Not sure if anybody is reading this but here's another chapter if you are :)
Hilda returned later that evening but didn't speak a word to her sister despite Zelda's questions about where she had been. She'd hoped that walking out would give her the time she needed to calm down, but her emotions had refused to subside leaving her with no choice but to return home with the same anger and upset.
"Hilda please, can we at least talk about this!" Zelda called up the stairs as Hilda stomped past her and up them but the only response she got was the sound of a door being slammed.
"Woah, there's no need to take it out on the door!" Salem commented as Hilda made her noisy entrance into Sabrina's bedroom.
"Aunt Hilda, are you okay? Where have you been?" Questioned Sabrina, watching her aunt fling herself on her bed with a sigh of despair.
"No I'm not okay, Zelda's –"
"I know, she told me." Interrupted Sabrina before she had to listen to the dilemma all over again since she had been playing it over in her mind ever since the earlier conversation.
"Well, doesn't it make you angry, that she's going to leave us, just walk out and –"
"You know it isn't like that, we both do."
"It still hurts though."
"Yeah, I know."
"I spent hours in the doughnut store, the happiest place in this mortal world and I couldn't even smile. I can't imagine life without her Sabrina so how can she even consider it?"
"It's her dream though." Sabrina moved onto her bed to give her aunt a cuddle as they spoke.
Zelda let a tear roll down her cheek as she sat back on the kitchen table after the frosty reception she had received from her sister. Zelda and Hilda had been through more rows than she would even dare to count, but they always made up in no time because they had a special bond. Yes, they had other siblings who they loved, but Zelda and Hilda had something special. Now, Zelda felt as though she had hurt her sister beyond repair because she had never seen her so angry and never for so long!
"Oh what am I going to do?" Zelda spoke aloud despite the emptiness of the room.
"Follow your heart Zleda, you're a scientist and they are holding you back because they're selfish." The voice was like a whisper in her ear but it made Zelda jump, she scanned the room but there was nobody – just the voice.
"If they really loved you they would support you. Don't hold back simply because they need you to look after them, follow your dreams Zelda, go…" The voice trailed off on the last words and suddenly Zelda felt as though her decision had been made for her.
With a flick of her finger she zapped a pen and some paper onto the table before hand writing a note. Next, she summoned the necessary belongings into a suitcase which stood by the door to the other realm as she reached the top of the stairs.
Passing Sabrina's door she could hear voices but couldn't bear to listen in on their conversation knowing that they would only be angry with her, she felt that it would be better for everyone if she just left quietly – hopefully, by the time she could return from this job they would have found it in their hearts to forgive her, but for now she hoped the note would be enough of an apology.
Creating a silencer on the other realm lightening travel, Zelda silently slipped into the closet and left her family without a sound.
"Argh! It's so frustrating, I should just be happy for her… but I can't!"
"If there's one thing I've learnt from aunt Zelda, it's that you only ever feel this frustrated if you love somebody. Which means, we must love her very much."
"Okay," contemplated Hilda, smiling inside at how mature her niece was being then wanting to cry at the fact that it was Zelda who mainly brought her up to be so sensible, "that means that we have to let her take this job, support her and be there for her all despite how much we want her to stay because we love her right."
They both smiled and gave each other another hug, "Right, so let's go and apologise and let her in on our big revelation."
"That we made without her clever help might I add." Joked Hilda as they walked downstairs.
"Zeldy!" She called, scanning the living room for her sister before moving on to the kitchen.
"Where's she gone?" Questioned Sabrina after following Hilda into the kitchen and realising her elder aunt wasn't there either. "Wait, there's a note." Sabrina held the note and read it aloud to Hilda and Salem who had just entered the kitchen too.
"Dear Hilda, Sabrina and Salem, I know that you are angry and upset with me and this is why I have made the decision to take the job."
Hilda gasped as Sabrina read on,
"Never believe that I have left because I don't love you – that is not true! It is simply that I believe it is the right thing for me to do. Not only is this my dream but it is an opportunity for me to give you the time and space you need to forgive me which I hope that all three of you will be able to do. Hilda, you are going to be an amazing aunt for Sabrina whilst I'm away, please help her when she gets into trouble and don't let her eat ice-cream for breakfast everyday!"
Hilda let out a laugh at that despite the tears running down her face at the realisation that her sister had gone.
"Sabrina, continue to work hard at school for me, you are such a clever girl and a talented witch and I'll always be proud of you." Sabrina tried to hold back the tears as she read words she could practically hear her aunt Zelda saying to her.
"And as for you Salem, keep the world domination plans to a minimum and don't even think about moving into my room! There, that's the last of my lecturing to you three for some time, try not to forget me, I love you all, love Zelda"
Suddenly a horrendous laugh or cackle filled the kitchen.
"What the?" Sabrina yelled as the sound pierced their ears.
"She gave into the temptation and now she's mine with so much help from you all too! I hope you're happy because she's never coming back!" With that haunting message and another outrageous cackle the voice was gone.
"Oh no!" Cried Hilda, "the voice of temptation Sabrina, it taps into people's desires and lures them so that they become trapped!"
"Aunt Zelda would never fall for something like that, she's too smart!" Sabrina couldn't hide the panic in her voice.
"Once temptation's planted even the smartest of people can be fooled Sabrina, and like the voice said, we practically made her leave the way I behaved…"
"Don't blame yourself, we will get her back, there must be a way."
"There's one way," interjected Salem "but you're not going to like it."
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