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deserved.”
     
    2nd February, 2014
    Gab left for Miami this morning. No idea how long he’ll be away. Raul doesn’t have a phone, so we’ll be in touch only by letter. I just have to hope Gab will be back soon. As Gab.
     
    4th February, 2014
    I sent a letter to Sam last week and Caitlin has just brought his reply—another short one but worrying.
    Sam says that Ethan knows I’m a Black Witch. Sam told him he must be mistaken and that I was a fain, but Ethan said he saw me with Aiden and “knew.” Sam had to pretend he was shocked and surprised. But if Ethan tells anyone about Sam and me, and if it gets out that Sam knew I was a Black Witch, I’m not sure what will happen to him. It’s just all so wrong. Why shouldn’t we be together? We’re the sane ones. We’re not trying to beat each other up, cut off fingers, or scar faces!
     
    5th February, 2014
    I’ve been to see Sam!
    I disguised myself as Caitlin and went to the Bean Counter. It was really hard. I transformed as soon as I got out of the car in Tampa. I managed to stay like that until I saw Sam, when I became me again. (No one else was around—thank goodness it’s a quiet coffee shop.) We sat in the darkest corner and talked. It’s so nuts. I’ve been there before without a care in the world and this time I jumped every time the door opened.
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    I need to master my transformation better.
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    Sometimes I wish I could change into a White Witch and get stuck as that.
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    Mostly I wish everyone would just get on.
     
    7th February, 2014
    Missing Gab so much.
     
    9th February, 2014
    Got a letter from Gab. Raul is trying to cure him with potions first and said that if they don’t work he has “a few other tricks up his sleeve.” Gab said that one potion looked like green snot, and tasted like it too, and another was like a watery curry that made Gab faint (after he’d spewed up on the kitchen floor). Neither of them worked.
     
    10th February, 2014
    I’m practicing my transformations. I keep wondering what would happen if I got stuck as Caitlin. Would that be such a bad thing?
     
    13th February, 2014
    Another letter from Gab arrived today. He’s been fasting and in a sweat tent (in Raul’s vast garden) and has been smoking some strange leaves but he is still a fain.
    I miss him.
     
    14th February, 2014
    I’m not thinking about the anniversary of Mum’s death—we need to be positive and focus on life!
    I’m still practicing my transformations and I’m much better. I can only do Caitlin and Gab, but I’ve stayed as Caitlin for over two hours now—cooked dinner as her, tidied my bedroom as her, and she’s really good at cleaning the bathroom!
    I had this idea of meeting Sam at a park in Tampa (disguised as Caitlin obviously). I asked Caitlin where would be the best place and she wouldn’t help at first, but then I told her I was going anyway so she relented and said I should meet him at Woodlawn Cemetery: no one will see us there.
    So Caitlin told Sam to meet me there at 6 p.m. today. Happy Valentine’s . . .
     
    15th February, 2014
    We had the most fantastic time last night—it’s not such a creepy cemetery. We stayed there all night as we decided it was safer than me coming home. Sam brought rugs and food and a torch and sensible things like that—I hadn’t thought to take anything. We talked and as it got darker and cooler he put his arm round me and it was so warm being close to him and he kissed me, gently at first and then less gently but so nice.
    I love his kisses.
    We talked and kissed for hours. It was perfect to be with him. He is perfect—kind and gentle and so sweet. But it was sad too because he’s so worried. He’s nothing like I thought a White Witch would be. We’re always told they’re like fains, only interested in money, and they’ve lost their true witch nature. But Sam isn’t interested in money: he likes music and is working on improving his Gift and is just really