A few days have passed. For the witches, these were the best days of their lives. Nothing from past of any of them could compare with these days. Well, their private lessons were a bit closely, but there was a ban, and it didn't allow what they can do now. The best holidays ever? Probably yes, but who knows what future may bring?

They studied, went on walks, read books. . . Not to mention, neither of them wanted to leave a bed in the morning, and couldn't wait the evening to come. In other words, it was free time when they did what they wanted to.

'. . . I can't, love, it's impossible to stop.'

'You can't what? You can't stop kissing your girlfriend one hundredth time, probably, or maybe you can't stop meet my wishes which I have pretty much, thank you for this?'

'Both, love. I don't know what of this better. Not being selfish, I love when you're meeting my wishes.'

'In spite it sounds strangely, one of my wishes is meeting your wishes.'

'This is mutually. I love every moment of it.'

'This all can be considered as a reward of our study.'

'But later, what it will be for when you won't teach me more?'

'You don't know it? Being mine is a good reason, don't you think?'

'Oooh, this is great. You're mine, so. . .' Imogen smiled to her thoughts and added, 'When it was third or fourth semester, I said to myself many times, "No possessions", but it turned into a mutual possession, I can say.'

'I love being yours.' Never in her life could Constance Hardbroom think she can be this happy.

'What's about the proof?' The P.E. teacher asked seductively, and her girlfriend couldn't and didn't want to resist.

'Mmm, you probably want again? . .'

'What it will be concretely?'

'I'm going to show the proof of how strongly I love being your girlfriend, and so will be always. I shan't give you any hints.'

'Unexpectedness is good in this case too.'

'You needn't wait long.' The witch couldn't delay any more. She looked at her naked girlfriend and smiled; before she slightly stroked tender skin under Imogen's breasts.

'You're going to tease me the rest of your life?'

'Sometimes, but not always. As we know, teasing is good when it promises something in the end. I'm not cruel even a bit; I just want you to enjoy my acts very much.'

'You're following the rule "made your girl to be very frustrated to appreciate every normal touch you'll give her later", yes?'

'No, let's call it preparation.'

'I can guess what the rest will be.'

'Probably, darling, I suppose our thoughts are very similar.'

'. . . Now you can tease me for being unable to be tearing from you.' Constance said when she caressed Imogen in between her legs. There were pants, though, but it wasn't much a barrier for the witches to feel caresses. 'I didn't think I'll go so far.'

'Here can't be such a thing as "so far".'

'I may disagree with you. "It" didn't happen yet.'

'You're right as always, but here's nothing besides this. Also, Const, don't think I want to tease you about things I enjoy a lot. The only thing I can do is ask for more.' It was said when caresses were over, otherwise Imogen couldn't say normally one sentence even.'

'I want to suggest you something.'

'You mean us both?'

'Of course, I'm not going to be apart from you the rest of our lives, and we know it very well.'

'Well, I thought maybe you want me to do something? It may be a variant too.'

'It can be, but it's not. Do you want to come back?'

'Come back to Cackle's Academy? But Const, don't you think it's too early?'

'Let's look at it this way— we have to learn how to reward ourselves every day after lights off.'

'Didn't we learn it already? I mean—'

'At some point yes, but besides, don't you want to feel again being alone in the whole castle? Nothing will change, Idgie.'

'Almost nothing. Whatever the castle is . . . it's the school, not a home. It's a dormitory.'

'In this case, why you decided to live in a dormitory instead of have a normal job which would allow you to live at home?'

'We discussed it before, and it was you who brought it up.'

'At least, we know something in our lives is stable— we have a job and we have each other.'

'Dear, as I said on the very first day, I don't complain. Why do I need to? In spite of this, let's face it— Cackle's is not exactly like our home.'

'Doesn't a thought of you coming to my room illegitimately excite you?'

'It does a lot.' Imogen smiled. 'Doesn't a thought about you coming to my room illegitimately excite you?'

'It was so hard to stop what I was doing to you recently. This thought does the same to me.'

'Mmm, it's bloody brilliant.'

'Tomorrow we should be at Cackle's, so we should pack today, I mean, I should pack my things. Stand up, then?'

'All right, but it will be your duty to make food tomorrow.'

'A former pupil gives orders to her former form mistress. A cheeky lass, I must say.'

'No, love, we're much more than this.'

'I know; it was a joke. I love you too.'

The witches went out from the bed and started to dress not stopping the conversation.

'What do you think I did during any summer and winter holidays, starved? Also, I didn't confine by magic food. So it's not a problem for me.'

'I knew it. You're not a Potions teacher only, after all.'

'Yes, I'm somebody's girlfriend also.'

'So do I.'

'Actually, you're right. Of course, I'm not a big fan of such things, but I like it, consider it not lasts long also.'

'In some cases it lasts very long, but we needn't something which takes very many time to be cooked, just usual food to not starving, but it should be tasty anyway.'

'Unlike many people, it's not very simply for me to find what to eat, so a main thing is food has to be tasty and I should like the meal. Happily, I solved this problem.'

'We shall swap our roles today.'

'What do you mean by this? I'm not going to be a P.E. teacher.'

Imogen laughed. 'I meant completely different. A few days ago, it was my time to be at home and pack things. It will be the same, unless there's nobody who can be very shocked by our relationship.'

'Constant vigilance would be on, but we could exchange glances filled with very many subtext while nobody's looking.'

'It would be your turn to tease me, wouldn't it? Well, it would be fair.'

'Alas, I shan't have a chance to do it, but I'd want to. Just a thought about it. . . Mmm, we could use only looks, a few words and nothing else.'

'It wouldn't make us appear in a bedroom of one of us at Cackle's or in this bedroom.'

'I would give you some very good suggestions, but you could do nothing except reply by looks and a few words.'

'According what you were doing to me recently, I suppose your teases would have similar result.'

'Probably, but don't forget we would be tired like we were last time.'

'Then it would be following morning when we would finish what we didn't.'

'We could repeat something too. I know, you wouldn't mind.'

'What if somebody would decide to come back to school unexpectedly?'

'Does it suppose to turn me on? I mean, the fact that whatever we'll be doing together in our rooms or the Potions Laboratory apart from talking and study will be not what we can do and it should turn me on.'

'Doesn't it do?'

'Well, it does at some point, it does a lot, but I'd prefer to spend at least some time without somebody being another inhabitant of the castle.'

'. . . So, breakfast is over. The packing won't take long time, but it's better to be prepared in advance.'

'Knowing you, I don't wonder at all.'

'You know about me much more than anybody would allow knowing ever. Not to mention, a main part of this is what you did to me. I'll be thanking you eternally.'

'You're welcome, love. I should thank you eternally too for many of what you did to me. I could never think I can have such a wonderful life and have the best girlfriend anybody could wish about.'

'Think how we'll be reacting at this fact next year and few years later. How about twenty years from now?'

Besides words, here can be only one reaction. Imogen looked at Constance and smiled widely.

'When you were about to left Cackle's after graduating, I smiled to you and said, "This is for you and only for you. Remember this."'

'I smiled to you in reply. It was what should have support us, cheer up when we'll feel down. It's what will be with us always, even when we'll be not as close as we'd want to be. For example, during lessons.'

'Yes, a day may seem long, after our wonderful holidays especially, but I can assure you that a reward will worth this.'

'Especially if we'll be awaking together every day and here's no reason why it mustn't be so.'

'Now I can ask you about who's teasing whom.'

'Even if I did, it happened unintentionally at this time.'

'Unintentionally? What you'll say if you would know that we'll have a reward after we'll be ready to leave home? I mean, today in the evening, not tomorrow in the morning.'

'It was you now and it happened not unintentionally.'

'Yes, but let's say I couldn't resist to motivate us.'

'I don't think that it can be called a motivation; it's better to say "a spanned string" or something like this.'

'If it supposed to turn me on, it does.'

'I didn't think about it at all.'

'In this case, it's even better.'

'Somebody wanted to pack her things in advance, yes?'

'Yes, but unlike you, whatever she needs to collect doesn't lay in one room.'

'How about an obvious fact that she did it many times before, and it means that she needs much less things than somebody else.'

Finally, the witches started to pack things.

'Won't you take something that reminds you about home?'

'You ask me like I didn't think about it.'

'You wanted to really?'

'If you would know what it will be, you would laugh in response.'

'Const, it can't be something stupid. You're not such a person.'

'It's definitely far from "something stupid".'

'What can it be?'

'Mirror, mirror on the wall. . .'

'Me? Love, say you're joking.'

'You're far from stupid, aren't you?'

'Yes, but. . .'

'Take a member of a family is more important than take something else. You're the best part of my life. You're most special person in the world for me.'

'Don't state my thoughts.'

'It's not an invasion, it's a similarity. Does it bad?'

'No, similarities are great and we know it very well.'

'I thought you forgot it.'

'The best things are unforgettable.'

'Especially if they repeat from time to time.'

'It may be very different, but result is the same. Doesn't it a great ability to be able read each other's mind without actual reading?'

'It can be a part of the list why we meant for each other.'

'By the way, I didn't ask what you would take at Cackle's as a little piece of home.'

'As if you don't know.'

'What I supposed to know?'

'Damn, Const, stop flirting with me.'

'I don't see any reason why I must not. I think you decided to take something very important.'

'Well, quoting you, I can say "Mirror, mirror on the wall . . .".'

'A good choice. Besides me, don't forget your two books.'

'How can I? I can't forget to take my teacher too.'

'It's my turn to pack, so I shan't forget to take my pupil.'

'I can say that your "take something that reminds you about home" turned into "a teacher and her pupil".'

'We started with it, so why we can't repeat it? Plus, Amelia said me that you'll need my help at first.'

'Girlfriends should help each other.'

'It's not something she or somebody else has to know. It's our secret.'

'It's the best secret in my life.'

'This fact makes me very happy.'

'Try to not show it at the Academy.'

'No, I'll be very Miss Hardbroom, maybe a bit softer, but I don't going to share the obvious fact that you make me one of happiest people in the world.'

'Good. There definitely mustn't be something like an expression your feeling in front of somebody like bolt from the blue.'

'Well, a main duty has finished. Can you guess what we're going to do next?'

'I do probably.'

'Really?'

'We're going to study again, aren't we?'

'You're absolutely right. Then we can read a bit.'

'A good decision.'

'We'll not be studying in the bedroom as we tried to last time. It'll distract too much.'

'It was study which distract us too much.' Imogen smiled.

'Well, whatever it was, we'd better to be in other room.'

'. . . And now you have to read this book attentively.'

'Const, are you joking? I'm not going to sit straight— um, I mean lesbian. . . Never mind. No matter which position I'll take, I'm not going to spend time in this armchair until sunset.'

'This book about flying has. . .' The blonde with looked in the book, '. . . 325 pages. I'm not going to read this big book in one sitting.'

'Who said you have to finish the book in one sitting?'

'You're a lesbian, but you acted very straight.'

'No, dearest, I didn't act straight.'

'Then why you said me to read the book in one sitting?'

'I didn't sad these words.'

'Yes, but subtext was very clear.'

'No, the meaning of my words was a bit different.'

'What it was then? Can you say it right now?'

'I meant no matter how many pages you'll read, you should read it very attentively. You have to remember everything what written here. We know that it's not a textbook or a manual about how to be a Flying teacher, but it's a very good book.'

'What are you going to do while I'll be reading this book?'

'I'm not going to distract you, so I'll be reading too.'

'What it will be?'

'Something fictional.'

'It's dishonestly!'

'I don't see anything dishonest in a peaceful reading.'

'If you don't see, I do.'

'Somebody wanted to be a good teacher, remember?'

Imogen sighted, 'Yeah, somebody wanted. And this somebody's going to read a book about flying while her girlfriend will be reading a fictional book. I like Flying very much, but I'd prefer to read other book.'

'This P.E. book, yes?'

'Const, it doesn't ridiculous. I like P.E. a lot too, but a fictional book would be better anyway.'

'Oh, yes, you should read the P.E. book tomorrow.'

Imogen sighted and said nothing in reply.

'It means you agreed.'

'Do you know what I love about you?'

'I suppose you can give me a list of reasons.'

'I can, but what you can say about a current situation?'

'I don't know concretely.'

'I'll give you an answer. No matter how far we went in our relationship, you're still remain a teacher when it necessarily.'

'I know when I have to.'

'Anyway, you're still Constance, not the strictest Cackle's teacher who's hard on every pupil.'

'No, you're very wrong. I wasn't being hard on you ever, was I?'

'I suppose, I was an exception.'

'Not only you, but you were my special pupil.'

'Am I now?'

'Of course you are. You're my girlfriend, and you're the best. You'll be the best no matter what, remember this.'

'In this case, I have to try to equal your high hopes for me.'

'You haven't, except you should remember about constant vigilance, but not act the way you acted being pupil.'

'Why shall I? I have you, and we'll have our rewards every evening and morning if we'll be very lucky. Here's absolutely no reason for me to look at you as I looked then. I shall do it behind closed doors when nobody can disturb us.'

'Stop, darling. Let's read our books. Your words direct my thoughts in opposite direction towards where they have to go.'

'All right, no more good ideas. Let's read.'

'. . . Dinner was over few hours ago. How about going to bed? We haven't sleep right now, you know. Above what we're going to do, you can tell me about the book you've read.'

'I'm not going to tease you even a bit.'

'I suppose this book was good?'

'"Good" isn't a right word to describe this book. What you'd say about very interesting book about two females?'

'You mean they are?'

'Yeah, not saying any spoilers, I can say they become girlfriends in the middle of the book.'

'It was the biggest spoiler.'

'Well, you're not going to read this book anyway, so what's the matter?'

'I shall read it someday in the future. Lesbian books are very interesting.'

'Oh, they're very interesting.'

'It's very good to have such a wonderful similar interest.'

'. . . We'll start with cuddling which will turn into something far from it very soon.' Constance couldn't resist to tease a bit; because the result was about to happen.

'Yeah, life gives unexpected plot twists.'

'I don't think it will be unexpected, rather very desirable.'

'They're so desirable that I thought about them very often when I studied at Weirdsiter College.'

'What's about tomorrow breakfast? You didn't say anything about it; because we'll be at home still.'

'It doesn't matter; it will be your duty. It will be a reward for my study.'

'. . . It was so good, love. Anyway, constant vigilance will be on since tomorrow.'

'Yes, it was great like you. Constant vigilance will be on since we'll have gone out from home only, not before.' Imogen smiled.

'Yes, we needn't it until then.'

The following day promised many events, but the witches will enjoy them a lot.