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

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.

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

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.

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.

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