The Witch NextDoor

Chapter 7: Small talk and The burning of Pazzo's Pizza

I waited about a half hour and got up leaving Annik and Sioux on the floor. I went to the kitchen and started a pot of coffee and a kettle of tea for her. I sat at the table and waited staring at the fog outside. I could not get what just happened out of my head at all then I thought back to my childhood but snapped out of it when I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Hey, you ok?" Annik had woken up and I had not even noticed. "Yeah just ..Thinking.." I slightly trailed off. She sat down next to me and sighed looking down at her hands. "How did you know how to get rid of the body and all the blood?" I asked looking at my hands as well. "Well...Horror films natrually.." she said as she tugged at her sweater sleeve. "You may think of them as a bad and satanist thing but in my world they are endless survival guides" she said laughing slightly. "Did you know this was going to happen..Is that why you were watching that Demons movie the other day?" I asked as I got up to get our drinks. "No actually, I was just watching it for fun but well I suppose it was a good thing it kept us from getting brutally murdered" she said as she set up some coasters. 

"What was that thing you were whispering when we burned the body?" I set the tea in her hands. "Boy, you ask so many questions..." she laughed and then answered, "It was a spell to keep that thing from coming back , the rain was to purify the land" she said blowing the heat from the tea. I nodded, "Makes sense" I said stirring the creamer in. We sat in silence for a few seconds and enjoyed our drinks. "I got you something from Ms.Cal's ...I was going to give it to you later but since that incident happened I think it's best I give it to you now" she whispered and made her way to her room. She came back with a small white box wrapped with black ribbon. "I had Cal make it, designed it myself and even activated it myself" she said sliding the small box to me. I undid the ribbon and opened the box , inside was a small pad of black silk and a bracelet, it of course was a pentagram but it was gold with black veins running through it. "Thanks" I said staring at it in amazement. "it's like mine, but well mine is silver with the gold" she said as she put mine on my wrist. "It's gonna protect you just like mine protects me...." she said smiling softly. "I uh realized all your stuff has pentagrams" I said but I knew I sounded extremely stupid. "Yeah , each social class in the witch society has their own brand, ours being pentagrams..we are near the top.." She said as she looked down at hers. "What do the top one's wear?" I asked as I looked down at mine. "Ahnks ...All the high witches and Ancient bloods wear ahnks" she said taking off her beanie that had those symbols on it and showing me. 

"Do the other classes have those too?" I asked. "Different markings or?" she looked at me. "Yeah" I said staring. "Oh, yeah...I should just lend you a book on the government and history and such" she said laughing a bit. I didn't mind this, I actually was very interested at this point. "The most inportant thing to kind of keep in mind about witch government or witch society, we are all in a way equal and will do anything for each other in a time of need regardless what class" she said looking at me. "Do uh, do companions count as a class?" I asked. "Ok ...That is where at times , depending on the witch, gets controversial, some witches use theirs like slaves..it sucks really ...I used to be a companion at one point until they found out I was a witch..." She said as she closed her eyes and put her cheek in the palm of her hand. "You were?" I was very surprised. "Yeah, to one of the high witches..Jakob Dread...he's an ass" she sounded a bit peeved . "You won't have to worry about that here though Jonathan, Companions in this family are basically family" she said looking at me. "That's good" I sighed out of relief. "It's very rare to see companion slavery in witch society actually now that I think of it" she looked up at the ceiling. "Hm" I sat quietly. 

Our conversation was cut short by hard knocking at the door. "Covert!! It's CPD open up!" the cops yelled. "Coming~" she called. She walked down the stairs and opened the door. "Covert we got a call that there was a gun shot and screaming here, is everything ok?" It was the cop with the mustache. "Yeah Phil everything's good..Had a little..Demon intrusion..and also bringing that up , Jonathan and I were chased by two of them ..I killed them but isn't that odd ..I mean after finding evidence then that" she said as she leaned in the door way. "Yeah...Is Mr.Bird ok?" he asked. "Yeah he's drinking coffee in the kitchen actually" she looked back at me. I waved to the officers. "Ok...." he nodded. "Thank you covert..I will just tell the neighbors you were playing one of your Tarantino movies or something" he said as he walked off waving. "Sounds great, see ya Phil" she waved and closed the door. "You have pretty close ties to the cops huh?" I called from the table. "Close enough" she said as she sat back down at the table, snapping her fingers to call Sioux over. Sioux came as called and sat on her lap.