Good Witch, Bad Witch

Sahara was a good witch. She had been raised by two parents who taught her that magic should only be used to help others, so she had spent her life trying to do just that. Unfortunately, not all witches were raised the same as Sahara. In fact, her stepsister Merrell was a witch, and she wasn’t very nice at all. Merrell often used her special abilities to play mean jokes on people or to get her way. Sahara tried to go behind Merrell and fix the bad things she had done, but sometimes she was too late, and sometimes she didn’t know what all Merrell had done.

Most weekends Merrell was at her mother’s, and she and Sahara rarely had to see each other at home, but both girls attended the same school during the day. It was impossible for Sahara to avoid her stepsister all of the time.

Today was one of the days Merrell seemed intent on making everyone’s life miserable. She had already made two students drop their lunch trays, and she had made one student fall. Sahara had sat still long enough. She was ready to challenge Merrell if that was what was needed to get her to stop being so mean.

Just when it looked as if Merrell was about to pull another mean trick on an unsuspecting student, Principal Saunders walked into the room. He took one look at Merrell and seemed to know exactly what she was up to. He smiled at the young witch and motioned for her to follow him. Merrell’s smile was wicked, like she was about to play a trick on him, but Sahara saw him shake his head back and forth, and then she watched Merrell frown. Whatever trick she was trying, the trick was not working on the principal. He turned and winked at Sahara and then walked over and removed Merrell from the room.

Sahara wasn’t sure what powers Principal Saunders had that could stop Merrell in her tracks, but it really didn’t matter. What did matter was that, in her book, he was totally awesome.