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'What did you just say to me?' Rachael asked as she stopped to glare at Leigh-Anne. 'Have you lost your mind?' She started to walk slowly back to the girls and everyone in the rally. Leigh-Anne, Jesy, Jade and Perrie all stood as firm as they could.

'What is your problem, Rachael?' Jesy asked. 'You've always looked down on us and I want to know why. What did we ever do to deserve it?'

Rachael paused to think. 'I just don't like you. None of my friends do. I don't like looking at you. I don't like speaking to you. This school would be a better place if you all left it. The elite should stay, the scum should go.'

'You sound like Donald Trump!' Jade laughed.

'He makes some valid points about the state of society. It's extremely relevant to how this school just reeks of desperate cretins.'

► 'Is that so?' Perrie said with a tone of finality in her voice. It was evident that she, and everyone else who stood with her, was getting sick of the judgment.

'Yes. It is. And no matter what kind of hypnotism you place on everyone, the four of you are the most pathetic bunch of girls I have ever had to deal with. Just look at her,' she said, looking directly at Jesy.

'We are looking,' Perrie replied. 'And she is so beautiful, and inspiring, and a much better human being than you'll ever be.'

'I used to let your words affect me, Rachael. Seriously, you hurt me time and time again and I could never recover from it by myself. I'm a lot stronger now and I have so much support. If it wasn't for my girls, and all these brave people behind me, I wouldn't even be here right now. I never would have had the courage to say this to you.'

Jesy stood ahead of the girls, directly opposing Rachael.

'Ladies all across the world, listen up, we're looking for recruits. If you're with me, lemme see your hands, stand up and salute. Get your killer heels, sneakers, pumps, or lace up your boots. Representing all the women - Salute! Salute!...'

'Start leaving us alone,' Jade told her. 'You're fighting on the losing side. You have no idea what the voice of many can do when they've been oppressed for so long.'

'Jog on,' Perrie said, and for a moment, it appeared as though Rachael was about to slap her.

'What's going on?' The headmaster shouted from somewhere in the crowd behind them. Rachael tried to back away, but the figure of Mr. Cowell appeared before her friends could conceal her. 'This better not be a fight I'm preventing, girls.'

'Rachael told the journalists that came to support the rally that it isn't happening,' Jesy told him. 'She prevented our big moment because she's a bully.'

'Is this true Rachael?' He asked.

Rachael scoffed. 'Absolutely not, these girls are just out to get me, isn't that right?' Her friends all nodded like puppets on a string. 'I can't believe I'm being victimised by them again.'

'Okay, Rachael, in my office now. Leigh-Anne, I want you to come too. Whatever mess has happened here, it needs to be sorted. I'm not having any bad behaviour ruin the reputation of this school. Everyone else, go do something productive. I may have allowed a day off for the rally and now it isn't happening, you can all put your efforts into some homework or something.'

Leigh-Anne followed Mr. Cowell and Rachael into the school. Jesy, Jade and Perrie looked around at all the disappointed faces. Their hopes had been crushed and they now felt responsible for it.

'We need to make this right,' Perrie told Jade and Jesy.

'Should we phone up the local news station again and explain that we were sabotaged?' Jesy asked.

'They might think we're just stringing them along and messing them around,' Jade noted. 'I don't know if they would come again.'

Mr. Cowell sat in his chair once Rachael and Leigh-Anne took their seats in front of the desk. Leigh-Anne couldn't hide how upset she was.

'I've asked my secretary to phone both of your parents.' His voice sliced through the silence and was met with a sour reaction from both girls.

'What? Why?' Rachael objected. 'Nothing happened!'

'You ruined a lot of people's chances of having their voices heard by thousands of people. You stopped hard-working students from being part of a wonderful opportunity. It was an incredibly nasty, selfish thing to do.'

'Why are you taking her side for? I told you I never did anything!'

Leigh-Anne wasn't sure what came over the headmaster. He had always been shy when it came to dealing with students personally, and even when someone would complain of bullying, he would never take such a forceful attitude about it. A lot of times it would slip under the radar, but perhaps the spell helped in more ways than she ever imagined.

A small knock on the door prevented Rachael from going into a rage. The secretary popped her head through the door. 'Miss Pinnock's parents are on their way. I'm afraid the parents of Miss Parker couldn't make it down. Both of them are extremely busy.'

'As per usual,' Rachael said in a huff. 'I'm glad, they seriously won't care about this. It's stupid. I've done nothing wrong.'

'I understand now,' Leigh-Anne said after being in some kind of trance. Her eyes stared at the floor near Rachael's feet as if she had been locked in an epiphany, too afraid to move in case she would lose it. 'I understand why you're a bully. Sometimes it really does come from how we are treated at home. Your parents don't make time for you, do they? They never come to watch you when you cheerlead. I've never seen them when the school holds family open days.' She looked at Rachael directly in the eyes. 'They don't give you any attention. You're lonely.'

'Shut up, Pinnock. You know nothing.'

A small tear formed in the dark corner of Rachael's eye. She had struck a nerve. Then, her expression changed, and she tried to look away from them.

'I'm constantly left alone by my parents,' Rachael said, as if succumbing to a truth spell. Leigh-Anne watched in amazement. 'They make me feel so inferior and the only people who actually pay attention to me are those who I bully. I know I'm doing it and I know it's wrong, but having my friends surround me and admire me, it makes me feel invincible.'

'But what you're doing to my friend Jesy is so undeserved. She feels like she is fat and ugly and not worthy of love because of you and your words. I get that you're hurting, but hurting other people isn't a fix. It only escalates.'

'I don't think Jesy is ugly or fat. I just hate people who can be admired when I'm not.'

Even the principal was shocked at her sudden confessions. Leigh-Anne now knew it was the spell. It didn't work on her before because her heart had been so hardened to any outside influence. When Leigh-Anne acknowledged Rachael's deep-rooted issues with her parents, it opened her up, and the spell managed to reveal her inner truths.

After a pause, Mr. Cowell spoke up. 'Rachael, I respect that you've been honest and that you have issues you have to work through. Bullying in this school is not tolerated.'

'I got away with a lot of it because you turned a blind eye,' Rachael almost spat at him. 'You can blame me all you want for some of it, but it's people who watch and don't act on what they see that are the real problem.' Rachael stood up. 'I can't take any more of this.'

Mr. Cowell tried to stop her from leaving, but she pushed through the door before anybody could say another word. Before he could speak to Leigh-Anne, her phone started to ring.

'I am so sorry, I forgot to put this on silent!' She said as she frantically pulled it out of her pocket. It was Gary. She looked up at the headmaster. 'I have to take this, I'm so sorry!'

She ran out of the office and clicked accept on the call. 'Gary? Gary, I've been trying you all day! Where are you?'

'I'm at home. I'm so sorry.'

'Why? What are you sorry for?'

'I've just swallowed a ton of pills.'

Leigh-Anne's heart dropped. She felt faint, as if his overdose was having a connected effect on her. She struggled to form any coherent words, but the thought of Gary losing his life scared her into speaking. 'Stay there, I'm phoning an ambulance right now. I'm on my way.'

She put the phone down before he could speak as she dialled 999.

'Well that was a bust!' Jade said in a depressing melody. 'We worked so hard for no pay-off.'

Jade, Jesy and Perrie all sat in the library at an empty table. The windows dominated most of the walls, from floor to ceiling, and Perrie couldn't help but think somebody was watching through them. Every time she looked, nobody was there.

'I'm being really paranoid over Blaine,' Perrie told them after she saw yet another shadow. 'I keep thinking he's watching me. And he has the spell book!'

'We won't let him anywhere near you!' Jesy said to her in a convincingly strong voice. 'If he even dared to try, his entire face would change colour.' She said that with a punching gesture.

'It would be a tag-team effort,' Jade chimed in. 'And where is Leigh-Anne? She's been in that office for nearly an hour now.'

'Beats me,' Perrie said with a yawn. 'Wow, I didn't realise how tired I was. It's still really early but I have zero energy left.'

'I think this spell is starting to suck the life out of me,' Jade cryptically said. 'I bloody hope I'm wrong but with the way today has turned out, I'm starting to see more downsides than upsides. Maybe that's why we didn't get our moment - we sort of cheated.'

Perrie and Jade looked at Jesy, who put her head down. They knew how she felt about breaking the spell due to the progress she has made with Hughie. She didn't respond, so the other girls left it for the moment.

Jade continued. 'We do have a Blaine problem to sort out though; we need to get that book back. What if he tries to cast anything in it?'

'Should we go back to that magic shop and see that woman?' Jesy spoke up. 'I mean, she may have a solution, or she can help us find where Blaine is. Either way, it would be nice to have some kind of support right now.'

Perrie nodded. 'That's a great idea, even though she freaked me out the other day. Should we wait for Leigh-Anne?'

'We should probably let her be and let her phone us when she is finished,' Jade suggested.

'Okay,' Jesy agreed. 'Let's get going then.'

'Hello?' Jade said as she opened the magic shop door. 'Crazy lady?'

Jesy slapped her arm playfully. 'Don't say that!'

Jade giggled as the three girls poured inside. Perrie closed the door behind her and looked around the room. No customers, as expected, but also no store owner.

'She might be around the back,' Perrie suggested as she led them through the store. 'The door was unlocked, even though the sign said closed.'

'Why would she do that? Doesn't she want people to buy her crap?' Jesy said.

'Aye, but like I said, crazy lady,' laughed Jade.

A movement from the very back startled the girls. When one started screaming, they all did.

'Oh my God!' Perrie yelled as the screaming stopped.

It was the store owner. 'What's all this fuss in my shop?'

'Sorry,' the girls all said in unison.

The woman appeared startled, but she calmed down quickly. 'It's nice to see you girls again. Isn't there supposed to be four of you?'

'Leigh-Anne is currently unavailable,' Jade said. The woman raised her eyebrows.

'Has the spell made you all fall out?'

The girls looked at each other and exchanged regretful glances. 'Just like you said,' Perrie confessed. 'It did seem to change us a little. But we're stronger than ever now.'

They hugged. The store owner appeared warmed by their embrace. 'I'm very happy to hear that,' she said. 'So what can I help you with? Do you girls want to break the spell?'

'Not yet,' Jesy jumped in, a little too quickly. She realised this. 'It's just we have some bigger issues right now. We think someone has stolen the book and we're trying to find him. He could be dangerous.'

'In the hands of a mere mortal the spell book is useless.'

'But we're mortals. We aren't witches,' Jade corrected her. 'Right? Right?!'

The store owner simply just smiled. 'With the right ingredients, or with the right power of mind, even mortals can make magic happen. The power of speaking our desires and sharing our stories can be revolutionary, can it not?'

The three girls nodded, relating to that idea of creating magic to the changes they made at their school through the power of their voices.

'So, even if someone has the spell book, it shouldn't matter to you, unless they intend to use it, and the only magic shop in this town that's actually authentic is mine.'

'Has he come in? He's called Blaine, about five foot nine, beard, brown eyes...'

The woman cut her off. 'Absolutely nobody but you girls have come in today.'

Jesy took one judgmental look around the shop - she believed her.

'I can't help you locate someone without a piece of them,' she said. 'If you can bring me back something of Blaine's, I'd be happy to help. Maybe everything will work out in the meantime? Maybe he'll show up out of the blue.'

Perrie sighed, 'I really hope not.'

'We can try and get something of his and come back,' Jade said to Perrie hopefully, seeing the disappointment in her eyes. 'It's not hopeless.'

'I know,' Perrie said with a forced smile. 'Thank you for the help, I'm sure you're right. It will work out.'

The girls politely said goodbye and left the shop. The woman watched them as they left, then returned to the back. She walked through the curtain and turned to a desk near it. On top was an athame, and next to it, fibres of rope covered the girls' stolen spell book.