"Without knowing the present, how could I understand the past?"
17-year-old Charlotte De Loughrey was living the typical Cinderella life, until something made her snap... releasing a part of her she didn't even know existed until now.
She was a wit...
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I leant back on my bed and contemplated the day's events which included revelation after revelation. It surprised me that I didn't sit down for a breather at least once. It was a rollercoaster of a day; full on madness.
Magic really existed. How did I go seventeen years without knowing it was around me, or even in me?
I was a witch. The Aether.
After Annie helped me control the light, I took her advice and didn't go after Harvey. As much as I wanted to follow him, he needed space. I needed space too. Processing things takes time.
So I wandered up to my room, trying to avoid running into anyone. I'm not sure what my stepmother and siblings saw when I was yelling at them. Hopefully not enough to cause an even bigger scene next time I see them.
Why did Harvey blow up at me?
He can't understand what I'm going through. Aether does not exist within him. He doesn't feel it in his bones, his soul. He doesn't feel each individual string being tugged and released with every jolt of emotion. He can't feel the struggle to control it.
He is angry with me as he cannot accept that things are changing.
I'm changing. I am still the Charlie he knows just with magical powers. My personality hasn't changed. I mean I'm nothing like my step siblings; the vain, pretentious people they are.
I would never let the power of my magic get to my head. But I think that is what Harvey was afraid of. That I would forget him as he would no longer stand at my level.
But I could never forget him- he's been one of the few constant things in my life. He's the brother I never had; always there for me and an enormous pain in my side, but that doesn't make me love him any less.
I've known Harvey for eleven years and nothing this major has tried to drive a wedge between us, not even when I caught him making out with Ella once. Now that was a shock.
I remember going into the stable to visit Storm and upon hearing noises coming from the stall next to Storms; I discovered my best friend kissing my least favourite person who also happened to be my step sister!
I remember not speaking to him for a solid week. He would always try to speak to me but I cut him off unable to deal with him while the betrayal, if intentional or not, was raw. I mean why would he even want to kiss the pig-headed prick Ella was. I mean sure she was pretty but her looks are the only thing going for her- her personality is shocking.
He told me it was a mistake- a one off. That Ella had tricked him into doing it. I didn't believe him. But after a week of giving him the silent treatment, I couldn't stand to go another day not seeing my best friend. So I forgave him. In all these years he's never spoken out against me.
Not until today.
How are you not freaking out again? It was a good question and I am still trying to figure it out myself. All I knew was that it felt right; the magic had filled a missing piece of me. Or it wasn't a missing piece but something that was always there and I never realised it.
