Who am I

Chapter four

We met practically everyday after school Shreya would come to the school, pick me up, take me to her house, we would talk, laugh, have fun, then she would take me home, I noticed unlike the first few times she didn't get upset when it was time for me to go home, I was grateful for that. Every night I read more of James's diary. There were more than one diary he had left a diary for every birthday although he wrote less and less through the years, then the last few months worth of pages of the last diary, I would've received for my sixteenth, were completely blank Shreya had said it was because he became ill he stopped writing.

Today was the day my life changed. Totally changed, it's now second of September, Shreya picked me up from school and drove me to her place she didn't talk at all I kept looking towards her she seemed nervous I had to ask what was wrong

"Shreya, what's wrong?"

"Hmm? Oh nothing" she answered looking towards me for a split second then looking at the road

"Really?" I asked not really believing her she sighed

"We need to talk Raven.......just not here let's get home first?" I nodded we need to talk the words played in my head over and over again, you ask anyone in the world everyone knows that this phrase breaks relationships, I took a long breath and held it for a while trying to usher the tears away that were threatening to fall I blinked a few times hoping Shreya wouldn't see the tears, even though at first I didn't want to meet her I had actually grown to like her it was going to be hard saying goodbye. I thought we got on well together I still couldn't believe we would never see each other again I didn't want to believe it, a part of me even thought maybe she didn't want to say goodbye maybe, just maybe it was something else but the more sensible part knew it was the end I shouldn't have gotten close.

Soon we were at the house we quickly went in "would you like something to eat?" She asked as we walked into the living room I sat down on the sofa as I shook my head no she nodded and sat down Indian style next to me she had her elbow on the back of the sofa and her head leaning on her palm she spoke the phrase again

"we must talk about something" I nodded not being able to hold the tears anymore "ohh no honey don't cry it's nothing bad" she spoke as she hugged me I nodded it felt nice to be held by her even if it was for the last time I thought "oh trust me this is not the last time we hug" I let go of her

"How on earth do you do that?" I shouted in a croaky voice as I let go of her

"Do what?" she asked resuming her previous position

"I have a feeling you know exactly what I mean" I voiced as I folded my arms after facing her she smiled

"Please elaborate" she said, I narrowed my eyes at her, she was enjoying this way too much

"You always sound my thoughts, how? Surely we can't be thinking the same thing all the time, that is ridiculous" I told her, her smile grew

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about" she told me I furrowed my eyes in confusion, as she took her elbow away from the sofa and folded her hands in her lap using hand gestures as she spoke "your birthday is coming and I must talk to you before you're sixteen" I nodded as if to tell her to carry on "you are not what you think you are" she looked at me expectantly then she sighed what did she mean I'm not what I think I am, does that mean I'm not her daughter? I thought She looked at me quickly "no, no, no you are my daughter, that's not what I meant, oh god how do I say this?" she said the last part in a low voice like she was asking herself she took a breath then began again "I am a witch" she stated I looked at her with a wide mouth and then started laughing I was in tears, when I finally stopped laughing I looked at her she wasn't laughing I sobered up immediately.

"You're not laughing" I told her she shook her head, I stood up "wait you're serious?" I gasped she nodded

"That's how I know what you're always thinking Raven, that's my power, to read minds, your father was a witch too he could manipulate water" she stated calmly

"Well if you're a witch prove it, what am I thinking?" I asked, crossing my arms across my chest, she shook her head with a smile

"You're thinking you don't believe me" she told me

"Well anyone could've guessed that" I told her combing my hand through my hair then I remembered something "wait a minute if you're a witch and James was a witch I should be a witch too ha! I'm not a witch I can't read minds or do anything else out of the ordinary which means you're lying" I stated smugly seeing right through her joke but she just shook her head and laughed

"You're not sixteen yet, your powers won't kick in until your birthday" she said standing up "look I'll show you, ok?" When I didn't respond she sighed "watch" she whispered before she disappeared before my very eyes I gasped and looked around she was standing behind me "ta-da" she twirled around I went and sat down.

It took a lot of convincing but I ended up believing her, I found that Mitch was a witch too, as well as his mum her power was to shoot very well no matter what her target, weapon, or distance she can shoot anything, that would explain the bow and arrows she hoped I would get the same power as her, I hoped not I hated weapons and violence Mitch had the power of premonition he could tell you what was going to happen in the future,I asked if he could tell me what my power would be but Shreya said he couldn't because it had nothing to do with him his premonitions could be seen only if it had something to do with him. Shreya also told me she would teach me the 'craft' but it wasn't going to be easy what she had learned in sixteen years I had to learn in two months. Hard? That's an understatement. Alas it had to be done otherwise the powers I would receive would be overwhelming and I could become crazy or worse I could die. It was a scary thought. she started to explain some basic rules but before she could I had to ask her something

"So do you have a spell book or something?"

"Spell book? No witches don't use spell books" she smiled I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion

"Then how do you remember spells? Coz let me tell you I don't have a good memory" I explained she laughed lightly

"We don't need spell books because we don't do spells" well that sucks what's the point of being a witch if you cant do spells I thought

"We can do spells but we just will it to happen and it does, it's easier I think saves looking for spells in emergencies" I nodded that's true

"So if I think I want a sandwich, it will just appear?" I asked

"No not entirely, you will have to pick a phrase you want and at the beginning of wanting something you will say the phrase then what you want for example my phrase is 'I am a witch' so before I want something that's what I'll say watch 'I am a witch I want a glass of water'" she held her hand out like she was holding a glass and a glass appeared

"Woah" that's all I could say whilst she smiled and put the glass down

"You need to learn how to control that because sometimes we think something ridiculous, we don't want stupid things happening, like for example you might be sitting in a classroom full of mortals and think 'it would be nice to go to the zoo' and before you can blink you're standing in front of a lion cage, we don't want that to happen that's why the phrase you choose is very important if you forget it you'll never be able to do spells again, on the evening before your birthday you will pick the phrase, you will write the phrase on some paper, I will light a candle and you will say the phrase out loud then burn it there'll be an ashtray nearby you can drop the paper into that, once the paper is burnt your phrase will be etched in your mind. its simple" she informed me that would be so cool Shreya laughed at my thought

"Please get out of my head" I told her in a bitter sweet voice, she put her hands up in a surrender motion i just smiled

she taught me mind control how to control your thoughts it was really hard it took me two weeks to learn how to control my own mind I started hoping my power doesn't happen to be mind control because growing up I used to think if I could have one power it would be to be able to control the minds of others now I prayed it wouldn't be.

Unfortunately controlling my own mind wasn't the only thing I had to learn, I had to learn how to fight, not just with weapons but hand to hand combat. Good news though I finally met my aunt Bella but bad news she was the one that had to teach me how to use weapons so naturally I tried to get out of it as much as I could.

"So aunt Bella, where do you live?" I asked, whilst I held my bow and arrow ready to shoot.

"I live a few miles away" she answered "in London" she added I put my hands down to my side, still holding the bow and arrow, I turned to face her

"I've always wanted to travel to London" I shrugged "never got round to it though"

"Come on back in position" she told me as if she had used the line many times, damn I thought, here I was thinking I would be able to get out of it oh well, I got back in position this time I shot the arrow trying to hit a tree about 20 meters away, I missed the tree completely but I wasn't to off aunt Bella sighed not liking my shot

"You need to try harder Raven, maybe if you stopped trying to get out of it you would actually be able to hit something" I looked at her in a way that said how could you accuse me of such a thing, she tilted her head to the side.

"I spoke to Shreya" she told me with a side smile I smiled too

"I don't like weapons" I told her she nodded in understanding she handed me another arrow

"You have to learn this to defend yourself against the enemy"

"What enemy?"

"Shreya didn't tell you?" She asked, I shook my head she sighed "the enemy are rogue witches and witch hunters they think all witches are evil and decide to kill them we have to get them before they get us"

"Are witch hunters human, I mean mortals?" I asked I knew from movies I watched and research that witch hunters were always human

"Human? No! They're not human they're the Gild"

"Gild?, what's that?" I'd never heard of Gild before

"They're these......beings that were chosen to take down evil rogue witches centuries ago, but over the centuries they became corrupt and started killing all witches as well as other beings" I looked at her again carefully

"There are more beings? What beings tell me!"

"I can't I've told you too much already, but know this Raven you must learn to defend yourself so that you may live a long life you died once before, I saw what it did to Shreya if it happens again I know she would break, before she had James and now......." She let the sentence hang but it didn't take a genius to know the end of that sentence.

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