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Vanessa Smythe 12/7/2017 2:39:49 PM
Aerona noticed her reaction. ‘Take the unicorn. Because it has a horn of pure gold there is no way that it could live in your realm. Could you imagine everyone trying to slaughter it for the gold? That’s why it lives here because everything is gold, so people don’t need it.’
Vanessa was imagining her stepfamily living here. She would like to change Gavin into an animal. ‘How do you change a human into an animal?’
‘Well, for instance, say there is a human who has been a murderer, then that person will go back as a dog to learn a lesson about cruelty or compassion.’
‘Well if Gavin goes back as a dog then he had better hope that I don’t become his owner,’ Vanessa growled.
‘Don’t be like that or you’ll end up being a snake,’ Aerona warned.
Vanessa wanted to know why she was here.
‘That’s my dilemma; you and Jack. You weren’t supposed to come through the tree. The only thing I can come up with, is for you to go back and teach Gavin a lesson so that he can end his karma. He has to realise that there is more to life than money.’
‘How do I do that?’
‘I have to think of something. Jack can’t go back to help you as he has died there. The only solution is that I send you back with a form of protection to fix the Macleod boys’ problems and then when you do die, you can come back and be with Jack.’
Vanessa didn’t like the sound of the task ahead. ‘Why can’t I just stay here with Jack without having to go back? Or what about if I go back and kill myself; can I be with Jack then?’
‘No,’ said Aerona. ‘It doesn’t work that way. You have to finish with your lessons to move on to another realm or you will have to go back and do it all again.’
Vanessa, understanding now that she had no choice, asked if she could see Jack while she was here.
‘He’s already here with you,’ Aerona said.
‘Where?’ asked Vanessa, looking around.
‘You rode him to get here.’
Her brain was going into overdrive trying to think of the horse being Jack. Running as quickly as she could through the house, Emilia was left at the couch wondering why she was heading out the doorway. Vanessa lunged at the horse to hug his neck as he changed into Jack who held her in his arms. She was so happy to see him as she checked his body for any damage that had been done to him from his death. Standing back, Jack wasn’t sure what she was looking at.
‘I’m making sure that you’re alright,’ she said.
He laughed as he pulled her in close and kissed her.
Emilia watched them, shaking her head. ‘Teenagers,’ she muttered to herself.
Jack held on to her, glad that he could finally be with her. He closed his eyes, feeling her hair on his face, before he realised that Emilia was back at his side.
‘Jack, you have to change back into a horse so that you can take Vanessa home.’
Vanessa panicked. ‘No, I don’t want to leave you.’
Jack smiled. ‘She means, my home, not yours.’
Slowly they walked back to the house along the pathway through the trees. The decreasing moonlight guided them as they talked about their past adventure. Jack told her of how they had made a hole for her to fall into, but he had ended up in there instead. How it had been an accident after all. Of how he had waited by the tree when he knew that Vanessa was going to be looking for him.
‘Wait, how did you know that I would end up by the tree?’ she asked.
‘I made sure that your bike ran out of petrol there,’ he smirked.
Vanessa wanted to know how he had done that, but that was magic that he would have to show her.
‘So it was you that pulled me into this realm,’ she stopped to face him.
He looked at the ground and then grinned as he looked back at her. ‘Yeah, I want you with me. Besides, I couldn’t leave you alone with Gavin.’
Vanessa was so happy that she felt that she could fly to the moon without the aid of a horse. Then she remembered Aerona. ‘But I can’t stay here.’
Jack looked at Emilia. ‘That’s the only problem with magic. She knows everything that I get up to.’
‘And don’t you forget it,’ Emilia declared as she walked back to the lounge room full of people.
Vanessa watched everyone with interest as they made themselves meals that appeared from the kitchen cupboard and walked into doors that revealed their bedrooms. It was getting late and Jack wanted to see what bedroom Vanessa had thought of. Embarrassed at the thought of showing him the doll’s house room, she tried to think of something else as she opened the door. As she stuck her head through the doorway she wished that she had stayed with the pink room as now she was faced with her mother’s bedroom. Jack laughed as he tried to imagine what she was thinking of when she asked for a room filled with love hearts. He couldn’t help himself but jump on the red heart-shaped bed. As he lay there it was too much for her to keep away from him as she sat next to him.
‘Can you stay here?’ she whispered.
‘I want to, but Emilia would be here before you shut the door,’ he sighed as he pulled himself up next to her.
He kissed her goodnight as he left. ‘Tomorrow, I’ll teach you some magic.’
She looked around at the hearts in her room as she drifted off to sleep. Outside the door, Jack listened to make sure that she was asleep before heading down the hallway to his own door. Looking around his room, he felt he lacked imagination as he stared at the cream walls and carpet. The wooden bed with plain brown-chequered linen was the only piece of furniture sitting in the centre. As he got changed he thought about Vanessa’s room filled with hearts and imagined her sleeping as he drifted off to dream of her being with him one day.
