Do you remember your first day of High School Sunshine? I mean everything had to be perfect!  You had to wear the right clothes, act cool, and ditch your parents as fast as you could, or you might be labeled a loser for the next 4 years of your life!  The only problem with us Sunshine is that we were weird, so we really didn't care if we fit in or not ha-ha!  Hey, could you do me a favor and stay with me as we go to school today?  I'm going to be meeting some interesting people and would love your company!  Anyway, I see our first friend is walking up to us so let's surprise her the best way we know how, through Love! ;)

     As our sinister girl started walking towards us, you noticed that Aphrodite got her compact mirror from her purse and said those famous words we love to hear.  "Hello Beautiful!"  She said it just loud enough for sinister girl to walk up to her with disgust!  "Ugh, you're not beautiful your UGLY!"  Aphrodite responded with the sweetest smile I have ever seen and pointed to her while she smiled at you and said, this must be “LUCY!  So glad to see you darling!"  Sinister girl responded, "How did you know my name is Lucy?"  Aphrodite "Because I'm a witch and I know everything about you my love, by the way my name is Aphrodite, nice to finally meet you!"  sinister girl "I don't care what your name is and you're still ugly and conceited!  Aphrodite let out a "Hmm” and looked inside her compact mirror again.  "Nope, I'm still beautiful and pure, because my mirror never lies!  By the way I know you are not as pretty as I am, but would you like to see your reflection from my mirror darling, if you can change your hateful ways maybe you can be as beautiful as I am!"  sinister girl walked away and said, "Whatever loser!" while her friends tried to keep up with her as she swiftly walked away from Aphrodite

.     "You know your life is over now that you messed with Lucy, right?"  A very handsome young man cautiously approached Aphrodite while he said that to her, and Aphrodite was just overwhelmed with love when she saw him!  "Dylan!  Oh, so glad to see you!"  and she gave him a kiss!  Dylan was absolutely stunned by Aphrodite's affection!  He never had a girl take notice to him like that before, because he was shy, quiet and kept a low profile, but something about Aphrodite gave him the courage to speak to her that day!  He asked Aphrodite the only thing that came to his mind.  "Wow, do you know me?"  Aphrodite smiled at him and proudly said "Absolutely not!  But its ok Dylan, I know you now!"  Dylan was amazed, enchanted by Aphrodite and didn't know what to say other than "You're a very strange girl, I mean you're different than any girl I ever met!"  "Thanks Dylan!  You're a dream too and I'm so glad I finally have the chance to meet you!"   Dylan had to ask her the obvious question "But how did you know my name?"  Aphrodite responded the only way she knew how "Duh, because I'm a witch Dylan and I'm your Goddess of Love!  Don't worry I'll be gentle with you, I promised your Aunt, Miss counselor, I will take great care of you my love!  Even though she wants to burn me at the stake!"  she said while laughing.  Dylan became very uncomfortable and asked Aphrodite a small favor "Hey if you don't mind can you keep that a secret between us?  If the kids knew Miss Counselor is my Aunt, they'd hate me more than they already do” “Don't worry lover boy, your secret is safe with me, witches honor!"  she said while giving him another light kiss on his cheek.  "Oh, and one more thing, before I leave, can you tell your sister Lucy, I'm sorry if I offended her?" Dylan was absolutely stunned and said as Aphrodite walked away "How did you know Lucy was my sister?"  Aphrodite pointed her finger up in the Air as she jokingly said "Witch!  Remember the word Witch Dylan, and when you're with a witch, weird things happen, see you later cutie!"

     Don't you just love Dylan, Sunshine?  He really is a good kid, that's why I kissed him.  I mean really, when the girls see the lipstick on his face, He's going to be popular with the girls ha-ha!  It's the least I can do for him since he's shy!  By the way I forgot to tell you what B.T.S. stands for in our diary Book of Life you are reading, it means: Back to School, ha-ha, get it?  Hey, I'm a lover not a comedian what did you expect?  Anyway, we’re going to meet up with Astraea and Isis in the cafeteria to see how well we are doing on our first day and if we are any closer to finding the demon?

     "Hey Girlfriends!"  Aphrodite shouted at the top of her lungs when she saw her Besties in the cafeteria, and they responded by saying "Hi Beautiful!"  Yep, we're not shy about being different!  "Hmm, such a big cafeteria where should we eat at Isis?"  Isis smiled at her and looked around the room while they were walking "Well there's the jock table over there but sorry Aphrodite, none of them look like swimmers, Awe yes we could go to the popular girl cheerleaders table, but they're going to come to us later so we don't have to worry about them , we could go to the band players table but I don't think they have a Hurdy Gurdy instruments section like the ones we used to play for King Louis The XIV back in the 1700's

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Awe yes here we are, at the Dylan table, my favorite table of all!  Dylan?  May we have the pleasure of your company today?"  Isis said while she gave Dylan a big hug.  Poor Dylan just didn't know what to do with his new popularity, but it was nice to have people to like him for what he was: A real person and not fake!  "Hi girls, how did you know my name?" When he looked at Isis, Aphrodite blew him a kiss and pointed her finger up in the air while winking at him "Oh, uh?  Witch too?"  Isis said "Yes, your majesty!  We're witches and we are graced by your presence!"  Astraea went to Dylan and hugged him next.  Isis spoke up "I see that we have other royalty here too, Princess Gina, I'm so honored to meet you my lady!"  Gina looked up at the new kids from the book she was hiding in and meekly said "Oh, I'm not royalty, I'm just a girl."  Isis gently went to Gina and softly spoke to her: "Joan of Arc was just a girl, but she helped save France and is a heroine of her people of an entire nation that needed her!  Never sell yourself short Princess Gina, you are a hero to us and you're going to prove your bravery very soon for the first time my dear!  Aphrodite chipped in "And we are going to be honored to see your first victory over tyranny!"  All Gina could say was "ok"

     "Alright girls what did we find out?" Aphrodite said and Isis interrupted her before she continued on "Oh by the way, Dylan and Gina, we kind of adopted you, so you’re in our group now, I hope you don't mind but we couldn't help it!"  Dylan was starting to get comfortable around his new friends and simply said "Ok, cool!"  Gina was still a little nervous and only said those famous words "ok” Oh I just love them to death!  Anyway let's get back to the conversation at hand:  Astraea spoke next "Well I talked to all the trees in the area today and they said what demon are we looking for because there are so many around here lately"  Dylan was bewildered and confused so he only could say "Trees?"  Aphrodite gently reminded Dylan that "When you are around witches, weird things happen my love!"  and she winked at Gina which made her laugh.  Oh, this girl is starting to come out of her shell and blossom to the world and it was a beautiful sight to see but first, we had some serious issues we needed to discuss!  Isis responded to Astraea's tree concern "I was afraid of that, I walked all around the campus today, I guess I should have went to class oops, sorry about that, anyway I went to observe the kids souls today and most are pretty decent kids my dearie!"  She loves to imitate an elderly witches voice, “But there are a few bad apples around here, and when I mean bad, it's Snow white mean witch bad apple around here ha-ha!  By the way Astraea, some girls saw you talking to the trees and reported you to Miss counselor, you're going to have a nice talk with her this afternoon my little pretty!"  Isis teased Astraea in her old witch’s voice.  "Now that you mention it Isis, I got my first detention slip today yeah!  my crime?  Talking to a tree without a permit I guess ha-ha” and everyone laughed because we were becoming a family on this first faithful day of school and it felt so good to have Dylan and Gina with us!  But just then the moment of truth came, and it was worse than a demon! ;)

     Sinister girl Lucy snuck up on our table and smeared makeup and lipstick all over Aphrodite's face and she quickly covered her face and appeared to be crying when Lucy said, "who's pretty now?" with a smirk on her face.  but Aphrodite wasn't crying she was giggling and walked to the top of the table with the biggest smile on her face and said to everyone in the room, "I'm Beautiful!  Thanks Lucy for the makeover, anyone want to join me?"  That's when it happened, for the first time in her life Gina stood on the table with Aphrodite and smeared makeup all over her face when she laughed and said, "I'm Beautiful too!"  Oh Sunshine, it was such a wonderful sight to see Gina blossom to a wonderful woman that day and now that she arrived, there is no stopping her now!  That's the courage in Gina that Isis was talking about! ;)

     Astraea rose on the table next and smeared makeup all over her face too and proudly said "I'm beautiful everyone!" and finally Isis rose up in a majestic way and said those magic words to the room that would change the school forever!  "Look everyone!  We are all beautiful!"  and proudly smeared makeup all over her face!

     Soon everyone in the Cafeteria rose up and started smearing makeup all over their faces, even some boys and it was just a little too much for Lucy to take so she ran out the room as fast as she could.  Poor girl, I guess we should have told her, it's not nice to play with witches because we might just play back with you!  There was cheers all over the cafeteria room that quieted down when Isis raised her hands!  "My Ladies, My Gentleman, today is a wonderful moment to treasure!  For you saw that it was not the makeup that made us pretty, but what is deep inside every one of us!  and that is Love, Compassion and the inner beauty of a soul that is the real part of our being!  Makeup can make us look beautiful and it is magical, but never use it as a mask to cover up who you really are deep inside, and that is the special human being that you truly are!"  The kids were speechless and then there was loud yelling and applause for their new Queen!  That is until Miss Counselor came in and walked right up to Isis and said, "In my office, NOW!"  There was gasps from the students, but it was ok because our royal Queen Isis was not defeated and waved to the crowd as she departed to the office area with Miss Counselor while spontaneous cheering was heard long after she left!

     Wait a minute?  Did you think you’re just going to sit there reading our book without getting a little love and makeup on your face by your family?  Well think again Sunshine, cuz here's a little makeup for you to smear all over your face too Hun!  xoxo Aphrodite