Todd sat in a chair with his head lowered and looking at the floor and his father across from him 

“Don’t worry son we’ll get this thrown out and back on track. That girl has no proof.” Todds’ father said confidently. Todd kept his eye focused on the floor and thought about everything he just lost. He lost Tyler, his life, any potential for a scholarship, and why? because someone wanted to hurt Lilly in the worst way imaginable. Todd’s father continued his ranting

“You’ll get out of here and back into playing football.” Todds’ father said causing Todd to look up at his dad 

“I don’t want that, Dad I deserve to be locked up. I really hurt her and that can’t be undone” Todd said sadly.

“Nonsense, you are a damn good football player and deserve a scholarship.” his father said 

“Why? Why do I deserve to be free, that girl will never be free. She will always have to carry what I did with her. I deserve to rott” Todd said 

“Son you love football why would you give up the chance to have a scholarship for some girl who you slept with and regretted it.” His father said 

“I don’t,” Todd said softly

“What do you mean?” his father said sternly

“I don’t love football, I never have. You love football and you wanted a scholarship for it, I don’t. I didn’t sleep with her she's gay.” Todd said frustrated 

“You have been playing since you were little and always had a smile on your face after a game” Todds father said.

“Because you didn’t pay attention to me, all you cared about was football and when I started playing you actually paid attention to me and I resented football because of it. I don’t like playing but you won’t let me do anything else people say I’m smart enough for an academic scholarship and I think they are right.” Todd said sadly to his dad.

“Who thinks that?” Todd's father said assertively 

“My-” Todd said pausing before finishing the sentence and realizing that he is done either way so he decided that he isn’t going to hide who he is “, My boyfriend!” 

Todd's father looked at him in complete shock “What did you just say?” he said.

“I said I’m gay and have a boyfriend and I love him and now that's gone because of something I don’t remember doing.” Todd said as be began to sob.

“ You belong here then, no son of mine is one of those things, find your own way out.” His father said getting up to leave Todd alone in the visiting room to be taken back to his cell. Todd was left in the jail for the rest of the weekend and Monday morning Todd was taken to the local courthouse and brought before a judge

“ The case of Todd Mathews is now in session,” The judge said and he slammed his gavel to start the case. Todd looked over to his lawyer and he looked confident 

“Don’t worry kid This case will be thrown out.” he said proudly causing Todd to look down at the ground as opening statements were presented and when asked how he pleads his lawyer began to speak and Todd interjected “Guilty, I hurt someone, I caused her more damage to her than anyone should ever do to anyone. I deserve to be punished for that I may not remember doing it but I still did it and still hurt someone very badly and deserves to be punished for that.” Todd said as he cried. The judge looked at him with concern 

“Are you sure young man? You do this I have to send you to juvenile detention” the judge said sympathetically.

“Yes I am sure I deserve to be locked away,” Todd said drying the tears from his face

“Okay then, in that case, I sentence the defendant, Todd Mathews to 2 years in juvenile detention and to be moved to a country prison on his eighteenth birthday court adjourned.” The judge said dismissing the court and Todd being taken out of the courthouse.

Lilly woke up and just decided on a pair of PINK sweats and a hoodie and went down and met her mom so they could drive to school as usual when Lilly entered the school she could feel all eyes on her as she walked to meet Abby in the cafeteria to turn in their uniforms. As they walked  through the hall to the activities office to turn in her uniform when they were stopped by Jessica “Hey Lilly I just wanted to say that I am so sorry for what Todd did, I had no idea he was capable of that kind of thing.” Jessica said pretending to comfort Lilly.

“Thanks, Jessica I appreciate that a lot,” Lilly said 

“Don’t mention it us girls have to stick together right? But where are you off too?” Jessica said.

“Activities office to turn in our uniforms because we are quitting cheer.” Lilly said.

“Aww I’m sorry I wish you could have stayed on the team, it won’t be the same without you.” Jessica said.

“It’s okay,” Lilly replied monotonously 

“Well, I'll see you two later bye,” Jessica said waving as she walked away leaving Lilly and Abby to continue their walk to turn in their uniforms. As she walked away she met up with Becky and Sarah but when she did Bethany approached the group

“I honestly can’t believe you would do something so horrible to someone,” Bethany said furiously

“Whatever do you mean?” Jessica said 

“You not only ruined your cousin's life but you have ruined Lilly’s life and mental well being as well.” Bethany said furiously 

“Oh we'll” Jessica replied coldly 

“Oh well? Are you kidding me you damaged a girl for life, you got your cousin locked up not to mention the damage to your family.” Bethany said with fire in her eyes.

Jessica just looked at her and said “You really don’t want to do this, do you? We both know that I will overpower you any day of the week.”  Bethany just looked at the trio in amazement 

“ You know I expect Becky to be okay with this but you Sarah? After everything that happened to you how can you let this happen” Bethany said before walking away

“Jess, what did you do on Friday,” Sarah asked her friend

“I used magic and Todd attacked Lilly and in turn making her will weaker,” Jessica said 

“So the rumors that Todd tried to rape Lilly were actually you?” Sarah said hurt

“Yes the rumors are true but I am the reason it happened,” Jessica said proudly.

“How could you, after what happened to me, you would do that to another girl?” Sarah said 

“Of course if it means reviving the master I’ll do anything,” Jessica said causing Sarah to rethink her allegiance even more than before. The day went on as usual until Lunch where the two girls were approached by Tyler  “Hey Lilly can I talk to you in private for a minute” he said causing the two girls to look up at him

“Sure Tyler, where did you want to talk?” Lilly said getting up 

“The Library,” Tyler said. The pair walked towards the school's Library and once they entered it they sat in a discreet location

“Okay, so what's up?” Lilly said as tears poured down Tylers face 

“Did something happen?” Lilly said confused 

“ I have something to tell you but you have to keep it a secret, Promise” He said between tears 

“Of course but what's wrong?” Lilly said 

“Well I’m gay and so is Todd, he would never hurt a girl like that. Heck he wouldn’t even think of a girl that way.” Tyler confessed causing a wave of confusion across Lilly’s face.

“What kind of joke is this Tyler, it's not funny,” Lilly said seriously 

“It’s not a joke you have to, believe me, he is my boyfriend and would just put on an act for the school but we have been together for six months and I just don’t believe Todd would do something like that,”  Tyler said sadly

“Who was it then? Who attacked me and hurt me?” Lilly said angrily 

“I don’t know! He mentioned something about Jessica but I’m not sure”  Tyler said.

Lilly looked at him and could tell he was being honest, “I’m sorry Tyler this is hard to deal with and I didn’t mean to snap at you, but how could Jessica be involved?” Lilly said to Tyler. 

“I don’t know but she was just being weird after the homecoming game,”  Tyler replied

“She was injured and maybe they are family or something if it was anything else it would be obvious” Lilly replied 

“Please Lilly, I love him and need him back” Tyler pleaded.

“I don’t know how to help, sorry,” Lilly said walking away meeting back up with Abby to continue the school day. Three o'clock came around and Lilly and her mom left the school to go to the psychiatrist “Hey mom this kid Tyler said that Jessica was acting strange and she might have been behind my attack” Lilly said to her mom as they drove to the appointment. 

“Sweetie how would that be possible Jessica would have to be a witch to do that and a powerful one at that.” her mom said 

“Just please if Todd is innocent I’d hate him to go away for nothing,” Lilly said.

“I’ll have the sisterhood look into it but don’t get hopes up,” her mom said. After a while, they reached the therapist's office and checked in. After a short time, Lilly was called back by the therapist who was a small thirty-five-year-old woman they entered her office and it had soft lighting with relaxing neutral colors and a desk in the corner of the room with a computer on it and two chairs against the opposite wall faced towards each other. 

“Hi Lilly, my name is Stephanie and I am going to be your therapist. It's been a while since I’ve had someone in the sisterhood come in to see me and not to mention a girl like you but none the less welcome.” Stephenie said with a smile.

“Hi” Lilly said shyly.

“Don’t be scared sweetie, why not talk about yourself a bit”

Lilly told her about her whole life as Joey and up to after the game 

“Well you certainly have had quite a hard life but you are string for enduring it. Why don’t we talk about what brought you here today” Stephenie said causing sadness to spread across her face.

“Don’t worry you don’t need to talk anything you don’t want to, I’m just here to help,” Stephenie said.

“I just felt so helpless, I worked so hard to learn magic to protect myself and I couldn’t do that he was gonna really hurt me and now I just want to disappear and never be seen again,” Lilly said sobbing

“Why couldn’t you protect yourself,” Stephenie asked Lilly.

“He was warded I couldn’t use magic at all and he knew my old name which shocked me and I couldn’t react, why couldn’t I do something,” Lilly said trying not to cry again.

“It sounds like you did all you could to protect yourself and I want you to know it’s not your fault, make sure you know that you should never blame yourself for anything that happened,” Stephenie said comforting Lilly 

“Why not? I put myself on display and should have expected it!” Lilly cried.

“No Lilly, I worked with many victims and it is never their fault.” Stephenie said causing Lilly to calm down a bit “There we go now let's talk about old mom and dad if you feel comfortable”

“They never supported the LGBT community and hated them so much, whenever June came around they would burn pride flags and have a party. I had self-hatred for a long time and only had my sister to help me understand myself but whenever my dad would catch me he’d punish me and my mom would let him.” Lilly said tears running down her face “Why didn’t they accept me.” 

“Lilly, you do know it’s not your fault that you are who you are and more importantly they can’t hurt you anymore, you know that right?” Stephenie explained.

“I saw my old mom at the mall last week and it brought up memories that I hadn’t thought of in a while,” Lilly said.

“I know just try not to think about it and since you are learning magic I want you to try lucid dreaming and removing your parents from your dreams as a start, confronting your subconscious versions of them will make it easier to push them back, and as for the attack We will work more on that next week because our time is up, but just focus on that it isn’t your fault and you are not to blame for it,” Stephenie said. Lilly stood up and was escorted out by Stephenie and her mom was waiting for her in the waiting area. Lilly's mom saw her coming back out and walked over to chat with Stephenie a bit

“Sweetie why don’t you wait in the car I wanna talk to Stephenie for a bit.” her mom said causing Lilly to look up at Stephenie “Don’t worry anything in session is private” Stephenie said. Lilly took the keys from her mom and left the building.

“You got yourself a tough kid there, I can’t disclose anything directly because of confidentiality but shes stayed strong through it all I do think she needs more sessions though but as long as she follows my advice she will be okay,” Stephenie said sweetly 

“Yeah I don’t know how she made it but I’m glad she did.” Miss. Davis said with a smile.

“To change topics I think we should have Danielle infiltrate the next meeting of the coven and find out what she can because it definitely seems like someone is out to get her,” Stephenie said. 

“I don’t think that would be a good idea because her parents are the leader of the coven and if she goes in then they will know she’s there and hurt. I do think however that Lilly needs to work more on sensing other magic users and we can go from there.” Miss. Davis said. 

“Okay, I’ll report back to the sisterhood and see you next week,” Stephenie said with a smile

Miss. Davis left the building and walked out to her car and once she was backed out and on the road, she spoke up, “ Dear this evening we are going to start strengthening your ability to sense other witches because if anyone in the school is a witch you should be able to sense them. “

“Okay, but what are we going to do if there is someone in school who is a witch what can we exactly do about it?” Lilly said.

“Tell the coven and go from there, nothing more we can do about it.” Her mom said.

“Is it possible that they could keep themselves hidden from being sensed?” Lilly said.

“Not unless they are powerful, I wasn’t sensed by them because I was able to mask my presence from them due to my age and being stronger than them so I wouldn’t worry. It takes years to reach that level of power and training doesn’t usually start till age 10.” Miss. Davis said. 

“So I’m behind others.” Lilly said sadly causing her mom to glace at her sympathetically. 

“Oh sweetie, just because you are a bit late to training doesn’t mean you are any less of a witch in fact you are one of the most skilled witches I have ever seen.” her mom said encouragingly.

“Really, I’m not bad or slow to learning?” Lilly questioned.

“Nope you are doing better than expected in all honesty, and I expect you to be on par with other witches your age within a year and then we can focus on getting you to take the sisterhoods initiation test and get access to more knowledge that I don’t have at home.” 

“Test? I don’t get to join automatically?” Lilly asked confused 

“No dear, Every woman may have the ability to do magic however only a few women have a high enough capacity to cast spells like you, but more commonly are Wiccans and more modernized magic in a sense.” her mom said 

“So the test is meant to keep the less powerful out?” Lilly questioned?

“Exactly, the sisterhood doesn’t want to put those in danger.” her mom replied.

“That doesn’t seem fair though, the sisterhood should allow all who can do magic, it doesn’t seem very sisterly,” Lilly said sadly

“You don’t have to tell me but what are you going to do those where implemented years ago after the Salem witch trials.” her mom 

“Wait the Salem witch trials were caused because the sisterhood was open?” Lilly asked surprised.

“Yep and you will learn more about the sisterhood if you want to pass the exam to move through the ranks of the sisterhood,” her mom said

“I’m gonna make the sisterhood open to all witches who have good intentions,” Lilly said eagerly.

“That's quite the dream, isn’t it? Well if anyone is able to do that it’s you” her mom said with a smile. 

The rest of the drive home was the same as always they talked and listened to music and by the time they got home, it was 6:30 pm and too late to start dinner so they just decided to order a pizza. Meanwhile, the dark coven was gathering together for a meeting. 

“This meeting is to discuss Jessica’s progress in doing enough damage to Lilly so we can revive the master, sister Jessica you have the floor.” Mother Agatha said 

“Thank you, Mother Agatha, the first phase has been completed I  had her join the cheer squad then recently at the homecoming game I used my cousin Todd to attack her and really break her mentally and traumatized her into breaking more and more easily in the future,” Jessica explained.

“well done, I’m glad you have made so much progress in such a short time however you still have a long way to go and well done using Todd as a pawn just hope that nobody suspects anything.” Mother Agatha said.
“Even if they did thanks to the coven I’m far more powerful than other witches my age and of course that provides me with some cover and if that doesn’t work than concealing my magic to a level almost undetectable by even the most powerful of witches,” Jessica said

“That cockiness will only lead to failure” Father Daniel," said.

“I agree don’t let your age and strength forget you serve the master and if decided you will be dealt with.” Another member replied.

“Alright, that's enough if there's nothing further to report then the meeting is adjourned.” Mother Agatha said causing the coven to disperse and go back to their homes.