The Witch's Diary

Chapter 1: My life

My name is Ava Jenner and I'm 18 years old. I wish I was like other children of my age,but sadly I am not. Rather I am a Witch. A pathetic poor little witch who doesn't deserved to be called a witch according to my Aunt Camille. Yes I'm a witch,I know it's hard to believe but we exist.  You would expect my story to begin with how I was born to how I met my true love and how we had children of our own and how our story ended with "happily ever after". That's the kind of story I love,the story I want to be mine,sadly those are fairy tales. There is no happily ever after!,that's just a whole load of bullshit!. I was born in the coven and as Aunt Camille put it " you were born here and this is where you'll die!".
  My parents died when I was 5. I don't know much about them,but Aunt Audrey said they were very brave and my father was the last male witch and was very powerful. My mother on the other hand was the most powerful of the Jenner's family and she was very brave. Aunt Audrey is my favourite Aunt and she's also a mother figure to me. She's the closest I have to a mother. 
   After my parents died, few weeks later,Aunt Camille mysteriously died.

Aunt Audrey always made sure that I lacked nothing. She was a spinster. She dedicated her life to serving the Ancestors and vowed never to marry. The only thing I lacked was a friend. I don't like the other girls in the coven. They always acted like they were better than me. I know they were better than me in the sense that they were allowed to go to the human world, but I wasn't. I've tried to find out why but my Aunt kept on insisting that it was for my safety, as if I'm a little child that needs protection. I've had to ask her on so many occasions that who am I to be kept safe from, but she had refused to answer. I sure as hell don't need protection from the humans,they are "weakling" according to Aunt Millie. In my whole life I've only seen four humans,three men and a woman. They look like us and I mistook them for witches. I saw Aunt Millie put a knife on the neck of the female and I had innocently shouted at Aunt Millie for wanting to kill a fellow witch and Aunt Millie had turned to look at me with fire in her eyes and had shouted at Aunt Audrey to "get rid of that lousy thing" and Aunt Audrey had took me to my room and I had asked her why Aunt Millie intends to kill those witches and she had told me "those people aren't witches,they are humans and they were found trespassing on our private property,the punishment for that is death". She had also told me that I should be wary of the humans and shouldn't let them come close to me. I had smiled and boasted that when I had  my powers I'd not let anyone of them come close to me without showing them the magic Aunt Millie used to do. I had thought about it that day,how it will be like to become human and how we look so much alike but are two different beings. That was more than 10 years ago and now I'm eighteen and without my powers,very unusual,something that has never happened before. My Aunts and everyone has tried everything they could to make my powers arrive but everything has proved futile. I feel that I'm cursed or I'm human. When I told Aunt Audrey, she had shouted at me and told me that I shouldn't say such words again as it was a curse itself. " Your parents were powerful witches,your grandparents were the most powerful witches the coven has ever had and your great grandparents and ancestors were great witches as well. There has been no human in our family and there will be none. Be patient dear one,your powers are coming,they are only taking time because they need to develop to be very powerful. I know that you will become a very powerful witch Ava,I really believe that. Just be patient". Aunt Audrey had said to me and I really wish that was true I really want it to be true.

  My other Aunt, Aunt Millie, the seer. She hates me and doesn't bothers to hide it. She has insulted me on so many occasions and has called me a measly weak human.

"Ava!!!!!! What the hell did you do to my spell book you lousy child!!!"

Okay that was Aunt Audrey and Gosh!!,I'm tired of telling her that I'm not a child,I'm 18!!!!! . The only damage I did to her spell book was mistakenly burning a part of the first page while trying to use a candle to perform magic which by the way,didn't work out at all,infact I burnt the book and my cloth.
   
      "Just a moment Aunt!" I shouted back while looking out of the window. Aunt Millie was walking alone but she was talking as if someone was there with her. That strange woman!.

©Rayhana