"demon"

part three.

I opened the front door to my house, immediately being greeted with the sight of my brother doing his homework on the kitchen counter.

"Hey, Jordan."

"Alice" he replies nodding slightly, not looking up from his work.

"Where's dad?" I ask him.

He gestures his head up , I start making my way up the stairs.A wierd shuffling sound can be heard above the ceiling and as I keep walking it gets louder and more clear until I can make out it's my dad in the attic.

"Dad!" I shout standing underneath the ladder that he is on.He jumps and looks down.

"Alice, have a nice day at school"

I nod, as usual even when I don't have a good day.But today, I find myself actually telling the truth to this question, I DID have a good day.

"What are you doing up there, dad?" I question as he stands up in the attic.I climb up the ladder and peer inside.

My dad holds up a box.

"Your mother's stuff."

"Oh.. Your sorting through it?"

He tells me to hold it and bring it down so I hold my hands out. He passes me the slightly heavy box and I cough because of the dust.When I bring it down, I sit down on the floor beside it, about to open it.

"Alice, you can take it into your room, I'm sure she would have wanted you to have some of her stuff. See what you like, okay?"

I feel a little off talking about mum so casually, but I nod anyway. Picking it up and shutting my bedroom door behind me as I enter and plop the box down on my bed.I remove the lid and look inside.Her jewelry box stands out to me, it's beautiful sage green color and gold markings intruiges me.I carefully pick it up and wipe the dust from it, it reads the words:

"Johanna"

I smile faintly, it's her name. Which also happens to be my middle name as well.As the box opens I'm met with a peculiar sight, of course it's necklaces, rings and earrings but they all have somewhat of a similar theme to them, they all have a crystal or gem on them. I knew she was into the more supernatural stuff, but if never actually seen the  items she practiced with.. Would she have wanted me to be into this?

I brush away that thought for now, they are just gems.

I pick up a necklace that has the same structure as the one morana gave to me today, except it's not an 'amethyst' one.It has a light pink crystal hanging from the end, pretty.I lay the necklace on my bed and look more into the box,

A ring with a black crystal.

A necklace with a dainty cross.

A ring with amethyst.

A necklace with my enitials in a dark red crystal.

Wait, what? I pick up the necklace, silver with a dark red crystal hanging from the chain.

'A.Q'

Alice..Quinn? She must have got it when I was born or something. I walk to my mirror with the necklace in my hand.Wrapping it around my neck and clipping it at the back, it looks good next to the amethyst one.

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"Beep beep beep!" My alarm sounds in the morning.

I wake up with the necklaces still on, they made a small mark on my neck. Must have slept on my stomach.I stand out my bed, stretching and rubbing the sleep away from my eyes.