Taking Control

Quietly, Raine slides herself closer to the door. She doesn't want to scare whoever is there away, but also wants to get inside so she can tell her parents. But as she moves; so does the shadow. Raine is shivering, her knees are shaking, and she feels vulnerable. Methodically, Raine runs through her head the possible outcomes of the situation. She comes to the conclusion; she will more than likely die for who she has become. But all of a sudden the shadow addresses her:

"Raine, daughter of protector witch Maria, and granddaughter of Lillian the great witch, I come to you now with great peril. Your parents do not know this but will soon. I have one thing to tell you, your parents will die in the battle, and you will be left alone to face the battle. More than likely you will be taken captive and traumatised, unless you listen now."

"I'm listening." Raine replies cautiously.

"All you have to do is let me inside to your parents, and stay out here." The shadow answers.

"I won't let you be alone with my parents. If you are coming in so am I." Raine replies fiercely.

"Ahh, so you're the feisty one eh, I guess I will settle for you to come in as well even though that wasn't part of the plan." The shadow answers.

"What plan?" Raine asks inquisitively.

"Never mind," The shadow answers.

The shadow creeps closer, and completely terrified Raine moves to open the door, she grabs the door handle opens the door, runs inside and as she does so, the shadow moves as well. Once inside, the shadow removes his hooded cloak, and reveals himself to be Aaron Mightstar. After being completely bewildered by the fact that her boyfriend was the shadow, Raine regains her consciousness, to yell at him saying:

"What are you doing here? How did you know I was a witch before me? Why? Why did you start to date me, was it all a setup from the beginning? Are you even Aaron Mightstar, my boyfriend?" Raine rambles on.

"To answer all your questions, I am here to talk to your parents. Your mother told me you were a mere witch when you and I were together as kids. Why is a simple question to which I have a simple answer, I am your protector. I started dating you to have a reason to get closer to you. No it wasn't a setup at the beginning but became that afterward. And finally, no, my real name is Sebastian Mithalias, but I am still your boyfriend unless you want to break up." Sebastian answers.

After everything Raine has been put through today, she can't handle her emotions any longer and starts to cry. She doesn't know how long she cries for, just that she can't stop. Sebastian moves closer to her to try and hug her, but she shrugs him off complaining that she doesn't want him around her right now. He backs off all the while apologizing for not telling her, but says that he was unable to because of her parents.

"Sebastian, I think it is time you left, you really have just upset poor Raine." Maria says.

"Maria, don't think you're getting away scot free either, I can't stand to be around any of you. I'm going to my room." Raine replies.

Sebastian leaves completely bewildered by how the situation ended, knowing it wasn't supposed to be like that. She wasn't supposed to know. He didn't want to tell her but the situation led to it, and now he had lost her forever.

"He shouldn't have come in like that; he should have showed more consideration to her feelings." Maria said.

"I know but he had a message to deliver, which apparently we didn't even get to hear, because of our daughter. We will have to ask him for the message tomorrow. "Xavier replies.

With nothing more to say to each other, the parents went off to their bedroom, climbed into bed and went to sleep. What the parents didn't know was Raine had planned with Sebastian to meet her outside their fence. Quickly and quietly, she ran down the stairs grabbed herself a jacket and out the door.

"I'm glad you're giving me a second chan-". Sebastian began.

"I'm not here to give you a second chance; I'm here to ask you to help me kill my parents." Raine says giving Sebastian an evil look.

"Raine, just stop ok. I mean if you keep going this way you will be thrown out of you coven and killed for it if you turn to the dark side." Sebastian said.

"Really, there's a dark side. I fancy myself to be on the dark side not the light side anymore." Raine replies.

"Raine don't do this think about what you're doing before you do it." Sebastian tries.

"Aaron, I thought you were someone special to me, and apparently all you are is some liar. Now I hear that I have some chance to make the world a better place or I can choose the dark side. Which do you think I will choose? Well I choose the dark side because it fits me better, because of everything I am going through right now." Raine replies with a huff.

"The name isn't Aaron, ITS SEBASTIAN." Sebastian yells.

"You know what I don't care who you are or my parents, I'm leaving." Raine screams back running out of the gate and leaving her home behind.

"Raine, come back." Sebastian yells.

That's the last thing Raine hears from her house, no longer does she care about Aaron or Sebastian whatever his name is, or her parents just herself.