The One Boy

Chapter 2: The Mortuary of The Cuthivous

My bestfriend Ray McWilliams and I always took a shortcut to get to school and back faster, which was perfect to get even faster to the college we wanted to be admitted when finishing high school. My mother told me to not go into that forest, even though it was a better way to be on time... She called me apart and told me that right in that place hundreds of witches and wizards got murdered by the people when discovering they were cuthivous. Suddenly, I asked her about that word, what did she mean with "cuthivous", so she said that was the way the people called witches and wizards...

She was serious and got, like, frozen and started talking... she said: "Just don't go into the forest! You've better look for another way to shorten your way to school. Our big priest was killed there, Alex... killed, beheaded... they call it The Mortuary of the Cuthivous..." Don't know why that filled me of so much curiosity but I was supposed to not go into the forest, but I didn't do it.

Days and days went by, and when I passed by, even before I knew everything about the Cuthivous and all that shit, I heard voices, screams, cries, I got a little dizzy but I always wanted to know what was happening, why I felt and heard those things, Well, I just got home. I felt bad because my bestfriend didn't know about me and all of my secrets, so I decided to tell him about one of them, but not as much as it happened. Since I was 8 until 15 I was raped by a family friend... His name was Rodger White, and made me cry, bleed and scream every time he touched me, I felt how everything inside me was destroyed, torn, I felt the lies and hits rain on me, they made the only one crux of pain, it hurt but in silence... nobody could know, he threatened me by telling me my family and all ones I know and love would die and be rat food... I was afraid, so I closed my mouth, Ray would be the only one to know that. That's why I feel different emotions, feelings, curiosities, senses, and weird desires; maybe not proud of it but that's what Rodger THE FUCK White made me be... that's what I am. Ray totally understood but after that, he started treating me, like, different, kind of further away from me, our conversations turned a little uncomfortable, and I was supposed to deal with it all, well, I did my best, really hurt, but I did it and kept doing it.

A night, my drunken father send me to take out the garbage, and out there I saw the reflex of a strange woman... I couldn't contain the fact that a strange woman in a ripped and dirty black dress was walking around our house, so, I wanted to find out what she was doing, but when I almost got close, she got a bit away on the way to the forest. Wanted to call mom but she'd surely not let me go back to her, so, I went on the sly without permission. I persecuted the woman who appeared and disappeared all of a sudden, she led me into the forest, and when we were there, the she stopped in front of two paths... one was the one I used to take as a shortcut to school, and the other one was completely different and new for me, at that point, me all exhausted of running too much, giving crazy rounds and rounds looking for and chasing this crazy bitch, I was literally expecting that, I did literally see that coming. Suddenly I heard a voice saying "You shall not stop us"... I started to shake... I wanted to know who the heck this old woman was, because she was old and had crazy hair, so I asked her about her name, who she is, why she led me into the forest, what are those crazy voices... then someone else appeared and cut her head off with a knife, so bloody... it was a man who murdered the strange old woman, all dirty and dressed in black... the only thing he said was "Death to the Cuthivous", dropped the woman's head and started persecuting me to kill me, I ran out of the forest to my house, but fell off and got a big wound with so much blood pouring over my forehead, but got up all hurt, and said the following enchantment "Morta diemish spectrum" that makes spectrums or demons get away from you.

When arriving at home, my mom asked me about what happened to me on my forehead and why I lasted so much to take the garbage out, had to lie, I answered that a raccoon was gnawing on the garbage bags and I wanted to scare him away, but he jumped on me and made me fall ... I got hit by a branch on the forehead and stuff... I told her that I was fine and went to my bedroom, there I was thinking about all that occurred in the forest wondered why the strange murderer called me Cuthivous, but it all wasn't gonna end there. After school, after having to see my "bestfriend" and stand him and his mistreatment to me, I went back to the forest. Ray saw me go to the another path and asked me "where are you going, Alex?", "Now you care 'bout me? - Well... somewhere in this place... I will... look for something I lost the another day...", I responded so sad and angry, but trying to not be chased by him. Anyway, he went with me like I mattered to him.

All the way I was really uncomfortable and trying to make him decide to go back but he never did it. I felt, like, he was gonna know the truth about me, guys, I'm a wizard, maybe I'm not evil but I'm supposed to be like that. Suddenly we saw the same old woman walking around and I started wonder if she really died when the men cut her head, well, she didn't. She screamed "Cuthivous... and a non-cuthivous... delicious!", we had so much fear, and I asked her about who she was, which she responded "I am The Convatt, and you are a descendant of Andrews Smith, a traitor cuthivous who killed my witches' sabbath to save his life, now I will take revenge on you and all of your family, and him"... Ray, afraid, asked me about what was happening, why she called me like that and told me all of that, I told him to answer all of his questions later, but first, let's run away from here... Seems like my family had a new enemy, and I found her into the forest my mom told me to not enter... Fuck!!!

It seemed like we weren't going to get to the end of the path... we ran and ran until losing The Convatt. Ray asked really afraid what was happening, why she persecuted us; I thought it was the time to answer each one of his questions.

First of all, I needed him to pay attention and not to run, but to stay whatever it happens... He said to be ready to know and listen up to everything and won't say anything. He'd keep the secret. The first thing I revealed was that I am a wizard, my family and family's friends are witches and wizards... he didn't know how to believe, so I showed him what I do... great place to show any enchantment without any other person can notice; she appeared again and I faced her up. As I could see, she acted like she was alive, yes, my mom once had told me that some people after death can appear and act like they were alive, that's called "an spectrum", and she was one... I was clever, I have three enchantments to beat up a spectrum and send it to hell, I used the three ones, but, to make it even easier, I opened a portal that prevents the exits of anything to the human world, but attracts whatever is nearby, at least ten feet away from it.

Ray saw me and got scared, we made it out of that damn forest! I asked him if he had to tell me something, but he didn't say anything, just left and no more. At least, he was safe, and went home and typed me "I'm home" when he arrived. Did I lose my bestfriend? Was that the end of Ray and Alex? I didn't know, but had a hunch... anyway, I didn't want to anticipate the facts...

At home, school, in the forest, everywhere, everything seemed to be quiet, resolved, with no danger. Ray and I were apart, he didn't want to talk to me, but all our friends in common... He didn't answer any of my messages, he'd even blocked me and when I approached him to talk and ask why he treated me like that, he told me that I was a demon, that I'm not a human, but a non-soul being, a monster... his words hurt me like he took a knife and stabbed me in the back. I just ran away like a big part of my heart broke in a thousand pieces, I just went back home but instead of avoiding going through the forest, I took the shortcut as I commonly did it before the shit with the witch; I saw my father... I... I saw him... dead and hanging from a tree, and a note that said that he isn't my father...

... I just screamed and shouted from the rooftops, crying and having fear... Noooooooo!!!