Shadows

Chapter One

I could feel something lurking in the shadows of the trees watching me, waiting for me. I'm not sure how I know or if there is even anything there all I know is that I'm afraid to turn around to see if my gut is telling me right. I started running not even caring if someone I knew saw me. I ran two blocks and I swear I could hear the thing behind me the whole time, I was running until I hit the fence of my house. I unlocked the gate and hurried inside the only person home was my grandmother Ellie.
She was so happy to see me, as she always is my grandmother always helps me out when I need her. I told her what I thought was going on and knowing my grandmother she was interested in what i was saying. She told me that it's not normal to always feel like that I might have a bad spirit following me or maybe something worse. My grandmother is a spiritual woman she believes in all types of magic and religions. She prays to god everyday to protect the us, and are home and family, but lately I don't feel safe even in my own home with my grandmother.
My mother is dealing with a big case at work. My mom Casey "ha ha" ironic my mom is on a case and her name is Casey ha ha that's funny isn't it? I really don't see my mom a lot because, she's always busy with cases, and well what I can say is she is one of the biggest lawyers in San Francisco.
I haven't lived here very long maybe two and a half years but, it is beautiful I love to go sit and think by the bay bridge. It's a couple blocks from where I live. That was actually where I was because, I was there looking over the bay and watching the water and thinking about how summers almost over and I have only a week til school starts then, my phone rings and my friend Whitney Adams name pops up on the screen. I tried to answer it but my phone froze. I really need a new phone, maybe for my birthday because it in only three days away and I've been bugging my mom for a new phone, I tried calling Whitney back but she didn't answer. I really hate when people do that! Then I thought about how it must have not been that important for her not to answer my call or least call me back.
I headed back to my house. When I was about three blocks away from my house I took the shortcut I always take to get home threw this little path that everyone knows about if they are from around here, but today it was different it had more shadows then normal it felt colder than the weather outside the path. Then I swear I heard something in the trees, but when I looked up there was nothing there. As I started walking again I could feel something watching me and lurking in the trees. That's when I started running. As I stopped telling my grandmother what had happen earlier.
My grandmother looked at me wide eyed then said to me that it wasn't an evil spirit, but an demon. My grandmother got up and went for one of her books that talked about demonic creatures and evil spirits, but as she came to me she had a book that on the cover said Book Of Shadows. My grandmother came over to me and decided to tell me all about the book. Turns out my grandmother isn't a spiritual woman that believes in all religions she was actually a White Witch. She told me about how these kinds a witches black and white, but male witches can rarely be white witches well I mean warlocks male witches are called warlocks she told me because in some of the time the warlock turns sides even if they were white warlocks they end up turning because evil has a pull on warlocks, but as my grandmother said white warlocks that remain good have to fight like hell to stay good cause evil is always pulling at them to turn sides. As my grandmother stops talking she's about to tell me something else. I said excuse me, I'm not feeling well I'm just going to go up to my room and think about things or maybe sleep. When I got to my room I grabbed my laptop and started looking up Wicca or Witchcraft. As I was looking I kept reading until I had enough. I closed my laptop set it aside and fell asleep.