Chapter 6

Bella awoke the next morning and had some oatmeal to warm her up. It was another dreary day out but she wasn't sure how she felt. Florida's nickname was the sunshine state. Okay where was the famous sunshine she thought. She could really uses some this morning.

There were so many changes happening that had her searching her brain still this morning to see if it was all a dream. There was also the nightmare of her abilities or maybe they would only bring good things from now on. She chuckled to herself thinking about fairytales. They all had some wickedness and trials before the princesses' tale achieved its happy conclusion. Was that what was going on? Did she finally get to be in charge of her happily ever after?

Heading off to work, Bella noticed that no one was staring at her today. What had happened that had changed so much? Was it her abilities that had changed her or had she changed them?

As she got to work, a sandwich for the day jumped into her mind.

Man-go Questiondillas - with Black beans, Mango, cheddar cheese, Salsa and with or without chicken strips.

Bella wrote it out on the board then got busy prepping. The sandwiches were a hit and after lunchtime and taking Max his daily bit of healing she sat down and took a break. Alice came over and handed her the paperwork to fill out.

"Could you get these done? I really need to get this started before I forget". She said

Bella noticed while she was sitting there that a customer entered the shop and Alice's head shot up and she looked around. She then walked over, grabbed the new customers hand, and walked him next to a girl on the other side of the room. They gazed into each other's eyes for a minute and then walked over to a couch and sat down and started talking.

Bella shook her head, finished filling out the forms, then walked over and handed them to Alice. She said to hold on a second while she looked them over. She glanced at them started to set them down then did a double take.

"Your middle name is Amethyst"? She asked

Bella grinned for a second then responded, "Yeah, my parents must have been hippies or something".

She said "yeah mine to, my middle name is Tanzanite. All I have from my parents is a necklace with my birthstone and that name on it so that's what I got named at my first foster home".

As she pulled a Necklace out of her shirt, Bella replied. "Don't freak but I have one too". Bella then told her the story that her parents had confided in her before their deaths.

They were married for ten years and had not been able to get pregnant. After going to doctors of every kind, they were ready to give up. They heard about a place called Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp. There they found a woman who gave them a crystal. She said the Crystal was Amethyst and for her mom to wear it. She assured them that if her mom wore this crystal faithfully she would bear a girl child the following February. Here I am so it must have worked, Amethyst is my birthstone. I looked it up, and it said to have healing properties. It is used to heal addictions, headaches, insomnia, arthritis, and for circulatory issues. In addition, medieval European soldiers wore amethyst amulets as protection in battle.

They talked for a while then realized Alice was born in December of the same yr as Bella. It was odd but still a coincidence. They held onto that and all day every time Alice looked at Bella she giggled. It was nice having this connection with someone and even if they weren't really, sister's she still could feel that they were always destined to be great friends.