Previous | Chapter Listing | Next The sound of the brew bubbling in the cauldron was a familiar and comforting one. It may have been some time since Bella was in here brewing her famous potions, but she was still absolutely in her element down here. The basement was a newer addition to the house, one the kids didn’t know anything about. Bella and Mortimer both knew how to get into it, but preferred not to tell the kids about it. Neither Cassandra nor Alexander had any idea of their true magical origins, and Bella would much rather keep it that way. Unfortunately, one didn’t always get what they wanted.…

Previous | Chapter Listing | Next One thing Cassandra knew for sure was that she loved to play the violin. And she knew she wanted to write songs on it someday, but she didn’t know if that was what she wanted to do for a living. At the very least, she could use some practice around others, just to gauge how receptive they were to her songs. To that end, she’d picked up her violin, and decided to take Alexander to Magnolia Blossom park. It was a nice enough day; the weather wasn’t terrible, and the temperature was just about right. Cassandra watched Alexander scurry off to the jungle gyms…

Chapter Listing | Next It wasn’t like Cassandra Goth didn’t like school. School was, in and of itself, okay. It was everyone else that went to school. Everyone knew of Bella Goth, Cassandra’s mother. She was a big name anywhere you went, a household name by most stretches of the imagination (rarely had Cassandra met anyone that didn’t know her mother’s name at the very least). Some seemed disappointed that Cassandra seemingly wasn’t as pretty as her mother, and a lot of the time, Cassandra was disappointed, too. The other kids always said she’d be prettier if she wore less black. What was wrong with black? School was necessary, though, so Cassandra still went,…