The past weeks have been eventful, Nicole and I became friends, meaning she is also friends with Linda and Janet and yes I call her Nicole same with Linda and Janet.
Our friendship started after she defended me, we would occasionally smile at each other, sometimes greet each other.
I noticed there was a strain between hers and Freya's friendship, you hardly find them around each other, I felt bad that it was my fault I decided to fix it. I went to her in school, held her hand to indicate I wanted a private conversation. I can still remember the conservation.
"What is it this time?"
What do you mean by this time?
"I have saved you twice now and now you are here, I pray not for my help."
Thanks for saving me, but I am not here for help, I am here because of you and Freya's relationship.
"What about our relationship?"
I noticed it not like before, you are not always around each other like before, since that day in the cafeteria I feel bad, I wish you could reconcile with her.
"That's not going to happen, I am happy like this, I never liked her following me around she annoys the hell out of me, besides she stopped talking to me not the other way round, it is not like she is alone, she is always with"
She pauses looking at me.
Lucien, I completed for her.
"I am sorry."
Don't be, I completely understand why Lucien is with her, we won't work, and I love him for thinking about me. As long as he can be happy with her then I am in support.
"I know how it feels not to be with the person you love because of some certain circumstances and it hurt, so I know no matter how you claim to understand it still hurt."
Who is the guy?
"What?"
Who is the guy you can't be with because of certain circumstances?
"Well, wolf that's none of your business." She said playfully.
It is Daniel right. She looked at me pained confirming what I guessed already since the party at their castle.
"Am I that obvious?"
Why can't you be with him? He is a vampire."
"Because I can't choose my husband, that is the cross for being royalty."
Who are you betrothed to?
"No one."
That's strange.
"I was betrothed to someone until recently, I didn't want him so Lucien took care of it."
Took care of it how.
She looked me straight in the eyes to see my reaction.
"He killed him."
At first, I felt shocked how would Lucien kill an innocent man to avoid his sister from marrying him.
"He is not innocent, he hunts female humans, rape them and then drink them dry of their blood, when Lucien found out he wasn't going to let me marry such a person and the only way to end the betrothal is by one of us dying, so he killed him."
Then you are free to choose.
"No I am not, I will be betrothed to another person soon."
Will Lucien keep looking for a reason to justify killing them?
"Yes, as long as I am against married with the person, he will keep killing them. That's why I will do anything for him because he does anything immoral or moral to make me happy."
Then why can't he get both you and Daniel married?
"He doesn't know about us, and I want it that way, I don't want him to do something he will regret for my happiness."
That is how our friendship grew, we now eat together at lunch with Linda and Janet, gist together, she comes for our movie night, outing but she never sleeps over.
Linda! oh sweet Linda she moved into my house the day she found out from her mother she wasn't theirs, legally she wasn't even adopted. She said she lost her baby when she found her she decided to keep it as her own. She confessed to knowing her real parents but not personally, but she refused to tell Linda who they are.
Linda threatened to leave if she doesn't tell and, she still didn't say anything, so Linda left and moving into my house, as she couldn't go to Janet's because of her seer mother who spew prophecies from her mouth without any regards to who to.
Mrs. Jackson gave her permission of course.
There are no hard feelings between me and Lucien, he smiles at me often and I always return it, Freya has been quiet about it, even if she is present when it happens.
Nicole's warning paid off after all.
Tomorrow, I will be 18, my birthday also marks 18 years that both my mother and Lucien and Nicole's mother died.
There is a private ceremony for their mother, I wish I could also perform a ceremony like theirs for mine, but I can't, only have a small ceremony among Mrs. Jackson, Janet, and Linda can I do.
Nicole invited us ( I, Linda, and Janet) to their ceremony, I didn't want to accept but was forced into it, so we would attend theirs come home to have mine that's the plan.
I felt bad that I couldn't tell Nicole that my mother's death anniversary is tomorrow for fear she would piece the puzzle together and discover who she is, I don't want her knowing about my mom until I can find out who killed hers.
My birthday feels more like a death day, I previously celebrated my birthday, but I don't think I will until justice is served for both my mother and Nicole's.
I haven't had a dream like the last time, even though I have been waiting to have one, maybe the mystery around their deaths will make sense.
I told Janet the dream and she was excited she explains there are different kinds of witches.
Nature witches who are the least powerful, they can manipulate nature, that grows plant faster, makes the best herbs for anything, they protect the animals of the forest and can at the same time communicate with them and the trees which she explains that are also living creatures.
Weather witches.
They control the weather on a small scale. She said they are not as cool as their name sounds.
They offer rituals to the gods who control the weather, either to make rain in the time of drought, calming the storm, stopping the rain preventing all weather disasters from happening.
She said there are some powerful once but it is rare who can start rains, hurricanes, storms, snow.
And there is a myth of some who mainly control the lightning and thunder.
Elemental witches. They control the four main elements of nature, which are fire, water, air, and earth.
They are closely related to the weather witches and were extinct because of the war between vampires and werewolves because they were seen as the best weapon in a fight, after that the witches distance themselves from the fight.
Healers who are sisters witches to nature witches. They are divided into two, witches who heal plants, animals and witches who heal humans.
The witches who humans are into different forms, the physical form, the psychology form, and the emotional.
The physical form involves healing a physical wound, easing the pain.
The psychology form involves healing humans from psychological trauma.
The emotional form involves healing some who are emotionally disturbed.
Some healers heal sickness.
Psychic witches are the category that seers fall under. They are witches that see the future, some through dreams, through performing rites while some like Janet's mother, through touch.
The one who sees the future through touch is said to be the most powerful, touch in the sense doesn't mean physical touch but also essence.
Some say they also read thoughts, but their power comes at a price of madness.
Janet's family is a long line of touch seer most of them ran mad eventually, some committed suicide and the ones who do not, don't live long.
Janet said it is the reason she doesn't hate her mother even though she tried to kill her several times.
And lastly, there are ancestral witches, my family bloodline. They can commune with the dead and are the witches' link to the ancestors. That is the reason they are also high priestess of covens.
The ancestral witches are assigned guardian witches to balance out their power because ancestral witches always have other powers, either the powers of nature, elemental, psychic, healer, or weather witches.
Guardian witches don't come from any particular bloodline but they are mostly nature witches or healers. Mrs. Jackson is a nature witch.
Janet also explained that only the females are witches, there are no male witches, but they do give birth to boys without powers but it is rare to have them.
Janet was excited that I am showing signs that the ancestral witch's blood in me is active. We just have to practice to unlock the power completely in me, then I can directly talk to my mom or Margareta to find out what truly happened 18 years ago.
Janet must be right about my powers because grandma told me when she appeared in my dreams that she never left me, that she was always there but I couldn't see her that I had to find the key to.
And the key I shall find I vow, for me and the Thorne's twins.