After class, Violet went back to her room. She packed the things she could not leave behind. A picture of her family. Carl's old hoody. Nothing that would make her father suspicious, but things that would remind her of what she was leaving behind, why she was doing this. She could not guarantee she would ever be back here, so she had to prepare.
She was just deleting her browser history when a Skype call came through. It startled her so badly that she smashed her leg on the edge of the desk. It was her siblings, and surprisingly, a call from outside the time loop. This meant that the spell was truly over. Her father had kept his word.
"You guys..." Violet said as her siblings' faces appeared. She had never gone so long without talking to them before, and now they were right in front of h
