Daughter of Ipswich
Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
Awakening
"What, Pogue?" I asked annoyed that he was just starring at me. But he had been starring at me for almost an hour now, which he had never done before.
"Pogue? Celeste?"
My twin brother and I both looked up, and saw Caleb, our mother, and Caleb's mother, Evelyn, standing in the door way looking at us.
"Yes?" I answered politely, closing my seventh grade World Geography textbook.
"Caleb is over here to play." My mother answered, but I could tell this was a coded message, that I didn't exactly get, but then again she had been acting funny, since I had discovered an old book, holding information about our family line. Well...actually since mine and Pogue's thirteenth birthday.
With that Caleb's mother nudged a quiet Caleb into the study, where Pogue and I had been sitting for hours doing our homework. Actually I was probably the only one doing homework, since Pogue seemed to have turned into a zombie.
Then they shut the door, and left Pogue, Caleb, and I in silence.
Caleb slowly made his way over to Pogue, and sat down next to him, not saying a work, but biting his cheek.
Caleb had been acting weird since his thirteenth birthday, but I naturally thought that he was getting older, and had better, or more important, things on his mind. After all Caleb, Reid, Tyler, Pogue, and I were starting to go through puberty, at the same time, and it was becoming awkward to do a lot of the things we had done before, when we were younger.
So, I went back to my homework, ignoring Caleb's and Pogue's intense stares at me.
But the longer they stared at me, the more anxious I became, the more I had begun to think that they had found out about my secrets. How I had a crush on Caleb, how Reid had already kissed me, how I had my period, and how I found that I these weird things happening to me. Like I could do…magic. Or at least that is what I thought it was, after reading our family history, before my mother snatched it out of my hands.
"Happy Belated Birthday," Caleb spoke quietly to Pogue and me.
"Thanks, dude." Pogue whispered back to him, while I nodded in politeness, writing down my answer from my homework. But I was still upset by the fact my father wouldn't allow Pogue and I have a birthday party.
Suddenly Pogue whispered with urgency to Caleb, completely turning his body, so I couldn't see his face," Did it happen to you?"
"Yeah," Caleb answered quietly, making me look at both of them with curiosity.
"What happened?" I loudly questioned both of them, confused by their question and answer. I was just hopping it wasn't anything gross.
Pogue looked back at me and bluntly answered," Magic, Celeste. You remember all those stories about the witch trails and everything. It's real. Caleb and I have magic powers."
At first I felt a wave of reassurance go over me, and I was about to tell them what was happening to me. But then-
"Only the first born son of each generation, in each family, gets the powers." Caleb explained quietly, looking up at me.
"Oh," I whispered quietly, pretending to act stunned and confused, but really I felt heart broken on the inside.
Maybe I was just seeing things. Maybe Pogue had been doing all of the things I had seen. Or maybe…I was really a witch. But who would believe? The answer, no one would. Not even my own twin brother.