As soon as Elizabeth returned home with her new potion boxes, she called out excited, "Hey, Gina, I'm back! You're never going to guess what I found." There was no answer, so Elizabeth tried again. "Gina? You here?" Elizabeth sets the shopping bag and her purse down in the living room and checked the kitchen. As she examined the empty room, she noticed a note scrawled on yellow memo paper, stuck to the fridge with a magnet: 'Lizzy--Went to the mall with Jim to do some shopping and catch a movie. Back in a few hours. Gina'
Elizabeth remembered Jim is a guy that Gina has been dating for a few weeks, having met him only a few times whenever he was picking up Gina for a night out. Elizabeth looked around the apartment tentatively. If Gina was out with Jim, then Elizabeth had the apartment to herself for a few hours. "Hmm," she said while taking out the two boxes out of the bag and placing them on the coffee table, remembering the red box holds Chinese-Zodiac based potions while the blue box holds Western-Zodiac based-potions. "I guess that gives me a little time to experiment on my own..."