First coven
slowly began to gather allies in the younger generation as my hunter used a witch he called the white witch whom was a child that was no more older than me as she had the highest color count I had come across as five colors as she had an infinity for the elements . She was a young girl of blonde hair .she often wore a robe of white or silver as she she moved without noise . She became my biggest ally in gathering support for my cause . I was hurrying to gather support because my mother's visits were becoming more frequent as I would go from three visits a year to once a month and now every two weeks on rotation. This meant the courts were making progress in the case of her mindful neglect against us. She had to clear up the animal problems as the animals were removed . My mom's main jobs were the restaurant that I was practicing grew up knowing the owners like my own family. Even on occasion we had Mexican nanny's until my father got mad and tried to remove us from their care because he didn't want us talking too much about our home life as he often did this when he found out where we were being watched .When he showed up to remove us from their home when my mom told them not to give us to him it was a scary moment for us. The thing about people who is in the wrong and doing wrong their only remorse is if they will get caught and having to expose their dirty little deeds so the entire world can see their sickness. Because what he did to us was a sickness as it wasn't something you could cure with therapy and medication. It was something deep inside of him that had a sickness within him that made his mind make choices that he knew was not right but it was almost similar to being a thief . If you don't get caught you keep doing it to push the limits how far you will go before someone stops you. In his case he was stealing childhood innocence. This was the tormented thoughts that plagued my mind often when I was sent to mandated therapy as cooking cutter quacks that never had a single problem in their life tried to analyze me like I was a project to be solved and studied. This was my life and they wanted me to explain to them how I felt and try to understand what it did to me . I honestly couldn't trust anyone who never been in my shoes because other than what they jot down in their little journals they really couldn't understand my level of depravity. I couldn't open up to people correction to strangers that only knew my pain from some textbook definition of mental illnesses or trauma. I am not a clinical study you find in a text book or any medical journals. I am a human girl that is traumatized by people who was supposed to love and protect her and he distrust of adults was Merritted since it was adults that taught me the worst lessons in life. The only person I trusted was my hunter and that was barely out of some sense of duty and devotion because he could have killed me completed his mark and moved on like all his other marks but he took me under his wing. He trained me to defeat his kind. He taught me about my kind. He showed me a father's love and patience something I sorely needed as getting close to adults wasn't my strongest suit. This logic would impact me all the way into my adult life as my therapy sessions also increased the closer I got to my release date . To be honest if they really wanted to know how I felt about the entire situation I have been experienced since age five I was mad as hell. I was angry all the time. I was scared all the time and through my fear I obtained strength not to run and just stand and face my fears. Running from my fears landed me here talking to strange adults that I'm forced to sit in a room with and talk about my feelings. Sure maybe talking to someone could help in the long run but who is it helping? Is it helping someone who is paid to listen to me instead of putting me in a time crunch to discuss everything that is wrong with me. If you think about it why does something have to be wrong with me . I didn't hurt myself and put myself here . Someone else did this to me. So I never could understand why I needed to explain to someone twice a week for an hour session what past trauma defined my present situation.This was why I didn't entertain therapists because I saw what talking to therapist did. It was used against you to keep you from going home like the house mom did with Brittany or dope me up on experimental medications like I was a lab rat using human test subjects. That was my options if I talked to them. Imprisonment or medicated .I choose option number three . Silence . I came home one day after my therapy session as I made my way back to the woods as I was preparing to gather my forces in order to explain my plight. If I was truly their queen they then they would understand my reason to protect my hunter . To unite the witches under one banner. I wanted to be recognized as their queen but I would be rudely disappointed. I had hoped to be recognized as I came home from therapy to see my mom as I assumed I was due for another visit but this time was different. She was packing black trash bags of my personal items as I saw Paula hurrying to get in the car as I wanted to know what was going on . I had planned for my plans for the summer was to reunite with my people and organize my efforts .But this was different. This time things were being loaded loaded in a car . I looked at the car as it clicked in my head we were going back home . My mother wasn't here for a visit she was taking me back home. After four years of living here and feeling a false sense of security as I saw many things that was wrong here. But going home during the time of my greatest accomplishment for my people I was forced to go home.I didn't want to go home. Not with my mother. I had already been there and don't that. I had already witnessed her methods of motherhood or the lack there of. If you think of it she had only been my mother for nine years of my life and I am now fourteen years old . My mother had a pass to parenthood for almost decade . I didn't want to know what new twisted horror was awaiting me as I hesitated to get in the car as I took off running towards the horse stalls because the worse who no one could break was my only comfort.as I knew what it felt like to be wild and untameable. I felt kindred to this horse because we both were not willing to be broken to see the world the way others would see it. Our will was our only comfort. Our spirit was all we had left . I hid in her stall as I knew no one would get near me when they came looking for me. I hugged the horse that made me feel special as she was my companion as I preferred beast to humans . I was refusing to go home because I didn't want be be placed back in the same school that saw me getting taken away twice now. I didn't want to explain why I was once again missing for four years and have people who knew me before talk and and judge me for something I had no control over. It would be easier to wash things under the table when I was in elementary school as the kids there are more forgiving then teenagers . I would be returning to middle school as this would be the most judgemental time of my life.This would be harder to adjust knowing I was moving back to a city where everyone knew my business and they either pitied me or feared me. My personal life would be on full display for these emotional terrorist we call teenagers .
Melina knew staying in the stall wouldn't last forever as when the courts said it was time to go home it was time to go home . Melina never knew the torment that was waiting for her as she knew how her mother was and she knew she wasn't the biggest fan of hers. During this time her biological father had gotten out of prison as he only served seven of the fourteen years that was meant to be served. Supposedly he was released on good behavior. Apparently he was a great prisoner and ideal convictee.
He also he became a certified preacher as Melina thought in the back of her mind was does being a pastor and playing the Jesus front make your sin any less severe. Turns out her father told everyone he was there for murder or manslaughter as if that was true he wouldn't be sentenced there for fourteen years. All through out the years Melina would receive hand drawn birthday cards with some dipiction of a Disney princess or the virgin Mary as if to assume she was either a princess or a nun which didn't make the fact he wasn't supposed to contact her any better.
Melina eventually had to come back to the house knowing that she couldn't refuse to go home because it was partially her fault for not talking during her therapy sessions of her opinions of her mother's ability to be an effective mother. Melina finally got in the car as the ride home was silent as she knew her life would never be same .
Melina came home but not only did she come home she was forced to room with her spoiled half sister as her mother had moved in her boyfriend and his daughter. Melina knew it was because the two of them were a year apart as dana was thirteen and Melina was fourteen at the time. Paula was sixteen and she was given her own room.
Mia was a mother and married as she was seventeen when she gave birth to my nephew. Mia got pregnant and married as the system because it made you an acting adult in their eyes and emancipated from the state as a minor. Which was hilarious as she was emancipated from her mother at age fifteen in order to leave the house .
During that time she ran the street with gangs and made her way . When Melina and Paula came home mia was married with a baby living downstairs in the basement floor. Mia came home an auntie as her husband was the nephew of her mother's new boyfriend . Which made him Mia's stepdad and uncle in law and made their son his grandson and great nephew which made his daughter his auntie and cousin as the cross between the tying of the families too close in blood now.
Mia was a young mother and she didn't like changing baby diapers as she would gag holding the child as he pooped as he stank from the formula . Mia had lived with her husband's grandmother who had a bunch of kids in the home and a habit of taking away kids from their parents from her own family . The family was a chaotic mess and this was the family she was forced to be apart of when she came home .
Melina knew she would have to go into seventh grade knowing she probably would be made fun of since everyone knew what happened to the McNally sisters and Paula was in highschool so they were all seperated in schools now.
Melina went to a school with a bunch of girls with different morales as she wasn't not pretty but she wanted popular either . She started school as she tried to say back in the crowd under the disguise of the moving student body crowd.
That was where she heard it before she saw it as a tall heavy set boy who obviously hit a growth spurt recognized her as he made his way from the crowd as he stood in front of Melina as she was half confused and half scared to see a boy looking down at her for some reason.
" Hi friend ." He said as Melina tried to place this boy because she rarely remembered anyone from her life prior to being taken away as she remembered there was one boy in fifth grade that used to sleep and fart as the class made fun of him and she would defend him from all the cruel jokes they made because of his gastro tendencies.
" Ummm. Hi." Replied Melina as she thought through her memories of who this tall imposing figure was who was now cutting through the crowd as he had done took the class schedule from her hand and walking her to math class.
" You may not remember me . But I remember you. I'm joey . " He said as then it clicked in her head as she did remember him he was the gas boy in fifth grade as she was impressed he remembered her as they never really spoke to each other in fifth grade.
He moved her on the inside of him as he kept her close to the wall away from the hustle and bustle of the middle school crowd . He made his time to escort Melina to all her classes like a body guard . It went on like this for a while as she made friends with two other girls named Taylor and Erin . For a while it was like this as she met Ashley and Kimberly in drama class. Then she met Heather who looked like that actress off of American beauty the weird one with obsession with her best friends dad.
Heather had a boyfriend from another school and really didn't talk to the group a lot before removing herself. During this time she realized she had found her first coven. There were two boys that lingered in this group.
Jason was a guy who made his way with his inspirational poetry book that was in a three ring binder that he guarded with his life. He wore his hair iced and baggie jeans and a white tank top looking like a miniature teenage version of the real slim shady . He was small in frame and he aways act like he was more put together then others . When I met Jason it was in literature class as he was seated beside me and I smirked knowing how the influence of music rubbed off on him .
Then in math class I met someone who was not suspected at my sister's friend Terri who was in my sister's grade and sixteen years old was in my class. Somewhere she had dropped out of school in seventh grade when she started hanging out with Paula and now she was forced to go back to school or be sentenced to the vocational trade school for the kids that had no future for graduating and wanted to teach them a work trade to join the work force if they weren't going to graduate.
Melina sat in the class next to a girl she knew and she knew her as it was awkward to be sitting in a class with someone two years older than her and a friend of her sisters. They guys liked her as she was well developed and she knew it. Terri lasted in the class a few months before she was sent to the school along with Paula as both wanted to hang out with boys instead of go to school .
Which placed Melina in school alone now. This was the time a kid named messer met Melina. Messer was one of those boys that knew his way around a Trailer park and the girls whom roamed it. He had a girlfriend before that was always faster than most girls and he liked Melina as she was cool with him . He approached her as he liked her and for the longest time they were boyfriend and girlfriend for a few months as he really didn't try to see her outside of school.
Melina didn't know any better with how boys reacted to her as she had a few contenders as she stayed with school yard boyfriends that reminded just as that. Messer was sweet and Melina needed sweet and simple from all the chaos of the last school. He was sweet on her and they never officially kissed as he was taking his time with Melina as he knew she wasn't experienced like other girls but also knew she was somewhat damaged like him.
It's funny how damaged souls find each other like a flock. Messer never mistreated her and he had a reputation of expecting certain things from his girlfriends . When Melina wanted to know why he didn't expect it from her he simply said because I don't want you that way. I don't want you to feel you have to do that to get my attention. " He said that as that was the first time she understood he really liked her and wanted to take it slower with her.
She could respect a boy who respected her as she was very self loathing of herself as she knew she was damaged and not normal all the things she knew. She always respected his decision to treat her gentler as they were content in their progress. And when his ex girlfriend wanted him back after she had done messed around on him for long enough he also wasn't mean about what his plans were either.
They both made a mutual decision to end things on a sweet note with a good parting as they didn't hold any hard feelings as she saw him with his cheating ex girlfriend knowing he was too much of a good guy to be with her but she also understood he had needs that he wasn't willing to be met by Melina because he saw her good and innocent and didn't want to corrupt her .
This was the kindest thing any boyfriend did for Melina as she understood it was sweetness he had for her and she needed a boy to show her her worth. Melina bounced back as she met a boy named Sullivan who was the best friend to messer as Melina really liked Sullivan as he was that boy that was reachable but just out of reach as he would be her on again and off again romance .
Sullivan would like Melina then like someone else as he would give her his ring to wear as to mark her but then weeks later ask for it back then months later try to revive it back. You could say they were a pick it up where they left off relationship. Another wlsweet plutonic school yard relationship.
During this time Ashley and Kimberly introduced her to a Chinese exchange student named you as she was very friendly with Melina as she often taught her how to write Chinese and speak it. This was the transitional time in Melina's life where school felt safer than home.
Melina was making friends and the beginning of the formation of the coven formed with Kimberley, Ashley ,joey, Jason ,and a guy named Garret who looked like a bad kid with his long black hair and leather jacket and brown eyes and one cross earing he always wore.
Melina thought he was pretty cool between the school as he was Jason's best friend but weeks later he stopped hanging out with the group as like out of the blue he vanished for no reason at all.
Ashley and Kimberly and Jason would sit in the gym during warmups before they seperated the boys and girls classes and they would pray together as they did energy charges as Melina led them as this was comfortable to her and new. She hadn't met other witches her age as the school started calling them the witches as they pretty much left these girls alone . Melina felt like she had found her place. She had found her coven. With joey as her guardian and Ashley and Kimberly as her second hand and Jason as a silent member she had no idea the struggles of running a young coven .