It had been a month since the Dominion was captured and the powers of the Sinister clan taken away. After a new chancellor had been appointed, and the threat of the Dominion gone, a few of the University rules had been slightly altered. One of the major ones being that magic was now allowed on campus…to a certain degree. Using magic on schoolwork or using it against another student or teacher would still result in serious punishment. Besides that, life continued on normally…or as normal as you could get at Halloweentown.
Marnie sighed wistfully as she looked at a recent picture of her and Ethan. She was totally confused about where she and Ethan stood in their relationship. They had been out a couple of times and hung out almost all the time along with Aneesa and Dylan, but they had never made anything official. Aneesa said that it was just Ethan being a guy and afraid to commit. She sighed once more before putting away the picture under her pillow, a weird feeling in the pit of stomach telling her that something big was going to happen…soon.
The next day, Ethan, Marnie, Dylan, and Aneesa were hanging out in the courtyard of the University, lounging under their favorite tree.
"I don't care what you say, Professor Periwinkle is way more spacey than Grandma Aggie," argued Dylan as Ethan and Aneesa laughed. They had just come from Professor Periwinkle's class and had wasted half the time watching her looking for a book that she had been holding the whole time.
Marnie, who had been arguing with Dylan, couldn't keep a straight face and was soon laughing along with the rest of them, Ethan's arm around her.
Amidst their laughter, a girl their age approached them shyly, fiddling with the hem of her shirt nervously.
"Ethan Dalloway?" she asked, looking straight at Ethan, avoiding the others.
"Yeah?" Ethan replied a puzzled look on her face.
"I'm Angela Amoris," she introduced herself.
"Amoris? That sounds familiar," Marnie commented.
"You may have read it in a text book. My family is really old and relatively well-known," Angela replied.
"Yeah, I remember now," Dylan said, "aren't you related to the Sinisters?"
"Distantly," she replied. "The Sinister sisters are like my 8th cousins or something like that. I heard what happened to them, and I just wanna say I'm nothing like them."
"Good, 'cause we don't need any of that again," Aneesa said.
"Angie?" Ethan whispered. He had been oddly silent throughout the conversation and realization finally hit him. Angela smiled slightly.
"You remember then?" Angela said softly, avoiding the gaze of Marnie, who was looking back and forth between the two, a confused look on her face.
"Remember? You two know each other then?" Marnie asked.
"But… After what happened to Dad…" Ethan trailed off.
"Would someone like to fill us in please?" Aneesa said.
Ethan took a deep breath before facing the group and introducing, "Guys, this is my old friend Angie… she's my betrothed."
Marnie's eyes widened and her jaw slacked. "What?"