Next day arrived with hopes and setbacks. Shelly waited
eagerly next to the locker area for Lizzie. She knew that Lizzie never missed
the first hour of the school. She was the smart one in the group.. the one who
always grabs ‘A’ in all the subjects.
The first bell rang , indicating there was five minutes for
the first hour to start. Students started dispersing to their class. There was
chattering everywhere. The second bell rang signifying the class had started
already and all the students were required to get inside. The crowd started dwindling with few laughter
here and there. Shelly didn’t give up. She had to see her friend.
One minute was left when Lizzie arrived. Shelly was done with
lingering around her friend. “Lizzie, I need to speak to you about our trial.”
, she said excitedly. “Hush! You know the rules! We don’t speak out our secrets
loud.” , Lizzie snorted. Shelly flushed with embarrassment, “ I am sorry for
forgetting the rules but this one is urgent.” Lizzie closed her eyes in anger
and opened it with ball of fire in them. “ I said we don’t shout our secrets
loud! Which part of it don’t you understand, weirdo? I don’t change things just
like that. So when I say something, it’s final. You have no word in it! “, she
snapped at her.
Shelly nodded out of fear as well as disillusionment of why
she didn’t stand up for herself or why she didn’t walk out of this nonsense?
Instead she saw herself saying ‘yes’ to her whimsical demand. How much she wanted
to break off from her clutch. She couldn’t do it.
They walked inside the class. The school hours passed as
usual. Boring lectures on how to make life simple was getting annoying. The
school got over but torture hadn’t yet started. Shelly walked with her friends
to their usual adda for starting their spell. She wanted to leave them by
snooping towards home. But it wouldn’t work. Lizzie was too smart to spot her.
“ Guys, we would be starting our sacred ceremony today. The day
is right and time is perfect. We have all the resources. Let’s do it!”, Lizzie
said. Everyone were apprehensive at first but they were used to following their
head. However Shelly protested mildly, “ But you said that this event was going
to take place in full moon. It is not even past noon.” “ Rules change, Sweety!
Who says we should have the ceremony today.”,
Lizzie argued. No one dared to raise their hands and kept
quiet. She ordered others to the task and Shelly meekly followed her rules.
They gathered branches and lit fire on it. They stood in a
circle with Shelly standing inside the circle. They held hands and started
their proposed activity.
“ My friends, we are here to start this sacred ceremony. Let’s
close our eyes and chant the verses to call our godmother to step on our world
and be with us. Oh godmother! We are here to offer you our own member. Accept
it as our humble gift…”, Lizzie said as everyone followed what she said and
chanted the spell , they had half knowledge.
(To be continued)
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