It was the last class of my day and Mr. Donahue had just finished his lesson on tankas and haikus when she came into the room. "Ms. Marie, how nice of you to make your appearance today" he said in a snarky tone as some of the classmates snickered at her. She started turning red from embarrassment as she walked to the only empty seat, next to me.

I leaned over to her and whispered "ignore him, he forgot to take his Midol today." She giggled and turned back to her book. I laid my head on my hand, letting my hair be my shield so I could get a closer look at her. Her eyes were dark brown with flecks of red and brown with skin the color of the moonlight on a dark evening.

I turned around before she noticed me but then bell rang, signaling that the day was over as she quickly bolted out of the room. I shoved my notebooks and pens into my tote bag then tried to run after her but I was too late. I went to around the corner and caught a glimpse of her at her locker then running off. Sighing as when her locker was next to mine and that it was vandalized. This is sad since she is a new student at this school in Decaturville, Tennessee.

Her locker had the words "witchcraft" and "satanic bitch" written all over it in red marker. I took the selves of my sweater and wipe most of it all off. I started walking down the hall to my car and accidently bumped into her. "Sorry…" she said quietly and walk back to her locker. I felt bad for the girl so I decided not to tell her about the writing and kept walking till she shouted for me.

"Hey, thanks for wiping it off and would you like to come over to my house?" Smiling, hoping I would say yes. I nodded and walked to my car, following her to her house. As I pulled into her driveway, I felt a certain dread pulling in and as we walked into her house. I chuckled uneasily as I asked for her name.

"It's Ann and what about you?"

"Um, Raina" gritting through my teeth as the hairs on the back of my neck started to stand. She motioned me to follow her into a large white room with candles everywhere, some lit and some not. "I'm an eclectic, if you know what that means" she said in a matter of fact tone as she began to light the other candles.

I shrugged in way of saying yes and told her that I was a strega witch, from generation to generation of past teachings handed down to me. She turned around to me and handed me a book, which felt very old and powerful, motioning me to open it.

"Why am I looking at this for?" I asked Ann.

"Well, I need your help and I had a feeling that someone at this school could help me. That book has been pasted down to me from past generations to keep the two worlds apart but when I saw you today, I just knew that you would help me and the others."

"By doing what? Fighting off evil jelly doughnuts?" I said, trying not to chuckle. But she looked at me like I had the maturity of a four year old. "No Raina, you are going to help…" she was quickly cut off when someone shut the door. She blew out all the candles as fast she could and shove my stuff then me out the window, giving me her number. "Call me for when you're ready to finish this talk." Gasping as I watched her shut her windows and curtains in front of me.

I closed my eyes, thinking that I moved miles and miles away to be far away from this but somehow in the end, it always came to find me.