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alliance.” I made a disgusted sound that he thought of mine and Aram’s relationship as an alliance even if I doubted that we were still in a relationship. I turned keeping my back to Jareth and didn’t turn round till I heard the bedroom door close. I started gathering up my clothes, dressing in a hurry and I went out the employee’s door so I wouldn’t have to see either of them again.
    I came home to an empty apartment. I had started thinking that perhaps I needed to get a pet, an actual cat rather than just a witch that had been a cat, something to be happy to see me when I came home. I threw my keys into the dish on the table next to the door and hung up my coat. March was still cold and wet, the snow had gone but there was still no sun and no warmth to the days. I sighed leaning against the door. Aram and I were breaking up. I felt the tears start down my face and I was deeply sad. I kept trying to think of something, anything to explain why we had fizzled out so quickly. Aram and I were deeply attracted to each other, he loved me although I had never yet said it back. I didn’t really know if I did love him yet. I know I felt something for him, I wouldn’t be crying now if I didn’t.
    I dragged my feet walking towards the fridge and pulled out the freezer drawer. I was going to drown my sorrow with my two favorite men. Ben and Jerry. I pulled out a tub, wrapped a dish towel around it so I didn’t freeze my hands and hit the button under the blinking light on my answer machine.
    “Ms. Farbanks, this is Doctor Armitage, Christina Armitage. We met in the hospital. I just wanted to let you know that the results from the tests from your blood are in and I would like to discuss the results with you. Please call me so we can meet and discuss them. This is my home number.” She repeated the number twice and I managed to write it down on the corner of the newspaper. I took the top off the ice cream and started spooning it into my mouth as the second message played.
    “Hey it’s me,” said Incarra’s voice. “I haven’t spoken to you in an age. Call me tomorrow okay. I want to hear all about that new dishy boyfriend of yours.”
    “He dumped me,” I said but I had a spoonful of ice cream in my mouth so it came out more ‘me mumped be’. I waited for the last of my three messages. I leaned forward reaching into the open wooden box that was still sitting there and pulled out the photograph of my mother and the blonde woman. I bet my mother had never gotten dumped.
    “Cassandra child, it’s Virginia. When you have a moment I would like to see you. I think we can finish your aura cleansing now.” As her voice finished playing on the answer machine the spoon dropped from my mouth and I knew why I had recognized this woman in the picture before. It was a young Virginia. I gaped at the photograph; they couldn’t have been more than twenty in it. It had been hidden in a secret drawer in the box and I had found it when I’d knocked the box down breaking the drawer.
    Virginia Too-good was my mentor of sorts. She had been helping me to learn my magical powers. I’d gotten them from my mother, who’d jumped from one reality to another leading to the situation that my life was now in constantly. I spent the day in one reality where there was no magic and no monsters and at night I came here where I had power. It had been growing since I had a near death experience in September of last year. Although Virginia was teaching me, she wouldn’t talk to me about my powers. I had always suspected that she had known my mother and now I had proof. I clutched the photograph, put the ice cream back in the freezer and decided I would go to Virginia’s to talk to her and this time damn it she was going to give me some answers. I snatched my keys, put the photograph into my coat pocket and took the elevator downstairs. Virginia lived in a rather quaint three story house in the middle of Nunnery Wood that was on the other side