Chapter 2

Chapter TWO It didn't take me long to get ready that evening. I picked some flowers from the garden to put in my hair, and then I snuck into Mum's dressing room and sprayed myself with her perfumes until I smelled of marzipan and purple berries. Mum always has the best perfumes. She invents

那天晚上我没花多长时间就准备好了。 我从花园里摘了一些花插在头发上，然后偷偷溜进妈妈的化妆间，给自己喷上她的香水，直到身上散发出杏仁糖和紫色浆果的味道。 妈妈总是有最好的香水。 她发明了

a lot of them herself! Then I went back to my room and rummaged in my toy box until I found my old fairy wand that I never used. It was right at the bottom tangled in some necklaces that my friend Carlotta had given me. Carlotta is my best friend at witch school and we are always plotting and planning things together.

她自己也有很多！然后我回到我的房间，在我的玩具盒里翻找，直到我找到了我从未用过的旧仙女魔杖。 它就在底部，和我朋友卡洛塔送给我的几条项链缠在一起。 卡洛塔是我在巫师学校最好的朋友我们总是一起策划和计划事情。

I took the wand and the necklaces out and began to untangle them. I had forgotten all about the necklaces! They both had long silver chains and hanging off each one was a miniature potion bottle. 'They're for when you need to be more secretive,' Carlotta had told me. 'You can take your potions with you wherever you go!' I stared at the necklaces and my mind began to whir. I knew I had promised Dad that I would only bring my fairy wand to the midsummer dance, but surely it wouldn't hurt to take just a tiny bit of witch magic? He would never know! And it's not like I was planning to use the

我把魔杖和项链拿出来，开始解开它们。 我把项链的事全忘了！他们俩都戴着长长的银链子，每条链子上都挂着一个小药瓶。 “这是在你需要更隐秘的时候用的，”卡洛塔告诉我。 “不管你走到哪里，你都可以随身携带你的魔药！”我盯着项链，脑子里开始嗡嗡作响。 我知道我答应过爸爸我只带我的仙女魔杖去参加仲夏舞会，但带一点女巫魔法肯定不会有什么坏处吧？ 他永远不会知道的！而且我也没打算用

potion bottles. It would just be nice to have them. I liked the idea of having a witchy little secret at the midsummer dance. I started to feel the two sides of me clashing against each other. My fairy side was telling me to leave the potion bottles at home. To just take my fairy wand and to be as good as I possibly could be for Dad. But my witch side was saying the opposite.

药水瓶子。有他们就好了。 我喜欢在仲夏舞会上有个神奇的小秘密。 我开始感觉到我的两面性在相互碰撞。 我的仙女一面告诉我把药瓶留在家里。 拿着我的魔法棒，尽我所能为爸爸做得更好。 但我女巫的一面却不这么认为。

And my witch side usually wins. Five minutes later I found myself running up the spiral staircase of the tallest turret in our house. We call it the Witch Turret and it's where Mum keeps all her potion ingredients, her spell book and her cauldron. Mum always has the best, most expensive and pretty potion ingredients. Much better than mine! I fancied filling my tiny bottles with something pretty and glittering. Something that would look nice on a necklace. It was only for looks after all. I wasn't going use the potions.

而我的女巫一方通常会赢。 五分钟后，我发现自己跑上了我们家最高塔楼的螺旋楼梯。 我们叫它女巫塔楼，妈妈把所有的药剂原料、咒语书和坩埚都放在那里。 妈妈总是有最好、最贵、最漂亮的药剂原料。 比我的好多了！我幻想着在我的小瓶子里装满一些漂亮的、闪闪发光的东西。 能配项链的东西。 毕竟那只是为了好看。 我不会用魔药的。