Chapter 2: The Day It Began

"Hi, this is Evelyn Parker. Summer is finally over and today is the first day of my junior year in high school."

"Hey watch it!" Evelyn yelled as a younger boy almost bumped into her while running around the house. She went back to the camera.

"I hope to have a great year, so. Wish me luck." Evelyn sent a flying kiss to the camera and turned it off.

"Evelyn breakfast is ready!" Her sister yelled from downstairs.

"Coming Jo" Evelyn yelled back. A lot of yelling happens in the Parker mansion every morning. The house is full of kids after all. Malachai and Josette are eldest twins. Joey was born after them. The fourth sibling is Evelyn. Aiden and Mike are younger than her. And Joshua Parker lastly had another set of twins. Olivia and Lucas.

Evelyn got downstairs while humming a tune she heard yesterday. It's just not getting off her mind. "Morning sis!" Evelyn greeted Josette cheerfully.

"Good morning Eve. Ready for another high school year?"

"Absolutely!" Evelyn exclaimed loudly. Jo already graduated high school but she didn't go to college. Instead she took responsibilities of the family and started getting involved with the coven as well.

"Jo, I wanna show you something I learned recently" said Evelyn. Jo gave her an encouraging smile. Evelyn took her glass of water and she started chanting. Suddenly smoke started erupting from the glass and in a blink of an eye, the water turned red. A huge grin appeared on Evelyn's face.

"Presenting you the best wine in this world."

"Wine? Wow!" said Jo impressed and took the glass from Evelyn. She smelled it and then hesitantly tasted it a little. "Hmm, it's good."

"Yes" Evelyn cheered happily. However not all her experiments go well. She once tried to turn water into coke because there wasn't any in the fridge that day and she caused a little blast in the house. It didn't hurt anyone else but Evelyn was knocked out for a few hours. In her defense, she was only nine back then.

"One day I'm going to be the most talented witch in the world."

"I'm sure you'll be" said Jo smiling at her younger sister. Evelyn started eating breakfast. Her brother Joey came over.

"Morning" he said grumpily. Unlike Evelyn, Joey hates school. Thankfully he's going to graduate this year.

"Good morning to you too Mr. Grumpy" said Evelyn. She watched as Joey started stuffing his mouth with pancakes. He looks so miserable. Evelyn shook her head. "You know school isn't that bad." Joey scoffed at that. Evelyn rolled her eyes at him and left him alone. There's no point trying to change his point of view about school. Suddenly they heard one of the twins crying.

"I got it" said Evelyn as Jo started to leave the kitchen. Evelyn got into the twins bedroom. Her brother Malachai was there or as he prefers Kai. Now, Kai is something else. Very different from everyone. He doesn't have his own magic but could consume it from other witches. It makes him feel alone. Makes him feel like a freak. He doesn't even try to socialize with people. Their father doesn't like the way Kai lives his life. That's why he isn't that affectionate towards him. Joshua Parker is a tough man anyway and doesn't soften very often but he's quite rough with Kai particularly. Evelyn heard her father calling Kai an abomination once. Unfortunately Kai heard it too. That and the rough behavior makes him feel like crap. And Kai sometimes acts out on it. The Parker siblings are quite supportive of him though and love him for who he is, specially Joey but Kai doesn't receive that love much.

"What are you doing here?" Evelyn asked with strong tone of voice knowing Kai caused Olivia to cry somehow.

"None of your business." Kai snapped and shoving Evelyn aside, he walked out of the room. Truth to be told, Evelyn's a bit scared of her brother Kai. He gives her unpleasant chills. However she feels pity for him as well. She gets it. Being different isn't easy. She would be glad to help him but Kai doesn't let anyone in. Evelyn rushed to the crying twin. What could have Kai been doing here? Evelyn wondered. After calming down the baby girl, Evelyn left for school. Just like she expected, it turned out to be a great first day. Evelyn reunited with all her friends and had a lot of fun.

"Thanks for the ride Lydia" said Evelyn before getting out of the car. Joey wasn't there to give her a ride home so she had to hitch a ride with Lydia. They are good friends. And she lives nearby so. Evelyn started walking towards her house. Interesting thing about her house is that it's not visible to everyone. Her father keeps it hidden. Unfortunately for that, Evelyn can never invite her friends over to her house. Well, perks of being a Gemini witch.

Suddenly Evelyn noticed her brother Kai going somewhere. He's wearing a hoodie and being very careful as if he doesn't want anyone to see him. Where could he be going? Evelyn got curious and she started following Kai. He unknowingly led Evelyn into the woods. After walking for fifteen minutes, when they are quite deep into the woods, Kai stopped. What the hell is he doing here? Evelyn wondered to herself. Kai removed some leaves and rocks from the ground and revealed a secret door. Is there an underground cave down there? Evelyn couldn't tell because Kai got inside and closed the door from inside. Evelyn couldn't get inside but she sure got determined to find out what's in there. What secret could Kai possibly be keeping in there?

Evelyn came back home. Her mind filled with ideas about how she could get inside the secret cave. Sure, she could just forget about it and mind her own business. But come on, butting into each others business is what siblings do right. Especially at a young age. Besides, Evelyn has always been a sucker for solving mysteries. And that secret cave of Kai is a huge mystery for her. Evelyn made up her mind. She's going to sneak out of the house tonight and go back into the woods. Thankfully she left marks on her trail when coming back home.

The family is having dinner together. As usual Kai didn't join then. He's going to eat his dinner in his room. Come to think of it, no one goes into his room. Kai doesn't let anyone. Then why does he need a cave for? Whatever he's hiding there, he could've easily hidden it in his room. Evelyn kept thinking about it. Perhaps, whatever Kai is hiding is big enough and he can't keep it inside the house. Suddenly one of the twin started crying in their room.

"Evelyn would you please go and see what happened?" her father asked. Evelyn nodded her head and went to see what happened to the twins. There's no one in the room but Lucas is crying very hard. Evelyn picked him up and started baby talking with him. Sang lullabies. After Lucas calmed down, she put both him and Olivia to bed. Evelyn came back and finished her dinner. After that she went to bed. Evelyn and Josette share bedroom, so Evelyn couldn't sneak out until Jo fell asleep. Once she fell asleep, Evelyn cast a spell on Jo, so that she wouldn't wake up before morning. It was necessary because if Jo wakes up while she's gone, Evelyn's gonna get a hell of a lecture tomorrow from her and from her father as well and it would become impossible to sneak out at night in near future.

Evelyn got out of the house using the window. She can be a badass when she wants to be. Sighing out heavily, Evelyn started walking through the woods. Yes, she's feeling scared. But Evelyn needs to satisfy her curiosity. After some trouble, she found the spot where the underground cave is. Thankfully, the door wasn't locked with magic cause you know, Kai doesn't have magic of his own. Evelyn using her magic, opened the lock and entered the cave. She held up the flashlight she brought with her and gasped out a little. The underground cave isn't so small at all. The place is quite spacious actually. It wasn't even a cave. The place is quite well built. A person could live in here for a couple of days. There's an old broken couch, an old half broken table. Evelyn spotted water bottles and chips in a corner and candles around the place and lots of books. She picked up one book.

"Grimoire" whispered Evelyn. A book filled with spells. Kai's learning all these spells. She figured out that much. But what she couldn't figure out is why Kai has to do it in secret. Their father was never oppose to Kai learning spells. Because he can't really perform them without magic. Then why Kai comes here? What does he do here? Suddenly Evelyn heard a noise behind her. Startled she jumped and gasped out loud. She also dropped the grimoire and flashlight. Evelyn turned around quickly and came face to face with none other than Kai. It was dark but Evelyn could tell that her brother is smirking down at her. Evelyn's heartbeat increased rapidly.

"Kai" said Evelyn with fear. She gulped down her nervousness. Kai smirked more sensing that she's scared. He then snapped his fingers and all the candles lit up. Lighting up the place at once. It confused Evelyn to no limit.

"You naughty naughty Evelyn" said Kai with a dangerous gleam in his eyes.

"How did you-?" Evelyn began to ask with shaking tone of voice.

"How did I what? Used magic? Well I happen to have some magic in my system right now" said Kai titling his head a little. Evelyn got more confused. Where the hell did he get magic? Father has forbidden everyone in the family to let Kai have their magic. Joey was punished twice for disobeying father. And when father gives punishment, he can be very hard. Joey didn't dare to let Kai have some of his magic anymore after the second time punishment. Besides, it really hurts when Kai takes magic from someone. Evelyn experienced the pain once in her life when she was twelve. It's a long story.

"Who did you get magic from?" Evelyn asked with strong tone of voice this time. She's smelling something fishy. Kai sighed out heavily and shook his head.

"Oh Eve, this is what I hate the most about you. You're so god damn nosy."

Evelyn glared at Kai. She may fear him a little but Kai definitely doesn't make her shake with fear. He's her brother after all. What's the worst thing he could possibly do to her? Evelyn started thinking deeply. Where did Kai get magic? There isn't any other witch coven or a single witch living nearby them. The only source of magic for Kai is his own family. She doubted Joey let Kai have some of his magic this time. Then Evelyn's mind went back to the event in the morning. Kai's suspicious presents in the twins' room. Then Olivia crying and in the evening Lucas suddenly crying. Evelyn's eyes widened as she quickly put two and two together.

"Please tell me you aren't taking magic from the twins." Evelyn spoke with disbelieve in her voice. How could he do that? Kai on the other hand only smirked at her. Then all on a sudden, Evelyn felt a knock on her head and she dropped on the ground, unconscious. Kai slowly walked over to her and got down. He hovered over Evelyn. Kai slowly started caressing her face with the back of his fingers. As if she's very delicate and fragile.

"Oh Eve, you're too smart for your own good" said Kai out loud. He thought of something for a moment then said, "And that's just another one of the many things I hate about you."