Chapter Fourteen

Beauty and the Beast

"Jack, what are you doing to us?" Peter asked. Jack was, for some odd reason, tying us up to chairs.

"You are going to see a marriage councilor! Aren't you just so happy?!?"

"Who is the councilor? You?" I said sarcastically.

"Yes!" Oh…great! This is going to be so much fun! NOT!!! "So how do you feel about your marriage?"

"We aren't married! Now let us go!" I screamed rocking around trying to break free. Well, that didn't work out. I fell over onto the floor and couldn't get up. It reminded me of the commercial about life support or something. Where the old lady says, "Help! I have fallen and can't get up!" I always hated that commercial, but now I need life support to get up, AND I AM ONLY 17!!! "Jack? A little help here?"

"I thought you didn't need any help," he said turning his back to me and crossing his arms.

"Fine, if you help me get up I will sit through this stupid meeting."

"Works for me!" He said pushing the chair upright. He still didn't untie us, but at least I wasn't on the ground anymore.

I had to sit through that for two hours, and trust me, I would have been bitten by a snake and died a long painful death. Yes, it was that bad. To bad this time I didn't faint.

"Jack? Can we go to Tia Dalma's?" I asked one morning. It was weird, every morning we were the ones to get up first. When everybody else would come out, they would see Jack and me just standing near the railing, watching the sunrise.

"Well, actually, we were already headed there. We should be there tomorrow."

"Cool," I said already thinking of how I would word me question without sounding rude.

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This morning we arrived at Tia Dalma's. By now I was almost there, I had asked the others to let me go first.

"Hello, child. Please come in," She greeted me as I walked up.

"Hi Tia!"

"No," she said at random. I had no clue what she was saying no to yet.

"What?"

"Your question. The answer is no. There is no way for your sister to go home early. But relax, she only has another two weeks here!"

"Yeah…unless she decides to stay, like I did. And how did you know that I was going to ask…never mind, I don't want to know."

"Go ahead, ask your other question."

"Is there any way to see what someone is doing at any given time? You know, like in the movie Beauty and the Beast?"

"I hated that movie! They stole my mirror idea! But here," she said handing me a mirror. "Just state the name of the person you want to see and in what year."

"I want to see me, in two months." The mirror started to glow, I felt it shake a bit. "Hey! Look I cam see myself! Why am I running after a girl? Is that…can it be?" I asked Tia Dalma. "It is! It's Taylor and Anna!"

"Yes, my dear. They will come to see you soon, for a very special occasion."

"What is the occasion?" I asked getting interested in the conversation.

"I'm not going to tell you. I refuse to ruin the best moment of your life." That annoyed me. I hated surprises! Well, let me tell you, this is one time I am someone didn't ruin it for me. You will find out what it is later.

Well, then I left and thanked Tia for the mirror. Little did I know I could communicate though the mirror. Then Jack went in, but I didn't really care what he was in there for. Yeah, then we left.