"One, walk towards me.
Two, throw a dash of glance.
Three, ask for a dance.", I closed my eyes as I heard her chant. "These I pray, hoping you'll look my way. At the snap of three, go and be bewitched by me."

As soon as I heard her fingers snap, I opened my eyes and found the old woman smiling at me. The gold bangles bracelets rang as it bumped against each other.

From afar, you cannot tell if she's a witch or not. But when you take a good look at her, you can see the color of her eyes seem darker than ever. Most especially whenever she has her tarot reading.

"That will be the spell you will chant whenever he's near. For sure, you'll have him swoon over you!", she exclaimed excitedly and I nodded shyly.

I haven't tried having my palm read by someone so much so, a fortuneteller nor a self-confessed witch. It was my friend, Yanna Ignacio, who kept bugging me about it since she has her husband wrapped around her fingers. I just have to ride along with her just so she can finally get over and let me move on with my life.

"T-thank you, Madam. It was nice meeting you. We have to go.", I said and yanked Yanna's arm beside me towards the exit of the gold-plated door.

"Hey, aw!", Yanna complained as soon as we had stepped foot outside the woman's abode. "Didn't you feel the shivers? She had been right, all along!", she exclaimed as we walked to the street.

"Remind me not to be impulsive and go with your plans again," I said rolling my eyes at her.

Just when we were about to head to Nashville, I saw the guy's hair standing out from the crowd. His wild curls and charming smile had me swooning all over again.

"Hey, Helaena!", Duncan Maverick, the guy I was head-over-heels since time immemorial, greeted as he approached me and Yanna. As usual, he has his football cap on—probably trying to hide his wild hair—, a pair of loose jeans and his auburn eyes that seem to be boring into your soul every time he looks at you.

"It's He-le-a-na.", I corrected him cooly and with a smile. His mispronunciation of my name annoys the hell out of me.

"So, Helaena, me and my dudes about to go bowling this weekend. You and your girl, game for it?", he asked dismissing my efforts of correcting his words. I felt a nudge beside me and I knew it. Y wants to go.

"We'll see. Thanks for the invi! Bye!", I said and had to pull Yanna away from the growing Football Team who flocked around Duncan. "Ugh! That was quick!", I groaned when we were able to breathe.

"OMG! OMG! OMG!", Yanna began to squeal in glee and I have to shush her up to refrain people from looking at us. "Did he just asked you out? I told you! The spell worked!"

"Yeah, yeah, right. C'mon. I'm starving.", I went to the counter and bought two doughnuts and a coffee for me. Yanna bought her favorite croissant and a frappe.

We went to the far end of the cafe and pulled our notebooks to do our assignments for the week. It took us an hour before we got out of the cafe  and to our homes.

As I was trodding into the alley, I noticed a tall, white guy who has his eyes fixed on a house beside mine. Ignoring him, I went to our gate and got inside.

Tossing things onto my couch inside the bedroom, I showered and got myself changed into comfortable clothes. Shortly after, I had my back laid on the bed thinking about the fortuneteller's bizarre words.

Me? Putting a hex on somebody?

Am not that desperate!

Then images of Duncan smiling and laughing with me appeared in my head and I had to groan in disbelief.

Was my crush had been lingering on him for so long that even I am going nuts about it?

I rubbed my eyes in an effort to remove the crazy thoughts away. I haven't realized I have fallen asleep until I felt the cold wind grazed my arms.

I woke up to the whooshing sound of air and saw the window of my bedroom open. I was about to ignore it until I heard a wolf howled at a distance which added a tingly sensation in my spine.

With my blanket draped over my shoulders, I went to close the window and discovered that it was indeed a full moon tonight. It lit the path for lost and mournful souls as well as giving hope to those who chose to go to the opposite path of life.

My hand has just touched the grills of the window when I felt someone behind me which halted me on my tracks.

"Turn around, Heleana.", the familiar voice send shivers into the hairs on my back.

I don't want to but my feet did.

Our eyes met.

At any given time, I could have melted. But the sinister atmosphere only scared me away.

"I have always wanted to tell you this. But I didn't have the courage how to do so.", he continued and stepped towards me.

I gulped when he got out of the shadows. He tilted my chin up so that our eyes locked.

"I like you, Heleana. No. I love you.", he corrected his own words with a chuckle as he removed a strand of my hair off my face.

"Duncan," I whispered and his finger stopped my lips.

"The hex I put on you was of no use from a distance. I'm sorry, I had to do it to you now.", he admitted and I gasped in realization.

I wasn't the one who have been planning something weird on someone!

It was him!

"Stop it, D!", another familiar voice cut in and my eyes became drawn to the guy whom I have known so well.
"Hi, H. I should have stopped him a long time ago. But, I always fail." Dranreb, his older brother, said.

"Drab.", I uttered my nickname for him and he smiled.

Right then and there, I have gotten to realize what my true feelings are. And to whom my heart has been beating for all this time.

I felt my feet move when I saw him approach us. His signature blue Abercrombie shirt shone from a distance.

"Damn! The spell never worked!", Duncan hissed in frustration.

"It's because your love isn't true, bro.   You just wanted to use H for popularity.", Dranreb said and I blinked. He led me away from his younger brother who began to fade away in the darkness.

"W-what's happening to him?", I whispered in fright and disbelief as I clung to him.

"We are not normal people, Heleana. I am a part of Underworld.", he confessed and I was even bewildered with his words. "But, you don't have to worry. I earned my freedom when I choose to be human. And it's all because of you. You bewitched me."

"I-I don't know what to say.", I said in a small voice.

"Sleep now, H. Let's talk about it tomorrow. Goodnight, my Heart.", Dranreb said and climbed out of my bedroom window like what most humans do. "Love you! See you tomorrow!"

So much for the spell the fortuneteller wants me to do!

Under this moonlit sky, I have found the love from someone I never expected to be!

End