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Adult ++
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13
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Chapter 5
Thank yous:
Aliases--I'm so glad to hear you like the story. I appreciate that and I'd never stop this story...until it was complete anyway. ;-)
Sayge--I have zero knowledge in Hawaiian culture and I had to Google a whole lot of this stuff, so I'm glad you, a Hawaii native, think I'm doing a good job. Thanks.
A/N:
I have made an attempt at using a Jamaican accent in this chapter. Man, accents are tough to write! Anywho, I had Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 in mind when I thought of an accent and I wanted the enchantress to be a bit different, so bear with me on that.
Chapter 5
It was Tuesday afternoon when Kekoa finally got his nerves together enough to see the enchantress. Ilani had told him about Mistress Davina that morning and informed him that she was one of the best in all the Pacific. “I’ve never met her before but I heard from someone once that she cast a spell on a merboy once, turning him into a dolphin, when he came too close to her home. Mistress Davina is not the nicest mermaid in the world, but she is one of the best at her craft.”
After following his younger brother through some of the darkest, most dangerous areas of the sea for what seemed like forever, they finally reached their destination…..atleast he hoped they were there. A few yards before them sat a very large wooden ship. Based on the vegetation growing along it’s sides and how deeply set it was in the white sand, the ship had been submerged under water for many, many years. The ship was for the most part still well in tact, minus the large hole at the ship’s front and the sail poles that had snapped over.
The ship seemed to had sank in the gloomiest, most unflattering part of the ocean. Now that he thought about it, this was one of many areas Kekoa and Ilani’s parents warned them to stay clear of; one, for the obviously dismal atmosphere and two, it harbored some of the biggest schools of tiger sharks. That place had never known the pleasure of nice tropical fish, dolphins, or whales swimming through.
Kekoa seemed almost scared stiff. “Um, are-are we there?” He asked looking around himself fearfully. His brother was doing just the same.
“Yep. This is it.” He shoved him. “Get going.”
“What? You’re not coming?”
Ilani’s lavender eyes bucked out. “Are you crazy? It’s dark in there! I mean um, it would be better if I stay out here to ahhhh you know, watch the surroundings for you. Keep a lookout for sharks and stuff.”
Kekoa just stared at his brother for a moment. “Who are you trying to fool?”
“Look, I said I’d show you where the enchantress lives. I NEVER said I was gonna follow you in there. I’m not an idiot, like you.”
“Whatever.” Kekoa sighed deeply and turned, looking at the damaged antique ship. “Ok, here goes nothing.” Swimming forward, he came to the large hole in the ship’s front and tried to peek in. Though it was no use, the interior was too dark to tell what he was going into. Getting himself together, Kekoa finally swam through to the inside which led him into the second level deck of the ship. He immediately noticed the water was much dirtier inside the ship than anywhere else, but he chalked that up to it being mixed with the ship’s constantly falling debris.
“H-Hello?” He called out rather pitifully. It seemed the fear in his body went straight to his throat. He tried again, this time with a little more strength to it. “Hello?!” Suddenly, he heard a sound. It was a long, low sounding creak that was soon followed by a loud snap. A long, thick wood beam that was once posted on the ceiling to support the floor boards of the first floor, quickly broke itself in half, falling behind Kekoa, narrowly missing the young merman’s fin. “AAAAHHHHH!!” Startled, Kekoa immediately swam around the beam, heading straight for the exit.
Ilani poked his head out from behind a rock when he saw his brother zip out of the ship. “Did you get it?”
“No.”
“Well get back in there then and get it! I’m ready to go!”
“I-I can’t. It’s scary in there…”
“Fine then. You’re the one who wanted this so you could spend more time with your land dweller, but if you can’t go through with it—“
“Okay, shut up. I see what you’re getting at. I’m going back.” He tried to psyche himself up. “I’m going back.”
Getting his courage back again, Kekoa swam back into the ship and began searching for the enchantress. “Hello? Mistress Davina, are you here?” The raven haired merman swam over large empty wine barrels, unidentifiable pieces of parchment, tin mugs, and passed by a long ago tarnished cellar, which contained what he hoped wasn’t but inevitably WAS human bones. “Mistress Davina?!”
“Who’s callin’?!” A strongly Caribbean accented voice called out of nowhere. Finding that the voice came from the upper level of the bottom deck, he found the hole he needed and swam up. Passing through it. “Ahhhhh, a merbwoy…” She said stressing ‘boy’. Kekoa blinked his eyes many times to see who he was talking to but the ship was just too dark.
“Are you Mistress Davina, the enchantress?”
“I could be. Who wants ta know? What’s yer nayme, merbwoy?”
“Ke—“ He jerked when the flash of an eel, that seemed to had popped out of nowhere, swam near him. “Um, Kekoa.”
She chuckled. “Well, Kekoa, either you’re a pretty brev child or yer very stupid to inved my home like ya ‘ave…”
“I apologize. I called out when I came in, but I got no answer…”
“Dat’s cause I’d like to be left alone. Normally when someone doesn’t answer a call, dey don’t want ta be bothared, Kekoa…….or did ya forget dat bit of knowledge?”
“I’m sorry, I—“
“Nevamind dat now, foolish merbwoy, you’re ‘ere so lets see wat it tis you want, eh?” Kekoa blinked when a flash of bluish/purple light began to form from inside a cauldron. Inside the cauldron, boiled a thick substance that Kekoa had no clue of what it could be. With the bluish/purple light illuminating the previously dark ship, the young merman could finally grapple what he was seeing. There was a silhouette of Davina which showed that she was a very heavy mermaid with long hair that was braided down her back. He saw her long nailed fingers seemed to be flittering back and forth over the cauldron, like they’re searching for something. Sitting behind her were shelves and shelves and shelves of various colored potions. She has so many potions back there. No doubt able to do over a thousand different things…I just hope she has the one I need. Kekoa saw her head drop closer to the cauldron, obviously staring at something. “Mmmm a land dwella, I see. Anda cute one too. He’s sittin’ on a rock by da sea………but he’s not alone…” Kekoa could see her look up at him. “…you are d’ere. Ya don’t look upset ‘bout seein’ ‘im, so I’d guess you didn’t come ‘ere to have me help you kill ‘im, eh merbwoy?”
“No, Mistress Davina. I love him.”
“Ya lav ‘im? Well I het ta brek it to ya but reletionships between land dwellas and mermeds are impossible. Impossible.” She started to laugh. “You’d be best just goin’ on home and—“
“It is possible if you give me legs.”
Davina stopped laughing and instead put her hands at her hips. “Ya want me to give ya wat?”
Kekoa fidgeted. “I want…I want to have legs.”
“No ya don’t.”
“I do.”
“Ya want legs…”
“Yes.”
“So ya can be wit dis…human…”
“Yes.”
“Don’t ya know da risk ya’re tekin’ wit dis?”
“Yes.”
“An’ dat would be…”
“My brother told me on the way here. He said that it would only last three days and if I didn’t get him to fall in love with me by then, then I would turn back into a mermaid.”
Davina laughed. “Naive chil’, you wad only wish dat could be da case. Yer brotha told ya wrong. You tek dis potion, ya gots legs for da rest of ya life. It’s permanent. But dat’s only if dis bwoy is really tha one fa you…”
Kekoa frowned. “What do you mean?”
“Ya may tink he’s da one fa you, but destiny may have otha plans for ya both. Now dis is da risky part of da potion. You drink dis and fate sees ya wit someone else instead, ya die in shree deys.”
“I die? But that’s not fair!”
“Dat’s da gamble you mek when you tek dis’ere potion, merbwoy. Not jus’ any silly soul teks dis potion unless dey’re sure of what dey’re gettin’ into. Jus’ las’ season I offered dis potion to a young gal who was in lav wit a Jamaican land dwella . She jus’ knew she ‘ad found de man of ‘er dreams and he her…….but destiny saw ‘er wit someone else, not him……and she died asleep in his arms.” Davina saw the merman duck his head down and she continued. “Dis is not jus’ any potion, merbwoy. Dis is not somethin’ to tek lightly. Dis can be life-changin’ for da both of ya. Truly tink ‘bout what you’re askin’……….Unless ya don’t care ‘bout none of dat, den in dat case be a fool, hear?” She chuckled.
Kekoa was silent for a few minutes, thinking his situation over many times in his head. He kept coming back with the same answer, which he finally spoke out-loud. “I love Akoni and Akoni loves me.”
“Yer positive?”
“Yes.”
Davina nodded her head. “Den come back tomorra ‘round da same time. I’ll have ya little bottle waitin’ on ya, eh?”
“Thank you.” Kekoa swam out of the decaying ship back out to the ocean floor. Ilani zipped over to meet his brother, but he carried a worried look on his own face. The merboy had had enough of waiting behind the rock and swam inside the ship to find out what was going on…..that’s when he heard the enchantress telling Kekoa the price that would be paid if he used the potion on the wrong lover. He didn’t know this potion could cause that much turmoil. Had he known the true consequences of this stuff, Ilani never would’ve helped his brother with his plan.
“Did you get it?” Ilani asked. In the back of his mind he thought, Please say you didn’t. Please say she wouldn’t give it to you or something.
Kekoa nodded. “She’s making it for me. I have to come back tomorrow and pick it up.”
***
Akoni was lounging on his bed watching tv after getting off the phone with Peka, when his brother walked in his room. “Hey braddah, you seen the new memory card I bought for my Playstation?”
“No. Mama just bought it for you and you’ve lost it already?”
The younger brother got defensive. “No, I haven’t lost it, thank you. I’ve just…..misplaced it.”
“Whatever.” His brother made to leave his room, when Akoni suddenly sat up on his bed and called for him. “Hey Jo-Jo…”
“Yeah?”
“You ah, you kept your word about not telling anyone about Kekoa, right? You haven’t spilled the beans, have you?”
“No.”
“Not even to those dweeb friends of yours?”
“I haven’t told them either. And for the record, they are not dweebs.” Akoni smiled. “So you like him, huh?”
“Who, Kekoa?”
The young boy sighed and rolled his brown eyes. “No, the pope, Akoni…..Yes, Kekoa.”
“Oh. Well, yeah I like him.”
Jo-Jo cocked an eyebrow. “But do you really like him?”
Akoni frowned. “Why are you asking?”
“I’m just getting this vibe that you do, is all. It definitely explains why you keep going off by yourself to the beach all the time.”
“I enjoy the beach, Jo-Jo, you know that.”
“I do. But you enjoy that mermaid a little more. And that gigantic liplock you shared with him proved it.”
“We’re just friends…”
“…That kiss. A lot.” Jo-Jo stated. “I may be young but I’m not stupid, brah. When I saw you two together in the water yesterday, I saw chemistry, okay? Just call Peka now and tell him its over, you’ve fallen in love with a being from the sea.” He laughed.
Akoni rolled his eyes. “Shut up, Jo-Jo.”
“I’m serious. How long do you think you can pull off this juggling act you’ve got?”
“I’m not juggling anybody. I care for Peka.”
“But do you love him?”
Akoni sat there and rubbed his head.
***
“Oooohhhh, that’s the spot…” Noelani whispered languidly as Manu rubbed her shoulders. The older couple were relaxing in their room after a full day of errands.
“You’ve got a lot of tense spots in your shoulders, my love. Why is that?”
“Stress.”
“From what?”
“Kekoa mostly. I’m so worried for him.”
Manu frowned. “Why? What’s the matter with him now?”
“It’s the same problem—he’s seeing the human.”
The merman paused in massaging his wife’s shoulders. “He’s still seeing him? After I specifically told him not to?”
Noelani could hear the anger in his voice. Manu never had much respect for humans anyway, but after his father was brutally killed years ago while he was out with a then young Kekoa, he had nothing to do with them at all. He sure as hell hated the fact that his son had fallen in love with one. “Yeah, I still see him getting up every morning, heading for the shore and sometimes staying out there til sunset. I’m worried for him because nothing good could possibly come from a relationship between a mermaid and a human. It’s infeasible. And the chances of him getting found out by those land dwellers……..it’s dangerous, Manu.”
Manu sighed. “I know. There has got to be a way we can stop this before it gets any worse than it is.”
Just then, Ilani swam into their room, his disturbed look from earlier still on his face. Noelani, being the observant mother she was, noticed it right off hand. “Ilani, what’s the matter?”
“There’s……um….” He knew his brother would be mad at him for telling about the potion, but the stakes in this were too high for a 13 year old to handle on his own. I’m sorry brother, but I’m so afraid of what might happen with this. I don’t want to lose you. “Mom, Dad, there’s something I have to tell you two…..”
Aliases--I'm so glad to hear you like the story. I appreciate that and I'd never stop this story...until it was complete anyway. ;-)
Sayge--I have zero knowledge in Hawaiian culture and I had to Google a whole lot of this stuff, so I'm glad you, a Hawaii native, think I'm doing a good job. Thanks.
A/N:
I have made an attempt at using a Jamaican accent in this chapter. Man, accents are tough to write! Anywho, I had Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 in mind when I thought of an accent and I wanted the enchantress to be a bit different, so bear with me on that.
Chapter 5
It was Tuesday afternoon when Kekoa finally got his nerves together enough to see the enchantress. Ilani had told him about Mistress Davina that morning and informed him that she was one of the best in all the Pacific. “I’ve never met her before but I heard from someone once that she cast a spell on a merboy once, turning him into a dolphin, when he came too close to her home. Mistress Davina is not the nicest mermaid in the world, but she is one of the best at her craft.”
After following his younger brother through some of the darkest, most dangerous areas of the sea for what seemed like forever, they finally reached their destination…..atleast he hoped they were there. A few yards before them sat a very large wooden ship. Based on the vegetation growing along it’s sides and how deeply set it was in the white sand, the ship had been submerged under water for many, many years. The ship was for the most part still well in tact, minus the large hole at the ship’s front and the sail poles that had snapped over.
The ship seemed to had sank in the gloomiest, most unflattering part of the ocean. Now that he thought about it, this was one of many areas Kekoa and Ilani’s parents warned them to stay clear of; one, for the obviously dismal atmosphere and two, it harbored some of the biggest schools of tiger sharks. That place had never known the pleasure of nice tropical fish, dolphins, or whales swimming through.
Kekoa seemed almost scared stiff. “Um, are-are we there?” He asked looking around himself fearfully. His brother was doing just the same.
“Yep. This is it.” He shoved him. “Get going.”
“What? You’re not coming?”
Ilani’s lavender eyes bucked out. “Are you crazy? It’s dark in there! I mean um, it would be better if I stay out here to ahhhh you know, watch the surroundings for you. Keep a lookout for sharks and stuff.”
Kekoa just stared at his brother for a moment. “Who are you trying to fool?”
“Look, I said I’d show you where the enchantress lives. I NEVER said I was gonna follow you in there. I’m not an idiot, like you.”
“Whatever.” Kekoa sighed deeply and turned, looking at the damaged antique ship. “Ok, here goes nothing.” Swimming forward, he came to the large hole in the ship’s front and tried to peek in. Though it was no use, the interior was too dark to tell what he was going into. Getting himself together, Kekoa finally swam through to the inside which led him into the second level deck of the ship. He immediately noticed the water was much dirtier inside the ship than anywhere else, but he chalked that up to it being mixed with the ship’s constantly falling debris.
“H-Hello?” He called out rather pitifully. It seemed the fear in his body went straight to his throat. He tried again, this time with a little more strength to it. “Hello?!” Suddenly, he heard a sound. It was a long, low sounding creak that was soon followed by a loud snap. A long, thick wood beam that was once posted on the ceiling to support the floor boards of the first floor, quickly broke itself in half, falling behind Kekoa, narrowly missing the young merman’s fin. “AAAAHHHHH!!” Startled, Kekoa immediately swam around the beam, heading straight for the exit.
Ilani poked his head out from behind a rock when he saw his brother zip out of the ship. “Did you get it?”
“No.”
“Well get back in there then and get it! I’m ready to go!”
“I-I can’t. It’s scary in there…”
“Fine then. You’re the one who wanted this so you could spend more time with your land dweller, but if you can’t go through with it—“
“Okay, shut up. I see what you’re getting at. I’m going back.” He tried to psyche himself up. “I’m going back.”
Getting his courage back again, Kekoa swam back into the ship and began searching for the enchantress. “Hello? Mistress Davina, are you here?” The raven haired merman swam over large empty wine barrels, unidentifiable pieces of parchment, tin mugs, and passed by a long ago tarnished cellar, which contained what he hoped wasn’t but inevitably WAS human bones. “Mistress Davina?!”
“Who’s callin’?!” A strongly Caribbean accented voice called out of nowhere. Finding that the voice came from the upper level of the bottom deck, he found the hole he needed and swam up. Passing through it. “Ahhhhh, a merbwoy…” She said stressing ‘boy’. Kekoa blinked his eyes many times to see who he was talking to but the ship was just too dark.
“Are you Mistress Davina, the enchantress?”
“I could be. Who wants ta know? What’s yer nayme, merbwoy?”
“Ke—“ He jerked when the flash of an eel, that seemed to had popped out of nowhere, swam near him. “Um, Kekoa.”
She chuckled. “Well, Kekoa, either you’re a pretty brev child or yer very stupid to inved my home like ya ‘ave…”
“I apologize. I called out when I came in, but I got no answer…”
“Dat’s cause I’d like to be left alone. Normally when someone doesn’t answer a call, dey don’t want ta be bothared, Kekoa…….or did ya forget dat bit of knowledge?”
“I’m sorry, I—“
“Nevamind dat now, foolish merbwoy, you’re ‘ere so lets see wat it tis you want, eh?” Kekoa blinked when a flash of bluish/purple light began to form from inside a cauldron. Inside the cauldron, boiled a thick substance that Kekoa had no clue of what it could be. With the bluish/purple light illuminating the previously dark ship, the young merman could finally grapple what he was seeing. There was a silhouette of Davina which showed that she was a very heavy mermaid with long hair that was braided down her back. He saw her long nailed fingers seemed to be flittering back and forth over the cauldron, like they’re searching for something. Sitting behind her were shelves and shelves and shelves of various colored potions. She has so many potions back there. No doubt able to do over a thousand different things…I just hope she has the one I need. Kekoa saw her head drop closer to the cauldron, obviously staring at something. “Mmmm a land dwella, I see. Anda cute one too. He’s sittin’ on a rock by da sea………but he’s not alone…” Kekoa could see her look up at him. “…you are d’ere. Ya don’t look upset ‘bout seein’ ‘im, so I’d guess you didn’t come ‘ere to have me help you kill ‘im, eh merbwoy?”
“No, Mistress Davina. I love him.”
“Ya lav ‘im? Well I het ta brek it to ya but reletionships between land dwellas and mermeds are impossible. Impossible.” She started to laugh. “You’d be best just goin’ on home and—“
“It is possible if you give me legs.”
Davina stopped laughing and instead put her hands at her hips. “Ya want me to give ya wat?”
Kekoa fidgeted. “I want…I want to have legs.”
“No ya don’t.”
“I do.”
“Ya want legs…”
“Yes.”
“So ya can be wit dis…human…”
“Yes.”
“Don’t ya know da risk ya’re tekin’ wit dis?”
“Yes.”
“An’ dat would be…”
“My brother told me on the way here. He said that it would only last three days and if I didn’t get him to fall in love with me by then, then I would turn back into a mermaid.”
Davina laughed. “Naive chil’, you wad only wish dat could be da case. Yer brotha told ya wrong. You tek dis potion, ya gots legs for da rest of ya life. It’s permanent. But dat’s only if dis bwoy is really tha one fa you…”
Kekoa frowned. “What do you mean?”
“Ya may tink he’s da one fa you, but destiny may have otha plans for ya both. Now dis is da risky part of da potion. You drink dis and fate sees ya wit someone else instead, ya die in shree deys.”
“I die? But that’s not fair!”
“Dat’s da gamble you mek when you tek dis’ere potion, merbwoy. Not jus’ any silly soul teks dis potion unless dey’re sure of what dey’re gettin’ into. Jus’ las’ season I offered dis potion to a young gal who was in lav wit a Jamaican land dwella . She jus’ knew she ‘ad found de man of ‘er dreams and he her…….but destiny saw ‘er wit someone else, not him……and she died asleep in his arms.” Davina saw the merman duck his head down and she continued. “Dis is not jus’ any potion, merbwoy. Dis is not somethin’ to tek lightly. Dis can be life-changin’ for da both of ya. Truly tink ‘bout what you’re askin’……….Unless ya don’t care ‘bout none of dat, den in dat case be a fool, hear?” She chuckled.
Kekoa was silent for a few minutes, thinking his situation over many times in his head. He kept coming back with the same answer, which he finally spoke out-loud. “I love Akoni and Akoni loves me.”
“Yer positive?”
“Yes.”
Davina nodded her head. “Den come back tomorra ‘round da same time. I’ll have ya little bottle waitin’ on ya, eh?”
“Thank you.” Kekoa swam out of the decaying ship back out to the ocean floor. Ilani zipped over to meet his brother, but he carried a worried look on his own face. The merboy had had enough of waiting behind the rock and swam inside the ship to find out what was going on…..that’s when he heard the enchantress telling Kekoa the price that would be paid if he used the potion on the wrong lover. He didn’t know this potion could cause that much turmoil. Had he known the true consequences of this stuff, Ilani never would’ve helped his brother with his plan.
“Did you get it?” Ilani asked. In the back of his mind he thought, Please say you didn’t. Please say she wouldn’t give it to you or something.
Kekoa nodded. “She’s making it for me. I have to come back tomorrow and pick it up.”
***
Akoni was lounging on his bed watching tv after getting off the phone with Peka, when his brother walked in his room. “Hey braddah, you seen the new memory card I bought for my Playstation?”
“No. Mama just bought it for you and you’ve lost it already?”
The younger brother got defensive. “No, I haven’t lost it, thank you. I’ve just…..misplaced it.”
“Whatever.” His brother made to leave his room, when Akoni suddenly sat up on his bed and called for him. “Hey Jo-Jo…”
“Yeah?”
“You ah, you kept your word about not telling anyone about Kekoa, right? You haven’t spilled the beans, have you?”
“No.”
“Not even to those dweeb friends of yours?”
“I haven’t told them either. And for the record, they are not dweebs.” Akoni smiled. “So you like him, huh?”
“Who, Kekoa?”
The young boy sighed and rolled his brown eyes. “No, the pope, Akoni…..Yes, Kekoa.”
“Oh. Well, yeah I like him.”
Jo-Jo cocked an eyebrow. “But do you really like him?”
Akoni frowned. “Why are you asking?”
“I’m just getting this vibe that you do, is all. It definitely explains why you keep going off by yourself to the beach all the time.”
“I enjoy the beach, Jo-Jo, you know that.”
“I do. But you enjoy that mermaid a little more. And that gigantic liplock you shared with him proved it.”
“We’re just friends…”
“…That kiss. A lot.” Jo-Jo stated. “I may be young but I’m not stupid, brah. When I saw you two together in the water yesterday, I saw chemistry, okay? Just call Peka now and tell him its over, you’ve fallen in love with a being from the sea.” He laughed.
Akoni rolled his eyes. “Shut up, Jo-Jo.”
“I’m serious. How long do you think you can pull off this juggling act you’ve got?”
“I’m not juggling anybody. I care for Peka.”
“But do you love him?”
Akoni sat there and rubbed his head.
***
“Oooohhhh, that’s the spot…” Noelani whispered languidly as Manu rubbed her shoulders. The older couple were relaxing in their room after a full day of errands.
“You’ve got a lot of tense spots in your shoulders, my love. Why is that?”
“Stress.”
“From what?”
“Kekoa mostly. I’m so worried for him.”
Manu frowned. “Why? What’s the matter with him now?”
“It’s the same problem—he’s seeing the human.”
The merman paused in massaging his wife’s shoulders. “He’s still seeing him? After I specifically told him not to?”
Noelani could hear the anger in his voice. Manu never had much respect for humans anyway, but after his father was brutally killed years ago while he was out with a then young Kekoa, he had nothing to do with them at all. He sure as hell hated the fact that his son had fallen in love with one. “Yeah, I still see him getting up every morning, heading for the shore and sometimes staying out there til sunset. I’m worried for him because nothing good could possibly come from a relationship between a mermaid and a human. It’s infeasible. And the chances of him getting found out by those land dwellers……..it’s dangerous, Manu.”
Manu sighed. “I know. There has got to be a way we can stop this before it gets any worse than it is.”
Just then, Ilani swam into their room, his disturbed look from earlier still on his face. Noelani, being the observant mother she was, noticed it right off hand. “Ilani, what’s the matter?”
“There’s……um….” He knew his brother would be mad at him for telling about the potion, but the stakes in this were too high for a 13 year old to handle on his own. I’m sorry brother, but I’m so afraid of what might happen with this. I don’t want to lose you. “Mom, Dad, there’s something I have to tell you two…..”