The Last Witch

10. My past revealed pt 1

The corner of his mouth lifted a bit "I haven't had anyone call me that in almost fifteen years. I'm surprised you even remember calling me that especially since I haven't seen you since you were one years old," he small smile that grew suddenly turned into a frown " but if your memory is working that well then the prophecy has already begun," he started pacing, forgetting that I was there altogether " but it wasn't supposed to start for a couple of days, I was meant to ease you into it not push you into it-

"Push me into what? Prophecy? Mr. Blueberry you're not making any sense"

"Ellie I need you to meet me today at my house at 8pm sharp and when I say sharp I mean sharp, I know right now you're confused about all of this but I need you to trust me okay? I need you to trust me and come tonight. I'll explain everything then," he looked at the clock as the bell just about rang

I stood up catching myself on the table as my feet gathered enough strength to keep me stable on the ground, I walked towards the door still stunned at everything I had heard.

As I reached for the door he called me back.
"Ms Townsend tonight remember to take the book from the idiot you gave it to and bring it. I hope you know to come alone meaning no friends. No Friends Ellie, I mean it"

With that I left the room.
I didn't even notice the people I passed as classes were let out and the corridor was filled.

"Hey Becca are you alright? You're just staring at your locker" James looked over at me from his locker beside mine

"Huh? Ye-Yeah I'm fine, thanks for asking James." He nods and sends me a quick smile before jogging over to join his friends.

I snap out of my reverie and open my locker getting ready to go home.

My phone beeped alerting me that I got a message. I looked down to see it was from Laura. She wanted me to meet her and Zander at the car park. I sighed knowing that they'd want to know what Mr. Blueberry and I discussed, I wasn't ready to tell then that he was my uncle to be honest I don't think I even wanted to tell them anything because I knew that they'd want to come tonight.
Letting out another sigh I put my bag on my shoulder and made my way out the school front doors.

With the car park still full of people Laura was doing a very silly dance to get her elf spotted by me and I wasn't the only one who saw her dancing as other students were staring and laughing at her awkward stiff moves. I cracked a smile as I spotted Zander inching away from her, moving towards them quickly to spear her any more embarrassment, once seen she immediately stopped dancing.

"Thank the colours of rainbow. I didn't know how long I had to do that" Laura panted leaning against her car.

"You didn't have to do that, nobody wanted you to do it! I sure as hell didn't" Zander looked at her incredulously. I giggled at the pair of them and dragged both of their attention back to me.

"So you and Simon huh? In the same room for a certain amount of time, what happened?"

"Nothing happened Laura,I just did my work and he supervised, helped out a bit and that was it" I didn't know why I was lying, the words just slipped out.

"I find that hard to believe, you and Simon in a room together for one period and he doesn't say anything about the book? Didn't question if you knew where it was?" I shifted my weight onto my left leg feeling uncomfortable "what aren't you telling us Sweetheart? Because if you're hiding something we have the right to know, you know that right?"

"Zander nothing happened, if something did happen you guys would be the first ones to know. Trust me" I felt guilty asking them to trust me when I was blatantly lying to them.

"Okay." Zander replied but something was off with his voice.

"Okay?" I questioned

"Yeah okay. If you say nothing happened and you just did your work then I believe you." I breathed out a sigh in relief "you wouldn't mind sharing your notes would you?"

"My notes?"

"Yeah you know, your notes. You said the Simon helped out a bit so I was wondering if you could help me out, I wouldn't copy them, I just want to see if there's anything there, you know like tips and stuff that might help out my project"

Laura looked at him then me "yeah I know you never pass up the opportunity to write up notes Becca. Remember in Mr. Dawtons class project it was a simple coloration of the frog pic he handed to us for the dissection, and he told us how to colour it in? You were the only person in his class who took notes."

"She took notes on how to colour in a frog?" Zander snorted while Laura laughed and nodded her head "alright sweetheart, hand it over"  Zander extended his hand.

"I-I don't have any notes, I mean I didn't take any because there was nothing to take notes on" I meant it as a statement but it came out more as a question

It was then that I knew with the look he gave me that Zander didn't buy my act at all.

"Rebecca stop the lying okay! Tell us what happened in there. Did he threaten you? Is that why you're not telling us? Because if he did we-

"Calm down Zander he didn't threaten me"

"So what happened? Why so tight lipped?"

"Heaskedaboutthebookandifoundouthe'smyuncle" I stared at them as they stared back at me perplexed.

"What?" They both asked looking at me expectantly

"He asked me about the book, I told him I didn't have it but somehow he knew that Zander had it and I found out the reason for him being so overbearing is because he's my uncle and he invited me to his house tonight at 8pm to explain everything including some prophecy that involves me I think but I'm not really sure he was saying how he didn't want to push me into it, I don't know it was a lot okay!"

There was silence for a moment then they exploded with questions.
"He's your uncle?"
"He knew I had the book?"
"What prophecy?"
"How did he know that I had the book?"
"Why would a prophecy involve you?"
"No seriously he was nowhere around when you gave it to me, how did he find out?"
"Are you going to meet him tonight?"
"Are you sure he said it was me that had the book and not someone else?"

Laura had had enough and turned to Zander hitting him in the head "seriously? There are more important things than how he knew you had the book" Zander poured and they both turned towards me.

I took a deep breath before starting "Okay, yes he's my uncle, yes he knew it was you that had the book, no I don't know any prophecy, no I don't know how he knew, no I don't know why a prophecy would involve me, again I don't know how he found out I gave you the book, I'm not sure if I will go I mean I'd have to tell my mum something and it's a school night so I don't even know how I'd sneak out the house that's if I'm even going to go and finally yes Zander it was you he said and I quote "bring the book you gave to the idiot" and that idiot is you"

"I don't know if I should be offended that he called me an idiot or that you knew straight away it was me he was talking about"

Laura shook her head and sighed "well I think you should go tonight and obviously we're coming with you, he is your uncle after all I think you should get to know him that is if he's telling the truth"

"Yeah I'll tell my mum I'm coming over to yours to do homework and then maybe you could tell your mum we've gone out to get something to eat near the time"

"Yeah that'll be cool"

"I'll give you a ride to Laura's then and join in with this homework session" Zander put his arm around my shoulders as he led me to his bike "seems like the trio is back to busy nightly meetings, the only difference this time is that we're not breaking in"

Laura and I rolled our eyes at his behaviour. "Laura I'll call you when I get home, I'll need to leave a note for my mum so she won't panic when I'm not home" she nodded before getting in her car and driving off waving to us as she did so.

"Hop on then Sweetheart, let's get you home to write that note" with that I got on the back of his bike and we made our way home.