"What happened?" Hyeri asked as she walked over to the broken piano. A thick layer of dust covered the dark surface and half the keys were gone, leaving the instrument look like a century years old.

"I tried some spells." Were enough words for Hyeri to understand the situation.

"But why...these random things?" She pointed at the majestic tree and the dark framed window.

"I tried making different types of spells. From making things appear to changing an object's appearance...and I've realised something," he flied over to Hyeri and looked at her with a serious frown on his face. "I have to channel more energy and concentrate harder to perform the most easy spells."

"Is that because of your current form...?" Hyeri guessed.

"Yeah...I experimented all this to prove my theory." Jungkook said thoughtfully. "Remember when I had to use a ring to find your mum? It didn't work because I didn't channel enought energy."

"Oh..." Hyeri shivered as she remembered that day's experience.

"This means," he continued. "That it'll be much harder to perform spells of higher levels, or I probably won't even be able to perform them."

Heavy silence hung between them and the birds' chirping outside seemed to have stopped as if they were aware about the tension in the room.

"And if a powerful spell is needed to make me turn back to human...it'll be almost impossible for me to use it, knowing that I'm the one who's supposed to perform it."

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"Hyeri! I brought some takeouts!" Hyeri's mum shouted from the kitchen, making Hyeri jump from the position she was on her bed.

When did she even enter the house?

"Jungkook! Make all these disappear! Nowww!!" Hyeri hoarsely whispered at Jungkook, who was busy tapping the keys on her laptop at her desk.

He turned away from the screen and looked over to the floating balloons on the floor, which were still there because Hyeri liked the sight of a colourful floor.

"Oh, right," he snapped his little fingers and the balloons disappeared into thin air.

"Cool much?" She pointedly eyed the fairy before running down the stairs for the food.

"Hi mum," but all Hyeri saw through her eyes was the food on the table.

"Hello, how was school today?"

And the first thing she talks about is, of course, school.

"It was okay."

She did not talk about the loud and annoying corridor moments that occured in the morning; she did not talk about how boring her history class was; she did not talk about how fun her art class was; and surely, she did not talk about a certain fairy.

As if on cue, Hyeri and her mum glanced at each other as a noise was heard from upstairs. It sounded as if something heavy fell on the floor.

"What was that?" Her mum frowned and walked towards the stairs and Hyeri started panicking as she followed her.

"It must have been something on the roof," Hyeri tried her hardest to make sure her voice didn't shake.

"Didn't sound like that to me," her mum retorted.

Oh God.

What if Jungkook did something and my room looks unusual?

What if there's something that I forgot to hide?

Did Jungkook hide?

Hyeri's heart started drumming as her mum opened the door of Hyeri's room after checking her own room, where she found nothing unusual.

The door creaked open, and Hyeri's mum entered confidently as if she was pretty sure the noise came from that room.

Hyeri stepped through the doorway and to her rilief she saw nothing unusual. She glanced at her mum, who was still searching around.

"There's nothing, really, mum, let's go back downstairs."

"Wait, what's this?" She picked up something purple from the corner of the bed.

A purple leaf.