After breaking Veera's curse Kelly became very popular. But it really exploded after the town meeting Franklin had held the day after Veera's party.

All of a sudden everyone wanted her working for them, or coming to visit them. People were stopping her on the street and telling her what they thought their cursed item was, and where they thought it was.

Kelly had gotten into the habit of carrying around her pad of paper and her pen to write down all their suggestions.

She would then go and inspect whatever it was they were telling her about and not a single one of them had been right yet.

In fact, she hadn't seen any coordinating colored sparkles in a while and that was making her nervous. Every day someone would come and ask her about her progress and she had nothing. Absolutely nothing.

To appease the townsfolk, Franklin had done up Kelly's schedule so that she rotated where she was during the week. She wasn't working for free, of course, he made sure she got something out of it, usually a good or some sort of service. But she was also there to see if she could find anything that might be a cursed item.

No luck yet.

They were moving into the third week after she cured Veera's curse and she could tell that everyone was a little annoyed that she hadn't broken another curse. They were starting to whisper that maybe it had been a fluke, her finding Veera's cursed item. Franklin and Elsa told her to ignore it but it was hurtful.

It wasn't like the town was littered with magical items!

Okay it was, but it wasn't the kind of items that she was looking for.

That day she was working at the Headless Horseman's Bookshop, which was a bookshop.

It was a quaint little store in a crooked little white house. There were three floors. Two for books, and one for the living quarters.

The family that lived there consisted of a mom, a dad and a little girl. The Callums.

Mark Callum should have been about 6'2, and he would have been if his head wasn't missing. Hence the Headless Horseman reference. He had the same body from before, she had compared it to the statue, the only difference was the missing head. The statue showed him to be handsome with a chiselled jawline, and a serious frown on his face.

Which made sense because the statue was of that of a decorated solider. A single medal was missing. It was one of the smallest items she was looking for.

He spoke through a bell. You had to ask him yes or no questions. He was completely blind, but he could hear apparently, which was how he knew to ring the bell. Once for yes, twice for no.

He had wanted to run the bookshop because he loved to tell stories, now he could only sell them.

His wife, Stefanie, had a completely different curse. Though she had retained most of her humanness, like Veera she had a touch of animal in her. She had the black cat ears perched up top her head hidden by her multitude of frizzy brown curls. She had three whiskers, each about three inches long. Three on each cheek like freckles. She could twitch them one at a time too. Her eyes were those yellow slitted cat eyes and yes they glowed in the dark. She had built in night vision and loved it.

She had a tail that twitched and curled and fluffed up when angry, and she had a set of wicked retractable claws on each hand.

She loved her husband more than anything and she had been cursed along with him. Kelly still didn't know why.

She did know that Stephanie's statue was connected to Mark's. They stood side by side, but her statue held a hand out where it was clear that a ring was missing. Making that the smallest item she was looking for.

Their daughter, Mira, was one of Sammy's friends. She was a feisty little girl, a year older than Sammy who was basically a carbon copy of her mom.

From what Kelly understood, once Lydia had cursed Stephanie and Mark she had cursed Mira too, so that she wouldn't be left behind. Which, she had to guess was kind of nice of her. Mira, too, was a little cat girl with the ears and the whiskers and the tails. No claws, but she did have the fangs. Her cat eyes were green though.

Her statue was connected to her parents as well. She stood in between them in a soccer uniform. Her foot was up in that sort of pose that soccer players made when they had a ball underfoot.

So Kelly was looking for a Medal, a diamond ring and a ball. All for one family.

They all had varying degrees of purple sparkles around them. Mark being the darkest and Mira being the lightest. So she was always on the lookout for anything purple, but she had yet to find anything that color.

Kelly's job in the Bookshop was to sort books, re-shelve them and help customers.

In return for working there she was getting paid in books. Specifically the books that Sammy would need for school or just because he wanted to read them. Though Sammy's version of reading was picking books for Kelly to read to him.

Though Kelly didn't need to be followed around anymore, Franklin usually picked her up after her morning shift at whatever shop she was at that day. This was because she was still his office lady in the afternoons, though all she really did was dust and keep him company while he poured over paperwork.

He would come and pick her up and he said this was because he wanted to give her, her duties for that day while they were walking so there was no down time when she got to the mansion. He would also accompany her to pick up Sammy from the day care and then they'd have dinner together, all three of them in his office, before she'd get to go back to Granny's Bed and Breakfast.

Kelly hadn't said anything to him, because he was clearly embarrassed, but he must have liked their company to keep doing that.

And to be honest, now that they were on the same page, she was liking his company too. She finally getting to experience the nice Franklin that everyone told her about when she first got to town.

That specific day, Stephanie had Kelly doing inventory. Kelly diligently went through the shelves to mark down how many of what book they had left. Since their town was small, the Callums like to have ten of each book, and somehow they had all the most popular and classic books.

Kelly was actually very interested in how they got the books in the first place.

When she was done, she handed the list to Stephanie who sighed.

"We're going to have to do a book run," she said.

Kelly's interest was piqued immediately. What exactly did that entail?

"How do you do that?" she asked. "Do a book run, I mean. Cause no one can leave the town."

"Well... we get the newer books from the delivery truck..." "—We get deliveries?!"

At that Stephanie paused. "What exactly has Franklin told you?"

Kelly blinked her eyes. "Honestly not much..."

"What is he doing with you in that mansion, if he's not educating you about our town?"

"Uhm... I clean mostly... and... we have dinner a lot... and... he helps Sammy with his homework and.... What? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Stephanie had been staring at her first with shock, but then that faded away and was replaced with a large excited smile, but Kelly had no idea why she would be doing that.

"Nothing, nothing, that's just... interesting, that's all." Stephanie then cleared her throat. "We do get deliveries, it's a once a month thing. It's Lydia's way of keeping up all content and alive, I guess. We put together an itemized list and Franklin gives it to her and week or two later a truck comes with all that we need."

"I guess that's nice of her, considering she's why you guys can't leave this place to do your own shopping."

"However, a book run, refers to getting books out of the library."

"WE HAVE A LIBRARY?!" Kelly didn't mean to shout that, but she had and it startled Stephanie. "I'm sorry... sorry... I'm just... I love libraries! Why didn't anyone tell me that we had a library?"

"Probably because no one's allowed in it."

Now that made Kelly frown. "But... but you just said you're doing a book run... in the library..."

"Yes, except the place is a death trap. Literally. The floorboards are rotted, you could go through at any point in time. There are literal booby-traps and... you know creatures to avoid..."

"But you're going to go in... by yourself... for books?"

"Sure, I do it whenever we need the classics, the library seems to restock its shelves on its own, so we never run out."

"Aw, it's a magic library?" Kelly groaned. "That's the best kind of library."

Stephanie chuckled a little bit. "You could come with me if you'd like, I'd love some help with it."

Kelly perked up immediately. "Yes, yes I would like to go to the magic library!"

"It is dangerous..." "—I don't care!" "... okay, but Franklin might." "—He doesn't matter." "... He's our mayor... yes he does matter."

"Why don't I matter?" Franklin asked from the door. Kelly had been so excited that she hadn't heard him come in. But now that she knew he was there, she had turned around excitedly jumped towards him in happy little hops that seemed to surprise him.

When she got to him she grabbed onto his arm and bounced a little bit, which had him staring down at her an almost amused sort of smile on his face.

"I'm going to help Stephanie with the library tomorrow! Can we fix my schedule to accommodate that? I'm sure Elsa wouldn't mind, I've kinda ruined two of her displays and she doesn't want me advising people on fashion matters anymore."

Franklin's amused smile faded right off his face and settled into a frown, and not because she was causing Elsa issues. He knew all about those issues because Elsa kept complaining to him about them. At this point the only thing that Elsa trust her with was getting inventory out of the back and ringing people up at the cash register.

"The library?" Franklin echoed and then turned to Stephanie. "You want to take her to the library?"

"I've told her how dangerous it is."

Franklin's eyes narrowed at her. "Oh, have you."

He didn't phrase that as a question, but more a statement. He clearly wasn't impressed.

"It'll be fine," Kelly told him. "I know all about the rotten floorboards and I'll be careful. I promise."

He glanced up to Stephanie who was wincing. "Please Franklin, we need more books and that's the only place to get them."

"And I want to help!" Kelly cried. "I haven't found a single item in three weeks. I haven't seen anything remotely close to any of the sparkle colors I'm looking for and... and... well I haven't been to the library yet! What if one of them's in there?"

Franklin stared at her. "I'm not really comfortable..."

"It's a magic library Franklin!"

"My library is magic," he reminded her and she waved a hand at him.

"Your ceiling is magic, this library re-stocks its shelves. This is like my dream situation and I'm going no matter what you say, so get on board or we're going to re-hash the Harpy situation."

Franklin took that in, took a deep breath, bit back a groan while he rolled his eyes heavenward. He was clearly annoyed with her and that was fair. She was being annoying. Still she stood there waiting for him to catch up to where she was.

"Fine. Fine. Fine. You want to die for a magic library, fine, I'll let you go," he said and then turned to Stephanie. "But you're in charge of her, so if something happens to her and we don't get to break our curses cause she's dead, it's on you."

"Rude, but I'm okay with that," Kelly said earning yet another eye roll from Franklin.

"I'll take good care of her, I promise," Stephanie said. "So... are you here to take her to lunch?"

"Oh are you? Cause I'm starving!" Kelly said perking up once more only to deflate. "Oh wait, am I allowed to go?"

"Course you are," Stephanie said. "You finished the inventory, it was all I needed you for today."

"Great!" she cried bouncing towards Franklin. "What do you wanna do for lunch today?"

Franklin didn't even say good-bye to Stephanie, with his attention fully on Kelly now that she had linked arms with him, he seemingly forgot that she was there.

"Veera said she was making a sandwich in our honor. I think she's either calling in the Frankly or the Kelin? I mean neither name is good, but she wants us to try it today, see if we like it."

"And the back up?"

"She's got pasta on the boil for us in case we don't like it."

"Wonderful," Kelly said as he opened the door to usher out into the street. "Quick question, when were you going to tell me we get deliveries?"

As the door shut Stephanie heard Franklin groan. Hopefully he'd forgive her for all the trouble she was causing with Kelly today.