Author's POV

"ENOUGH!!!", Hana yelled. The whole group covered their ears as a disturbing sound was produced when Hana yelled.

"That's it, here comes the end!" She said, raising her hand to the sky, creating a pitch black spark that transformed into black coloured potion. She opened the lid and pour them onto the ground, which made a dark semi circle layer on top of their head. They were trapped inside the circle, along with the seemly a mad witch that they once called a friend.

Hana laughed devilishly, scaring the lovesick girl who snapped her heads to her after staring at her passed lover. Yeji looked at Hana in horror, she had never imagine that love could turned her past best friend into a mad witch who terrifyingly laughed like a maniac.

Meanwhile Yeonjun in secret was trying to lose the tight rope that gripped on his and Juwon's wrists. Since everyone was distracted, this was their only chance to escape. Yeonjun silently mumbled a comforting word to Juwon who quietly sobbing in fear.

"This is it! I'm going to make you regret for choosing Yeji over me, Taehyunnie! I've love you for decades and this is what I get in return for ever being a loyal ass after so long?!?!?!!"

Her words confused the grey haired boy as he tried to comprehend what she was talking about. He didn't get what she mean by that. Why does her voice suddenly sounds so familiar, as if she was—

No, no way... No in a fucking way she is Sakamoto Mashiro. But her voice were similar to each other..

Just then, a violet lightning strike toward Hana, creating a hazy view along with smokes coming out from the ground. Her appearance changed. She was wearing a dark purple witch gown with a hat. The magical wand on her hand that she hid in her clothes since the beginning began to shine. Her facial features made everyone gasped.

After all these years, she finally revealed her true identity. Born without the love from her parents, being raised by a wicked witch-like her grandmother. Mashiro had learn how to lie over lies she had told everyone about. Above of all, Taehyun was the most speechless one. His late lover was there, standing in front of him, looking fine and healthy as if she didn't just died few years back then.

"What the-

"Oh why? Surprised, my prince?", Mashiro mocked her past lover as he stood still, not moving an inch from his place.

"I've told you before, Hyunnie. I'll come back for my rightful title. I am still your girlfriend. I let you abused me, tortured me and insulted me because I knew I deserves them for leaving you alone behind. But it was unexpected that you did it for a girl who was madly in love with your best friend?"

Taehyun looked away, ashamed of himself after all those months he spent torturing his own lover he thought had died. But just then, he scoffed at her, shocking the female didn't look please with his reaction.

"And you think you suffer alone? Don't you ever think about how I get my mental health disorder? Did it not ever cross your mind about how I longed for someone's love and care after your death? Do you really think you're all that, Sakamoto?", the boy looked at the girl in disgusted, which Mashiro took aback of.

He was right, did it ever cross her mind about the fact that Taehyun turned into a horrible person as he was now was because of her own selfishness?

"You left, Mashiro, and it impacted me more than it did to you. You freely disguise into someone new, with new identities and new appearance. You can be whoever you are while I'm here, still stuck with my own feelings. But I didn't let it out. I embraced them. I cherished everything that happened to me. Mean while, you left and come back whenever you want as if I am fucking toy that you can play with."

"Look, baby. You don't understand, I-

"You what? You're doing this for our own good? Was that all you wanted to say?"

The female witch looked down as guilt engulfed her body. She had done so many terrible things by stealing someone's identity, using and manipulating someone all she want just for her selfish desire. But she did this because she was in love... Was it really wrong?

"But, Hyun... I love you, I did this because I'm in love with you. I- I just want us to be someone we used to be. Please, Taehyun, please forgive me. You- you love me, right? You- you still believe in our love right?" She kneeled in front of Taehyun, collapsing her hands together while tears streaming down her eyes.

Taehyun too, was in tears. But it was not a sad nor happy one. It was tears of resentment. He knew what his past lover was doing, she was trying to manipulate him the way she did to his best friend.

"Do I? I don't think there is an us anymore, Mashi-chan. I'd moved on. My heart weren't beating for you anymore, it would never will"

Mashiro's face turned dull and pale. Her heart clenched upon his word, stabbing them deep into the core.

No.... No way I would let this happen.

When Taehyun was about to walk away, a loud thunder cooed above their head. All the head shot up to the highest point of the circle they were trapped in. Heavy smoked starting embraced them all as the ground began to shake. Hwayoung and Rina were hugging each other as they stared at the raging Mashiro who looked like she was about to lose control.

"What the hell are you doing? "

Terrified, Taehyun stared at his ex lover in horror. He couldn't believe what he saw. He couldn't think straight while watching Mashiro trying to cast a spell upon him with her wand. She mumbled several mantras onto the wand while a spark of lights appears in front of her. Taehyun was in distress. He dated a witch, an evil witch who tried to disguise herself as a human being.

He knew, deep inside, Mashiro was just a normal human too, like them. But powers changed her. He hated this side of Mashiro. She looked miserable than ever. He certainly going to stop all of these that instant. Whether it was in a rough way or the other way around.

On the other hand, Yeonjun and Juwon had successfully escaped and went into their lovers embraces. Yeji froze in her place as she felt Yeonjun hugged her firmly. Meanwhile, Jungwon and Juwon was in tears as they kissed each other's forehead in comfort.

As usual, Rina who were watching them scoffed in jealousy. She just hate seeing Jungwon being happy with someone who was not her. She just couldn't bear seeing him with someone else. She loved him, she was fond of him first, but Juwon got him first.

'Why do you have to exist? Why
can't I have all Jungwon to myself?
First, Ni-ki. Now, Jungwon? ',
she whispered to herself.

Just then, Mashiro swung her wand towards the sky. Before it happened, Taehyun held her hand, tried to break through the spell. Taehyun and Mashiro was in a tug-of-war upon her wand.  But Taehyun didn't care, he wanted to break it apart so that all the spells she had casted on would disappeared.

"Get off of me! ", Mashiro yelled.

"No, you need to stop. This isn't right! ", her ex lover fought back.

Their battle was insane. Mashiro almost tripped if it weren't for her circle that she made before. She was basically pinned on it by Taehyun. She lost her gripped on her wand as she felt pain on her back, her ex lover snatched it away and broke them into half. She was in a literal shock and petrified. All her cast disappeared, the cirlcle she made, and fhe special spell she put on both Hwayoung, Rina and Yeonjun.

Just like that, everything had went back to normal.

"NOO!!!! My wand!! Her last gift!", Mashiro knelt on the floor, staring at her broken wand — her grandmother's last gift before passing away. She shed into tears while glaring at Taehyun in rage.

"LOOK AT WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?! THIS IS MY GRANDMA'S LAST GIFT!!! YOU JUST BROKE THEM APART AS EASY AS BREAKING MY HEART!!!!!", she sobbed but Taehyun just stared at her.

"Before she died, she had a small talk to me"

The boy knelt along with Mashiro, looking into her straight in the eyes. He held her chin up in his finger. He smiled warmly at his fiancee.

"She told me to protect you at all cost. She told me to make you happy. She told me to free you from your curse. "

Mashiro's eyes went wide. He knew it all along? If he knew, why... why did he stay with her? She began to have a mixed feelings about these all events. She realized, her cursed was the one in control. Her curse was her insecurities. That made her turned into a total evil. And Taehyun knew about it. Does that mean, grandma knew he was the one?

"So, you know all along but didn't tell me?", she heard her fiance chuckled attractively, causing her heart to skip a beat.

"Yes, my love. I know. Even about the fact that you accidentally casted a love spell on me to get me so crazy over Yeji. I know it all. I've been acting the opposite way because of your cast, silly", Taehyun playfully knocked her forehead with wide smile plastered across his face. Mashiro felt more tears fell on her cheeks, like a rainfall. She... She casted him? Was that why he forgot about his love for her?  So, it was her all along who had trick herself into her own game...

"And you know what's more amusing? Your grandma told me, if I ever freed you from the curse, from then on, you will be my fiancee and will marry me as soon as possible"

                            To be continued
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I wish to see you all in my next book;
ENHYPEN'S NI-KI.

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