Linette, make your wish...

Chapter two

Five Years Later

I'm no longer living with my parents, I moved out about a month ago. They had been suspicious of me for a while and I knew that eventually they would have had enough. They confronted me, I wouldn't tell them anything, and they told me to leave. So I packed my stuff and  I left. I had saved up money from a few jobs here and there and I rented myself a little apartment in a run-down building in the middle of nowhere. Juliana told me that would be the best way to practice my magic when I wasn't with her or the rest of the cult. Yep that's right; I joined a cult. Five years ago, on the night after my thirteenth birthday, I was met coming home from school by a woman I had never seen before. I learned later that her name was Juliana Davis, and that she was a member of a cult. She told me that she and her group had heard my wish on my thirteenth birthday and they had come to recruit me. I was confused, of course, at first, but after she explained that she and her cult were a group of magic users and that my wish had found its way to their ears, I was ecstatic. I loved the idea of being around others who could use magic and who could help me to develop mine. In the following years I was put through initiation and accepted into their group, and I learned more about myself and my magic than I even thought possible. They were accepting and freeing, and I learned that I could do so much more than what my parents had planned for me.

So I started lying to them. Most nights I snuck out of the house to go meet up with Juliana. Some nights she would send me home, saying that she couldn't teach me because of something with the cult, and on those nights I practiced alone, hidden in my room with a cloaking spell up.

One night, on a night with a full moon, I snuck out to meet with Juliana, but I couldn't find her in our usual spot so I went home. I put the cloaking spell up as usual and  I began letting sparks sizzle out of my finger tips. They had turned a more golden-brownish color since I had become part of the cult and let them help and teach me, but I didn't notice that night that my sparks were really dark brown, almost black with tints of red. They went out of my control, shooting everywhere, rebounding off the walls and ceiling. I couldn't do anything to stop them or even slow them down. There was nothing i could think to do to get them at least a little bit back under my control.

And then the door slammed open and Juliana barged in with my parents right behind her. They all looked furious. My parents stopped the moment they saw what was going on in my room, but Juliana took control and dispersed my magic before they had any time to comprehend.

My parents both woke up the next morning in their beds with a headache and a strange dream that they couldn't make sense of. And me? I got an outraged look from Juliana and an extremely threatening warning to never use magic on the night of a full moon unless in the company with at least two other cult members.

Juliana didn't look at me or talk to me with the same compassion she had when she first explained to me the purpose of the cult after that. I didn't blame her, but I thought that maybe a little of the former compassion might come back after a few years. But it didn't. She continued to meet with me and teach me, but it was on fewer occasions and she was more strict with her teaching; she stopped congratulating me when I mastered a new spell, and she gave out harsh punishments when I messed up on any part of spell casting or any part in performing magic at all.

My parents didn't approach me the same way either. They couldn't seem to tell whether to take their "dream" as just a strange series of images played by their minds while they slept or as a sign that their compliant little mouse of a daughter was changing in ways they couldn't control. They started asking me questions, seemingly innocent of intent, but the more they asked the more I pieced together their developing mistrust in me. I suppose that night was the night that started the ball rolling that eventually led to my being kicked out of the house.  

It was my eighteenth birthday today, and I hadn't done much magic at all. Juliana and the cult would be very upset with me if they knew that, but I felt that I deserved a break from magic for the day.

I made myself a batch of cupcakes earlier in the day and now I took one, frosted it and stuck a candle in the middle of it. I lit the candle with a lighter I kept in the drawer in my little kitchen and made my wish.

My birthday wishes always followed a pattern. up until I knew about magic, I wished to have something in my life to look forwards to. After that wish came true when I learned about my magic, I started to wish for a way to do magic more often; which was granted after my thirteenth birthday when I joined my cult. Since then I've wished for the same thing: to be able to use my magic on my own terms... My cult is great, don't get me wrong, but sometimes they can be overbearing and strict. Specifically with magic.

I blew out the flame and sighed to myself.

Then I heard someone knock on the door.

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Haii~! I'm so sorry this update is so late. . . . I have no excuses

Anyway, I was tagged by lilucooki12lil

to do this thing. . . so yap

Do you like someone?

Aye.

Do they like you back?

Yess.

Middle Name?

Faith

Single or Taken?

Taken by my love (who loves me back) (also the person from the first two questions. . . .)

Last person you texted?

Same person as stated in questions 1, 2, and 4.

Last song you listened to?

The last full song was Apologize by OneRepublic

The song I'm currently listening to is Let her Go (Acoustic) by Passenger

(But the song changed while I was typing soooo technically I'm now listening to Arms by Christina Perri) Woo~! Pandora

Battery Percentage?

88%

Girl best friend?

Sarah, Shay, Ashleigh, Dani, etc. . . .

Guy best friend?

Justin(Alice), Shane, David, Brandon

Fave OTP?

Don' make me do that . . . .Please. . . .Just don't

But TereziXKarkat, MeulinXKurloz, RavenXBeast boy, AradiaXTavros, SaphireXRuby, Princess BubblegumXMarceline, GageelXLevy

I think that 'bout covers it.

Why you made your account?

My friend Brandon said my stories are good and I should finish them and try to get them published so I guess this was sorta like trying to see if my stories are actually good enough to be published plus like a "mock publication."

Lock screen?

technically right now it isn't at all what I want it to be because of . . . complications. . . but it should be my love on my phone and an old drawing of myself on my computer.

Birthday?

I don't know why I need to put this but it's in October. . . . (if you can guess the day (and don't already know me in person) I'll post two updates on any story you chose at the same time (or one update for two stories . . . ))

Now I'm supposed to tag other people sooooo:

NicholasAppleton vhbaloghsythinBrandonBarnes7BlaizeAmselMarkus_N_Robles