Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 16

Cherry blinked as she walked with the others as Alex told Camryn and them about her side of the separation and growing up with unknown twin witch powers.

"Cherry, are you okay?" Patch asked. "You kinda dozed off..."

"Yeah, sorry, just got a chill..." Cherry said, rubbing her arm a little.

"I'm sure it was nothing." Mo smiled.

Cherry shrugged and continued to follow them.

"So, Alex, do you know anything about the Darkness?" Atticus asked.

"Oh, yes," Alex nodded. "It destroyed everything in its path, devouring the light and stealing the souls of those unlucky enough to fall into its grasp... Only our parents' combined power was able to keep it at bay until we came along. As our mother gave birth. our father. Aron: The leader of the forces of light, was forced to fight alone. But the Darkness now had the advantage it needed. His only thought was about saving us. At that moment, he gave us every drop of power he had left. Then the Darkness came for us, but when he tried to touch us, something happened."

"What happened?" Atticus and Patch asked.

"Our amulets gave us power," Alex said, showing her moon necklace. "We were only babies and had little powers, but since our powers were combined, we were able to fight off the Darkness together."

"Way to go, us!" Camryn cheered. "Props for being only one day old..." she then went into a dance craze to cheer her and Alex's baby selves. "Go, babies, go, babies, it's your birth~--"

"Ahem! Please continue, Alex." Patch said.

Camryn blushed a little and stopped herself.

Alex nodded and continued. "l don't know exactly what happened after that," she replied. "l guess l do now. Creepy One and Creepy Two dumped us at a local hospital, and here we lived more or less happily for the last 21 years."

"So you don't know what happened to your mother?" Cherry asked.

Alex tried to think, but shook her head honestly.

"Did you ever have any dreams about her?" Atticus asked.

"Sometimes, but I mostly write about her," Alex admitted.

"I always thought her name was Miranda," Camryn spoke up. "She's the woman I draw pictures of."

"What kind of stories have you written?" Cherry asked Alex in interest.

"Oh, too many to count," Alex chuckled. "In one of them, she married our uncle."

"Wow." Patch said.

"Usually in my fantasies, I was always the one to rescue her." Alex then added.

"Where was I?" Camryn wondered.

Alex paused to think. "Shopping." she said with a brief shrug.

Camryn shrugged herself, accepting that answer. "Fair enough."

"Yeah, fair enough." Patch said.

"You guys wanna see my sister?" Alex offered.

"We'd be happy to." Atticus said.

Alex then led the way to where her sister worked with them following. Cherry shook another chill down her spine, but followed, she could just feel something horribly wrong, but she wasn't sure what.

"So where does your sister work, Alex?" Patch asked.

"This great burger place," Alex told him. "Lots of people go there and because it's Halloween, there's a lot of interesting menu ideas."