in her car after we arrive, as soon as we finish everything, she gets in the car and starts accelerating while she opens the garage.

- Let's see who gets there first? - she said, already challenging me to a race.

- First where the fuck? - I say more relaxed.

- Take this map here, we are going to follow this route, let the most powerful car win - she said confidently, accelerating her car. If it is for this then she is fucked, I have more than 200 more horsepower in the Clover Emerald Alpha in relation to the 536 which is aspirated just listening to the sound of the six cylinders I didn't hear any turbo spooling.

I soon started my car and made a point of accelerating it just for her to hear what the sound of a six-cylinder bi turbo is, with a much more involving sound, with this we started to go along the route as soon as the cars lined up, I just waited for her to start and accelerated, I lightly went through, first, second, third gear, when I saw I was already doing 160 kilometers per hour... And accelerating more to put fourth gear on, but I decided to take it easy, slowing down a little because I am not outlawed, there is a right time to pull a few gears... Saved for a few straights, until we arrived at our destination and stopped there, it was an empty place, with a hill and some trees, we stopped the car on the grass on the shoulder and with that we got out of the car and I was feeling a little better and relieved, damn... I even managed to forget a little bit about what happened today, it gave me a little bit of happiness, April was even laughing and it left a little bit of that really shitty mood in my head a little bit.

- Damn Laura, this thing runs too fast... I never thought a Jaxhall Alpha could be that fast, the ones I see are always more beat up, you surely must have put something on this car - She said impressed thinking it was a Jaxhall Alpha, little does she know that this is the version tuned by Clover.

- So girl, this is a Clover Emerald Alpha, it's like this from the factory girl, have you ever heard of the fastest sedan in the world, that's right girl, this is the one, capable of reaching 285 km/h and with 382 horsepower, this machine is a true road swallower, I always get the chance to accelerate and reach the limit of this car, on the highways, it's an incredible feeling... I love this car, it was one of the best gifts I got from my father? - I say a little more excited, talking about the Emerald Alpha, which really made me a little more passionate about the car, it is fucking awesome, so after this one I'll go on my way.

The two of us with food in hand go up that hill where we have a clear view of the whole sky, it was really a beautiful view, something that I was even feeling a little comfortable with, so we grab and open a sheet beside that tree, making it more comfortable for us to sit without sitting directly on the grass so as not to get our clothes dirty. We both sit down and start to open some cans of soda and eat sandwiches looking at the sky.

- I am still trying to accept being away from Bern... But for me the worst of it all is going to be the erasure that she will have with Diana... Everyone will erase our story... That Bern had Diana through magic with me and they will just think she had it with some generic man out there... They will never remember anything that she and I lived through... But I had to make that decision for the sake of Diana not wanting to unite us and come to be misunderstood... Ending up killing us... Or until she might understand, but by then she would be older and things would still be very different because she would never accept me after years of abandoning her... Things are going to be difficult for us April... Me alone without my daughter and Bern alone with Diana... She will never know about all that we have lived through... It will be very bad... Very tragic - I say to April who also understands what I said about the erasure.

- I totally understand, I know this because I get deleted all the time saying I had Megan with some random male... That's sad really Laura... But look... Don't let it get you down, I am sure that you will solve all this one day and you will be able to go back to your wife's arms and see your daughter again... I have faith that you will make it, my friend... But hey... What do you think about us fooling everybody when we solve everything, pretending that we are in a bad way with each other, but this is just to be one of those pranks... Hey Laura, what do you think? - Said April cheering me up with her miraculous ideas and I just nodded my head... Now I know well how Beatrix Cavendish and Woodward feel with all that erasure? Fuck... What the fuck, to see this with my own daughter.

POV Narrator:

Laura and April stay a long time talking to each other, trying to relax after that weight that was losing the whole family and being forced to separate, they stayed like that for a few hours, talking a lot to each other, until they decide to take different paths, the two say goodbye. Laura goes one way and April the other, Jordan went to pick up her daughter from day care and Laura had other plans in mind, following a path until she arrives in a family residence, it was the Morris family home, she would visit Rosemary in search of more help for the whole investigation. In the meantime also in the Cavendish family residence things were a little calmer, Daryl continued in the living room with a great face, as if nothing had happened, Bernadette continued in the bedroom with Diana, crying and looking at pictures of Laura and also looking at the daughter that she would have to raise alone without the arms of the attentive wife. Laura was soon at the door of Rosemary's residence, but decides to leave the car a little pulled over so she doesn't go in yet, so McLaren calls her wife again, the two of them stay talking for a few minutes about how was the meeting with April telling what happened and how April was another reliable person who would keep that secret very well kept. After calling the wife, it is time to talk to Rosemary Morris about what happened with Daryl. After all, the witch who works with investigations was more experienced with crimes and was practically the best help McLaren had during these years.

POV Laura:

Now it's up to Rose... She is going to be the backbone of this relationship between us, just as she was the letter changer in the winter break of 1987, she is now going to be my right hand man... And Bern's too, I need someone extremely reliable for this function, because it really demands a lot... Besides that, the contacts that Rose has can help me in a possible cure and who knows how to reach Harriet and Freya... Not to mention the World Broom Racing Championship... But these immortal witches are complicated... I am fucked to say the least and having to do a whole research for the cure from scratch... Things are really not going my way... How I hate Daryl Cavendish... Until after much reflection, I get up the courage and get out of the car, go to the door of the Morris family house and press the bell, where I just wait for Rose to appear and she didn't take a moment to show up, so much that she received me with a smile.

- Laura! How nice to see you here, but how strange, why are you alone? Did something happen? I noticed your car stopped out here for a few minutes and I was really worried if it was a suspicious movement or something, but tell me what happened? - Rose was already full of questions... A WCI agent... She can really analyze my expressions and know what's going on.

- Rose... I've been horrible since this morning... Something horrible happened today, have you ever heard of the witch Margaret Ford? Well... Remember that in her case she used a curse of her own creation called the curse of the metal balls... Rose... I was cursed by that same curse, Bernadette and I were victims of a plan by Daryl Cavendish... Bernadette's sister put this curse on us... And now I have to stay away from my wife and daughter - I tell her that she changed a little her expression of concern to something more serious so much that she pulled me to the side of the house, I think I ended up talking too much, when I entered, she even ended up searching me, apparently it is something more serious than I imagined.

Rose is taking me inside the house through the corridors, pulling me by the arm, I even passed by Phoebe and Rosemary's weird husband... I waved to both and then she dropped me off in a basement of the house, it was somewhat dark, I sit on an old couch in this reserved room in this basement, she uses a spell on the door, I think it must be to inhibit sounds so that no one hears ... Wow... How much concern for secrecy was almost as if someone would listen to our conversation, but what a random thing, Rose takes a chair and puts his back to me, but she sits on the opposite side of the chair using that back part in front as an armrest, even fixed the glasses and face me with a greater seriousness.

- So Laura... What do you mean you know something about Margaret Ford? She has been on the run for years... Since she was released in 1986, nobody knew that this witch had a dangerous behavior, she killed many people in prison and out of prison too, the crimes were discovered only 10 years after her release and it seems that Margaret is smart enough to know that she is on the run... But tell me more Laura McLaren... - She said, talking about the case of Margaret Ford who escaped and everything else, that witch is already quite old, she wouldn't offer that many risks besides herself.

- I don't know much Rose, she was a threat to my family's past, I already said that years ago, but what I want to talk about is her book, Daryl got the information from Margaret Ford's book, she left this book in the Cavendish family mansion and with that she put a curse on me and Bernadette... Because of this shit I can't get anywhere near my wife... Do you understand Rose? - I tell her, already getting down at the thought.

- The curse... The WCI has been trying since 1936 to find a cure for it... Laura, if you have the book in hand and the liquid content of this thing I can find the cure for you, rest assured, leave it in my hands, I will do my best to cure you... Whew... I thought it was something more dangerous... I am very sorry for what you are going through Laura... This Daryl is a real pain in the ass, if you want I can pull out an entire investigation and she can quickly go behind bars and pay for what she deserves - Rose said until I gave a little snort... I didn't want Daryl in jail, but Rose's help in creating a cure for this curse is already good enough.

- Thanks Rose, I really wanted someone I could trust to find a cure for this... I will leave some with you along with a copy you can take from the book, since this way I will keep the book and also try to find the cure on my own... Although I am mediocre with potions compared to what I am with other magic - I say to Rose who tries to relieve me by passing her hand on my shoulder.

- Relax girl, we'll get there, we'll get to a result, even if it takes years and soon you'll be back in the arms of your beloved Bernadette, or I'm not Rosemary Morris, all for my best friend to feel better? And even from afar I'll make sure to help you two communicate and send things to each other without Daryl's interference," Rose said making me feel a little better and I really needed to feel less like shit, I'm going to rely on her a lot this time, Rose is going to be very useful protecting me from everything.

After this conversation we were discussing more about how we would go on with the plan, I even got a container with the liquid, there were at least 3 liters of that stuff, Rose got a part for her, I think it was half a liter just to perform the studies, taking all possible care and also used a copy spell on the books, so that it would make it more possible for her to perform the studies there, but when I was going to get the book to put it back Rose put her hand on it.

- Take the copy Laura, this book is quite an evidence, it may not be anything big, but it contains the DNA of Margaret Ford spread over every leaf of this thing, with this we can get to her hiding place... Do you understand? - She says, until I hand over the book, I know quite well how useful it must be as a remnant of Margaret Ford's DNA, so it will be of extreme use.

- All right Rose, I understand, thank you for the help, I know you have all your work regarding the WCI, but any help is already welcome, the good thing is that there you can also have all the verification with the technology on your side and all those investigation equipments, which is great... Well, I'm leaving, I have to go back home... Besides I have to think of an excuse to tell my parents, how are they going to believe that I am separated from Bernadette? They saw how well Bern and I got along, I can't say that she died of complications in childbirth, what do I do Rose? - I ask Bern who reassures me again by putting her hand on my shoulder to make me a little less tense.

- Accident... Say that there was a car accident just like April's, that there was some defect in the car, that Bern and Diana were gone and with that you went back to Ireland, but for that you will need Bern's cooperation - Rose said a plan that was so genius that I get the cell phone and soon start calling her... It doesn't take long and soon my cute cabbage answers, just by the way she said hello, I already imagine that she was a little discouraged, so I soon decide to tell Bern about the plan I wanted to follow.

[Me: Baby I know it seems kind of wrong to have to lie about what happened, but I have to go back to Ireland and you know my parents won't really believe that we're apart, so I'll have to lie to them... I'll say that we had an accident a few weeks ago and only I survived, so try to pretend as much as you can so that no one finds out about you being alive and neither Diana... You understand, love... We will try to set everything up to make it believable for my parents].

[Fluffy Cabbage: It's okay honey, no need to worry, I can hide well, your parents will believe I'm not around here anymore, just let them know when they come away... But how are you going to keep them from visiting a possible cemetery, after all they will want to know where I was buried].

- I can fix it tomorrow Laura, you leave tomorrow morning for Ireland and stay the night here, how long has it been since Daryl cast this curse? And how long does it take to work? Since we are very close to the Cavendish mansion I suppose - Rose soon told us both what was the best option and she was quite right, it's really a good thing to go that way, I'll just go tomorrow, since there is plenty of time, besides the ashes are very useful.

- Relax Rose, you live over a kilometer away from the Cavendish family mansion, not to mention that Daryl used this yesterday, I have five days left, this stuff starts to take effect in a week and only begins to do any damage from a kilometer away - I tell her who only agrees.

[Fluffy Cabbage: What were you discussing? Have you worked out what you are going to do? After all it is not a very easy thing to do when lying about someone's death, even more so emotionally Laura... Your parents will definitely try to intercede and this could go something wrong with Daryl getting extremely angry and wanting revenge in case she gets arrested].

[Me: The plan is an urn of ashes, so you will be close to the fake Diana and Bernadette, my parents won't suspect anything in all these years, however I don't travel much to Scotland, it's all fine].

POV Narrator:

After a whole conversation over the cell phone, both say goodbye and with that Laura goes on with Rose's plan, in the morning of the next day, Morris quickly gets two urns that would serve to set up a probable death around what happened to Laura. After that they also took a lot of care to get a convincing news and in this Rosemary was very good collecting from a car that had an accident in the street of some driver, since Laura alone would be impossible to cause an accident, even more because the McLaren had a lot of skill to spare in the steering wheel so that a simple accident would happen to her. So after everything is done, Laura McLaren leaves Scotland for a while and goes to Ireland to go back to her homeland, already thinking about how her parents and sister would react.

See you, irish witches...