The Crystal by Jones M (ready to read books .TXT) 📖

be here all of the time and we'll come visit you!"

Say what? I did not mean that! Crap! That means they'll be around more frequently! I need to fix this!

"Were you guys listening? I told you I needed time away from you to heal!" I screamed in disbelief.

"But Emery, the past we shared is negative," Logan said. I turned to face him and nodded, waiting for him to continue what he was saying. "If you hang out with us, and we replace those awful memories with good ones, it will improve your healing process, and you'll forgive us in no time."

I went to speak, but I stopped myself to think it over. Logan was imagining things that seemed impossible. 

Would my therapist actually allow me to spend time with the reasons that I was actually seeing her? She knew that they brought out my bad self. I knew she would say that if I was ready, I could hang out with the boys.

I went to say what I had been thinking when Liam gasped.

"Crap! We have a meeting with Simon in an hour!" he said as he observed the time on his watch.

"Bye, Emery!" he and the rest of his bandmates said at once before teleporting away from Crystalia in the form of blue stardust.

What the hell just happened?

I shrugged, deciding to tell the boys what I had been thinking when they would seek me again.

 

Third person's P.O.V

An erwich stood at the top of a mountain peak, staring down at the sight of Crystalia. An erboon flew towards him, landing on the space left on the peak.

"How did it all go?" he asked.

"It went well. They believe someone is controlling us," the erboon said with a deep voice.

"Good," the erwich said. "Let's just wait and see what will happen. It wouldn't be long until someone comes after us. They'll be walking right into our trap."
With that, the erwich grabbed onto one of the erboon's hind legs. The erboon flew high into the sky before taking them to Eva's castle.

CHAPTER 09

Harry's P.O.V

After the talk my bandmates and I had with Emery, my mind was open to other things. It decided to focus on the creatures I had earlier seen. The attack might have been over, but I had trouble in accepting what had occurred. 

It couldn't be real. It just couldn't be real. It was bad enough that I had to face the possibility of an erwich attack. I didn't want to face whatever that creature was.

Ever since the guys and I discovered that we were witches, we were a bit alert. 

Okay, we were highly alert. We were still trying to accept the witch world and whatever else came with it. We worried and we feared the possibility of sudden attacks from erwiches. At times, it got so ridiculous that we could hardly sleep. That was bad for the tour. As a result, we became irritable towards one another and other people, so we decided to shorten the conversations we had with everyone we knew.

It wasn't until four days ago when Martin, one of the witches who was sent to protect us, explained that erwiches also slept.

"It's not like they are forever awake," he had said. He also stated that they couldn't expose themselves to the humans. It was an order from their queen or ruler or whatever.

The guys and I felt stupid for even thinking that we were in danger 24/7. After that, we slowly went back to our regular sleeping schedules, even though there was the flying baboon incident.

 I can't say it was a baboon for sure. Most of the time, I mistook them for other primates. It looked like a baboon, but with its massive size, it definitely took a familiarization to a gorilla.

To make things more surprising, my bandmates and I did not know much about witches and Crystalia. We only knew parts of a story about Eva, the crystals and their histories, the existence of erwiches and then the flying animals. We had chances to ask the guards from Crystalia who were with us during our tour, but we were either too busy with the tour or too tired to ask.

The talk we had with Emery was another chance to ask about the witches. However, we had a meeting in about an hour.

Just my luck.

On the bright side, we had a chance to talk to Emery. We understood her feelings and agreed to give her time. I doubted any of us would try to befriend her, especially because of our history. I just hoped she would find it in her heart to forgive us.

"Harry, come on!" Liam shouted at me, urging me back to the present. We had orbed into an alley outside our hotel in Los Angeles. After Los Angeles, our tour would proceed to Chicago where we would perform for a week.

"I'm right behind you!" I followed him and the rest of the guys to the hotel where we would be having a video chat with our boss.

One week later

Third person's P.O.V

"I can't believe it didn't work!" an erwich said as he looked around Eva's castle. The other erwiches moved away from him, afraid of what he would do in his wrath. He threw a fireball at a wall, almost hitting one of the erwiches. They scurried away from him just when an erboon flew down to the open courtyard where he and the rest of the erwiches were.

"Travinge, what else would we have to do to get those damn witches up here?" the erwich directed the question to the erboon that had just landed. The erboon scratched its furry head with a claw before shrugging.

The erwich sighed as he closed his eyes. His eyes suddenly opened as an idea formed in his head.

"I need you to gather four of your best erboons. I have a plan, and this time, they'll be coming for us."

The erboon nodded before taking off to carry the duty.

Emery's P.O.V

Everything seemed to have gone back to normal. In the past week, the Queen ordered every witch to stay around, just in case the erwiches or the erboons decided to strike. Seeing that Crystalia didn't have any attacks during that time, the witches who resided on earth were allowed to leave. Selena and I, among many, did without any second thought.

We had jobs to do, and we had about a month before we went to college. The Queen had told us time and again that she was willing to pay for our college funds, but Selena and I adamantly refused because we wanted to learn to be independent. We also wanted to learn more about the world around us, seeing that we were once loners in high school. Also, Selena felt weird about receiving money from her boyfriend's mother.

"Emery, please handle that table," Rachel said as she went to the counter, bringing my mind back to my surroundings. It was a busy morning, and the tips were thankfully coming in. We were thirty minutes away from our lunch break, and at least that time, we did not have to close the café when we were on break.

During the fortnight that Selena and I were absent from work, the boss decided to hire more people. I didn't know how to feel about that. I just hoped the salary we earned wouldn't be reduced.

I walked over to a table of four girls. They all had dirty blonde hair and they wore blue Ordinary Brothers T-shirts and black denim jeans. They were laughing, talking and giggling.

"I can't wait to go to the Ordinary Brothers' concert! Maybe the universe will make Ethan notice me, and we would be married and have beautiful blonde babies," one of the girls said. I rolled my eyes at her and felt like gagging. She wouldn't have been saying that if she knew what her precious Ethan put me through.

Also, the universe did not know how to grant wishes. It was why I became the crystal in the first place.

I forced my focus to my surroundings before I introduced myself, "Hello. I'm Emery, and I'll be your waitress for today. What can I get you?"

The girls stated their orders before I began walking to the counter. Once I gave a colleague the order and started waiting, I decided to look around the area to see any unattended customer. There was no one who wasn't serviced, so I got a chance to go back to my thoughts.

The four girls in the café reminded me of the last conversation I had with the boys. I still couldn't believe they took off before I had a say. I relayed to Justin and Erick what had happened. They were both conflicted on what to do, just like I was. Then they did the most shocking thing I had never expected them to do. 

They butted out of it.

I sighed, checking if the girls' orders were ready. They weren't, and so I looked outside through the black tinted glass walls. Something large and grayish-black zoomed past the street. It moved so fast, I couldn't identify what it was.

That was strange. Maybe it was a fly. But that would have been some kind of huge fly.

I walked towards the tinted door, planning to exit the café momentarily to search for the figure that had passed by. On my way to the door, I saw a familiar figure fly past the street. On that time, I got a good look at it. My mouth opened in shock as my eyes widened. My left hand instantly went to cover my mouth. Then two other creatures of the same kind flew past the street.

"Oh no. This is bad. How did they even get here?" I asked no one in particular as worry took over my form. The barista next to me gave me a weird look. I was glad she didn't see what had just flown by. The creatures were supposed to stay in Crystalia! 

My hands reached into one of my pockets for my phone. Once I held it, I instantly dialed Erick's number. It had ringed thrice before he answered.

"Hello?"

"Erick, there are erboons in New York," I replied with a worried tone. The same barista gave me a weird look, making me move to avoid her.

There was silence on the other end. I understood that Erick was surprised by the words I spoke, but the situation needed to be controlled immediately.

"Erick!"

"I'm sorry, Emery. I can't come at the moment. I have duties to attend to. I'll tell my mother what is going on. Also, Justin is free. I can send him in." With that, Erick hung up. I stared at my phone in shock. 

He hung up on me!

I was mad at Erick. What duties were too important to deal with when freaking erboons were in New York? Didn't he understand the dire of the situation? If one person saw, or worse, recorded the erboons, magic could be exposed.

I didn't have time for such a reaction! I shrugged my thoughts away before heading to Selena. She was in the kitchen.

"Justin already told me," she said once we met eyes. I nodded in surprise, going out of the kitchen with her. We changed out of our work uniforms. Then we went towards Rachel. She had observed us and our facial expressions before she groaned.

"You need me to cover your shifts, don't you?" she asked, taking the question right out of our mouths. We nodded our heads in agreement.

"Fine! But you owe me one. No, two," she said before letting us go. The boss wasn't around, and so it was easy to leave without being noticed. Once we were outside, we started looking around for any signs of erboons.

"I hate this. It wasn't the way I expected my first day back to work to be," Selena said.

"Me too," I replied. "But you have to agree. This is kind of fun." Selena sent me death glares. A screeching sound pierced through the clear day sky, abruptly ending our conversation. We both turned to face upwards to see two erboons. They were flying in a circle around a building like vultures flying over a dying animal in the desert. The only difference was the erboons were bigger and more noticeable.

I panicked, looking around for anyone who noticed them. Apparently, the streets of New York were too busy to notice the flying