Glaze

Chapter 2

I gasped, "Oh my god. I'm a witch."

Zoggs just stared at me. How I wished Zoggins was there! Then it would be so much easier to talk to him in this hour of crisis! If Abbrobation ever found this out I would immediately be dead, even if it was just a rumor. The slightest of suspicion that I was a witch, I would immediately be gone. No question about it.

"Zoggs, was dad a witch?" I ask him.

"No," he answered, "He was a wizard."

"What's the difference?" I screamed at him.

Zoggs slowed down, which meant he was detecting a threat, "A witch is a girl and a wizard is a boy."

"I'm sorry," I tell Zoggs, "I'm just freaking out right now."

And just as I say that, it starts to snow...inside my house.

"Ziggs," my mom came running in, "Just calm down, everything is okay."

She hugs me, the snowflakes were sticking to our hair and eye lashes.

My mom was shaking, she was getting cold. I didn't feel any bit of cold. Is that normal? Maybe not.

Eventually, the snow stopped. Zoggs cleaned up the puddles of water on the floor and I got my mother underneath as much warmth I could find.

"Ar...aren't y...y...you c...c...cold?" my mom tries to say, shaking really bad.

I shrugged, "It doesn't bother me."

"W...we n...need t...t...to hi...hi...d...de th...is," she started to say, but I knew what the rest of her sentence was.

"I know," I told her, "Abbrobation can't know about me. Or I'll end up like dad. You just focus on staying warm, ok?"

My mom nodded, and tried to bundle up. I found more blankets for her.

"Here," I say and I give her the last blanket. Her cheeks are rosy and her skin is pale, but by the look on her face I know she's warming up.

And although the floor was still a little wet, Zoggs finished cleaning the melted snow.

I know I shouldn't be alone in this condition, but all I want to do is go in my room and cry. So that's what I do.

I sit on my bed and the events of today unfolded. Martina, Zoggins, me being a witch. I wish it was just a continuing nightmare. It is a nightmare, only I'm awake. Or am I? I pinch myself to be sure. I suck in a breath as a small jab of pain appears and I leave nail prints in my skin. I am still awake, although I wish I wasn't.

Sprinkles of rain falls down. Then it became a mixture of snow and rain.

I groan, "No! Go away!"

And with that statement, the last flakes and rain fall and create watery spots on my bed. I think I just figured out the code. Sad=snow, anger=fire. This means I can't have too much of both ever again. If I do, I'll get caught. I just need to be happy most of the time, and I'll be okay.

But, for right now, it was hard to be happy. I was just a mixture of sad and mad. Sad because of my father, and mad because of Martina.

But then the incident with Zoggins pops in my mind. I actually smile, for the first time since I got home and found out I was a witch.

I look and a plant was growing next to me. It grew a good few inches. Was that because I was happy? I would hope not. If it happened whenever I was happy, then wherever I go, there'll be a forest. Happy was going to be my default setting.

I lay down on my bed and only think about Zoggins. I didn't care how much the plant grew, it was the only thing that made me happy.

And then I started to think of how Tayina would cheer me up at any situation. The plant stopped growing. I was still happy, but it stopped growing. Maybe it was something else that caused it to grow. Maybe I would find it out later on in my life.