On a warm summer day Ebony would have gone out to play with her twin brother Mike, but she had asthma and couldn't be outside for very long. She sat by the window and let the sun warm her pale skin and brown hair.

Curled on Ebonys feet was her young long brown haired, blue eyed female cat Trinity. Ebony looked out the window watching her brother and male cousins playing tag. Ebony's family was having a family reuining at her house and she was left inside to be made fun of by her female cousins, who would all rather play with dolls nad stay clean instead of playing with baseball and getting dirty.

"You should be into dolls and cooking," her older cousin Emily would tell her, "not baseball and cars."

Ebony hadn't liked dolls except for her cat plushie, and after she set the home-ech classroom on fire while trying to make pancakes, she didn't dare try to do something else.

The only thing that could have made this week long family reunion worse was Ebony's father's stepmother, Ruth. Ruth had married Ebony's Grandfather about a month after Ebony's Grandmother was died in a bank robbery.

Ebony's Dad always told her that Ruth was a witch. But Ebony didn't believe him until she saw Ruth putting out the fire in the fireplace with water that came out of thin air.

Ebony, her brother Mike, her father and her mother lived in a small town in England. Her father was a pretty rich man and he owned most of the land outside the town. Their house was rather big.

It had four floors, without including the attic and the basement. On each floor there was a kitchen, four bathrooms, eleven bedrooms, and an office.

Ebony walked along the first floor hallway, Trinity following close by, when she heard a knock at the door. Ebony rushed to the door and opened it to see Grandmother Ruth standing there.

"Grandmother Ruth," Ebony said trying not to frown, "How've you been?"

"Don't give me any of that polite talk, girl." Ruth rsponded, "Where's little Mike, I've got something for him."

"He's out in the back playing with the others." Ebony said, "I'll show you there."

Ebony lead Ruth down the hallway and got to the back door, to notice that Trinity had run off. Ruth opened the door and was greeted by everyone who was outside, but nobody took notice of Ebony.

She walked back to the basement door, which was open just a bit and locked the door behind her.