Beautiful Pain (A caster story)

Part 14 - Scene 1

                                                                   MARIA'S P.O.V

  That was a hell of a day. I guess I could tell since the beginning of it, how it was going to be like. I never thought that someone so close to me, could do such thing. I've always heard of self-harm in books, movies or around the web, but I never thought I'd meet someone who could do that thing.

  After I found out what was behind Kate's cutting, I felt like the only thing I wanted to do was to kick Sarah's ass. She so deserved that. I didn't care that much about what was going to be next. The important was that I was able to make her pay, even though for a while.

  In the principal's office didn't happen much. He just started lecturing me about my bad attitude and shit like that. It was so damn boring. I really couldn't stand a word he said.  Well, I guess that's just what every principal in every school does. I didn't argue with him. I think it was better that way.

  I thought no one was going to be at school after I came out of his office, but I was wrong. Dean was there at the parking lot, obviously waiting for me. I didn't understand what he wanted there. I wasn't really in the mood for any of his stupid things, so I just decided to act cold with him. I could tell that he wanted to talk to me, but I didn't want to. Who the hell he thought he was? One day he was so all over me, the next one he was this tough guy with me. Hell no! That shit wasn't going to work with him. I wasn't any of those stupid little bitches who screwed around him and his stupid ass team.

  Now, the only place I really wanted to be was home. Not home with my mum and my brother, but home with my uncle. He was the only one who could understand me perfectly. I think I was very lucky to had finally meet him. He wasn't like they all said. He wasn't evil. That was something that gave me hope.

  It gave me hope for my future. I knew that once you were into the darkness, the darkness couldn't let go of you so easily, but you could be good if you'd try hard enough. I think darkness was just like drugs. You could be addicted to them for a long time, but if you had the will, you could let go of them. It was almost the same with the darkness, just a little bit more complicated, I guess.

  I was walking into the forest near the lake, when I smell something. It looked like something was burning down. I started running towards the direction my noise was sending me. The road looked extremely familiar to me. I've seen it somewhere, but I wasn't sure about that. Maybe it was a place from my dreams, but to be honest I didn't think so. I usually have a good memory for my dreams, like the places I go in there, the people I meet, the things I say and everything else I do there.

  Then it hit. I knew where I was going. I just wished I could be more prepared of it. My new home was burning down. I didn't know if my uncle was in there or not, but I felt a lot of panic. I didn't know what to do. There was no one to ask for help. 

  I stepped inside to see that everything was already destroyed. There was nothing you could save there. I started calling for my uncle, but I got no reply. I refused to believe that something had happened to him. I knew he could be alright. 

  While walking through the fire, there was one spot that wasn't exactly burning. It looked more like it was glowing. I step over to see a red envelope. It was something from the caster world, that was clear. I just didn't know if it was good or bad. Anyway I decided to just pick up that envelope. It was maybe something really important, since it wasn't burning just like any other object of that house.

  After I got the envelope, I went out to make the right spells. Firstly I did a calling spell to pick up my clothes. Luckily they were undamaged. This proved something. That red envelope was important and it wasn't burnt down in flames. My clothes weren't burn either,so yeah. That was the connection. I didn't know if I should read it or not. In the end it was on my uncle's house, maybe it was something of his. Maybe it was something that he didn't want me to know about.

  To be honest, I was dying to know what was that all about. Maybe, just maybe I could help. OK, that was just a lie to make myself feel better about what I was going to do. I was tired of secrets. I just wanted the whole truth, not just a part of it.

  So, yeah, I opened it. In the first look, I couldn't understand a thing. It was written with a language, I've never seen before in my whole life. Maybe, it was some kind of an ancient caster language. After a while something started to happen on that piece of paper. The letters started moving and creating words. Finally something I could understand. Those letters were forming some English words. After a couple of seconds, the letters stopped moving. Somehow, the letter was able to translate itself from an unknown language into English. Normally I had no reason to be surprised, because these are common things in the Caster world, but for some reason I was surprised and scared. All at the same time.

  Now I was finally able to read that thing. Why wasn't I even looking at it now? It's funny how fast the things we want change. In one moment we want something and in another one we want something else. 

  I finally put my shit together and started reading that thing. What kind of harm it could bring to me? It was just a piece of paper. At least that's what I thought, because it wasn't. I was wrong because it was something more then just a piece of paper. It was a bad news, a really shitty one to be honest.

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