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Belle the Witch
An trainee witch called Belle screamed in frustration as the Barbie doll which had been sitting on the table in front of her, rolled off with a dull thud.
What Belle had actually intended to happen was for enormous billows of yellow smoke to be propelled from the end of her frilly pink wand, and zap the doll into a toad, which she could then shove down Billy Hill's back!
Billy Hill was in the same class as Belle and was always teasing her and pulling her pigtails. Belle longed to cast a spell to give him spots or make his trousers fall to his ankles whilst waiting at the bus-stop.
However, Belle also knew that such a strong display of her "talents" would lead to all manner of unthinkable consequences.
Having fought tooth and nail to go to mainstream school, rather than a "special" school, with others who shared her "talents", the last thing that she wanted to do was draw attention to herself or make anyone suspicious.
Belle thoughtfully chewed on a marshmallow as she made her way to the school hall to play basketball. There must be some way to get her own back on Billy for making her life so miserable.
As the bell rang at the end of the day, Billy ran up behind Belle who was walking out of school, and gave her a hefty shove, pushing her against the wall.
"Mind out Smelly Belly" he shouted rudely.
Belle picked herself up and was brushing herself off when she accidentally flicked the wand from its place in her trouser pocket, zapping Billy's departing back squarely between the shoulder-blades.
A couple of things then happened at the same time. Billy disappeared and a large warty toad which was squelching across the road in front of her, was squished by a passing lorry, making a dull popping sound. Belle could see the surprised expression on the, now deceased, toad's face as it rolled slowly around, well and truly stuck to the lorry's tyre.
"Oh heck," thought Belle. "Who shall I tell about this? I know very well I will be expelled if I'm found out."
Belle stood there, tears rolling down her face and dripping through the grille that lead to the sewer below, trying to decide what to do. Mrs Miller, the Head Teacher, strolled by.
Belle immediately began to blubber hysterically, trying to explain what she had done. Mrs Miller clearly thought that Belle had gone quite bonkers, but, in order to quell her fears, agreed to carry out a DNA test on the toad to see if it was Billy Hill in a quite different form!
Mrs Miller snapped on a pair of yellow rubber gloves which she always carried about her person (well one never knew what unsavoury items one would come into contact with when working in school!) and with a look of deep disdain peeled the flat slimey toad from the tyre of the lorry (which, by the way, for the purposes of this story, had conveniently stopped at the traffic lights at the end of the road!!)
Mrs Miller carefully placed the ex-toad onto an empty crisp packet which was, oddly enough, sticking up from a nearby man-hole cover, and strode off, up the hill towards the Science Lab, still muttering about "anything for a quiet life" and "Belle must be off her trolley....."
As Belle tried to pull herself together, she thought she heard a faint sound, like a yell coming from a well. She pricked up her ears and walked towards the sound.
To her complete surprise, the sound was coming from underneath - she bent to pull at the lid of the man-hole cover (yes the same one which produced the convenient crisp packet - this was actually a clue, but never mind...), which opened to reveal a doll - one of the small plastic ones made to resemble Barbie's boyfriend Ken - to Belle's amazement the doll was yelling "HELP ME" with all it's might - in a voice that sounded just like.....have you guessed it.....BILLY HILL!!!!!
