Book Of Short Stories

The Coven

Annabella!" I whipped my head around so fast that it felt like my neck snapped. "Run" I saw my Mom looking at me. I looked up and saw what she wanted me to run from. A huge fairy-like man was hovering over her. Ready to take her up in his arms. I don't know how I knew it but I did. "Papa?" The fairy man gasped and dropped his gaze from my mother. "Annabella." I was confused. "How did you get here? You were dead. Your car flipped over that bridge. How did you survive?" He looked at me like I was crazy. Why? He turned back to my mother and she flinched. "You never told her. Did you Marcella?" "Tell me what? Mama? What is he talking about?" "Mi hija. I am a warlock. And your mother is a witch. That to makes you a witch." At first I thought he was playing a sick game. But then I looked down at my mother and saw it was no joke being told. "Mama, is this true?" I whispered. "Yes hija. It is. I didn't tell you because I wanted to protect you." "HA! Protect her? Funny. She is one of us, mi amor. It is her destiny to be the leader of the Gemini Coven. You know this. All I am here to do is collect her." I noticed that he wanted me to live a good life. I could see it in his face. "You want me to be happy Papa. I can see it in your face." He gasped and looked away from me and my mother. "Yes hija, I do. But I cannot permit that. You must come with me. You and your mother. We must get back to the coven before they come looking for us." "Jakiem, you can come with us. We don't have to go back. If we keep running." "Mi amor, you don't understand. They will find us. And they will kill-" "We can kill them first." I gasped so loud they both looked at me. "Mama! Kill people?" I never thought of my mother killing anyone. "Mi hija, that is the only way. Your father sacrificed himself before so that you could live. Its time to reunite." "Your mama is correct hija. I came here to collect you both. But now I see we can be together. As a family." I thought about it for a moment. "Let's go. Before they come find us." My mother stood up and kissed my father. "I am so happy to see you again mi amor." She took his hand and he took mine. "We will run until our feet bleed. And then after that we fight," my father said. And so that we did. Together.