Halloween Town

Chapter 11 : School

 Last night, was the first one, I didn't dream of Aidan. It felt weird, Aidan was haunting my dream for several months. And now that I knew more about him. He was vanishing of my dream. My heart was conflicted, but my mind was at peace for once.  I even was awake early this morning.

However, I couldn't shut my thought on Aidan missing in my nighttime. So I decided to got up, now that I knew the town, I didn't need Raymond this morning to walk me through the cemetery. The house were all sleepy this morning. All the pumpkins were shut down. And in the graveyard, nobody was there, as I pictured it. I was the first one. I thought that since I arrived this early. I could check some part of the cemetery, see some of my ancestors. And nobody was here yet. I wouldn't be the suspicious new girl. I walked through the large garden, looking at the different stones.

They were all carved nicely, covering with fresh moss. The graves were different here, the writing was very delicate. I continue walking around, checking many names, until one name kept my attention. It was written " Rose Ryan" I wanted to get closer, and touched her grave, it seemed inappropriate but I felt like I needed it. I wanted to connect with her.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you." A voice stopped me from approaching further, my ancestor's grave, making me jumped scared at the same time !

"My god! Raymond you scared me the shit out!" My gaze was now distracted by Raymond blue eyes spotted just next to me. His finger touching mine were also avoiding me of getting closer to my ancestors. Being touched by Raymond was an unpleasant feeling. My body knew it was wrong. I only liked Aidan touch. 

"Why ?" He seemed surprised by my answer, as if I knew what would happen if I touched that grave. I pulled myself a little further from him, putting some distance, to feel more at ease.

"Magic flow through graves and Rose Ryan, was nothing good." He nodded wrongly, looking with a disapproval look on the carved stone. 

"What do you mean ?" I had not much info, of my family, Alice only told me about my grandmother briefly and my mom leaving Halloween town. But I didn't know our whole history. 

"She was one of the founder who did some killings ?" Delilah didn't talk to me about murders yesterday. I thought our family were just the "nice guys". But maybe she created a prettier story than the real one ?

" Killings ?" I repeated Raymond last words, expecting him to tell me more about that story. 

"Delilah did not tell you about it ?" I nodded wrongly. 

"When I told you that the dark side makes you go crazy, this is what I meant." He pointed his finger to the grave. "After her ritual, Rose was envious. She felt that she hadn't enough power. So she started poisoning people of the community." I didn't except such story from my ancestors, yet Delilah did warn me that our families were nothing good.

"Then I'll guess I'm not touching that grave anyway." I moved closer to Raymond again, farther from the carved stone of "Rose Ryan".

"Let me show you something." He took my hand in his, making me, following him through the cemetery. Our physical contact was unexpected for me. I almost felt that my brain was screaming "Aidan" as if I was cheating on him. 

I really liked Raymond. He was showing me all of hid good sides. He was far from the portrayal that I had from him when I first met him. But I knew that he was just friendship between us. I could felt my body didn't like his hand holding mine. That was a weird sensation, though, Raymond was not this ugly. 

We stopped in front of another grave. "Louis De Rocle" I read, trying to practice my best French accent."Who he is ?" 

"One of my ancestors." 

"But your last name." Raymond last name was Derocles. 

"Yes our family decided to change it. We did not bear that one of us was a dark sorcerer. So we just added an S and make a whole name." He smiled politely, I liked his honesty with me. As long as I knew Raymond, he never lied to me. I liked that special aspect from him, even thought that could put him in a bad situation.

"I just want you to know that even if you have a perfect family, an apple can still far from the tree." Raymond really wanted to show me he was a nice person. Yet I was not sure if I could trust him. But sharing secrets with him help me to believe me in his good intentions toward me. 

"Raymond, I'm afraid for the ritual. What if I become a dark witch." I was holding myself, I knew deep down, part of me was afraid of this new world and wanted to go back home, close to my mom.

"It's okay Hailey. I promised. I'll be here for you." He pulled me around his big arms. This feeling was so new to me. I only knew Aidan touch. Raymond felt different. However, it felt so odd, my body wanted to put him as far as possible from me. What was wrong with me !

Ray finally let go of me, I could see from afar some curious eyes, from all the community. I didn't realize that every one was already there waiting for class in front of the church. Raymond brought me back close to my new classmates, hand in hand, he waved goodbye to me and greeted some "hello" to other teenagers he knew. But again holding hand like that, make my mind so ill. What was wrong with me ?!

As soon as I was back with my classmate. Delilah gave me the stink-eye, as if Raymond was a bad person. I tried to not ignore her judgement, but I could feel the whole class being curious about Raymond behavior toward me. It was for sure, a new feeling for me, in my previous high school, I was transparent. I never got any person looking that long at me after I did something. 

"You should be careful with the Derocles." Tyler spoke first, breaking the silence of disapproval that Delilah created. 

"Why ?" I looked at them confusedly. Raymond proved to me that he was not a mean person. And we shared his secrets together. He always told me the truth, for now on.

"They kept big secrets. They only like pure witch." I could feel Tyler's anger in his voice, against Raymond. I didn't say anything else, I let myself enter the church, hoping that today I learned some magic. But nothing of that kind happened.