The Baby Witch

Chapter 4.

 After dinner, I check my phone and I'm met with all of the notifications from group chats and direct messages. The top notification is addressed from Taylor, I can't wait to tell her everything that I've found out but I'm scared that she will react badly. I doubt she will but I'm still scared I'll lose my best friend. I hear my own words of wisdom 'if they react badly or they don't want to be friends any more than they obviously aren't a good friend, now are they?' , I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't do what I said so I muster up all my courage.

I open up the Snapchats Taylor sent me, and start immediately laughing. The first picture is of her with a double chin and a distorting filter on saying 'how are your grandparents, what did you think of your first lesson of commerce?'. The next is her with the same distorting filter on and her singing to a song with her pet snake sliding down her arm with its tongue out. Taylor doesn't know if the snake is female or male and she can't be bothered to go to a vet to see so it doesn't really have any specific pronouns. I send a picture of me rolling my eyes from not the most flattering angle captioning it with ' yeah they are good tmr I get the day off to spend time with them and I was pleasantly surprised with commerce, don't get me wrong it's by far not my favourite but I have some friends in the class so I'll be fine.' I press send then I start typing...

'I need to tell you something and idk how you're going to react....'

'What is it Ariel you're scaring me'

'It's nothing to be afraid of'

'I hate the suspense just tell me already!'

'Ok well, you know how I like dreams, crystals, incense, candles, and tarot cards, and all those witchy movies??'

' umm yeah?'

' well I'm a witch, I practice some dream magick and tarot cards. I'm a baby dream witch.'

'What's that?'

'It's a brand new witch that's learning dream magick.'

'I still don't get it.'

'Dw just get Tumblr so I can send you stuff to maybe explain it more, please.'

'Mkay.'

After I send her a couple of stuff she kinda starts to get it and has a slightly more understanding to what I am. I decided against telling her everything today, I'll let her mind wrap around it more. I open Instagram where all of the notifications are coming from, the group chat is constantly going off with messages or posts we send each other, its the only place where I can talk to my long distance friends. Last year I had to leave them all of a sudden right after I came back from Hawaii for my birthday, basically long story short it wasn't safe for my mum or I to live there anymore, we were going to be all over the news except my mum said no to all the broadcasters. I still keep in contact with all of my friends from there though.

India and Kasey are talking about Colby Brock and Sam Golbach while Kyah is laughing to something that Taylor sent 4 hours ago and Brooke is asking why it took Kyah soo long to respond to the post and Ali is complaining that she doesn't know how to screen record the video to send to her sisters. I join the conversation and soon I am laughing so hard tears are rolling down my cheeks and forgetting that I had to leave them.

I agree with India and Kasey that Colby is verrrrrry attractive, help Ali with her problem and explain how Kyahs phone is ancient is slower than a snail. I ask everyone how their days were and they all responded with positive comments about what happened. I also tell them about my day and tell them about the electives I chose, my new high school is different to theirs, at mine you get to choose two electives for each semester in year 8 while they don't, they have to wait for electives next year. Then we say what we are going to do for electives, I say photography, art, and history elective as well as history mandatory. The most common is art followed by food tech then photography. We just aimlessly talk for the rest of the night till people start wishing each other goodnight and going to sleep.

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Yesterday I had the day off to spend time with my grandparents, we went to the shopping centre and watched Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. It was good I enjoyed it but it wasn't the original, the universal law is that the sequels are never as good as the first. After that, we went to my Grandma and Grandad's house for the usual Thursday family night dinner and my all my family members conversed and I loved it. But today it's Nana and Poppa's last day, they leave at 1pm, I'm really going to miss them. I take another day off to say goodbye to them much to the dismay of Poppa, we go out for brunch at my favourite cafe down the road. I order my usual small sized, poached eggs with bacon on some toast with a hash brown and pineapple juice. Poppa order an omelette and Nana orders the big breakfast, we all enjoyed our meals we talked for a bit until we said our goodbyes, with hugs longer than time itself, I walked back home and watched some Netflix.

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I return to school on Monday like usual and I'm asked way too many times why I wasn't at school and i say the exact same thing every time "my grandparents from NZ came over, I only see them every 3 years and I spent quality time with them." when I enter class I sit next to Zali and Starr they asked me how my grandparents were and what I did, I told them the events of the two days I missed off school. As the class is still spilling in I notice Annabelle, she strides into class like usual with her books in hand because they don't fit in her backpack but today she's wearing a new bold accessory.

Zali turns to me. "Are those pentagram earrings?!"

{A/N}

Sorry guys this is a smaller chapter I wanted to leave you guys on a cliffhanger

also i forgot to leave an author's not on the last chapter but do you want me to add a cast you you can kind of tell who they look like?

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