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  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
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  55. Acknowledgments
  56. About the Author
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  58. About the Publisher

But in her fury, Ivy had stared straight into the witch’s eyes, and suddenly, she found herself unable to struggle against the old woman’s grip. For the village boy in the bakery all those years ago had been right—one glance from a witch is enough to put even the most determined child under her spell.

“I could kill you, too, my girl,” said the witch, “but I think I have an even better idea.” She released her grip on Ivy and waved her staff through the air, cutting it like a knife cuts butter. “I shall simply make you disappear.”

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October slips by quickly, like a twig being carried downstream by the stream in the Spinney.

Lily turns in her Yale application, and Mom decides we have to go out for a special dinner to celebrate. I’ve pretty much been giving Mom and Lily the cold shoulder ever since my ambush makeover. Lily has offered to take me into town for makeup a couple times, but when I shake my head the second time, she rolls her eyes.

“Whatever, Emma.”

So, basically, things are back to normal between us.

At dinner that night, I listen as Lily and Mom go on and on about Yale and how great it will be and all the classes Lily is going to take. I think about what Lily told me about wanting to take a year off, and I don’t understand how she can be so fake with Mom. Why doesn’t she just tell her the truth?

I start spending even more time at Fina’s. It’s Fina and Ruby who finally go with me to buy some makeup at the drugstore. Ruby decides she wants some, too—mascara and eyeliner—and we take it all back to Fina’s. Ruby experiments with doing her eyes while I show Fina what Lily taught me.

I practice at home, too, until I get good at it, and I’m pretty sure that no one will be able to notice my vitiligo at school.

I have to admit that even if I am mad at her, I am also really glad that Lily showed me how to do my makeup, because the spots beside my mouth spread even faster than any of the others have done. A few weeks after I first noticed them, they look like a thick set of parentheses around my lips, and every time I see them, my stomach drops. Once I’ve covered them up, though, I can usually pretend they aren’t there at all.

I start visiting the Spinney again most afternoons, but every time I check the journal, there’s nothing new there.