A/N-Im so sorry its been a while, ive been out of town any i am also sorry its short, but i wanted to throw in some Simon time, I dont won, dont sue blah blah, REVIEW!

Chapter Nine

The day was warm, and as hard as I tried, I could not quite pinpoint exactly why, Mother should be making it miserable out, she was angry, and why does she continue with this?

"Hey." A voice interrupted me, "Um, I was wondering Essence, if, well since you're a witch, Andrew wants You to be trained with one, but, if you wanted to, then maybe you would want to train with me, Andrew said it's no big deal…" He trailed off, looking at me, "If you want to anyways."

"Why not? I will, as you say, train with you, it sounds much better than training with the H-, Tori."

"The what, what were you going to say?"

"Nothing, nothing, a slip of the tongue is all, no worries, so when does the training start Simon?"

"When Tori and Chloe get back from Chloe's training." He said carefully, I caught him, staring at me, cautiously.

"Okay thank-you Simon, I will be there, tell Andrew I wish him the best." I smiled my best innocent smile at him before, climbing up a tall Pine tree, he walked away whispering a simple "Welcome"

It was so much better here, up out of the Humans view, out of anyone's view, the beautiful cascade of green, all around, the soft yet hard bark under my hands, and the way the tree did not scratch me, yet welcomed me. Up here, I was safe, up here I was me, and up here I was home.