The adventures of Lilith

Chapter 1

It was now October 13th 2034.
I suddenly wake up from my nightmare of a dream. I have this lucid dream every birthday. It starts with me lost in the woods at night, I’m walking around feeling the rough bark on the trees. I'm barefoot, I can feel the earth from under my feet, I can feel the grass, the soil. Then I hear a man's voice, it’s deep but soothing. It's like a fathers voice, caring yet stern. I always try running to it. I then end up seeing a lake, I hear the voice telling me to go in. I step in and the sky always gets red, my surroundings get foggy. The trees start to bleed. Then I see a dark figure emerge  from the water.  Before he grabs me I wake up.

This time when I wake up It’s different. When I tear off the blankets, my feet are dirty, like I've been walking in gravel. I get up carefully and go to my mirror. My beautiful amber hair which was naturally straight became curly. It was also pretty mess, I reach up to touch my hair and I happen to pull out a leaf attached to a twig. I could help but wince. I was so confused, so then I hopped in the shower. I hopped i expecting the water to be steaming, the steam was all around. But when My the water touched my body I yelped, the water felt cold. ‘What the hell?’ i thought. I ignored the cold because I was in desperate need of the shower.

After I was done with everything, It finally hit me.

I’m officially 16 years old, unfortunately I have to spend half of it in school but that’s okay cause I get to see my friends.

I walk down the hall and to the stairs, I slide down the railing and hop off. I hear clutter in the kitchen and walk in with a smile on my face
“Good morning I spoke” . It spooked my auntie willow, she flinched so hard then turned around to me “ah hello my honey bat, happy birthday” she smiled and walked to me with her arms outstretched to me. I gave her a tight hug and she did the same.

“Breakfast is almost ready go sit” she instructed me, which I did with no complaints because her food is the best thing I’ve ever eaten, nothing can beat her cooking

Soon down comes my cousin Helios Blackwood spellman. He lives with us due to house arrest apparently. My aunties say he gets his attitude and trouble making spirit from his parents. Ambros spellman and prudence blackwood. They come down time to time

“Happy birthday little cousin” Helios says coming down but tilts his head at me “you made your hair curly?” he questions me with an eyebrow raised “no strangely I woke up like this' ' I shrug as I take a sip of my juice. I notice my cousin giving a look to my auntie willow as she placed my food down, I decided not to question it

“Well it looks good cuz” he said as he sat down. Then came my other auntie Ophila, she is very intimidating, she's very strict when it comes down to certain things, she's also very superstitious. “Ah good morning darling happy birthday” she said as she walked to her wife who handed her coffee which earned willow a peck on the lips by my aunt Ophila

For a moment it looked like they were just communicating with their eyes before I could ask or see more my cousin spoke up “you should hurry eating your breakfast or you’ll be late” I look at the clock and realize the time, I quickly scarf down my food and mumble out a thank you as I ran to the door. I put on my shoes and grab my backpack then in seconds I'm out the door.

I walked my up to school which was a nice 25 minute walk. There I meet up with my friends anastasha putnam or an for short and quinn walker but I don’t notice my boyfriend of 2 years paxton kinkle near by.

“Happy birthday lilith!” my friends yell out as they push two gift bags in front of me. “You guys didn’t have to get me anything” I said smiling softly “we know you don’t like celebrating your womb evacuation day but that won’t stop us from giving you gifts” quinn said happily “plus you should have expected this” said anastasia.

I’ve been friends with these girls sense diapers! Apparently our parents were best friends with each other so these girls were my childhood friends including my boyfriend paxton until we made our relationship official two years ago. Before I could ask the girls where paxton was I felt two arms snake around my waist from behind me and embraced me “there’s the birthday girl"

“Paxton” I say happily as I turn around to give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
“I know you don’t like your birthday but I did get you a gift” he says sheepishly “we gave her our gifts first” Anastasia teased

They head to their lockers, Lilith opened her locker with ease and slipped her gift bags in. she suddenly groans and holds her head. Without noticing the lights flickered. Paxton noticed liliths pain and went to her looking concerned “you okay lil?” he placed a hand on her back “yeah..” she paused and took a breath “yeah i’m fine, it’s just a headache”

After we got our stuff we went our separate ways for first period. I sat in the middle as always and decided to lay my head down ‘i’ll just close my eyes for a second’ I thought to myself as I slowly close my eyes, but as I do i’m met with flashing images. A forest, a goat man, blood, a book with names in it, my mom was on that list. I opened my eyes in a flash as I took deep breathes, I slowly realize I am not in my classroom and I’m no longer in my seat. Im standing in a open part of the woods I think.

The air smellsof sulfar, the sky is red but bright. There is a strange tall tree with one apple on a stem. I walked to it, each step felt like I was stepping deeper in quicksand or mud with concrete boots on.

I go onto my toes and reach for the apple. I felt a sudden pressure surroundinhg me. At first I heard a mans voice “lilith spellman” he spoke in a deep gravely voice. It was bone chilling, it was enough to shake the ground and make me nauseous. Then I heard a womans voice “Lilith” her voice was full of concern but soft. ‘What is this’ I thought to myself, my voice echoed

“Bite the apple” the mans voice said. I looked down at the apple with force. My body felt like it was attached to the tree. I couldn’t think of anything more. I lifted my head blinking away tears.. I closed  my eyes and slowly lifted the apple to my mouth. I took a deep breath and bit into the apple. The sound of it was bone chilling, the crunch was so loud it sent my ears ringing. As soon as I swallowed the piece my head shoot back, my mouth opened wide, I started gasping. My vision clouded and I was hit with images, visions of a woman. A witch…

..My mother

Authors note: thank you for reading, hope you enjoy this, I know it's a bit short, hopefully the next chapter is much longer