Chapter 14: The Backlash
Bella sat in front of her vanity mirror, surrounded by silence thick enough to choke on. Her once loyal sidekicks no longer answered her texts, her parents were constantly arguing over the unraveling of their empire, and Raymond? He hadn’t even looked her way in days.
Her pride boiled in her chest like poison.
"This isn’t fair," she whispered, gripping the edges of the mirror. "I didn’t do anything wrong."
The mirror fogged for a second.
And then… a voice. Soft, cold. Ancient.
"Would you like it all back?"
Bella stumbled back. "What?"
No answer. Just a flicker of her reflection—eyes glowing, lips curling into a wicked smile.
That night, she snuck into her mother’s forbidden drawer. There lay an old charm her great-grandmother once called The Reversal Stone. She didn’t understand how it worked—only that it needed a name, a drop of blood, and a wish whispered on the full moon.
The moon was full tonight.
At the stroke of midnight, Bella stood alone in the woods behind her mansion. Wind howled around her, but she didn’t flinch.
She bit her thumb, let the blood drip on the charm, and hissed through gritted teeth:
“Let all that’s been taken return… and may the thief suffer double.”
Thunder cracked.
The earth shivered.
And Bella smiled—until her vision blurred and the wind turned ice cold.
A shadow emerged behind her. It didn’t speak. It didn’t move. It just watched.
Bella collapsed.
Meanwhile, Ysa woke up gasping. Her heart raced. She had dreamed of Bella standing in flames, eyes empty, mouth stitched shut.
She grabbed her pendant—it pulsed. A warning.
“Something’s changed…” she whispered.
At school the next day, chaos was everywhere. Students were fighting without reason. Doors slammed shut on their own. One teacher swore she heard voices inside her head chanting backwards.
Margaret, Gweneth, and Tricia had all dropped out—one in therapy, one sent away, one missing.
Bella returned to school dressed in all black, her gaze sharp, lips blood red. And behind her… a faint black mist clung to her like a second skin.
Ysa saw it. Felt it.
ns216.73.216.72da2The curse had grown claws… and Bella was no longer just Bella.
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