Chapter Seven, Beth's Little Book Of Secrets
(James) May 20th, 2067
It
has been a little over a week since Pinky asked me about Beth. I've
been trying so hard to forget about Beth, but now she's all I can think
about. It's so sad to think about her since by now she's probably ashes
on the ground where the ruins of Chicago are.
It
was a Sunday afternoon, and we never did any training or work on
Sundays so I had nothing to do. I sat in my bedroom on my bed looking at
my little wallet sized picture of Beth. Just thinking about all the
times we spent together. I tear rolled down my cheek. I missed her so
much.
I
put the picture down, and rummaged through my backpack for my old
decoding book. When my hand touched a small book I didn't recognize. I
pulled it out, and looked at it. It was a small black book with gold
lettering spelling the word DIARY on it. "I don't remember having a diary?" I thought, examining the book.
"Here goes nothing..." I opened the book. Inside the cover were the words, "This diary is the property of Beth May."
"I have Beth's diary? Oh My Gosh!" I exclaimed. "I should read it!" I said excitedly flipping the next page. Then I stopped, "Is it wrong to read a dead girls diary?" I thought, "Well she is dead...it's not like she can get mad at me for reading it...so I guess it's okay..." I opened it and read.
February 17th, 2060
"Dear
diary, I'm Beth May, and I got you for my birthday today from my dad. I
know I might be a little old to have a diary being 10 and all, but he
said it was a good way to get things off your chest by putting them in
writing.
My dad's really nice and loving, but him and mom fight a lot about her
magic. My dad always tells her it's not safe to use magic around me and
baby Rosie, but mom says she's never use it on us unless we get really
out of line. Even though she uses it on dad all the time. Whenever her
hands glow blue it means a spell is coming, but when they glow red it
means a dark spell is coming. Mom thinks me or Rosie might have
inherited magic, but dad always say he hopes not because he doesn't want
dark magic tainting us.
Today things got bad; mom and dad were mad at each other all through my
party. When all the guests were gone mom used her magic to have the
wall paper attack dad and tie him up like rope. He hung there for an
hour and mom wouldn't let me help him free! She said, 'He needs to serve
his punishment!'
Poor daddy!"
He
words hit me like a brick wall. This was why she had never wanted me to
come to her house! Her mom had magic, dark magic! Like Killian! I
couldn't believe it; the seemingly normal Beth May had a dark sorceress
for a mom!
I
had to read on now that I was in. So I flipped through, looking for more
about her family. The next few entries were about school, boys, and how
much puberty sucks. There wasn't much about her family until I hit the
entries from 2063.
January 7th, 2063
"Dear
diary it's a new year and with it more family problems. I know I
haven't talked about my family much, but things have gotten bad. My mom
and dad fight almost everyday, and mom is using her magic more and
more.
The other day she turned him into a fly and put him in a jar. He flew
around trying to escape for hour, until he fell down to the bottom of
the jar exhausted. I tried to help him, but mom used her magic to glue
me to the wall while she put a shield spell around his jar.
Eventually mom left the house to go to her book club. I think she
forgot about that or maybe she left him like that on purpose. I was
still stuck to the wall so Rosie did her best to get to dad, but she
couldn't get through the shield. I knew I needed to free dad so I prayed
that I could break the spell on me and free dad. That's when something
weird happened; when I opened my eyes after praying I was free from the
spell and my hands were glowing purple.
Rosie had a look of horror on her face, 'You can do...' Rosie trailed off. She looked like she'd just seen a ghost.
In that moment I think a something clicked inside of me because in that
moment I could feel the magic inside me. It gave me a sense of power. I
felt like if I wanted something to happen it would. I lifted my hands
up and pointed them at the shield around the jar my dad was trapped in,
and willed the magic inside me to break it. The air space where the
shield was rippled purple, and gave out a sound like shattering glass
then went silent. After that I turned my attention to the jar my dad was
in. When I looked at it the lid flew off, dad flew out, and the jar
went flying into the wall and shattered. Dad in the form of a fly flew
around frantically. I pointed my hand at him, and willed my magic to
make him become human again. The fly version of him fell to the ground
writhing as it got bigger and bigger as it morphed back into a human.
When he was fulling human again he stopped writhing, sat up, and
screamed.
'Don't ever mention that you have magic to your mother! Ever!' My dad shouted terrified."
"Beth has magic!" Oh My Gosh!" I exclaimed. In a million years I never
would have guessed Beth was anything out of the ordinary. I read on
through more entries about fights between Beth's parents, magical
occurrences, and other family affairs. Until I hit an entry from April
19th, 2064 that caught my attention at the top it read,
"R.I.P Dad."
"Maybe this could explain some things?" I said to myself. So I read it.
April 19th, 2064 "R.I.P Dad"
"I walked home from school today thinking it would be a relatively
normal Thursday, but normal doesn't describe my life ever. When I got to
my street there were police cars everywhere. I walked up to my house,
and walked in the front door. I was met with Rosie's sobs, and an
onslaught of talking. That's when I realized all the police officers
were at my house. Our house was packed with over a dozen police
officers.
Rosie ran up to me, crying, 'Beth! I was up stairs while mommy and daddy
were fighting, and I heard daddy scream. And when I came downstairs he
was on the floor not moving, and mom was standing over his body
grinning. Oh Beth! She killed him! I called the police people! I had to
mommy went after me! They got here right before she killed me! They've
got her tied up now! Beth I'm so scared! She's crazy!' Rosie sobbed into
my shirt.
"I guided her into the living room crying myself. Sure enough mom was
tied to a chair, and dad's body lay on the floor not breathing. The
police were questioning mom, 'Ma'am did you kill your husband?' The
officer asked my mom.
'You bet I did! I've wanted to for a long time! The man has deserved it
since the day I married him!" She shouted rising from her chair, 'But
I'm not going to jail for killing that piece of scum! Who I've done the
world a favor by killing! So I think it's better if you forget we had
this conversation!' Mom waved her hand and all the police officer and
Rosie faces glazed over. I tried to use my magic to reverse it, but I
felt as though the magic had been sucked from me. I felt powerless and
weak. I could do nothing about the spell.
The police officer nearest to mom turned to her and said, 'I'm sorry to
inform you your husband died of a freak heart attack, My condolences.'
Then he turned to the other police officers and said, 'Let's go boys.'
With that they left. Leaving me with a little sister who couldn't
remember how her dad died, and a crazy woman with magic. Her magic
didn't work on me anymore, that was the only leverage I had. I knew
however I'd have to pretend it did if I wanted to live.
There was only one more entry after this one, so I read the final entry.
April 21st, 2064
"Today we buried my dad. It was just me, mom, and Rosie. Nobody else
knows about his death, and mom wants to keep it that way. I didn't
understand why until I got a good look at his body, and realized the
area around his heart was glowing red. Like dark magic red. Most of the
relatives know about moms magic, and would have known he was killed by
magic, her magic. Somebody probably would have turned her in.
Goodbye diary I don't think I'll be writing anymore entries, I'll be to busy trying to make my moms life a living hell. Bye.”
Every
page after that was blank, but inside the back cover was a note that
was obviously scrawled quickly. The note was not in Beth's hand writing.
This intrigued me. It said the following.
"Dear
Beth, I love you so much I hope you know that. Your mother is going to
kill me today. I overheard her talking about it with Ms. M. last night. I
don't want to die believe me. If I could do anything about it I would,
but she's just too powerful. Tell Rosie I love her. Oh and one more thing
I left the locket I always wear in our secret spot; if she tries to
kill you use your magic to open it. It contains something even your
mother couldn't hope to defeat. I love you my dear Beth, Goodbye."
"P.S. Use this spell to open the locket: μενταγιόν ανοιχτό
"How could it be that all this time Beth had had so many secrets and I never noticed?" I thought, putting down the diary. "How?"
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