A New Life

What Truly Happened

"What do you mean you didn't tell me everything?" I ask with an angry tone to my voice.

"Well...I may have fudged the truth a little bit...or a lotta bit." She gives me a nervous smile, trying to keep me from being more angry than I already am. It didn't work.

"Acadia! What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything! Besides lie a little."

I look her dead in the eyes and say "You need to tell me everything. Now!"

My mom hears us from the other room and starts to make her way towards my door. I see Acadia start to flicker in and out of her human form.

"Darling, is everything alright?"

"Oh yeah mom! We're just reading lines from a script. It's just a fun thing we do."

"Oh ok, well keep your voices down. I'm about to go lie down for a small nap. That traveling is catching up to me."

"Ok mom, we will. Sorry!"

I look at Acadia again and sigh.

"Ok. Start from the beginning and tell me everything. Every. Single. Detail."

Acadia looks down at the ground with a forlorn look.

"Ok, El. You deserve the truth."

"So as you know I used to date a guy named Jaques. He was part of a coven, like I told you. I didn't know this until later on in our relationship and broke it off with him as soon as I did. But what lead up to that is what I didn't tell you.

He was the bad boy and I was the popular girl. My status depleted a ton as soon as I started hanging around him. My friends ditched me and I was all alone soon enough. I only had Jaques to depend on. He was so sweet at first; very supportive and loving. Then he started to change. I was always trying to please him so nothing bad would happen. But then it got worse. He would beat me if I said no to him, about anything. I was tired, and broken, and alone. I wanted out.

One day after he had done some very bad things to me, a girl appeared to me and said she knew someone who could help me because I "looked sad and nobody should be sad." I felt a bit of warmth radiating off of her at that point in time. So I followed her to her "mom" who told me if I put this little bag in Jaques' backpack, she could "help me out." I was desperate so I did just what she said, not knowing what it meant.

The next day I put the hex bag in his backpack right before he kissed me goodnight and left to go back to his house. He went over to hang out with his friends after, hex bag still where it was. I had texted this girl's "mom" and let her know that I had done what she asked. She told me that everything would be ok soon. I didn't know at the time that it was a hex bag. I thought it was like cocaine or something. I thought maybe she was going to call the police and report him anonymously. But that's not what it was and that's not what she did. She did some sort of spell and it ended up killing them all. I found out the next day when police officers knocked on our door to see if I knew about any of it. I told them I had no idea what had happened, thinking he had been falsely reported for drugs. I was then informed that he and his 5 friends had been murdered last night and they were looking for the suspect. I froze. They looked at me and asked me again if I knew anything. I said no and that I was just upset and shocked at the news.

I went to the lady that same day when I made sure no one was looking. She told me they got what they deserved. I told her I never wanted to murder him OR his friends! She said well they're dead now so there's nothing we can do. I asked her why. She said that their family had hurt hers and she needed someone to carry out her revenge.

The next day is when I found the hex bag in our girls' locker room after everyone had gotten sick but me. I knew it was Jaques' coven immediately so I threw it in the trash and began to panic. They know it was me and they're threatening to hurt me and my friends. I wouldn't stand for it. So I threw it in the trashcan behind the school where nobody went. Little did I know that it was just a distraction while another hex bag was being placed into my backpack. I went home and well you know the rest."

I sat there in silence for 5 minutes trying to let all that sink in. There was a mix of emotions; anger, sorrow, confusion, hate... I didn't know what to think. Finally I said:

"I'm so sorry you went through that Acadia. It still doesn't make it right that you lied, though. If we're going to be friends I need you to tell me the whole truth from now on. No secrets."

"Absolutely 100%! I'm sorry too. I didn't know how you would react and you were already freaking out."

"Yeah I know. I forgive you. Now we gotta figure out our next step."