Being decent
Melina sat on the bus on the way home as she had two nights of undisturbed sleep and she knew she had a few more hours to take advantage of before she had to go home to her reality. To her mother . To what ever new man her mother had in her absence as she needed to talk to her hunter about the magic she felt when she felt morgans blood near her.
Melina knew the magick she felt was powerful and yet destructive. She realized how weak humans were when she tried to pry inside of Morgan's head by force and it caused her great pain and made her hemorrhage for no reason and the more she resisted Melina the more pain it caused. If the teacher didn't interfere and move her so slightly to get to Morgan she didn't know how far she would have went to even kill her over one cross word spoken to her.
" Freak ! " She heard as it echoed in her mind as she could feel something primal wake up inside of her growling and ready to fight. Then her eyes seeped in flicks of green in her brown eyes as Melina's eyes shot open as she looked around as he skin crawled and he senses were high alert they were back at the school and Melina could feel them before she saw them. Hunters .
I felt the growl inside of me . As I felt a power inside of me as the my classmates started to file off the bus as I looked for my mother's car as of course she was not there so that meant I would be alone with the hunters I felt . I sat in the front seat as I saw one by one of my classmates get off the bus and I was the last off as I heard Ashley say" that is cool your eyes change colors it looks green." I didn't realize my eyes had changed as I saw all my classmates one by one leave as I saw the bus pull off and my mother wasn't still there.
I turned towards the side of the fence to the playground when I felt the presence watching me as I curled a fire in my hand ready to aim and fire. I stalked towards the area where I felt the presence prepared to fight as I picked up stones from the playground as I burned them as I placed them in front of me as a defence . Then I felt the rush come over me and I braced myself for the impact then I heard the horn blow as my concentration broke as my mother drove into view as I turned to face her and felt something shove me hard as I felt myself fall face first in the pavement.
Wonderful I just fell in front of my mother and she is looking at me like I'm an utter disappointment. Melina picked herself up and got in her mother's car after she was two hours late and I almost had to fight a hunter . I felt the danger pull out of me and the instinct to fight subsided as sorrow overcame me knowing I was going back to my own personal hell. The hunters were getting braver now they were waiting on me at the school .
I could have walked home through the woods that connected to the woods in my neighborhood as but I felt the hunters not in singular but plural . I felt them coming for me and I could try to fight them and hold them off but I was already drained from the two days from picking Morgan's brain for information.
I had half expected to pull up to my empty house as all I wanted to do was hide in my room as she pulled up in front of a house that was small . She parked the car as she got out of the car not saying a word as she went to the door and knocked as a man that was round and short with brown eyes and brown hair as he hugged her and I knew this was my mother's new boyfriend she had when she found ways to get rid of me through vacation bible school and the reenactment camp.
I rolled my eyes knowing the next part as I wondered how many children this man had and how long would I have to watch them as it was common to watch kids my mom's boyfriends had. You would think she would learn to date men with no kids and skip the part of getting rid of two sets of kids. I could tell he had kids as there was a outdoor basketball goal in the parking area.
My mother and the man spoke for a while as I stayed in the car waiting for her to be done with her boyfriend as I prepared myself to settle because I knew I would be there a while . Then I heard the door open as my mom grabbed me and a skinny pale skin and pale haired girl my age came out. She was spoiled I could tell by the way she held her hands on her him.
" Melina come on and meet Dana . This is darwin's daughter." I watched the girl as she waved at me like I was bothering her as this was the first time there was a daughter I had to watch or be introduced as I realized she was an only child. I hesitated.to come in and she said finally." Come on I have dolls you want to play?" She asked me like she didn't want to actually play with me and I caught that . I didn't want to play with her but I knew if I didn't I would be punished when I got home for ruining yet another relationship of my mother's .
Me and dawn went inside as I saw she lived with her grandma who the called memaw . This boyfriend of my mother's was still living with his mother and daughter. David was on disability as he collected a crazy check he collected from his many years prior. So not only did this man live at home with his mom he also didn't have a job.
Melina thought this is absolutely wonderful. Now we really won't have any food because she will be working more to play house with this man. My mother had a certain taste in men as I began to gather. She liked them short or mid height and with brown hair and big beer bellies as that was the type of men my mother would date.
Melina thought boys were easier to please and entertain as dawn was demanding and wanted to play what she wanted to play as Melina could tell she never had to share anything and it showed. So Dana practically dictated what activities were done and was rude and then when she was tired of playing she would just t say." Daddy I'm tired of playing can they go home now." As her father always gave his daughter what ever she wanted..
Dana ran that house and she was a child. Everything dawn wanted she got and this would continue for beyond into her adult age as her father gave her everything and never told her no to anything. I was glad to leave because this little girl was bossy and easily frustrated when she got bored.
I shook my head at my mother at this new boyfriend as I wondered where the hell that she found this one.
My mom was at home every day like she had a new purpose in life . I would go to school as the girls would move away from me as they didn't know what to make of me from that trip and how Morgan reacted to me. Morgan and Ashley fell off after that day and you would see Morgan sitting by herself as the two girls laughed and ignored her as she tried to say hello to them for many times now. Melina shook her head the desperation of Morgan needing to be accepted .
For good measure Melina wanted to test something so she walked over to Ashley as waved at her not saying a word as Ashley smiled in her rehearsed smile and waved at Melina ." Hi Mel how are you?" Said Ashley as Morgan witnessed this and began to fall apart. Tiffany cleared her throat and said dryly " hey Mel . " As the suddenly Nick name was the catalyst to a storm brewing in Morgan .
" Hey do you have a pen I can borrow i just ran out of ink in my last pen I brought with me?" Melina tested the situation as she just needed something from the two girls to be able to read them and see a few things. When Melina started reading people she would have to touch a person or an object owned by that person to tap ont their mind. With Morgan it was her hair from her hair brush. From Tiffany and Ashley both of them handed me a pen.
I would have to give back the object to break the connection and to sever our bond to it. In a witches world the word borrow is to maintain township on an object so you won't accidentally claim the object as your own in return losing the essence of the original owner. The hunter taught me that. If I didn't return the object in a time frame it became claimed as mine and the connection would seize to exist.
She watched Morgan as her colors around her shimmered in yellow then deep brown as she sat against her chair watching herself being ignored by the two girls that were her friends just a few days ago. Morgan sat up as she tired on e more" do you have one more pen for me. " She said desperately as she saw the two girls look at each other .
" Sorry we gave Mel the last spare ones we had. " Said Tiffany as she looked at Melina.
" She don't need both of them does she?" Said Morgan desperate for a remorseful statement.
" Ask Mel for one of the ones she has now if your so desperate for a pen that cost a dollar in the school store bin." Said Ashley as she was tired of Morgan.
" No I just realized I have one in my bag." Said Morgan as she looked at Melina refusing to ask her for anything if she didn't have to.
" Then why would you ask for a pen if you already had one?" Laughed Tiffany.
" In case I lost this one. Just forget it. I'm okay with this one." She said softly trying to bow out gracefully.
" Honestly mo ." Started Tiffany as she had a habit of shortening a name to sound like a Nick name as she never liked calling people by their full name. " If your going to ask for anything it should be for an A cup instead of a pen. " As the class burst out in laughter at Tiffany's utterly cruel cutting insult she made to Morgan in regards to her under developed body she had.
" Hahaha an A cup Hell any cup would be better than what you call a chest. Do you even have lumps or is that tissue to look like boobs ." Yelled a few boys as Morgan face grew red in anger from their teasing . Melina had the opportunity to join in and raise her popularity because let's face it everyone wanted to fit in in one point of their life somewhere. But at what point where would it all stop. Melina saw how these two girls tormented and tortured Morgan's very existence as the played with her acceptance like they played with food on a plate. How long would she last before her and Morgan were on the opposite level where she was in favor and Melina was out of favor and then vice versa . Girls pitted against other girls.
Melina was no Lolly she developed early as her boobs were already a small b cup but her sisters told her that boobs were a experimental hormonal reaction to a abnormal bodily function and if the government found out they would take her back to the hospital to test her like they did with her A D H D studies that she endured for years in the system being a medical experiment.
Melina had been using surand wrap to flatten her chest with scotch tape for six months now convinced her boobs were abnormal yet these girls teased Morgan for not having any boobs at all. It had dawned on her that her sisters lied to her about her body as she watched these girls make fun of Morgan for it .
" Here Morgan you right I don't need both pens ." As Melina offered Morgan a pen as she knew Morgan's reluctance to ask her for a pen was her pride to look weak in front of Ashley and Tiffany so she took that possibility out of the equation. She turned intentional cruelty into generosity and kindness. Morgan took the pen as she looked at the two girls for approval as I turned around and handed Ashley the pen back that I didn't give Morgan.
"Thanks Ashley but I remembered I do have a pen after all. But thank you for you wanting to help me with this as I placed the pen on her desk before she reached it. The class looked between Melina and Ashley as silence settled in the room. It was then I realized girls were meaner to other girls and it was wrong to hurt our own .
Me returning the pen an giving the other pen to Morgan was me taking back my power . Taking back their opinion of me. Taking back their acceptance. At this point I didn't care to be accepted . I cared to be fair.
Ashley nodded at me as I returned to my seat and Tiffany reached over the desk and snatched the pen from Morgan's hand as I wanted to intervene but I realized that was not my fight anymore. Morgan had to learn how to find her own power if she was going to claim it for herself.