"OK, so remind me of why we're doing this again?" said Hedley as he and Peyton approached the Sirens.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqA48x6qA5
"You know why," said Peyton with a strange look on her face. "Kayla, Kirsten, and Sophia are like the queen bees of the school, and they seem to know everyone. I bet they know more about Jacquel than we do."
"I hope so," said Hedley. "I hate to be the one to go up against Jacquel when she finds out about what we're planning."
They walked to the corner of the school, where they saw their target standing with several other people, who were dressed like her. Jacquel said to them, "Cassidy is out of control, guys. We need to take action immediately."
"How are we going to do that?" said Stacey Palmer. "We all know how she is. She won't stop until the entire school, including us, is under her thumb."
"I heard she's running for homecoming queen unopposed," said Jadenne Black.
"I saw her back-talking Mrs. Galmez during math class and daring her to do something about it," said Julian Mercer.
"We need to bring her down," said Jacquel. "She needs to be brought down hard."
"How's about we have Kayla Spenser and her little workers spread a rumor about her," said Jadenne.
"Bad idea," said Stacey. "Cassidy will know if anyone spreads rumors about her, especially if it's the Sirens."
"Someone has to take her down," said Julian. "But who?"
"I have this crazy idea," said Jacquel. Her cousins stared at her in shock. "There's this new student called Peyton Hanner, and she just enrolled here."
"Yeah, so, and who cares?" said Julian.
"Don't you get it?" Stacey smiled. "A new student! This is perfect!"
"What are you talking about?" said Jadenne.
"We can use her to dethrone Cassidy Newman," said Stacey.
"Exactly," said Jacquel.
Within a few seconds, Peyton and Hedley realized what Jacquel was. She was a Caster, and Casters were notorious for cutting into other people's lives. Peyton knew that Jacquel and her cousins were going to use her to take down Cassidy Newton.
"I say we abandoned her too soon," said Hedley.
Peyton nodded in agreement, saying, "Maybe we should stick to our original plan of getting the Sirens to spread a rumor about Cassidy..."
Yet before she could finish her plan, Julian, Stacey, and Jadenne had her surrounded. Hedley gasped as he watched the three Casters capture Peyton and drag her before Jacquel. Jacquel stared at the girl for a second, trying to see her for herself. There was no evidence that the girl in question was indeed Harry Potter. Not if she was a girl, anyway.
"I knew this was too good to be true," said Jacquel in a voice that said, "I'm so done with this crap."
"What are you talking about?" said Peyton.
"I know who you are, Peyton Hanner," said Jacquel. "You're a crazy girl sent here because you ran away from your relatives after claiming that they abused you."
"What," said Peyton as she glared at the spellcaster. "How do you know this stuff?"
"Believe me, I know everything about you, Peyton," said Jacquel. "I also know about your friend here. I know how you came here, since I overheard Cassidy boasting to her two minions that she got rid of some kid called Harry Potter. I did some snooping around, and my cousins were happy to help me. So we came up with this theory: Cassidy discovered a portal to an alternative world inside a magical mirror, and she planned to take over that alternative world. But we got to her first. With a powerful zap, I sent her there and decided to break the mirror so she couldn't come back here."
"But we underestimated Cassidy's next move, which was to kill a boy named Harry Potter and incite terror in the other world," said Jadenne. "We finally broke the mirror and made it irreparable, but Cassidy returned here a few seconds earlier."
"Now you're stuck here," said Stacey. "If you're going to survive here, you're going to have to learn how to think like a Caster."
"Such as, you can NOT be friends with Cassidy or her minions," said Julian. "They want you for a nefarious reason."
"Plus, you need to find a way to take the crown away from her and expose her for who and what she truly is," said Jacquel. "You think you can do that?"
Peyton nodded, not knowing that the minute she met the Casters, she would forget about being Harry Potter.729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMvOugVzJR
