In The Garden

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

A woman sits alone on her bed rubbing her stomach her husband enters the room.

"How are my ladies?" he asked.

"We are good," said the woman, "she is kicking."

The husband moved closer and his wife took his hand and placed it on her belly.

"Our next goddess is almost here," said the woman.

"And we are all excited to meet you, Georgette," said the man smiling down at the two of them.

"Yes we are," said Morgana, "my mother has had great visions about you. She says you'll be a very powerful witch."

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Veronica Baker a young girl not more than thirteen. She was tall for her age and had rose colored hair and delicate features but she had fierceness and spunk in her eyes which helped her in playing football. She sat on her bed thumbing through a book she had stolen from the librarian's office earlier that day. It was an old brown leather bound book. If there had been a title it was no longer there having been worn off by age and time. The binding was also old causing some of the pages to start falling out, some were missing altogether and the pages themselves were worn and yellowed with age. The book was hand written and the entries were broken up by date. Veronica soon realized what she held was a diary. There was no lock like the one on her diary; this one was open to be read. Since seeing the book she felt the desire to read it. It was almost as if it was calling to her. She had stolen it from out of the librarian's office. She had gone into the office innocently enough to ask a question but didn't find the librarian. Only an empty office. As she was leaving her back pack knocked over the large canvas bag Alison Cooper used for a purse and the book fell out and landed open on the ground. Veronica bent over to pick it up and replace it where she had found it but then she began to read what was on the page. She heard a noise behind her so she snapped the book shut slipped it in her back pack and replaced Alison's purse on the desk.

Veronica could tell that there was a good portion missing. What captured her attention was the way the woman wrote about her true love in the book. It captivated Veronica each page drew her deeper. The missing pages did make certain parts hard to follow or it would just skip months at a time but she now knew a different side of what her History teacher had been teaching them. He had been going over the Aston Manor Massacre. It had become something of an Urban Legend something to scare kids most people didn't know if the version of the story they knew was accurate or more legend. There were so many versions of the story some said George Walker poisoned her for the insurance money, others said it was cold blooded murder and he cut off her head with an axe, others still said it was star crossed love and a murder suicide. The fact of the matter was that people knew the story but not which one to believe.

For example she now knew that Georgette's full name was Georgette Litha Rose Aston prior to her marriage to George Walker. She was one of eight sisters born to the Aston's. Her parent's names where Morgana and Lugh and she had a grandmother that was very influential in the city and over the family. Her name was Diana. From what she could tell from the diary her parents and grandmother had all met with tragic ends. Much like the ill-fated lovers George and Georgette themselves. There wasn't much mention of the other sisters except for her sister Zelda. The diary's last page is Georgette talking about how excited she is for their fifth wedding anniversary but true to the legend that was the night that George Walker murdered his wife with an axe by cutting her head clean off. Then he went into their home Aston Manor and burnt it to the ground and most believe George himself died in the fire.