5 GONE AND RETURN part 5

They waited outside for about 10 minutes, when Elsa father's car finally showed up in front of the house. Elsa who recognizes Dylan's truck, approaches them as soon as she gets out of the car.

"What are you guys doing here." she said unemotionally.

"Elsa, I'm so very sorry.." Morrisey said.

"If that's all you want to say, you should just wait at home, I'll ring you a tenth missed call." Elsa said sarcasticly.

"I'm sorry, okay. I was.. I had some problem with my mom."

"You always had problems with your mom, Morri. At least she's still alive." Elsa said again.

Morri take a deep sighs before she continues. "Do you want to exchanged?"

"What?"

Morri grabs Elsa's shoulder. "Remember when we were ten, and you said we could and we will find magic in this world and use it to make our dreams come true."

"First of all, we were ten. Second of all, what the hell are you talking about?"

Morrisey shows Elsa the book. "I found this book, there's a magic spells on it.. and.. and there's a spells inside it that can brings back the dead, in exchange for another live."

Elsa looks at Morrisey to make sure she was serious.

"Dear God, you are as crazy as your look." Elsa said again.

"I know it sound crazy.."

"Oh, you think so?"

"..but what do you have to loose? If it's not working so boo hoo, but if it's working, don't you.. don't you think it worth a shot. For your mom."

Elsa attentively looks at Morrisey. "Let's say in a million years, it actually works, what's in it for you anyway?"

Morrisey open the book she got from the Sanderson and show Elsa a page.

"This is what I'm talking about. An incantation to bring back the dead, in exchange for another live. The condition is, the dead and the living must have the same role in live. Do you see what I mean? A wife for a wife, a sister for a sister.. a mother for a mother."

Elsa eyes widen. "You mean, you want you mother to d.." Elsa stop his words. She then looks at Dylan, "I can't believe you drove her all the way here, to speak some kind of bullshit."

Dylan just take a long sighs. "I thought you guys wanna work things out."

"Well, you thought wrong!" Elsa said as she came back to her aunt's house. That's the thing about Elsa, when things doesn't go her way, her true colors shown, the spoiled princess who bad mouth everybody.

"That's how you going to fix things up? By doing some kind of spirit calling magic spells?" Dylan spoke to Morrisey.

Morrisey doesn't said anything.

"Come on, lets go back." Dylan said again.

***

Morrisey looks at her mom in hesitation. This is the first time maybe in a year that she can actually stand still in front of her mom. Almost every time, she either avoiding her or covering her face from all the hitting.

Her mom is still in her static condition which somehow alarmed Morrisey. It's good she's not hitting her, but now she begins to worry if she died before she can exchange her for Elsa's mom. Morrisey surprised by her own will, does she really wanted her mom to be gone? Thank God, Elsa refused her idea. Somehow it feels she might regrets it. She is after all her mom

Morrisey open her book and looks up the disarmed of the enemy spell. It said to release it all you have to do is clean the blood from the body of the incantation bound and the incantation grant. She looks at her mom hands there's still some blood from her scratch before, she wipes it clean. And then she heads to the bathroom cleaning the blood under her nails. As she finished cleaning, she's about to exit the bathroom, when her mom standing there.

For a moment Morrisey felt joy that her mom is alright, but suddenly her mom picks up where she left of.

"I know you did something. What is it? Did you steal money from me again?" Her mom whispered, not shouting anymore. "I can't remembered what I did this morning, did you drugged me?"

It's surprising how her mom can go from aggresive to paranoid so quick.

"Nno, I left and you maybe asleep from.."

And again another surprised attack from her mom, she grab Morrisey head and slams it to bathroom window. She was about to try the second time, when the door bell rings. And continued with knocking.

"Excuse me, hello.. Hello, Mrs. Lane.. Morrisey?" It's John Sanderson. His arrival is Morrisey's saviour.

"Damn it, what does that man wants?" Morrisey's mom make her way downstairs.

Morrisey still try to overcome the pain in her head. It was agonizing. She looks at the mirror, and thankful she's not bleeding, just another bump on her head. Wait.. another bump? She looks again at her reflection in the mirror. How long... how long has she been this pathetic? Becoming her mother's punching bag and a bump in her head makes her thankful? Morrisey hold the book she had from the Sanderson tightly. If Elsa doesn't want to do it, she will do it herself. Elsa just needs to except the result, because she's done for it.

***

Elsa looks at her reflection in a mirror, nobody knows how she needs reassuring to function everyday. Her dad always works, so her mom is the one person she depends on. She was clueless about how to survived highschool, her mom is the one who drew the map for her. She's the one who style her look and her hair. Giving her advice to make Dylan her boyfriend. She is also the one who suggested that Elsa keeps Morrisey around. It's important not to be alone in highschool and Morrisey is more like a watchdog for her. And her mom make sure Morrisey always feels indebted to them. This is the first time in life she feels so lost. What if things start to go downhill? What if her dad suddenly marry some bitch she doesn't like? What if Dylan knows who she really is? There's to many things at stake. Maybe it wasn't so bad to try Morrisey's idea.

She picks up her phone and dials Morrisey's number. "Hey, Morri.. you know what, i've been thinking.. I think I'm in."

***

Morrisey carefully read the incantation page that she and Elsa is going to perform. It is far more complicated than the one she used on her mom. This spell, if it's going to work, requires both of their mom's hair, items of their belongings, which must be the same thing, and then they must marked Morrisey's mom with Elsa's mom blood.

Morrisey close the book and looks at Elsa who sits in front of her. They are now in Elsa's room.

"This is going to need a lot of work." Morrisey said.

"Hey, I just wondering.. we don't have to, you know.. actually kill your mom right?" Elsa asked

"Well, in this book they said we only need to do this stuff.. and that is actually complicated enough." Morrisey said. "Do you think you could ask Dylan to help us?"

"I don't know." said Elsa hesitantly. "It's weird enough for me, I don't know how he would take the news."

"Well, I'm going to get all the things we need from my mom. And you.."

"I'm going to take the things from my mom too. We can get the hair from their combs, the problem is.."

"The blood." Morrisey continued Elsa's word. "And we need hurry too, before they burry your mom.'

"How about their item of belongings? What kind of things both yours and my mom have?"

Morrisey thinks for a second. "Do you remembered when the neighborhood had a charity fair last month? All the ladies who volunteered were given a T-shirt."

"Yeah, I remembered. A lame ass one." Elsa giggled.

"I know, my mom threw it in the garbage almost immediately. But she kept it anyway, maybe she ran out of shirt cause she kept threwing up on them." Morrisey added.

"My mom still had it, she was the chair lady."

"So that will be the items of belonging." Morrisey said.

"And now the blood.. we need to scratch it somehow from your mom, maybe just put a needle from her finger tip"

Elsa suddenly cry. "I don't know, Morri. They said she had a couple of bruises from the accident, so it will be a close casket. I couldn't bear to see her in that condition."

Morrisey sits in front of Elsa. "And that's why we need Dylan to help us."

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