MY MISSING GRANDMA
PART 5
I closed and locked back the door immediately. I held Mira close to my chest and gave her a very tight hug.
Later in the night I quietly opened the door again and I stepped out of the room with Mira. We walked gently on the corridor towards the room where those concoction bottles were stored.We finally arrived there,tried opening the door but this time it was locked. I stood before the door and tried to force it open to no avail. Then I looked behind me to tell Mira that we should go back and make another plan but I couldn’t find her. I looked everywhere she wasn’t there. I got scared and confused at the same time then I heard footsteps. I quickly ran under the staircase to hide and was there for few minutes. When I finally made up my mind to leave Mira ran past me, I tried calling her to come back but she ran towards that door again and stood there. I followed her there to carry her so we could go back into our room but I noticed that the concoction room door was slightly open. ‘How did Mira do it?’ I wondered.
We went in and I walked towards one of the shelves to properly check those tags written on the bottles.After spending close to two hours and couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for I looked at Mira and told her to help me find any bottle with the tag ‘antidote’ maybe we would see it. And if there’s nothing like that we would search again if there’s any bottle with the ‘freedom’ tag. Mira climbed the shelve and after few minutes I saw her struggling with a concoction bottle, then I whispered to her to throw it. She did as instructed and when I checked the tag it was written ‘spell breaker’. I gave Mira a thumb up and asked her to hurry down let’s go but she was still busy.
‘Mira, would you please climb down let’s get out of here before we get caught? ‘ I begged.
She started struggling with a book again.
‘Mira get out of there’ I said
Then she pushed down the book and it landed right before me. It was boldly written ‘My book of secrets ‘
I grabbed it, Mira climbed down and we left to our room. I checked the contents of the book and found the topic ‘how to break a spell’. I went through it and saw that I needed to put just a drop of the content in the concoction bottle I picked into the mouth of whoever is under a spell. And just as I was going through the book I read where it says ‘if I needed to free someone from the coven of witches I needed to make some written incantations in the book’.. I immediately thought of Casper then decided to try it out. I sighed, looked at Mira and closed my eyes. I stretched forth the book and started making those incantations to free Casper and few seconds after I was done Casper appeared.
I looked at Mira ‘It worked’ I said
Casper looked around ‘Melody? How the heck did you do that? ‘ He queried.
I smiled ‘well, my name is Melody’ I said.
I explained everything to him right there and asked him to wait in the room and Mira and I went towards the room where my dad was kept. When we arrived there I opened the book again and made some incantations and the door popped open. I went towards my dad, opened his mouth and put a drop of the content in the bottle in his mouth. After few seconds he turned and looked at me.
‘Me.. Me… Melody’ He called. ‘What are you doing here? ‘
I smiled and gave him a hug with tears rolling down my face. I explained everything to him, how grandma died and all. He wept bitterly and asked if I could also give the content in the bottle to the other people around. Then I started putting it in their mouth but my dad kept telling them quietly not to say anything.They were so happy they were going to be free. We made a plan, I told them in case the lady witch would summon everyone the next morning, they should all pretend as if they had not regained their freedom and they complied. I then returned to my room with Mira.
‘So what next? ‘ Casper asked.
‘Just watch’ I replied.
The next morning we were all summoned and assembled. I had read in the book where it says if you needed to destroy her, you spit in water and then pour it on her, it would render her powerless.Well I went Outside with a cup of water I had spit in and hid it behind me. I marched forward and stood before her with the cup water in my hands behind me.
‘You brat, your time is up’ She said with that scary voice of hers.
‘Not so fast, your own time is up. Well my name is sweet Melody, not a brat’ I said.
Then I brought the cup of water forward to pour it on her but the cup fell off my hand..
To be continued!
©️ Blessing-Enejo Abrahams Elleywrites
