Nothing is what it seems

After raising her hands to protect herself, she waited for someone to strike. But since that didn't happen, she looked up, the blade right in front of her head and still aimed at her.

ALICE: "W-what?" She asked, looking up.

Jessica looked at her friend, who was sitting on the floor waiting for the fatal blow.
ALICE: "Why didn't you finish it?" She asked, trembling.

JESSICA: "At least you deserve it, but I just wanted to teach you a little lesson. Such a necromancy can be very dangerous if you don't know about certain things."

ALICE: "But why us? Why did you choose us?"

JESSICA: "I didn't choose you, that was fate."

ALICE: "What about that ghost? Did you summon it?"

JESSICA: "No. He was just one of my illusions with which I drive people crazy. It seems to have hit Carina and Susi."

ALICE: "Do you mean we just made it up?" She yelled.

JESSICA: "Yes and no. This experience was just as real as you and me."

ALICE: "It kind of doesn't make sense."

JESSICA: "Everything has its meaning and purpose. Truth and madness, light and shadow. Why do you think there are so many ghost stories in the world? There are some who disturb ghosts in their peace for fun, they summon them to answer questions get or to curse someone. "

ALICE: "What happens when you do that?"

JESSICA: "In the worst case, something like that can lead to death. The soul can be cursed in an incantation, which means that one can be unlucky in a lot of things. Friendship, love, work and so on and so on. There is one Endless list. "

ALICE: "And what will become of us now?"

JESSICA: "Take the two of them there and get out of MY forest.", She said monotonously and pointed to the other two.

ALICE: "You're letting us go?"

JESSICA: "For now. Your time has not yet come, and I have to get back to work."

ALICE: "Then what have you been doing all this time?" She asked angrily.

JESSICA: "I was bored and you can play wonderfully with you people.", She said with a slight smile and a cold look.

ALICE: Are you saying you only played with us?

JESSICA: "You could say that, although ... my friendship was the only thing that wasn't fake. Now go. We'll meet again soon enough."

Alice was trying to get on her feet with her two friends. When she had done this she turned around to leave both friends could just stand and let her pull them after them.

JESSICA: "Oh, you should know a little something.", She said coldly.

Jessica was suddenly right behind her.

JESSICA: "Your souls will still be cursed, even if I let you go now.When your time has come we will meet again and then your souls will be mine. "she said with a smile in her ear and disappeared.

Alice stood in shock for a few moments. She turned around where Jessica should be. But she had to think of her friends who stood like zombies to her left and right. She was able to bring them back to the forest hut after a while. Alice immediately started packing up the things of her and her two friends who weren't able to, they just didn't react. Jessica's things were already gone, as if they had never been there.
The whole experience went through her head again. There was a lot that she didn't understand, why had Jessica just made friends with her and why did she live among people? All questions that will never be answered.
Alice walked slowly through the hut and past the trash can in which the homemade witch board was still. She pulled out the large scraps of paper and folded them up, but found a part was missing.

ALICE: "Where's Carina's part?"

She looked again into the trash can and where the missing piece of paper should be, but not in it. Surprised, she looked for it all over the hut, but still couldn't find it. Actually, she couldn't care where it was, she had to get her two friends out of the forest as quickly as possible. She did it as fast as she could, she breathed out with relief as they stepped over the edge of the forest.
Her two friends have also shown the first movement in a long time, Carina went down on her knees.

CARINA: "Thank God we're out of this damned forest.", She almost howled.

SUSI: "We did it," she said, barely audible.

ALICE: "Yes, now we can finally go home again.", She said with a smile.

Together they walked back to the train station that they had come to, where they boarded the next train that went to their city. Nobody said a word while driving, they just sat there.
It wasn't long before they arrived at the main train station in their hometown and got off there.

SUSI: "Isn't there someone missing? Where's Jessica?"

Carina winced at the question.

CARINA: "You know exactly what happened and we should never talk about it again." She snapped.

ALICE: "Carina?" She asked worried.

CARINA: "She's dead! And that won't change either," she said through clenched teeth.

SUSI: "What should we do now?"

CARINA: "We're not going to do anything but forget the whole thing. We have made everything this far, but it would be best if we parted ways here."

She just went and left her friends there.

SUSI: "I think she's right."

ALICE: "What? Do you want to leave me there too?"

SUSI: "I'm sorry, but Carina is right to just forget about it and go separate ways.", she said and left too.

ALICE: "Great. Then it's okay. You're all just scaredy. This shouldn't be forgotten, it should be documented. I will make sure that no one who conjures up a necromancy has to die.", She said.