SALEM

Chapter 8

Blaine

"Are you insane!" Veronica yelled after I told her, I had revealed my secret to Annie.

"Of course not, I think she needs to the danger she's in and she should know we're here to help besides she didn't seem all that frightened about knowing I was a witch" I tried to calm Veronica and also convince myself I had done the right thing.

"She was I shock and that's probably why she didn't say anything, imagine if you were human and I had come up to you and told you that an ancient deity is coming to inhabit your body and oh...I'm a witch too" Veronica explained

" I never got that far, I only told her I was a witch and that there was a danger coming" I said

"So she doesn't know she's the one to bring forth the darkness" Veronica yelled at me for excluding that part to Annie.

"Annie is not the evil one here, Lilith is and she's going to try possessing her body but not unless we stop all that from happening" I broke it down for Veronica to understand

"I hope you're right Blaine, otherwise we are about to have a lot on our hands. Did you even think she might reveal our secret and tell the world we're witches" Veronica asked still mad about the whole thing

"Annie is not like that" I said

"You have a crush on her since junior year and that means nothing, you don't really know her so better not jump the gun and think she won't tattletale" Veronica countered.

This was becoming annoying, I told Annie so if she began to feel anything, she'd immediately turn to me for help.

"We need to talk" I saw the text message as I checked my phone before leaving the house for school.

"Okay" I sent a text.

"Hey" Stephanie approached me as I opened my locker.

"Hey" I greeted

"What's with the long face" Stephanie questioned giggling

"Nothing, just getting my books out" I said boringly.

"I can see that, are you mad at me or something?" She asked with mocking pout

"Of course not, why would I be mad at you?" I asked

"I don't know, you tell me" she whispered into my ear and I could feel the coldness of her breath as she got closer.

"I have to go" I said quickly and made my way for my class as first period the bell rang. I could hear her chuckling behind me.

Maybe she's onto me or something, I know her and her siblings are vampires but I'm yet to discover who are the werewolves. If they're werewolves and vampires in the school, it's only a matter of time before a fights break outs. Those two have hated each other for centuries and are like direct opposites.

Vampires are Lilith's night creatures and she gave them the power to create more of themselves since they are the undead, they make more of themselves by transferring the virus stored as venom in their teeth which kills the red blood cells in a normal human while werewolves naturally give birth to their offsprings but it's said that a deep scratch can turn you but that is if you don't die from the blood loss. So turned werewolves are quite rare compared to vampires or at least from what I've read in my family's grimoire.

"You said you wanted to talk" I said to Annie as we left history class

"Can we like go somewhere private" she said nervously.

"Okay, let's go under the trees" we walked out of the school compound and sat underneath the shade.

"I've been having this weird dreams and they keep reoccurring" she said and I could see her visibily shaking

"What's it about" I inquired

"I think there's a face, like a woman, I've never seen her before but she always appears in my dream and sometimes I can see my dad yelling something at me but I can't make out the words. Is there any way you can help me understand this dreams, I think my dad is trying to tell me something" she said with her eyes turning like glassy like she could burst into tears at anytime.

"I think I can help but you need to come to my house, I can do a spell that would help me understand what's going on" I spoke softly giving her hope that everything would be fine

"Okay and thanks" she got up and dusted her jeans

"Um... Annie do you like maybe want to go out with me sometime, like after we discover what your dreams mean" I asked nervously.

"I'm kind of seeing someone right now but my mind's not made up yet so yeah, I'd love to" she smiled as we walked back to class

A force shoved me into a wall, knocking me down

"I've seen you around my girl witch boy" this guy whispered into my ears as he laughed and walked away.

That's Annie's boyfriend, the vampire, I think she told him I was a witch.

"I warned you but you didn't listen" that was the first words Veronica said to me as I told her about my encounter with Annie's vampire boyfriend.

" I know, I'm so stupid. I trusted her with that and she just ratted us out to the enemy and she's not even aware he's a vampire. She's coming here cause she's being some weird dreams, I'd have to confront her" the door opened before I could say anything further.

"Blaine there's a young girl here to see you" my granny yelled

"She's here"

"Hey Annie" I said as I led her to my room upstairs.

"I'm sorry but I couldn't wait to hear what you had for me" she said as she sat on my bed

"Did you tell anyone about me being a witch" I asked her

"No, of course, I didn't tell a soul" she said raising her eyebrows, clearly confused by my question.

"Your boyfriend?" I confronted her

"Jaden?, I didn't tell him anything and besides he's not really my boyfriend, we just hang out" she said with a pained expression

"He called me witch boy and did you know he's a vampire too" I demanded

"He's a what?" She asked with a shocked expression.

I explained everything to her about vampires and werewolves and how they been drawn towards Salem to resurrect their mother.

"That explains the coldness" she concluded after I explained everything, she's trying to make sense of everything and I'm guessing she's a sensory overload with all the information I've been giving her.

"What I'm going to do" she demanded with a frustrated sigh

"For a human, you are taking this well enough and what we're going to do right now is understand your dreams" I said

" Trust me, I'm still in shock and doubting if all this is through but I've watched enough vampire movies not to believe what you're saying and from what you can do..." She sighed

"Are you ready" I asked her as I drew the pentagram again in my room.