The door creaked slowly open and behind it a gothic 6 foot lady was bending down on Amy's eye level.
"Hi. Long time no see." The goth greeted Amy with an audible lisp.
The goth girl's name was Gabriel, or Gabby by her real name. She was a self-imposed researcher of dark arts and hexes and practiced fortune telling and curse making. She wore a heavy make-up, corset, a lot of black hair extensions and a frilly lolita dress. She invited Amy inside her house and begun to make tea.
"So ,what bring you to my lovely manor?" Gabriel asked as she placed a victorian tea set in front of Amy. "Let me guess, you found the fountain of youth?"
"Umm, no, maybe... I don't know actually. I was going to ask you about a ring my mother found." Amy replied.
"Oh miss Agatha found a ring, did she now?" Gabriel chuckled.
"No. Lucy, my mother." Amy said.
Gabriel quickly catched on what was happening and took a seat opposite of Amy. She tried to argue that Amy's mother was Agatha and they had been close friends for the longest time. Amy couldn't believe this and said that felt nauseous every time Gabriel mentioned this.
Gabriel grabbed the kettle and poured a cupfull of black tea in Amy's cup.
"Drink that. It should clear your head for a while." Gabriel said as she begun to sip her own cup.
Then, like a bolt of lighting had just hit Amy as she took a mouthful of the tea. The images she had crumbled down like a mirror in front of her eyes and she could clearly see the truth that she wasn't 22-year-old young adult, but trapped in the body which Lucy had swapped with her.
"I assume you now remember what happened? Tell me everything from the top." Gabriel smiled.
As Amy told every event she could remember. Gabriel looked at the clock and made an assumption that the ring made the changes somewhat permanent in three or four hours.
"Why didn't it affect you?" Amy asked as she drank the last drop from the tea.
"I have my own artifacts, potions and salves at hand's distance. I knew that one day in this town there will be weird things happening so I prepared my whole life." Gabriel explained as she poured another cup. "And I truly hope your kids are behaving nicely since unmixing the unnatural events are harder if there's more threads to untangle."
"For example if you were her fifth of tenth victim your precious little daughter might be inside a web and at that point my help is not enough. I know how to heal the so called flesh wounds of the curses, but when it comes to the lost causes. It would need a miracle maker." Gabriel explained.
Amy was getting a little bit worried as she glanced at her driver's license. It was still showing that she had gained it two years ago. The only thing that remained the same was her memories of the event and that she was friends with Gabriel. Maybe other people or even her mother would consider her Lucy's daughter.
"Good thing is that curses spread like in spiraling motion. Affecting those first which are closests to you." Gabrield kept explaining. "We could take your car and go to take a look at this ring before anything major happens."
Gabriel begun to pack a medium sized backpack full of flasks, books and other trinkets she redeemed worthy then with Amy they hopped inside the car and begun to drive towards Amy's home.