Everything was fuzzy. I could hear voices but couldn't make out the words clearly. Pain was in my whole body, like something was cutting me inside out. I tried to scream for help, but I couldn't open my mouth and I couldn't make a noise.
"Mom, we are going to find out what happened. Billie is going to take us back to watch and we will find out what happened, how she froze us and how she let the demon get close to her and poison her."
"I knew it was a bad idea to let you take her with. It should have been Phoebe, Paige and I that had gone to find out more about her. Not you three."
"Mom, calm down! We are going to fix it, make her better!"
Mom! Mom! Mom, help me! Dad, Wyatt, Chris, anyone! Please why can I not move, why can I not wake up? Mommy, Daddy, please.
Then the voices were gone and I was sitting in a white room all alone. Hello! Anyone here? Hello? Can anyone help me? Please…
Hello sweets, how are you holding up? Like my poison trick, doesn't hurt me but it hurts whoever I kiss or touch. I created it, being The Creationist that I am.
What is a Creationist?
The Creationist.
And what is that?
'Life is my creation,
Is my best friend,
Imagination
Is my defense,
And I'll keep walking
When skies are grey
Whatever happens was meant that way'
You will know soon, you cannot stay much longer; you are going to be waking up soon. The poison does not last that long.
What are you talking about?
And you will not remember everything coming from me, but you will remember what I have said.
"Mom! She's waking up!" Wyatt said as he stood to face the doorway and to give me room.
I sat up fast and started coughing as my family came orbbing into the living room.
"Honey, oh Melinda!" my mom said as she tackled me into a hug with my dad.
"Mom, I need air, breathing is kind of hard!"
"Sorry," she said as she and my dad sat next to me. "You had so scared! Don't you ever do that again, you understand me."
"I'm so sorry, mom, but I didn't know what was going to happen to me when I was with them, but you know that any day could be our last, you know that better then us. And I feel fine, better even then before I went."
"You're going to go to the doctor and have them make sure that you are okay?"
"Mom, what are you tell them, that I was poisoned? By what, a demon, a foreign
Demon?"
"Foreign, how do you know that?"
"I heard her talk, she had an accent, the way that she pronounced her words, the way that she sung them to me when she had them frozen and me alone. She was so calm, so relaxed and so beautiful, creepily beautiful; she also said something about a pet bat and a pet cat. And she didn't want them, Penny and Pearl; she wanted me, my power, don't understand that because Wyatt and Chris have more powers then me, Penny and Pearl have more powers then me, maybe she just wants mine to get to all of yours. But she seemed certain that I was the one that she wanted. I don't know anymore, my head hurts," I said as I laid my head in my hands and my mother rubbed my back and my dad got up and had Chris orb him up to the Elders.
"Honey, we are going to find out what happened to you. Wyatt, please orb her up to her room, honey you need to rest."
"Mom…"
"Honey, please rest, we can talk about this later."
Once Wyatt brought me up to my room he left to go to Madison and Bianca and to tell them that I was awake.
I sat on my bed for a while just staring into space thinking about what happened when I was sleeping, or knocked out by the poison. But then I had an idea for a song, lame, as it was that I wanted to write about The Creationist but it seemed to work as the title of a song.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Days later at P3~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I had rewritten a song that I had been working on a few months ago and the band seemed to enjoy the new version that I had them learn to play tonight, but it had taken hours so convince my mother that I was well and that I could play.
The band started the music and then I started singing:
"This is an old and funny poem
I accidentally overheard
It keeps the little children playing
And bigger children spread the word
My memory is bad
So I always tend to forget how it goes
But
Life is my creation
Is my best friend
Imagination
Is my defense
And I'll keep walking
When skies are grey
Whatever happens was meant that way
You're no better or no worse than the others
We are all the same
And life is just a moment
You might as well enjoy this day
It's time to start believing
That everything you want is on its way
And
Life is my creation
Is my best friend
Imagination
Is my defense
And I'll keep walking
When skies are grey
Whatever happens was meant that way
We'll be growing
Into knowing
While we're floating
Keep on going
Life is my creation
Is my best friend
Imagination
Is my defense
And I'll keep walking
When skies are grey
Whatever happens was meant that way
I'm a creationist
Oh, I'm a creationist
This is an old and funny
Poem that I accidentally overheard"
I looked down at my mom and dad and brothers and other family members before I exited of the stage and went to join them for the rest of the night before I had to go home.
During that time Toby came up to me, he had a stupid crush, because as Prue said, "No Cupid is involved at the time, could happen but none yet." But he is sweet and nice and cute so I put up with the consent flirty, not that it is a bad thing.
"Hey, Mel, want to dance?"
"Sure, Toby, just give me a minute," I said as I put my bag back behind the bar with my mom and Wyatt. I turned around and grabbed his hand as he pulled me onto the dance floor.
The song was a fun upbeat song by Hope Partlow called 'Who We Are'.
'I don't want to put on my make up
Just like every girl in a magazine
That's not who I am when I wake up
That's not who I want to be
There's so much more to me than
Meets the eye
In this life
I know one thing
It doesn't really matter what you wear
Let the people stare
Cuz we are who we are who we are who we are
It doesn't really matter what car you drive
It's good to be alive
Yeah we are who we are who we are who we are
Who we are'
I had heard this song before. On the radio or something but I had liked it and I still did, the beat was fun and it fit me.
'Tell me baby do I look like the real thing
Or would you change the color of my eyes
Tell me why my television's filling me with lies
It doesn't really matter what you wear
Let the people stare
Cuz we are who we are who we are who we are
It doesn't really matter what car you drive
It's good to be alive
Yeah we are who we are who we are who we are'
I looked at Toby and realized that out of the people that he hung out with at school he stayed with me, the girl that took off and missed a class daily because she just disappeared or that I had a secret and everyone knew that I had one and they all wanted to figure out what was wrong with the freak. He could be dancing with a cheerleader, but he chooses the girl that hid things from him.
There is beauty on the inside
Yeah you're beautiful
All right!
Though it doesn't really matter what you wear
Let the people stare
Cuz we are who we are who we are who we are
It doesn't really matter what car you drive
It's good to be alive
Yeah we are who we are who we are who we are
It doesn't really matter what you wear
Let the people stare (it's good to be alive good to be alive)
Doesn't really matter what car you drive
It's good to be alive (who we are)
Yeah we are who we are who we are who we are
Who we are (it's good to be alive good to be alive)
When we are who we are'
I was who I was and that didn't bother him, maybe this could work. I let him lead me back to my seat.
"What are you thinking about Mel?"
I looked up at him and smiled, "about how much fun it is hanging out with you."
He just smiled as he got up to leave, "have your phone on later Halliwell, I think that I am going to call you." With that he kissed my cheek like always but this time he hit the corner of my mouth as well, making me blush.
Later when I got home, when my mom and I were sitting on my bed talking about the band gig that we had, I remember something that I hadn't told them before.
"Mom, that demon that put me under, she wanted to call me 'love' but I told her 'no' and the next name she wanted to call me was 'sweet' and when I tried to tell her no, I couldn't say anything. My voice was gone. So know I think that she is calling me 'sweet' or 'sweets' or something like that."
"Honey, are you sure?"
"Yeah mom, I am positive, she called me it before she poisoned me."
"Well, honey, get some sleep, you look exhausted and I don't want to sleeping past noon today, okay?"
"Okay mom, night," I said as she left the room to go to bed too.
I sat on my bed and looked at my phone sitting on my headboard, and turned off my lamp before I lay down and closed my eyes to sleep. But then the phone rang. The number was Toby's.
"Hey Toby," I said as I sat back up and turned on a lamp.
"Hey Mel, just calling to say goodnight and sleep well, and telling you that I am going to stop over tomorrow around one to hang out, unless your mom is having you do chores. Is she?"
"Yep, but I would love the company while working."
"Cool, see you then"
With that I hung up and put the phone down and turned off the lamp again and laid down and fell asleep.