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[ Hey you! Yes you! C’mon, I’m talking to you so stop looking over your shoulders like an idiot. Anyway, do you want to hear an amazing story about an amazing girl? In this case, let me tell you my story… If you haven’t caught on yet, I AM the amazing girl in question.
Do you have questions? I hope not because I don’t want to lose any more time than I already lost talking to you.
Well, it all started on a rainy day in October… ]
Wheee whoooo wheeee whoooo…
Sirens were roaring in the streets, muffling the loud whispers coming from the crowd which had now gathered around them since the panic was over.
A girl was looking at the grey sky with tired eyes, rain hitting her pretty face as water droplets were mixing themselves with her tears.
“It’s going to be alright! Hang on!” pleaded a voice beside her.
The girl tried to talk but no sound got out of her mouth.
“Somebody, help!” screamed the person next to her as her vision was starting to get blurry and as darkness was starting to invade her.
“Hey! Stay awake! Open your ---“
Everything became black, the rain stopped hitting her face and the sounds suddenly disappeared as well as the pain in her chest.
“You can open your eyes now,” said a voice from above her.
Brown eyes appeared when the girl’s eyelids opened. Brown hair and brown eyes adorning the face of a handsome boy as well as his goofy smile were the first thing the girl saw. She immediately sat up, nearly knocking her head with the other boy’s one.
“Whoa there! Calm down, you’re safe here!”
The girl in question looked frankly around her but white was the only thing she was seeing, wherever she was looking. Her eyes landed on the other boy whom was also wearing a cleaned white shirt along with white pants and white shoes. The boy gently lifted her up on her feet by taking her hand.
“Where am I?”
“Let me start over : Hello Veronica Lodge, my name is Harvey Kinkle” the boy smiled again and messed his hair with his hands “And you are now standing in front of the door to heaven.”
Veronica laughed out loud, cutting the boy. “Sweet Jesus.” She wiped a tear on her cheek “Either you are joking or it wasn’t only water in that water bottle Cathy gave me and I am completely high right now!”
“I beg your pardon?” Harvey scratched his cheek with his finger, clueless.
“Aw c’mon Cathy! Stop hiding, you got me!” She turned toward Harvey with crossed arms when Cathy didn’t showed up “Hey Mr. Clean, where is the exit? Not that I don’t enjoy your company, which I don’t really enjoy to be honest, but I have more important things to do.”
“I’m sorry Miss Lodge but there is no Cathy here.”
Veronica narrowed her eyes when she saw the seriousness in his eyes.
The boy cleared his throat and got a paper out from his pocket : “On October 6th 2017, at 11:30 AM Veronica Lodge was accidently shoot by a stray bullet in the heart and died in the arms of her bestfriend Cathy in front of the stadium as they were walking out from a Drake concert –“
“Wait, wait wait…” She snatched the paper from him and turned her back to him. “October 6th … Veronica Lodge … Shot by a stray bullet …” her eyes continued to follow the words on the paper. “Signed by God?” She lifted her eyes and twirled toward Harvey whom looked at her with sad eyes.
Veronica scanned the room where she was; everything was just as white and clean as the man in front of her. Looking down, she noted for the first time a mist was floating above her feet. Could she really be…? No way…
A hand lightly squeezed her shoulder in a comfort gesture. “I am sorry Miss Lod—“
“Hey Mr. Clean, you do know I’m Bi and not a lesbian right?”
“I beg your pardon?” asked an incredulous Harvey.
“I thought getting killed by a stray bullet was only reserve to lesbians” thoughtfully said Veronica. When Harvey only stared at her, she continued “You know? Like Lexa, Tara, Root… Even if Root was kind of targeted, she still died instead of that ugly man” Harvey simply stared at her blankly.
“I don’t remember any Lexa, Tara or Root getting here” the boy scratched his cheek with his finger again.
“Okay… Seriously you need to update your knowledge in TV shows’ characters Harley.” Before Harvey could correct Veronica on his name, Veronica continued “Anyway, if I’m dead like you said then can we now enter these doors so I can get in Heaven? Do you think this is like an all-inclusive hotel?” Veronica started to walk toward the gigantic and elegant doors but Harvey’s words stopped her.
“Just a moment Miss Lodge.”
“Veronica. Call me Veronica. Miss Lodge makes me look old.”
“Well Veronica, there is something I need to talk to you before we continue.”
“What?”
“Well, where do I start –“
“Harvey! Thank you but I’m going to take it from here” interrupted a beautiful woman with long blond hair tied in a ponytail and green eyes as she step into the room in her white dress and white high heels.
“But I thought –“
“God puts Veronica in my care from now on.”
“Oh thank god” the boy stretched his arms, clearly relieved “I mean… Well… Goodbye Veronica.” The boy quickly escaped the room and disappeared behind a second door on the other side of the room.
“Sabrina, Sabrina Spellman” told the blonde girl as she extended her hand in from of her. “From now on I’m going to be your counsellor.”
“My what?”
“Your counsellor. Let’s say God put you in “probation” to determine if you’re worth entering Heaven or not.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Well, let just say you weren’t actually a model child in your life. You have quite a record with all the bad things you did in your eighteen years on earth.”
“I don’t see what you’re talking about” huffed Veronica as she crossed her arms.
Sabrina snapped her fingers and a parchment appeared in her hands. She cleared her throat: “In December 2009, you put an expansive lipstick inside Clara Whistland purse just as she was leaving a Sephora store so the anti-thief system went crazy and she was arrested for stealing accessories.”
“That bitch deserved it, she tried to stole my boyfriend at that times.”
“Did you know she lost her sponsorship after this event? And because she didn’t had the necessary fund to get in the national team, she had to quit her team after that.”
“What can I say, she learnt to never mess with Veronica Lodge.”
Sabrina quickly looked up from her paper before she continued : “On June 2014, as you were a volunteer for an event and assigned to the dessert station, you answered a little boy’s request to have a cookie by : Take one I don’t care. The little boy asked you again if you could give him a cookie and you answered : Haa no arms, no cookies!.”
Veronica snorted “That was joke. I was trying to lighten up the mood. Don’t tell me you never heard it before?”
“The little boy didn’t had arms Veronica…”
“How was I supposed to know ? I wasn’t facing him.”
“You were volunteering for a fundraising event for the amputees…”
“In my defense, it was my mother who forced me into this. It’s not like I wanted to be there.”
“That’s not the point Veronica.” The woman cleared her throat for the nth time “September 200—“
The girl with jet hair crossed her arms “Well we got the point, I did one or two bad things in my life but isn’t everyone doing bad things? I can’t believe everyone here was a saint when they arrived here and I doubt they were all in some sort of probation before they entered.”
“One or two bad things?” Sabrina sighed and took the parchment by it edge so the paper could unroll itself. Veronica watched, amazed, as the paper continued to unroll even when it reach the floor. “I think it’s a little bit more than one or two bad choices…”
“Well isn’t one of God sentence something like : God forgives all and always forgives?”
“There’s a limit to everything Veronica. If God lets everyone enters Heaven, nobody would try to be a good person in their lives. However, God decided to give you another chance to enter. You just have something you need to do.”
“ Okay…. What is it?”
When Veronica opened her eyes, she now was in a dark room as night had taken over the sky.
“What did I got myself into…” whispered Veronica as she blindly started to walk forward with her arms outstretched in front of her.
--- Flashback
“I’ll have to WHAT?”
“You’ll have to watch over someone and ensure her protection. You’ll become her guardian angel if you want.”
“What? Hell no. I am not a babysitter,” grumbled the girl with brown eyes. “Sorry but no.”
“Veronica, you don’t really have a choice here. If you want to go to Heaven and see your parents one day…”
Veronica lifted her hands in the air, frustrated “Fine, FINE, I’ll do your stupid babysitting thing Sabine”
“Sabrina”
“That’s what I said.”
“Anyway, here’s the files with all the information you need to know about the girl you’ll watch from now on.”
“Nah, I don’t want to read these boring things,” Veronica dropped the files on the ground, papers flowing everywhere. “For how long will I need to babysit her?”
“Again it’s not babysitting,” the woman sighed. “And we don’t really know for how long. You’ll be there as long as you’ll be need.”
Veronica glared at the blond woman in front of her when she invited her to follow her in another room. Just before she moved, she glanced down and saw the picture of a blond girl with her hair tied up in a tight ponytail along with the name of Elizabeth Cooper under it.
--- End of Flashback
“Finally.” Thought Veronica as her vision had adjusted to the dark. Narrowing her eyes, she scanned her surroundings. Pink walls, everything’s clean and in order …
A light snore caught her attention. Glancing towards the sounds, Veronica scanned the white and pink blankets until her eyes reached wild golden locks and a baby blue pyjama covering an upper body. Inspecting the face belonging to the human in the bed, Veronica recognized her protégée.
Her eyes twitched in annoyance “Oh no don’t tell me… Sabrina you witch… From all the billions of girls there are in this world you had to put me with a goody two shoes?!?!”
[Let me get this straight for you guys, I hated goody two shoes or the girls identified as the perfect-girl-next-door or whatever you call them. I hated the way they always smile as if anything could get them, I hated the way they always get Straight A’s in every homeworks and exams, I hated…. Well you get the point no?
Anyway, the only thing that intrigued me with them was if the rumours about them were true : If it was true they were shy by the day but real tigresses in the bed by night. How would I know since I was too cool to be one of them or to hang out with one of them? Whatever, shut up now. I’m trying to tell you a story. Let’s get back to the important things here and by that I mean ME. ]
Something in Veronica’s pocket vibrated. Surprised, the girl reached inside it and took out a cell phone. An iphone to be exact.
SABRINA SPELLMAN was written on its screen. Veronica slid her finger on the screen and put the device on her ear.
“Hello?”
“Oh Veronica! I’m happy you found the little gift I gave you.”
“Yeah well, I don’t think I can call this thing a gift. Couldn’t you have given me a Samsung Galaxy instead? Iphone is –“
“Not negotiable Veronica.”
“What but why?!” hissed the black hair girl in annoyance.
“Because since Steve Jobs came in Heaven there’s this business deal he made with --- AHUM this is off topic. Anyway, Elizabeth also has an Iphone so it’ll be easier to communicated with her this way.”
There was a pause on the line.
“Oh, by the way, I put some interesting apps on your phone as well as the files you never read about your protégée. I hope you’ll make good use of them.”
“Seriously, am I really obliged to do this? You surely already know, since you violated my privacy, that I can’t take care of another person.”
“Veronica Lodge, how many times do I have to tell you –“ BIP Veronica hung the line. “God she is so annoying.”
Veronica ran her fingers on the screens and opened some apps: “Elizabeth Cooper … Everybody called her Betty… First in the majority of her classes… Mother … Father… Older sister…. A cat…” Veronica closed the app. “B-O-R-I-N-GGGG. And I knew it she was a Straigt A’s student.”
The phone shook in her hands :
SABRINA SPELLMAN [02:05 AM]: Don’t forget you are in probation and every one of your actions counted. I’ll let your lack of respect pass this time but I won't be so indulgent in the future.
VERONICA [02:06 AM]: Whatever. Now sorry but I need to start my babysitting.
Veronica clicked on Sabrina’s contact name and typed something in the place reserved for her name. When she finished, she admired her work: SPELLMAN WITCH.
“Yep, that’s definitely a better name for her. Now let’s see what are the other apps she told me about… Calendar… Radio frequency… Oh Googlemap! Who would have thought even ghost were using this app to get somewhere!... Wait… Locate my human?? What’s this app?” Veronica examined the little icon which represented Betty’s face in a radar device.
Before Veronica could examine her device more, a cat appeared on the bed and angrily hissed at her. Veronica hissed back at the cat, watching his caramel furred stretching on his back while it growled intensively.
“Huh… W-What is it Caramel?” said a quiet voice behind the cat.
Veronica snorted “Caramel really? Could you be even more of a looser than you already are Cooper?”
“W-Who’s there?” asked Betty as she sleepily sit up in her bed. She rubbed her eyes and opened them so green eyes were tiredly scanning her room. “Caramel?”
Betty’s green irises locked themselves with Veronica’s one and the shorter girl of the two felt her heartbeats accelerating in her chest. Okay, what was she supposed to say now?