After school, you ran straight to the psychic place, in school uniform and all. You reached the store and pushed the door open.

“Excuse me Mr George Hellius the third! The REAL psychic! Mr Hellius?”

The old man appeared behind you, “What is it?”

Gasping for breath, you turned around.

“Dear child, sit down.”

Mr Hellius sat you down at the reading table and you leaned on the table.

“Please sir… please help me… that spell…” you said in between breaths, “that spell… is it true?”

“You should probably take the bottle of water from your bag and drink it.”

You nodded your head and opened up your bag and drank all the water in the bottle, “Now what?”

“Now you are hydrated.”

“Hydrated?”

He nodded, “Yes that happens when you drink water.”

“Sir, I know that. But I’m here to ask for help, this guy added me of msn and tried to convince me that we were friends and then he showed me a photo of us together and I did tests on it and the photo is real but I don’t remember taking the photo but I do because there are these flashbacks and I don’t know what’s going on,” you said without stopping.

He raised his eyebrows, “Wow, you were out of breath before and now you have so much of it.”

You let out a sigh, “What is going on?”

Mr Hellius crossed his arms on the table, “The day that I met you, you had amazing detective skills. Why don’t you use them to figure out what is going on?”

“The spell is true? You really put a spell on me?”

The man shrugged, “You said as long as you didn’t change physically, I could.”

You were breathing heavily and your blinking rate increased, “This can’t be true.”

Mr Hellius put a book on the table.

“When did you stand up and get the book?”

He pretended not to hear you and opened the book to a page and flipped it around for you.

“This spell is called ‘Liar’s Charm’ in normal English terms.”

“Liar’s Charm?”

“Well you do have a lot of personality and your ability to remember things and read people are very close to being a psychic. You do have a lot of charm and charisma.”

You smiled, “I do?”

“Yes,” the man nodded, “Look. You don’t have to worry; this charm only works on the good. So lies relating to fame, fortune and death won’t work.”

“But how? I’m apparently a trainee at an entertainment company in South Korea.”

“South Korea… I predicted the split of the Korean peninsula. Ah yes, but you probably didn’t say it to get fame or fortune. You just wanted your friend to stop being selfish.”

“Wh-what?”

“As much as you think you’re seeking attention, you’re not. You’re just trying to stop your friend from being self absorbed.”

“Are you tapping into my thoughts right now?”

“No, I’m analysing them.”

“Mr Hellius.”

“Trust me, nothing truly bad will happen to you. Let me translate the Latin for you. It says ‘only works on the good hearted with bad habits but good intentions’ blah, blah, blah, ‘this spell helps put the individual on their right path in life as well as gets rids of their bad habit’. See? Nothing bad.”

You pointed to the book, “The blah, blah, blah part might have been.”

The old man sighed, “Jenny, you helped me teach my grandson a lesson and you helped out an old person out. Helping the elderly because you want to, always gives you good points.”

“I didn’t-”

“I know what you’re thinking. Literally, I know but don’t worry about it. I give this spell three years before it’s broken.”

“Three years?!”

“Hey, I only divined a three but it might be 3 months, 3 weeks.”

You smiled.

“Or 13 weeks, 13 months or 13 years.”

“13 years?”

“I’m going to find someone who loves me when I’m 29?”

Mr Hellius shrugged, “A lot of people marry at an older age nowadays.”

“But it could also mean 23 years! I’m going to be 39! My parents will be hounding me for grandkids…”

“No. No. Don’t worry about have kids right now. Just figure out how you’re going to say goodbye to your family before you go on a plane to Korea.”

“Plane to Korea? I’m really going through with this?”

“Well if you take out your phone now, you’ll see why.”

You obediently took out your phone and straight away you got a call from your mum.

“I’m impressed.”

Mr Hellius shrugged nonchalantly, “And you said I wasn’t psychic.”

---------------Phone call---------------

You: Hello.
Mum: I got a call from the entertainment company in Korea and they want you on a plane to Korea sometime in the next two months.
You: Wait-what? Mum, are you sure?
Mum: Jenny, we have always been sure. We have always supported you.
You: Didn’t you say that I had to stay in Australia to do the HSC?
Mum: No sweety, you wanted to.
You: What happened to you objecting the Zico poster and being all pro-studying and anti-kpop?
Mum: That was before my daughter got a request by a big company to go over there!
You: *laughs* You didn’t just sell me off did you?
Mum: Oh come on; don’t joke about this like this. I was going to talk to you when you got home but you didn’t come home today. Where are you?
You: I’m helping out the elderly.

In the background- Mr Hellius: Hey!

You: Mum, we’ll talk when we get home. I was in the middle of a conversation with Mr Hellius.
Mum: Alright sweety but don’t come home late.
You: Yes. Because we need to talk. Talk about the trip to Korea. The trip that pretty much shapes up… my future…
Mum: Don’t sound so scared. I’ll see you at home.
You: Okay mum. Bye.

-----------End of phone call-------------

You hung up and said in a loud whisper to Mr Hellius, “Why has my mum changed?”

“Well your lies are the truth now; everything has to correlate to what you say. You said you’ve been to Korea during your holidays so that meant that of course you would have had the support of your mother and… the rest is as you see it.”

“Wait, but I was at home enjoying my DVD box set of ‘Supernatural’,” your eyes widened, “No…”

Mr Hellius nodded his head, “Yes…”

~~~~~~~Later at home~~~~~~~

“NOOO!” you cried out in a dramatic manner, “My DVD box set is gone!”

You pouted, “Curse you Liar’s Charm!”