“That’s right!!! Juju needs to see the doctor!!! And plenty of rest to get better!!! Luckily doctor Lila’s here to help!!!” Stated Lila determinally, while taking the ragdoll off their hands.
“B-but Lilac, will Juju’s arm be fixed?…” Daisy whimpered, looking up at Lila with a worried teary expression, as her bottom lip quivered.
“Don’t worry Daisy — I’ll fix her up in no time. I’ll make sure to see if I have enough thread somewhere so that I can stitch back her arm. For the meantime, though.” Lila told her sister while she tore a small piece of her poorly tethered and stitched shirt; rapping the piece of torn cloth around Juju’s neck, and placing the doll’s torn arm piece inside the little arm sling that she made for the ragdoll.
“Once I find some thread, Juju will have this arm sling on for the meantime. And once, she’s all patched up — she’ll be as good as new!” Lila said, easing her little sister from her worries while giving her a big bright grin.
Both girls looked at Lila and then at each other, both looking relieved to hear that from her. Both twins hugged each other again and apologised to each other again. Telling each other twin that they are the best twin sister they ever had as well as other things to one another. Making Lila chuckle at the two, and relieved to see that things have finally settled down and back to normal.
Lila hands Juju back to Daisy and tells the two who have started to finally calm down moments later.
“Okay. Now that we all made up. How about we make a trip to the kitchen!!! You girls must be hungry by now??? — Even after all the lively commotion that happened earlier.” Mentions Lila, where the girls agree as both theirs and Lila’s stomachs began to rumble.
“Also… While we’re finished eating.” She then added. “How about I read you a little bit of ‘The Young and Amazing Witch! Sabrina Spellcaster!’ while we’re at it???” Said Lila excitedly while showing the two girls the old comic that she pulled out from one of her not torn pockets of her trousers— with a gleeful excitement and a twinkle in her eyes.
Daisy and Sandy looked at Lila with worried faces, both looking pale.
“B-but Lilac, won’t you get in trouble for having that here?” Asked Daisy, all worried for her sake.
Lila sees how worried they were of her, but assures them that they have nothing to worry about.
“Everything will be fine, just as long as Olga is out ‘working’. I don’t have to worry about her punishing me — besides, it’s my favourite and only series! And whenever I read it, I imagine myself in Sabrina’s world. Where I get to do magic in her usual and normal everyday life. Where she and her pet black cat Familiar Salem go on these amazing adventures, where she can cast spells and fly a broom!!!” Lila tells her sisters the plot of her favourite comic book.
“Not only that!!! How can I not read something where I share the same hair colour as the main character!?! Though there are a few words that I have a hard time and trouble reading — the drawings help with helping visualise what I need to know!!! It’s even better reading the pages over and over again, and can’t help wanting a life just like Sabrina’s. A teenage girl, who was an only child and lived with her deranged aunt. Thought that she will live the rest of her life in misery until she found out that she was a witch, herself. While her late parents weren’t born magical, she was born with magic — making her the first to be born a witch.” She said as she squealed with excitement.
“After finding out how to control her powers, even accidentally and magically turning the stairs to her house into a slide that her aunt was walking down on and later falling into a mud pit that she conjured. Even accidentally turning her pet cat to talk. Or how she accidentally turned her childhood friend Darian Shield into a frog, while turning one of her furniture into a living frog. And so she and her cat go on a small adventure to find a way to turn him back. And...” She rambled on and on, not being able to control her excitement as she visualised the illustrated world of her fictional teenage witch character, wanting to have the same life as the adventurist witch.
Telling her twin sisters the whole plot of the comic book. Her sisters were already used to her talking about the same things over and over, as they already heard the comic book story, over and over. But were both happy as long as they saw how happy Lila was.
“*Sigh!*.... How I wish I would be as magical as a witch…-”
Lila clenched on to her favourite comic book tightly, while she talked about desperately wanting to be a witch, like her favourite comic book character. But also hugging the thing that she holds very dearly, as it was a comic book given to her by her father. And reading the comic book, she begins to remember her father, him, and their times together.
Suddenly, as she was busy daydreaming, someone snatched the comic book from her hands. Startling her as she wakes up from her little daydream. She turned around and grew pale, the moment she saw the person leaning beside her. It was a tall middle-aged woman with dark brown hair which she had pinned up in a bun and wore a crimson-red business suit; with sharp shoulder pads.
She had blue eyes and was a very plump woman with a crooked snub-shaped nose. It was no other than the woman from thirteen years ago. It was Olga, their foster parent. Lila was puzzled by the fact that she came early from work today, and wasn’t expecting her to arrive back home until later tonight. But based on her expression and the way she was acting — Lila had a feeling that her boss probably sent her home, for irrational behaviour again. And the look she was giving Lila, was a face that Lila knew what it meant. And was afraid of what was to happen next.
“What is the meaning of this?!” Shouted Olga, gesturing to the old comic book, in full disgust. She knew at that very start that she was going to get into a lot of trouble for owning such a thing in Olga’s home.
Olga — who was awfully religious, found things like the old comic book, as witchcraft or whatnot. And considered everything as the ‘Devil’s Work’. Such things are prohibited in the household, and if by chance she finds evidence of such things in her home — would be punished by Olga, and sometimes would be done in a crucial, and inhumane way.
“I can explain, — it is mine, but I-“ tried her best to explain herself. But Olga cuts her off again, not giving her a chance to speak.
“But what? Ms. Evie… Go on?” Olga said in an intimidating, scarcely frightening voice while glaring at her with pure disgust.
“I-It’s mine, it was a gift, given to me by my dad… and so I kept it safe with me. B-but everything that’s written and illustrated there isn’t real… So-” Stuttered Lila a bit, as she tried to convince Olga, but failed to do so. As she was cut off by Olga tsking at her.
“Look at me.” Olga snares, telling Lila to look up and face her.
But when Lila slowly lifted her head to look at her — her face grew pale, and watched in horror, as Olga tore up her only copy of her precious comic book into pieces.
Once she was done tearing up the comic book, leaving bits of it crumbling to the floor. She looked at Olga again, with teary eyes, and let out a small little cry and shouted.
“Why?!? — It was a comic book that my dad gave me… You tore up what I had left of my father!!!”
Olga slapped Lila hard in the face with her back hand and the impact made Lila fall to the ground immediately. Olga’s eyes were filled with flames and was disgusted to hear her speak about her father. Olga pulls her up from the ground, by yanking her hair. Being at the same eye level she whispers in her ear, while her grip is still on her hair.
“Listen here, you little shit — Sebastian is not your father.” She stated coldly. “You were left at our doorstep when you were just an infant. Because your real parents didn’t want you for their daughter.”
Lila glared at Olga, as she was irritated and angry by the fact that she was calling her an unwanted child and that her birth parents didn’t want her. The same cold words that Olga had been repeating to her ever since she was little. The same old and cold words that still stung, and obviously grew sick and tired of hearing the same thing, especially from Olga.
“Oh ho! What’s with that face you're giving me? Don’t like what I’m saying about your real mum and dad? Or by the fact that Sebastian didn’t want you either.” Olga hissed, while slapping Lila in the face again, playfully but with such force. And was mostly bothered by Lila’s sudden glare and cockiness.
Lila was enraged at hearing these sorts of lies Olga spat, but at the same time — she couldn’t prevent the tears from falling down her face.
“And it’s because of you… that he’s-” Olga wanted to continue to torture her some more with her cold bitter words, but immediately stopped herself from saying anything else as she looked to see both Sandy and Daisy, looking terrified. Olga didn’t want to traumatise the girls any further, as they were witnessing this horrific event before them. Olga preferred Sandy and Daisy over Lila, yet still treated the two little girls rather unfairly, but not so worse than how she treats Lila.
As Olga loosened her grip, from Lila’s hair, and whispered in her ear again. “Listen to me you and listen clearly — I’m going to pretend about everything that you did, and what you said earlier about wanting to be a witch. I will not allow such talk and such things in my house! Such things are from the devil and are works of the hands of evil! — And if by any chance I catch you, somehow bring in more demonic things in my house again. Then consider yourself not having any meals — for a week. Do I make myself clear?” Whispered Olga in a cold menacing and lecturing voice.
As Lila hesitated to nod, not wanting to give in. But hearing her stomach grumble loudly — given that she hadn’t eaten the past week. And so, she agreed to Olga’s terms and trembly nodded.
While she had her approval, Olga finally let go of her hair. Looking and feeling accomplished to have taught Lila a lesson. Lila was left on the floor, feeling hopeless as she began crying about what happened. Sandy and Daisy rushed by her side, to try to comfort her, as they saw her in her pitiful state.
“Now clean this up! After you’re done with that — think about what you’ve done. Oh! And… make sure to sweep and mop the entire upstairs area; don’t come downstairs to eat if you’re not finished.” Olga mutters a little loudly in delight while making her way downstairs.
As she was halfway down the stairs. Lila, picking up the pieces of her precious comic book, looked up and glared at Olga, as well as glaring and focusing on the stairs for a brief moment. She looked and stared at the stairs, imagining it to turn into a slide, and then imagined the bottom of the stairs to have a mud pit. Where then suddenly and coincidentally the stairs turned into a slide, while towards the bottom of the stairs — was a mud pit.
Olga instantly lost her footing as she slipped and fell down the stairs that magically turned into a slide — which appeared out of nowhere; then fell straight into the mud pit.
She screams in horror and disgust, as she and her crimson suit were covered in mud. “AAAAAHHH! WHAT IN BLAZING HELL IS GOING ON!”
Lila was surprised and shocked by what happened and wasn’t sure how it happened either. As she just thought of it, then all of a sudden it became real?…. as if it were magic?
As Daisy and Sandy looked down at Olga from up the stairs, both couldn’t help but chuckle to see her struggling to get up. To them, she looked like a piggy rolling in the mud. She even squealed like one, the more she struggled to stand up.
Olga was embarrassed and felt humiliated by what was happening to her, and wondered what she did to deserve this.
Then, it suddenly hit her as she looked up the stairs. She sees Lila, with deep anger and hatred in her eyes, thinking that maybe she had something to do with this?
“YOU!” Hearing Olga shout, startled Lila leaving goosebumps and chills down her spine.
“YOU WITCH! YOU DID THIS TO ME! I know you did, you fucking freak!” Shouted Olga, while finally standing up, but still struggled in climbing up the slide to reach Lila.
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