The Second Daughter

The Love Spell

Mal mixed the cookie batter, but it looked like she would pass out from exhaustion so I took it from her. Mal looked in the spellbook, "Ok is say's we still need one tear." She said, "And we never cry."

"Let's just chop up some onions." Carlos suggested and held out an onion from the bowl beside him,

"No!" I protested, "It say's we need one tear of human sadness." I explained, "And this love potion gets the best reviews so we need to follow it word for word."

"A tear's a tear." Jay sighed,

"That's not true Jay." Evie cut in, placing a bag of sugar on the counter. "Both have antibodies and enzymes but an emotional tear has more protein-based hormones then a reflux tear." Evie finished,

"Listen to you." Mal complemented, sprinkling some sugar into the batter. Jay leaned back onto the counter.

"I new that." He said,

"Did not." Carlos argued, slapping his arm lightly,

"Yeah I did." The door then opened and Lonnie burst in.

"There you are Mal! I was looking for you!" Lonnie exclaimed as Mal quickly covered the spellbook with a cloth. "You know all the girls want you to do their hair!" Lonnie said. She peered into the mixing bowl. "Midnight snack huh? Whatcha guys making?"

"Nothing special just cookies." Mal said and shrugged. Lonnie then took her finger, put it in the batter and scooped some up. Lonnie put her finger to her mouth and licked it clean,

"No wait!" We exclaimed.

"What? I'm not going to double dip."

"Feel anything?" Evie asked,

"Yeah like it's missing something?" Mal questioned as I looked at her, trying to see if the potion worked on her. If it did she would tell and our plan would be ruined. Jay walked up to Lonnie and flashed her a smile,

"Hey there." Lonnie stared at him blankly,

"Could use some chips." She decided after a pause, walking over to the fridge. Mal, Evie Carlos and I sighed loudly while Jay looked hurt, going back to his original position,

"And those are?" I asked, mixing the batter again,

"Chocolate chips." Lonnie closed the fridge, "Just the most important food group." She set down a bowl filled with little brown things. She sprinkled some into the batter and popped one into her mouth. "Wait. Didn't your mums ever make you guys chocolate chip cookies?" We stared at her like she was speaking a completely different language, I stopped mixing, "Like, when you're feeling sad, and there fresh out of the oven with a big old glass of milk and she makes you laugh and puts everything into perspective and..." She trailed off, looking at most of us us who were looking at her with sad looks. "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"It's just different where were from." Mal told her,

"I've never had chocolate chip cookies before..." I muttered resuming my mixing. "I feel like I'm missing out..." Nobody heard me. Lonnie looked at all of us,

"Yeah I know, I just thought that even villains love there kids..." She trailed off again. Lonnie touched Mal's hand as if to comfort her. "How awful." A tear streaked down Lonnie's face. I noticed, wiped it off her cheek and put in the batter. I started mixing furiously.

"Yeah, well big bummer..." I paid no attention to what Mal was saying to Lonnie.

"You Ok Hads?" Evie asked, putting her hand on my shoulder.