Free Miss Enchanter - Ophelia's Story by Carol Colbert Page A

began to
find their way back here to Enchanted.
    Ophelia’s thoughts were interrupted when she
heard the front door open. Sebastian walked in, his arms full of
wood.
    “Hi Ophelia, have a supply of wood for the
fireplace. It would not do to run out in this weather.” Sebastian
said.
    “Oh, hi, thanks. Can I get you a cup of
coffee or hot chocolate or anything?” Ophelia offered.
    “Thanks, but Tom and I cut the wood and so we
also took some to my sister’s house, his wife, Isabel. Isabel makes
the chocolates for Thelma’s Chocolate Shop, so I got my fill of
both hot chocolate and her freshly baked blueberry muffins.”
    “Thelma still at her Chocolate Shop now?”
Ophelia asked Sebastian.
    “Yeah, but the kids are pretty much tired
already from sledding, snowball fights and making snowmen, so
Catherine should be heading back soon to relieve Thelma there.
Don’t know what Thelma’s plans for after that though, I mean if she
will come back home right away or not.” Sebastian said.
    “Well, as you can see, there is nothing much
going on here. I’m a bit embarrassed to still be in my pajamas. You
must think I am a real slug or something.” Ophelia said.
    “Not a bit, it’s a good day for it. Well,
I’ll be going, unless there is anything I can do for you here.”
    “No, thanks for bringing the wood. Tell
Catherine I said hello and maybe one day soon I will get to meet
Cody.” Ophelia told him.
    “He is right there with the other kids having
a ball, a snowball.” He added, laughing.
    I could tell you a few things about
Snowball. Ophelia thought to herself, thinking of Adela again.
“Take care in all that snow, Sebastian, bye.”

Chapter 10

    When Ophelia woke up the next morning, she
noticed that the weather was much calmer outside now than when she
had gone to bed. She had made herself a sandwich for dinner after
waiting for Thelma to come back. When Thelma wasn’t back after
Ophelia had taken a good long hot bubble bath, Ophelia gave up
waiting and had gone to bed.
    “Coffee, dear?” Thelma offered when Ophelia
walked into the kitchen.
    “Yes please. I tried to wait up for you last
night, but I guess the hot suds from the tub relaxed me so much I
just wanted to sleep.”
    “Good thing you didn’t. I didn’t get back
here until this morning. I stayed in town all day and then Luna and
I went back to her house and I spent the night there.”
    “Oh. Luna was in town too? I guess I was the
only one who was too chicken to brave that snow yesterday.”
    “It was a fun day. Actually, Luna, Hugo and I
are not usually here in the winter. As you know, or did I tell you
– we were actually leaving here when I somehow found myself on that
expressway and started our adventure.” Thelma said.
    “I think you did, I believe you said that it
was Luna’s rather, hum, healthy, backside, that bumped you off of
your ride and then you wandered onto the I-75 Expressway.” Ophelia
said, trying to be diplomatic.
    “You can say it, Luna’s big ole bubble butt!”
Thelma laughed.
    “Sounds so mean though. I would never say
anything like that in front of her. I would not hurt her feelings
for the world.”
    “Luna know she has a big butt. It was
actually your mother who gave her that big backside, did you know
that?” Thelma asked.
    “How would that even be possible?”
    “Your mother and ours were sisters, as you
know. You never had a sister, but believe me, there can be
competition and jealously and petty fights between sisters all the
time.”
    “No sister, but we had that Donald kid living
in our house and although we were not related, he was raised as if
we were. So, I know what you mean, but what happened with your
mother and mine to produce such an attribute?”
    “Your mother put a curse on her. She said
that our mother Ophelia’s first born daughter would have a butt as
big as the watermelon that they were fighting over. I lucked out
that Luna was born before me, or I would have gotten stuck with