Chapter 3:Secret
Cally's POV
Wow, I think this is officially the first time I'm early for school, when spending the night at my own house.
"Hey! Cally!" I heard Sophie yelling for me, I turned to see her running towards me, I smiled and yelled back just as dorky
"Hey Sophie!" She started running towards me, Sophie is good at allot of things, but running is not one of them, what I love best, is that she doesn't care, how many people have mocked her about it she still will run when she feels like it, like running to me, I starting running to her too. We both stopped right before we reached each other, otherwise we probably would have gotten bruises LOL. Sophie and I did our secret handshake.
"So Soph, what's up?"
"You can come over today right?" She asked, I couldn't believe how excited she was, I came over all the time. Sophie's smile stretched across her face, her brown eyes were lit up with eagerness, her cheeks were puffed out, so her smile definitely covered her whole face, she didn't have any teeth showing but still, I think this was one of the biggest smiles I have ever seen! To humor her, I decided to pretend like I wasn't sure, and rolled my eyes slowly, pretending I was thinking really hard,
"Well...hmm...I'm not quite sure." I finally answered. Sophie's smile shrank slightly and she raised her eyebrows questioningly
"Oh really? Now what in the world does Cally have planned? Hanging out with her brother?" I laughed as Sophie used the heavy sarcasm. I shook my head slightly with a grin taking over my own face.
"Nah, I can come over, I just don't get what he big deal is, you look like a kid who was just told they were going to Disneyland or something." I said with a smile
"Well, I have something HUGE to tell you! OMG I can't wait!"
"You have been keeping secrets from me? UHH" I played mock insulted " and here I thought we were best friends humph!" I over exaggerated a angry face that was obviously in jest. Sophie's -now patented- grin returned to her face and she giggled.
"Well Cally, I couldn't really tell you before I knew you could be trusted" Sophie explained
"And you didn't think I could be trusted?" I let my mouth fall open. Part of me was actually hurt, but I tried not to let the reality show, its not like I even told her my last name, I keep allot of secrets from her. But with me I already know if she even knows my surname, or the fact that I'm a witch she'll put everything together, she's smart like that. Besides it's not like she told me the big Witch secret so I think I'm on the clear there. She used her hand to close my mouth by lifting my chin.
"It's not just my decision Cally, It's a family secret, it involves everyone in my biological family, and I discussed it with them and we all decided I could tell you, and that your totally part of our family so it made since for you to know our family's biggest secret." Sophie explained, she smiled. Uh-oh I so hope that it's not the witch secret, crud, I so cant wait till tonight trying to figure out what it is, Cally-I told myself- there has to be other secrets she keeps just with her family.
"Okay…What is it? Are you guys not actually American citizens? Was your father like a spy or something? Are you like aliens from another planet? Soph, I can't wait till we get to your house, what is it?" Sophie looked around, we were in a rather secluded area of our school campus.
"It's kinda hard to just tell you I'll probably have to show you too." She took a deep breath before continuing, I held my breath and tried to look eager although I had true feelings of worry and fear. "Me and my family, well, we aren't from around here, and not just this city here, or country here, we are kinda, well from another dimension." She paused and seemed to gauge my reaction, so I though how I would be reacting and displayed that on my face: slight confusion and eagerness. Truthfully I already knew what she was talking about, she from Halloweentown, or at least her family is, and they are all witches. Truthfully, my feelings are disappointment and regret and confusion, and trying to figure out what to do, and how in the world would she react now if I told her, and that after she will official drop the big bomb, that would probably be prime time to tell her that I'm a witch…that is if I do tell her, I wanna tell her, but our families aren't exactly the best of friends, more like enemies, I mean my brother wants her family destroyed "like they destroyed our father!". He's certainly said it enough.
"The dimension We're from, we, and citizen of it like to call it 'Halloweentown' so it became the official name." Sophie added. Well actually, Halloweentown was created on Halloween and all the creatures decided it should be called Halloweentown as almost a mockery for the mortals, even though they would never really know. "The citizens of Halloweentown are like those people dress up like on Halloween, witches, ghosts, goblins, vampires, werewolves…"Sophie continued. I interrupted her, I really did not need to here everything explained to me about MY hometown from someone who only knew about it since she was six.
"So which are you? Are you a vampire? Werewolf?" I questioned, Sophie seemed slightly humored.
"No, I, and my family are witches." Sophie spoke with a matter-as-fact tone. I gasped
"Sophie, I thought you were good, I don't think I can hang out with someone who practices witchcraft…"I stuttered until she cut me off.
"Cally, I am still good, I inherited my powers, every witch/warlock I know has, Witches are just like people some are kind some are mean."
"Okay then…So warlocks are male withes right, I think I saw that on a movie." I questioned as if I didn't already know, I'm still not really lying just implying that I don't know what she's talking about, and she totally does think that I really don't know what she is talking about. Maybe I should audition for that part in the school play/musical I don't remember which it is.
"Yep." She affirmed
"I'm not quite sure about all this, so if you're a witch that you have magic powers…right?" she nodded, still trying to gauge my reactions. "can I see?" I asked like I was scared to. She smiled, then looked around, again we were secluded
"Okay, but it cant be anything too big, magic is a secret and you cant tell anyone either okay?" She asks, I nod. She then takes a deep breath, and finds her center, she faces her palms to the ground and started chanting quietly in Latin, a basic English translation is 'flower grow, grow brilliantly, grow tall, taller, beautifully' she had paused when the sunflower had grown as tall as us, she opened her eyes, and I made sure I looked astonished, noticing this Sophie smiled then counter - chanted "renevo magicus, renevo magicus, minuo minui minutrum, decreso, decreso, renevo magicus" Translation is basically undo the magic, grow smaller, undo the magic. In turn the flower sank back into the ground then completely disappeared in the grass.
"Wow." I said simply. It wasn't that amazing honestly I did that when I was 4 but a mortal would have found it amazing so I pretended to.
"So…" Sophie pleaded she may have just said one word but she knew I knew what she meant. 'how do you feel about this, you are still my best friend right? You know I'm still the same person? You know I'm good? You understand?" I'm smiled-a silent answer for the silent questions, the bell rang -talk about saved by the bell. Of course the student body went chaotic going to homeroom.
"Race you to homeroom!" I leaned over and whispered ":no magic aloud" She smiled, I did to,
"Ready, get set, GO!" We both bolted to homeroom, I beat her there by a good 2 minutes it took her a whole 4 minutes to get to class.
Once both of us were seated, as well as the whole class, Our teacher, Mrs. Jenkins started speaking .
"Okay class, this morning is study hall, you may work on any assignments that don't involve talking or excessive noise. No talking at all" Just then Sophie turned to tell me something , I noticed Mrs. Jenkins' eyes right on us, I put my finger to my mouth. "Cally, Sophie, you are not exempt from the no talking rule, I have my eye on you two." Sophie sat straight in her desk, this is not the first time the two of us have gotten scolded for talking at inappropriate times. I leaned down to my back pack and took out "To Kill a Mockingbird" I pretended to read it while I got lost in my thoughts…