B*tches with Stiches: Book One

3 Daughter of a Preacher

I waited for the bell to ring it's final scream signaling school was over. I was beginning to get antsy tapping my pencil on the desk and what not the teacher droning on something about a report being due Tuesday but that didn't bug me that's when I got an idea to see if I could speed this up a bit. I sat there allowing myself to relax and concentrate and i began to say a spell in hopes that it would work.  Time be moved, Time come first. Time be moved, time come first. Time be moved, time come first. I began to repeat it over and over like a mantra in my mind until finally the last hand on the clock moved and the bell rang. I was getting better at "the arts" just took everything in me to keep from screwing it up.

The arts is what my grandmother and mother refered to as my gift well every woman in a long line of women in my family has. We all had different gifts like my cousin, Aryana has the gift of foresight better known as psychic powers. My great grandmother can make plants grow with a wave of her hand and my mom's sister; Caroline has this ability to control fire.

My dad and brother were different though. My dad, Devin knows about mom and her previous ways of living but it never stopped him from loving her which is how my brother was born. Shortly after my brother was born and thank God showed no gifts that we know of he went to the ministry and git his certificate to be a preacher for the church in town. Though none of us went except him and mom we were given the choice to either believe or go to hell as he put it, my brother and I kinda chose hell. It was better than what he was saying which made some sense but it wasn't for me. My brother was a different story every time my dad mentioned church to him it automatically became a war over what was and what wasn't. My brother seemed to prove a lot more scientifically while my dad was too religious to believe it.

I ran out of the class as soon as that bell rang and waited outside for the rest of my friends. Esme was the first sporting off her petticoat and plaid skirt I never saw how coming from such a warm climate she could stand this cold. I had been hers all my life and it still got to me. "Have you seen Casey? She was all psyched to go to her place told Keri to meet out here then she vanished." Esme said as she leaned against this fence line. "I don't know you know Casey shes there one minute gone the next." Suddenly we see Casey behind the fence smoking a cigarette, "Hey you guys wanna have some fun tonight? Like a shit ton of fun?" Kari comes beside me and we start to walk up the sidewalk.

"Oh do tell..." Esme says grabbing a cigarette from Casey's pocket. "Well I heard there's a party at Matt Gillian's house tonight. Booze, women the whole shebang. I told him I'd be there I'm pretty sure it's an open invitation to get fucked up, who's down?" Casey smugly smiles glancing at us. Kari shrugs, "I'm not sure. I mean for one I don't know this Matt Gillian and secondly my parents would find out you know how my mom is she's a fucking martyr." "Well just wait till they go to bed, silly head." Casey tousles her short red hair. Kari still shrugs nodding from side to side, " Eh I don't know sounds kinda fishy. I don't trust men I don't know." Casey and Esme look at each other and burst into laughter. "That's only cause you've never been laid, K... Look, you can go and have a great time maybe meet some pretty young thing and then get laid or you can sit there half that night in bed listen to your parents have sex then argue until you cry yourself to sleep. Which sounds more desirable?" Casey had a point.

All that Keri or should I say Karian's parents did was argue over everything whether it be bills, her brothers or their jobs. Karian being the youngest didn't get much attention from anyone except us and two older brothers still living under the same roof made it more difficult to deal with. I mean like me she had a bit more money than all of us yet all they did was bitch because they were getting a divorce yet still had hardcore sex from what she hears after hours. "Alright, alright good point I'll go. But I'm bringing pepper spray in case some dumbass hats handsy." Kari says smiling and glances at me. "What about you, bitch? You coming?" They all stare at me now.

"I'll have to wait till about ten cause that's when everyone but my brother goes to bed. He's a night owl doesn't sleep till four usually but I'm sure I could get him to make a deal with me." I say not knowing if it was true or not. I know if I got caught sneaking out I would be put in Bible services to teach me a lesson about respect and obedience just for the hell of it. I also know that if my parents ever found out I was still learning my gifts when I was specifically forbidden to I would probably be shipped off to Canada with my older male cousins.

We stopped in front of Casey's house while I called my parents my mom picked up the phone, "Hello, hey Mom I was wondering if I could study at Casey's house for a couple hours. I have a big test coming up Friday in geometry and need the extra help. Uh huh, Yea love you bye." Esme put out her cigarette and glances up at my brother's window, "God he's fucking cute, I can't believe he's your brother." She adds after I hang up. "Ok eww. My mom said it was alright as long as I was back for dinner." "Cool, cool. You ready to go to the moon, dudes?" Casey asks as we walk into her house. It's completely empty her dad usually was at work till midnight since he's a janitor at that hospital not a respectful job but it feeds them.

We head to her bedroom upstairs and close the door. All around are posters of death metal bands and a few candles, tons of CDs and a Bluetooth speaker in the corner of her room, "Alright Kari, it's your stash you be the first to deal." Kari nods and grabs a nearby book to roll her weed on. We're all waiting patiently Esme smoking a cigarette looking at her CDs of various artists, Casey texting someone on her phone probably Matt to ask about the address of the party and me I was looking out into the backyard at the dead leaves and grass that are starting to reveal falls approaching. "Alright, I call first hit." Kari says and Casey hands her her lighter; a baby blue. Kari takes the first puff or two and hands it to Casey who turned on some music, "This is an excellent song, fucking Korn Got that Life. By the way this is some excellent grass, kudos." That pass this joint to Esme who takes a couple long drags and lays on ths bed then to me. I take a couple light hits and hand it back vice versa so the rotation can begin again.

We smoke a couple of joints and by then the room is moving, the floor is vibrating and we're all scattered on the floor and bed just humming and singing to whatever is playing. After an hour we got the munchies and head toward the kitchen, "Alright we got lunch meat, chips, fruit and somehow we have canned ham." All of us makes a gaging noise, "Why the fuck do you have canned ham?" Esme asks incrediously. "I don't know. If I knew I'd have ate it but no amount of drugs are gonna make me want that...bad ham!" Casey throws it across the kitchen. We all stare and realize that everything is hilarious. I'm laughing so hard I want to pee but head to the bathroom instead. I went in and used the bathroom and that's when things got strange. I was used to being able to do things but they always seemed to backfire kind of like what's about to happen now. I finished washing my hands and took a look in the mirror, not all of us witches are alike some get all old and decrypted but I wasn't one or those types in fact they called me a natural or a Pure one.

As I look in the mirror I saw a small sentence to myself another spell The lights are off. The lights are off. The lights are off. I kept repeating myself in my mind and suddenly the lights all around the house went out. See what I mean? I never can control it. "Hey! What the hell?!" I hear a bunch of yelling and complaints from down the hall, I walk out of the bathroom slightly confused yet astounded. "What the hell happened? We were all listening to my new CD and suddenly the lights just blew out... Must be a breaker or something. I'm gonna go check " Casey says walking off to the backdoor. I couldn't exactly tell you what I did all I know is when my phone started to buzz it was a text from Mom:

Mom: Dinners ready get home.
Molly: Alright, mother

"Shit guys I gotta get home, totally lost track of time." I barely managed to get out still being slightly high. There was a routine before we left that bedroom or that house; you get sprayed with plenty of perfumes and awesome natural smell and then you pretend none of it ever happened. Cause what happens in Casey's bedroom stays in Casey's bedroom. Esme took out her perfume and sprayed me down then Keri fixed my slight makeup and I was off. I made it out into the brisk September wind signaling colder weather was coming I walked home in the half dark, it was a good thing I lived across the street. But I didn't mind darkness it was only a natural element like light was... Just created for beauty.