Sarah sat in the dark of her room searching through social media for Clair Conners and sent her a message asking to meet up after school on Wednesday but didn’t get an immediate response. Her mind began to wander and eventually, she remembered what Jessica said earlier that day causing tears to run down her face and she thought to herself self “it wasn’t her fault that happened was it?” She thought back to the day that changed her life forever. It was crisp autumn afternoon Sarah was being taught magic by her mom

“No No No like this put more effort into it, honestly it's like you aren’t even trying.” Her mom scolded her.

A very young Sarah looked over to her mom and began to cry “I’m trying mom honestly! This is super advanced stuff.” Her mom walked up to her and slapped her in the face knocking her to the ground

“Honestly you are a pathetic disappointment for a witch.” Her mom said standing over her.

“I’m sorry mom, I’ll do better I promise!” Sarah said tears streaming down her face.

“Looks like you didn’t learn the last time you cried, looks like you need more time in the basement.” her mom said.

“No! Please, mom! Don’t lock me up again I promise I’ll be good.” Sarah said shacking

“I’m doing this because I love you.” her mom said before leaving her locked in the dark basement. After a while, her stepbrother came down and kneeled next to her

“Hey sis how you doing.” Her brother said Sarah's eyes shot open and she scurried across the floor to the corner of the room.

“G-get away from me,” Sarah said frightened

“What I just wanna talk, is that so bad?” Erik said walking towards her

“I don't wanna talk, now stay back I'm warning you,” Sarah said as she raised her trembling arms

“What, you gonna cast a spell on me? Erik said I an amused tone.

“I’m warning you I’ll do it!” Sarah shouted as Erik walked closer to her and she mutere3d something before his eyes became vacant and gave a glance to Sarah before walking upstairs leaving Sarah in the dark she was relieved that Erik left her alone but soon after she heard a blood-curdling scream form upstairs before a thud loudly hit the floor and after some shouting another thud, Erik came back down to the basement covered in blood and walked towards Sarah she began to cry in the corner as he approached but he knelt down and looked her in the eye’s

“I really gotta thank you, if you weren’t such a bad witch you wouldn’t have accidentally summoned me to your brother's body so I had to give you a little bit of a thank you and because I’m in your brother's body I dug through his memories and saw how bad they treated you so I slaughtered them and now I’ll leave your brother's body for the cops to find thanks again, kid.” The demon said before leaving and the cops bursting into the basement and arresting her brother, he got life in prison and at the station, Jessica's uncle decided to take her in, she snapped out of her trance her whole body shaking and paralyzed with fear she just sat in the dark for a while and soon got a notification bing that snapped her out of it. She checked her notifications and saw the message was from Claire Conners and it read

Claire: Hey sorry I'm getting back to you so late, what's up?

Sarah: I heard you know why Jessica is a bitch?

Claire: Oh that? Yeah, I know why but it's too long of a story to message, you able to meet after school tomorrow?”

Sarah: I have cheer but I can meet you after, I should be done around five if that works.

Claire: That works fine meet at six at lakeside?

Sarah: See you then!

Sarah turned off her phone and laid in bed for hours before falling asleep. The day went by relatively quickly and cheer practice seemed to drag on tho but when it finally ended Sarah began to go ahead of Jessica and Becky

“Excuse you, where do you think you’re going?” Jessica said staring daggers at Sarah.

"I have a thing that I need to go to but I’ll message you later okay?” Sarah said before running off. She got to the lake by 5:45 and waited about 20 minutes for Claire to show up

“Hey sorry I'm late,” Claire said approaching Sarah

“It’s all good, so why is Jessica so mean and what does it have to do with you?” Sarah said

“Well it goes back to elementary school, I believe it was 3rd grade maybe second but anyway it was Valentine's day and everyone was given a valentine however Jessica wanted to give me a special one because she liked me more than a friend and me being a shitty kid and not knowing better I called her a freak and spread it around the school and then she started acting like a bitch and hating the LGBT,” Claire explained

“Wait so Jessica is LGBT?” Sarah said

“Yeah and it’s my fault for not knowing much about that and letting my parents brainwash me, I actually came out last year and I’ve been staying with a friend. I have wanted to apologize for how I acted for years now but don’t know how or if she’ll even talk to me.” Claire said

“Well, you better do it soon because she is gonna do something awful to a girl,” Sarah said

“Look I don’t even know if she will open the message,” Claire replied.

“Just try because I can’t bear to see someone hurt,” Sarah said

“I’ll try but no promises,” Claire said.
They separated and Sarah went home and showered before calling Brooke and Becky

“Heyy girls” Sarah said

“Finally you are here so we can discuss the plan.” Becky said annoyed,

“So phase one will be happening in three weeks the week after the homecoming game because by that time she will be in love with cheer after the homecoming game and the team will blame Lilly for ruining the season, shell loses friends and cheer in one go,” Jessica explained sinisterly.

“But why do you want to hurt her, we could just easily humiliate her and get the same results.” Sarah tried to reason.

“ Because he is a freak and deserves to suffer!” Jessica hissed.

“I’m just saying just because they are different doesn’t make them a freak,” Sarah respond

“He is a boy who wanted to turn into a girl, He’s a freak!” Jessica emphasized.

“I think she’s trying to say something Jess lets hear her out,” Becky said

“No No I'm just curious what she did to hurt you badly enough you’re this mean?” Sarah said

“None of your damn business you are to follow my orders and not question them otherwise you’re out got it!” Jessica said rudely causing Sarah to shrink back into her shell. The rest of the call was more of the same and eventually, they all went to bed but Sarah couldn’t stop thinking about what Claire told her about Jessica but now she was more sure then ever that she had to stay low but not follow orders because she knew these orders would be absolutely sinister and underserved, even if the demon lord could bring her family back would it really be worth it to hurt Lilly an innocent girl. She soon drifted off to sleep.