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Learning to Spell
Chapter 4 - A Total Eclipse of Reality
By GirlyCheerBoy[at]gmail.com
It had been almost eleven weeks since Kaitie had been "born" into her
new life. Every day was a reminder of how things had changed so
drastically, literally over night. Sarah was immensely helpful in her
time of need during this adjustment - when she needed it. It wasn't but
a few days that all of the girls, who began to meet weekly at the very
least, noticed that it was hard to remember certain details of that
night and before. Some things were just different, and felt true and
proper - even when they knew they weren't.
Stacy was the first to realize it, having been experiencing a more mild
version of this same phenomena herself already. Kaitie's life was being
melded into the fabric of reality... Just as her's was reshaped when she
was regressed in age when the girls were first learning to cast. She
called this a 'reality flux', a term she had gotten off the internet on
ESP and Astral Projection websites. Basically, she explained to the rest
as she could, this meant that Kaitie's past life as Kurt had been erased
when he was changed, and that when Kaitie was made, she had had a life
behind her as Kaitie - and what they were feeling was some sort of pull
between the two realities they knew.
The idea was mind-boggling and made more than one shake their heads in
wonder... But none of them denied that something was unusual about these
memories and thoughts. Other things were different too. Kaitie and
Sarah's father was alive... This had come as a shock to the girls the
first several times they saw him, but now it was a sense of awe and
bizarre curiosity over the reality of it. But the most bizarre changes
were among their friends. Ashley and Tara seemed to simply vanish into
thin air just days after the event. Beth had been the first to make the
assumption that the solar eclipse had something to do with the timing,
but the four of them couldn't figure out why or how...
As the summer dragged on throughout the hottest weeks on record things
slowly settled for the girls. Slowly the life before their miraculous
accident (A term they coined from the miracle of Sarah and Kaitie's
father being alive again and from the accident from the apparent loss of
two friends and that it was completely unplanned.) began to fade into
nothing and they found it harder and harder to recall what that life was
like, or what from it was real. However, time can not steal what the
heart holds on to - only what the mind wills to be let go... It is
during the second week of school that the girls got the biggest shock
yet...
"Hurry up!" Stacy yelled up at the wide-open window on the second floor.
"Kaitie!"
Kaitie dashed to the window and poked her head out. "I'm coming. I'm
almost...EEEK!" She shreaked, jerking herself back in and a hand across
her chest, covering her not completely buttoned up shirt. "I'll be
right...." Whatever else she had said was lost to the softening of the
sound by the house, and the deafening crashing and clattering. Kaitie
had knocked over her CD tower and jewelry box... again.
"Kaitie..." Sarah said, coming to the open door that joined their rooms,
via a common bathroom. "Calm down." She knelt down and helped pick up
the 'critical' things - what Kaitie was using right then, or that would
stain the carpet. The rest, she decided, could wait until later. Other
than that her room was immaculate, as always. "Stacy is early, she is
every morning." Sarah turned and walked into the bathroom to finish
fixing her hair - not that it appeared it needed it.
"She is?!" Kaitie murmured, scrunchies held in her mouth as she wrestled
with the first of what would be two pigtails she was doing her hair in
this morning. "That little!" She stomped her foot in mock anger, but in
certain frustration. "She changed my clock settings again!" This had
been going on for about two weeks now, and Sarah really wished it was
over with. Just some phase, she assumed. These two were hardly the
poster children for your typical 'tween-to-teen' girls.
"Kaitie?" Sarah paused, having a mild ache behind her left eye - the
kind that you only get when you eat entirely too much ice cream in
entirely too little time. There it was again... Something about Kaitie
and Stacy...
"Yea?" she said, pulling her second pigtail tight into the scrunchie and
leaning to see if they were even in the mirror. "What's up?" She rolled
her eyes upward to peer up at Sarah through the mirror.
"Nevermind," Sarah said, suddenly soft and demure, as if she had just
forgotten the entire conversation instead just the question she had to
add to it. "I don't remember what I was going to ask." She forced her
tone to return to somewhat normal. It wasn't enough to fool Kaitie, but
enough to prevent her from pressing.
"Ok," Kaitie said, in a cheerful and giddy upbeat manner. She always
seemed to get like this when Stacy was around, or soon to be. No one
could quite understand what the two shared that made them such good
friends and so uniquely solitary in their conversations and time out of
the house. Aside from their weekly meetings with Sarah and Beth, the two
were rarely seen... anywhere - and almost always together.
Despite this, Sarah and Kaitie had maitained their long-time pact to
write in their 'sisterhood book' every night. As Sarah turned she saw
this very book, the most recent one. A large ledger with literally
hundreds of wide and tall pages... It'd take years to fill it up with
their little daily diaries... But they had only just started on this
book. There wasn't any other like it...
"Hey Kaitie..." she started, feeling that ache return. "What did we
write in before this book?" She pointed at the large ledger on the desk
that it seemed to fill in the corner of her room.
"Um..." Kaitie knew what she meant, it was the only thing in that corner
of Sarah's room, but she couldn't remember. There was nothing. No book,
no desk... no sisterhood stories at all... "We didn't have a book," she
said, after a second, shaking her head as if it occurred to her that
they shouldn't have anyway. "Why would we?"
"What?" Sarah asked, starting to feel an immense piercing in the frontal
lobe of her head. "What do you mean? We've done this .... for...." She
fell to her knees, bracing against the chair for support. "For..."
"But Sarah, I've only-" Kaitie said, turning and seeing Sarah again for
the first time since she pointed. "Oh my god!" She ran over, letting her
glitter powder blush fall to the floor. A shattering of crystal went
unheard and a small cloud of sparkled dust leapt into the swirling air
Kaitie had just vacated.
"Sarah!" she said, kneeling and wrapping her arms around her sister to
help her. "Sarah!" Her eyes were twitching wildly back and forth and
rolling upward, and her skin felt very cold to the touch. Kaitie, being
completely disoriented in all the commotion did the only thing that came
to mind... she screamed.
Her mother was first to come into the room and she jerked herself out
almost as fast as she'd come in. Moments later their father came in. He
had just gotten over to the girls when their mother returned, on the
cordless phone.
"Yes, we have an emergency," she said, flustered, but not panicked. "My
daughter, she's unconscious and she's..." She paused a moment fighting
back tears brought on by fear and distress as Sarah began to jerk in
wild spasms, her father having trouble just restraining her arms. "She's
having some sort of convulsion or spasms all over or something..."
"I AM calm!" she snapped at the phone. She caught herself before she
lost her composure and got the address out to the 911 operator as quick
as she could. Following the woman's calmly given advice she took Kaitie
out of the room and kept talking. They talked, more calmly now, almost
all the way to the front door when they heard a single hard knock.
"They're here!?" Their mother was surprised, it seemed too fast.
"No, I heard someone knock..." she said to the voice on the other end of
the phone. "No one else would be here this early and knock-" She was cut
short losing all the breath she had in her lungs as Kaitie opened the
door... Kaitie, for her part, was just as shocked, but the reaction it
pushed her to was the complete opposite. Stacy collapsed onto the floor
sprawling across the threshhold - in the same spasms Sarah was
displaying upstairs! Kaitie stood, well leaned against the wall
actually, a moment or two dizzy and nauseated from the mirror image of
the tremors that wracked her sister upstairs at this very moment.
Her composure broke, her fortitude not up to the task of pushing off all
this sudden distress and she collapse. Her mother stammered to the
bewildered operator the changes in status in her home, and sat down
right there in the entry way, on the floor... She cradled the phone in
her arms held tightly against her chest. She was rocking back and forth
there when the emergency crews arrived...
Slowly the steady beeping made itself known to Kaitie as she lie in bed.
Her arm hurt, her head hurt, she was exhausted but felt restless at the
same time. She blinked a few times, slowly getting her eyes to open and
adjust to the flourescent lighting the hospital room was equipped with.
Kaitie?" It was her mother who whispered to her in response to her soft
moans. Her voice wasn't yet prepared to come out in the form of words.
"Kaitie, can you hear me?" her mother asked again, Kaitie couldn't get
herself to think through a reply, but the groaning worked for the
moment. Words could come later. For now, anyway, she just needed to know
if Sarah and Stacy were ok.
"Kaitie!" Her mother leaned over hugging her tightly and kissing her
cheeks and forehead repeatedly as she began to cry. She reached over and
pressed a button on the wall just out of Kaitie's area of view.
"Nurses station," a voice said from a speaker somewhere on the wall
following a short buzz. "Nurse Hall answering. Can I help you?"
"Please, get Dr. Malcom!" Kaitie's mother said anxiously. "Kaitie is
awake!"
The commotion seemed to rise out of nowhere, much like that morning...
was it the same day? Kaitie found herself rushed out of that room on the
bed, to be rushed somewhere else in a wheel chair, only to eventually
brought back to her bed - somehow already returned and waiting for her
in her room. Sarah, Stacy, Beth, and her mother were all present when
she got back.
"Well hi everyone," she said with a wry grin, trying to be suave and act
as nonchalant as she could. "Sorry to keep you waiting. But life is so
hard when you're in demand." She grunted under the strain and pains of
walking, catching herself in a bad step before she fell over.
"Here," Stacy was closest and got to her first, Sarah right on her
heels. They put her arms around their necks to giver her support. "Let
us help you." It wasn't a question, just a statement - which Kaitie
wasn't going to argue anyway. "You've been asleep longer than you
realize, I'm sure."
"Yea," Sarah said. "Sleeping Beauty didn't take as long a nap." She
grinned, trying to make light of the situation - which Kaitie hadn't
quite pieced together yet.
"When I found you," Beth started.
"Found me?" Kaitie interrupted.
"Yea," Beth said, looking puzzled. "You don't remember being out by the
pond?"
"By the pond?" The pond she refered to was near their house, on the land
that their family owned after Kurt's industrial accident. As the
question formed on her lips the recollection of things she'd done and
lived as Kurt flowed steadily through her mind. The pond was, ever since
that accident, a favorite place for Kurt to hang out and 'get away' to
think from time to time. He'd play his guitar on the old wooden dock
he'd built with his best friend, Bryan.
"Yea, you never showed up for school so we got worried," Beth said, just
trying to 'fill in the gaps' for her friend. "So Stacy and I decided
we'd skip the afternoon classes and go with your mom and sister to look
for you. We'd looked all over and I was just about out of ideas when I
heard guitar strings." Kaitie didn't play guitar, everyone knew that -
even Kaitie right now.
"So I went back onto that little trail behind your house to see what it
was, thinking maybe whoever was there had seen you or something. When I
got back there, you were just curled up as tight as you could pull
yourself in a ball on the very end of the dock. Some crows were picking
at the guitar, must have been testing it to see if they could eat it,"
Beth shrugged.
"When I got down there you were still rigid and stiff," Sarah said. "We
didn't know what was wrong."
"We called 911 from your house and you've been here since," Stacy said.
"They had to give you a muscle relaxer to get your body to loosen up. It
was all they could do to get you into the ambulance in some sort of
controlled fashion and get you settled on the gurney," her mother added.
"And you've been asleep, until today."
"What is today?" Kaitie asked, sitting in bed with the covers just now
being brought up over her legs by Stacy and Sarah. She declined anything
else when they'd asked quietly.
"February 29th," her mother said. Kaitie's eyes got wide and took on
that glossy far-off look for a second before she blinked it away,
followed by several brief sighs of relief, before looking at Stacy.
"Yea, our birthday," Stacy said. "What a day to wake up." She smiled.
"I just think you're doing it for the attention and to get all the extra
presents," Sarah said, obviously teasing. "Well it won't work sister.
Sympathy doesn't make me break my $1 rule." She winked.
"Stop it," her mother said, slapping her on the side. "Quit picking on
her." She stood up and stretched a second before moving towards the
door. "I am going to take a quick ladies room break. You girls keep an
eye on our little sleeping kitten." She smiled as she walked out the
door.
The door barely had time to shut before Beth rushed to it and quickly
locked it. The three girls all came up to the bed and leaned in close.
"Ok, what do you remember?" Sarah asked.
"Of?"
"Everything," Sarah said.
"Well they did an MRI-" Kaitie started.
"No!" Stacy tapped her forehead much like a light slap. "About the
magic."
"Does the name 'Kurt' ring a bell?" Beth asked.
"You remember too!?" Kaitie was surprised. It was her old name, before
that spell had gone off badly that night... Suddenly it rushed back to
her...
"So, what do you remember?" Sarah again asked, "Quickly, everything
before someone realizes we've locked the door."
"Do you-" Stacy started to ask her something.
"No!" Sarah said, cutting her off. "We need to see what she knows
without our 'contaminating' her memories. It's the only way!" Stacy
nodded in agreement, realizing that her innocent question could have
been harmful.
"Please, Kaitie..." Stacy said. "From that night onward..."
"Well." She was nervous over all the fuss about this but somehow managed
to straighten things out somewhat in her mind. "I was casting something
from a spellbook Bryan and I found that was supposed to make..." She
paused. "Somebody... I forget who, fall in love with me; well sort of, I
think...
"And then I saw the bracelet you gave me," she looked at Stacy, "and I
felt bad about being so thoughtless of the feelings of others. You
obviously cared, and you didn't need any intervention. That basically
talked me out of it. Despite that I had ignored your feelings just
because of your age...
"Well I was about to say the invocation without naming, the book said
that that would nullify the invocation. And then... BOOM...
"I woke up in the morning as Kaitie..." The next few minutes were a
brief recap leading up to, and including the incident of Sarah and
Stacy's siezure-like attacks - none of which happened according to them.
"Ok, ready for a huge shocker?" Stacy asked, hesitantly.
"Um..." Kaitie paused trying to read their faces to determine if this
was for real or some big, practical joke. "I guess."
"None of that was real," Sarah said.
"What?"
"None of it," Beth said.
"None? Not the slumber party? The other girls..." Kaitie was just
irritated to no end that the names escaped her still. "There were more
of you, us... And you... we..." She cast a forlorn look for affirmation;
from someone anyone; that these were not all just dreams.
"None," Stacy reaffirmed. "I'm sorry Kaitie." She leaned over and hugged
her. Somewhere deep inside Kaitie felt a special connection to Stacy,
beyond the friendship/'object-of-my-crush' bracelet Kurt had worn - and
that Kaitie still wore now.
"So?" Kaitie was at a complete loss for words. Were the last few months
of her life, and the events leading to it, and the time she'd been
unconscious for all really nothing?
"You and Bryan found that spellbook segment and did use it some," Stacy
started. "And when you got to be almost good at casting little things
you two tried for something big..."
"And you tried to make on the cheerleaders, we think, fall in love with
you; apparently," Beth said, the tone of her remark seemed as if
Kaitie's testimony filled in the gaps they had in the story as to why
Kurt would be using magic, and what he was casting. The expressions of
the others seemed to support this, even if no one spoke it.
"But we had a scrye out on the book and when you began to use the spell
from it, we realized who and where it was, and rushed to your house."
Stacy said.
"We didn't mean to bust in on your ritual," Sarah said. "We had no idea
you were doing something so sensitive and so powerfully advanced."
"What would you have done?" Kaitie asked.
"I don't know." Sarah said plainly. "We didn't know what you were
casting or if you were willingly or unwillingly casting, or if you were
'tainted' or not."
"Tainted?" Kaitie asked.
"Our term for it," Beth said.
"It?"
"The touch of the shadows," Stacy said. "Think of it as some sci-fi
idea, where the world has magic and nifty powers like ESP and all, but
some evil force has blanketed a lot of the magical energies..."
"Like Sauron in 'Lord of the Rings'?" Kaitie asked.
"Yes!" Stacy said. "Just like that, but only completely non-physical in
form and nature - and pure magical energy, bent on it's own means. The
shadow is, or well they are, intelligent."
"Plural?"
"We'll fill you in on that part later. First, the important stuff,"
Sarah said, taking that 'take-charge' tone and attitude she'd always had
since she could talk. She was a natural leader and calm-under-fire kind
of person, Kurt envied that since the day he realized the quality became
her shortly after their father had died. It had been what led her to
him, and ultimately enabled her to help him- and saved his life.
"Wait," Kaitie said, tears starting to well up in her eyes. "Is Daddy?"
"Kaitie?" Sarah replied slowly.
"Is he dead again?"
"Again?" Beth asked.
"He never was alive to begin with." Stacy said. "That wasn't real." She
looked towards Sarah, "She's likely remembering the time she's been
seperated from this world. Shaelytir and Breannys said this could
happen."
"Shay-lit-rear and Bre-and-hiss who?" Kaitie said, really butchering the
sounds of the gaelic names.
"Shaelytir and Breannys." Sarah said, properly saying the names. "Two...
faeries, for lack of a better term, that have been helping us."
[[ :: Author Note :: ]]
- shay-lee-TEER with emphasis on the start of 'teer' at in the last
syllable; this is a hybrid of two words meaning "pure/innocent/holy"
and "light/good"
- bree-an-ISS with emphasis on the "sss" sound, but NOT drawn long like
a hiss. Hybrid of three words, two meaning "honor/honored",
"dream/prophecy/foresight", and the third a name of a fairy
princess/queen of gaelic legend.
- Faery/Faeries is said "fay-ree" or "fay-reez" with a only a slight
twinge of 'fair' in the 'fay' portion. No one piece is more or less
heavily spoken than any other. Most emphasize the latter syllable
(as is common with most words in the English language).
[[ :: End Author Note :: ]]
"Faeries?" Kaitie asked.
"Yes," Stacy said. "And moving right along..." She motioned for Sarah to
hurry up.
"Anyway, we scryed the book, you started to cast, we burst in... Yes,
that's where we are... We burst in, not realizing what you were doing...
And basically, all hell broke loose," Sarah said.
"The shockwave threw me back out the door and caused me to tumbled down
the stairs," Stacy said. "If I hadn't run into Beth, well been knocked
into her, I'd likely to have gone all the way down too."
"And by the time we came to it was morning. We were all scattered on the
floor in your room, Kaitie, as if a slumber party was centered there.
That day, a Saturday I think..."
"Yes, it was," Stacy said. "Eigth past six AM," she added. When Kaitie
looked at her surprised she simply replied, "Eidetic memory."
"Well the weekend was mostly playing recover and rest. We tried to sort
out the odd memories we 'felt' we had for you, and the ones we knew we
had of Kurt. And you were more or less out of it, I mean you were like a
zombie. You would talk and interact, but you were really quiet and
reserved, almost to the point of creepy. Monday morning we got ready for
school... What choice did we have?
"We left at different times, I was running late and you, with some
personality finally, said you'd get going so you could meet up with
Stacy where you two always met. This is one of those fake memories we
were talking about - apparently you had them too... Well Stacy didn't
know, or forgot, or something... And she never met up with you, in fact
she never saw you, assuming we were together.
"We got to school and met up... no Kaitie... We started looking all over
school and couldn't find you. By lunch time we'd decided to skip school.
Mom, by this time, had gotten the phone call from the office that her
youngest daughter wasn't there, and to my surprise met me in the hallway
as I was sneaking out to skip class. Kinda convinient, I got away with
skipping school because my mother caught me." She couldn't contain the
grin.
"Anyway, Beth and Stacy skipped class to help Mom and I look for you. So
we were all looking and -" Sarah was quickly chattering on when Stacy
cut her off.
"Your forgot the eclipse," Stacy said.
"Oh!" Sarah said. "I can't believe I forgot that!" She shook her head in
disgust at her own lack of recollection of the major event. "Yea, I had
just left the house when that silly solar eclipse started, the one that
had geeks all over the state coming in late to school so they could stay
and watch it, plot it, and all that stuff. I mean it got really dark,
not like that lunar eclipse weeks before where it got darker at night, I
mean it was really spooky dark."
"Ok, so there was a full lunar and solar eclipse," Kaitie said. "Big
deal. That happens every 75-80 years or so?"
"How do you know that?" Beth asked.
"She's right," Stacy said. "But the times that both are viewable and not
over some ocean or Antartica or something; much less both viewable from
the same place..."
"You knew that too!?" Sarah looked at Stacy even more surprised.
"Um..." Stacy didn't know what to say. "Yea, I guess I did." She
grinned, and Kaitie did likewise.
"Well, anyway... we think these had something to do with the magic and
all. Shaelytir and Breannys first appeared during that lunar eclipse
while we were looking for the other spell book portion - that you
apparently had," Sarah said. "And then the morning you go missing is the
day of this solar eclipse, and around the same time frame... just too
astronomical to have that all be coincidence."
"Wow." Kaitie was wide-eyed and couldn't believe it. Everything she knew
was a dream? It wasn't real? How could she be sure? Why was she so sure
already? There were just so many questions and too much conflict between
the reality she knew, the one she thought she knew, and the one that she
now knew that she was overwhelmed... It was no surprise to anyone, the
doctors included, that the excitement of the first day awake again wore
Kaitie out so quickly.
For now, she'd rest and recover. The following days she gained her
strength and coordination back; amazing the doctors and hospital staff
with how quickly she recovered. Her lack of substantial physical
movement for the better part of 3 months would have had much longer last
effects on most anyone, but it seemed like Kaitie had been sick in bed
for days, not in a coma-like state for months... By the second week of
March she was discharged from the hospital. Home, despite looking and
feeling slightly different, was home. Some things, no matter how
dramatic, just didn't seem to be all that different. Kaitie wasn't sure
if it was how the fabrics of reality, or realities, worked; or if it was
just her own mind trying to make a rationale out of everything. Surely
this was beyond what the average human brain was wired to contemplate...
Yet, she stood on her porch looking into her home doing just that...
She paused a moment, looking at her shadow being cast through the door
onto the carpet of the entry hall; where she'd stood when Stacy fell,
where she'd stood to get a last once-over by the girls before taking a
cross-dressed Kurt out for pizza, where Kurt had stood giving one last
look at his hair and face before going out to woo that girl... The name
still evaded Kaitie's memory. Why?
As she stood there, suspended from time passing around her she became
aware that her shadow was being overtaken by that of the familiar shape
of her mother's. Everything has been changed. But, somethings haven't
changed at all. As her shadow was eclipsed by that her of her mother's
she smiled and looked over her shoulder. The warm affection in her
mother's eyes was all she needed right then... The bonds of love
eclipsed the worries and confusions of the mind. An eclipsing of the
mind; a total eclipse of reality itself...
[~ to be continued ~]
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