Whirlwind

Truth - Chapter 11

I stirred in bed. As I woke I turned over to see the clock on my wall. It's 10am already! I'm late for school. I get out of bed and stand. I sit right back down as I clutch my stomach. I slowly walk over to the mirror careful not to hurt myself. I whine at my appearance. I then pull up the shirt that Josh gave me. I guess I slept in it.

I was horrified when I saw what was left on my middle. A huge part of my abdomen was purple! I gently toughed it and I flinched back at the pain. I'm definitely NOT going to school today.

I wobbled down the stairs to the kitchen. I need to eat something. When I got there my mum was sipping coffee looking worried. She turned when I walked in.

"Hey, how are you?" She asked sweetly. But I could tell she already looked.

"I'm alive I guess. Why aren't you at work?"

"I called in sick." She paused looking like she was fighting herself to say something. "Remember last night when I said I'd explain everything?" I nodded, "Well I think that should be now."

She turned and grabbed a plate. She had already made me toast. I smiled and thanked her.

"Ok, ok, ok, here I go..." She kept stammering. "What I'm going to tell you will sound crazy. But can you wait until I'm done to say anything?" I nodded again what is so crazy that she's afraid to say it?

I started to munch on my toast. The pain every time I moved my stomach muscles was agonising but I pushed through it.

"A long time ago there was this girl." A story really. I let her continue. "The girl started to get suiters. There were 3 main contestants for her hand, one of them was carefree he lived by the sea and was very friendly and flirty with the girl, the other was friends with her since childhood and the last one was distant and had a relationship another girl already." Ok maybe not the best fairy tale out there.

"The girl had a relationship with her childhood friend prior. She had history and chemistry with him, she had her connection with the boy by the sea he knew how to treat her well and how to make her blush but the one with a girlfriend she was drawn to him she couldn't help but look at him. In the end they all ended up frighting for her. Only to end up losing her..."

"How did they lose her?" I interrupted. This story was interesting and somehow familiar.

"They boy who was a childhood friend betrayed her, the boy by the beach ended up cheating on her, the one left was the boy in a relationship. She didn't want to harm his relationship but failed, his feelings for her ended it. He was about to tell her when something horrible happened."

I breathed in and out. The story sounded so familiar like I'd lived it times and times over.

"She died. The boy didn't think anything of breaking off his relationship. But his ex did. Little did he know but she was a witch, she hated the girl with all her heart. The worst part was that the girl and her were best friends. She created a curse."

Wow I did not see witches coming.

"The curse was on the girl and boys, she was destined to die in every life she has following this one. The boys would be forced to follow her in every life, they would fall for her only to watch her die. One of the twists was when they were reincarnated into the next generation the boys would keep their memories, but the girl wouldn't have any memory, she would wake like any other baby and know nothing of her life."

"Wow that's sad."

"She connected the girl's death with water. Every time the girl would die it would be because of water. The boys did everything they could to stop her from dying in each life, but always failed. They've tried everything from not loving her to moving away. It never works. So their destined to repeat the story over and over until the end of time."

"That's a great and depressing story. But how does this have anything to do with my purple stomach?" I asked. What a waste of time.

She signed. "The witch wanted the girl to suffer too not only the boys. She made it so that every time the boys were with someone else you would be hurt."

"I still don't get what that has to do with me? Also what about the 2 boys that were with other people?"

"It would hurt the girl, the boys never knew this about the story, the girl kept this part to herself." Mum looked so sad and worried.

I shifted hurting myself accidentally. "What does any of this have to do with me?"

"Don't you get it yet? You're the girl who was cursed!" She yelled getting frustrated.

"That's impossible. One witches don't exist, two I don't have suiters let alone 3 of them." What was she taking she sounded like she should be in a loony bin.

"I know it sounds impossible but it's true, I wouldn't lie to you."

"How do you know they exist have you even met one before?"

"Yes. Your mother was one." The room went quiet. She never talked about my mother. All I knew about her was that she loved me so much but couldn't keep me due to her death, that Anna and her were best friends.

"M-my mum..." I called Anna mum but I could never call my mum by her real name unlike Anna could.

"Who do you think told me all of this? It was Rachel."

I felt myself tear up. It doesn't make sense. How could I have 3 suiters? Who would they even be? I would die because of water. My biggest fear is water but I have the greatest desire and love for it.

{1 hour later}

We sat in silence. She was waiting for my answer. What could I say?

In the end she told me I should think about it more. I went up to my bedroom and crashed onto my bed. I groaned in pain, forgetting that i have a giant purple bruise on my stomach.

A whole world I never knew about and I'm smack bang in the middle. One thing I knew is that Anna never lied to me. So I guess my mum's a witch.

Wait...

Doesn't that make me...?

At least half witch!?

She's a witch! And has a curse on her. Not that it isn't obvious or anthing but who do you think the 3 suiters are? I also gave you a sneak peek into the future relationships of the suiters and her. Will it all be the same? Will anything change now that she knows her future?