Just Another Day...Sure... by Andrea Diaz (nonfiction book recommendations .TXT) 📖

When we walked in we saw the two bodies belonging to our parents under sheets. They uncovered them and when I saw their faces motionless, pale, dead, I fainted. I'm guessing Damian caught me since he was behind me. When I woke up I was in a hospital bed. Damian was in the chair next to me with his head down. 

"Damian? What happened? What time is it? Where's Oscar?" 

Once he heard me he looked up and went towards me and sat on the bed facing me. 

"Lily, how do you feel? You fainted, it was too much for you to handle. Oscar's with your Aunt Phoebe who's signing some papers. It's 9, your going to be going with your aunt to your house tonight but you might live at her house. Do you feel better?" 

"As best as I can get." 

I began to cry and he hugged me. My aunt and Oscar walked in. He let me go and stood up. Aunt Phoebe sat where he was sitting and hugged me. 

"Everything's going to be alright, don't worry about a thing." 

Aunt Phoebe was my moms sister. From the very few stories I've heard I understood they were very close until they moved to Florida. I never knew why but that doesn't matter anymore. 

When we got out of the hospital Oscar went with Aunt Phoebe and Damian drove me home. We didn't really say anything on the way there. They got there before us. I got out of the car and Damian came around to give me the keys. When he gave them to me he gave me a big hug. 

"Remember I'm here for you no matter the time or the situation." 

He gave me a kiss on the forehead then held me in his arms for a little longer. I didn't want to let go. I felt so safe in his arms. He let go of me and grabbed my hand and led me to the front door. 

"Bye" 

He gave me one last hug. 

"Please don't go." 

I held on to him, not wanting to let go. 

"I can stay for a little longer if you want. My parents are off on vacation and they won't know I got home late." 

He smiled and I managed to smile back. 

"Thanks." 

I opened the front door and we walked in. Aunt Phoebe was probably in the guest room asleep and Oscar was in his room. I closed the front door, grabbed his hand, and led him to my room. He observed my room as I grabbed some black shorts, a white T, and walked into my bathroom to change. When I got out he was looking at my collection of books. 

"I can see you like fantasy stories." 

He turned and began to stare at me. I walked towards him. 

"Don't act like you haven't seen a girl in shorts. And yes it's my favorite genre. It has always fascinated me." 

"Yes I have but none have looked half as good as you do." 

"Thank you." 

I walked towards my bed and he followed. I got under my blankets on one side and he just laid on top of the blankets on the other side. I faced him, he hugged me. I felt so safe, protected, and soon I feel asleep. He must have walked home sometime last night, since he did live about a block away, because when I woke up the next morning he wasn't there. I stayed home for the rest of the week, not going to school anyone of those days. I didn't even hear anything from Damian through out that week. I stayed in bed crying all day long, only getting up to eat, go to the bathroom, and shower. Soon we had the funeral, that's when I finally saw him again, saw all my friends. They gave me a group hug, then he gave me a hug with just us two. After the funeral I went to go see my parents car which was at the impound. I ask Damian to come with me and of course he accepted. We got to the impound and went to got check out the car. It was destroyed they should have just taken it to the dump. When Damian saw it he looked shocked. 

"What exactly happened?" 

"They hit a big truck I think." 

I told him as I began to cry as I imagined the horrible incident. Once again he looked shocked. As he hugged me I looked into his amazing sapphire eyes which was full of sadness and guilt. Why would he be guilty? It wasn't his fault. We soon went back to my house. We were going to be moving mom and dad's stuff to the attic. Aunt Phoebe and Oscar were going to be packing the stuff and I was suppose to clean the attic and make space. Damian offered to help me so we went up to the attic. Aunt Phoebe was going to move into our house so we can stay at our school and so we wouldn't have to go through moving.

The Secrets Unfold

The attic was dusty and didn't have much boxes. Most of them were mom's. Then when I was looking around I uncovered a chest. It got my attention right away. Then I saw the lock, it wasn't just any lock. This lock didn't open with a regular key. It looked like...like my necklace my mother gave me since I was very young. I grabbed onto my necklace and took it off, I put it against the lock. A light went off the chest then I heard the lock open. Damian saw the light and came near me. I opened the chest and was shocked at what it held. BOOKS! It had BOOKS! And not only books but books of magic, spells, and witchcraft. At that moment Aunt Phoebe came up to the attic to check on us. She saw the chest open, she saw me with a book in my hand. She was shocked, scared, surprised. 

"What....what are you doing? How did you get it open?" 

"It's just a chest Aunt Phoebe. Whats the big deal?" 

"You weren't suppose to see this." 

She hurried next to us, snatched the book out of my hand, closed the chest, and took my necklace off of the lock. She looked at my necklace and examined it. 

"Where did you get this?" 

I attempted to grab it but she moved it away from me. 

"It's mine. My mom gave it to me. Can I have it back?" 

"You're lying! Maria wouldn't have given this to you!" 

"Why wouldn't she?" 

"Because I told her not to! We agreed!" 

"And why would my mother listen to you on what to do with her daughter?" 

"Because your My daughter! I'm your mother!" 

I was shocked. It's not possible. She can't be. Tears began to go down my face. 

"No! Your lying to me! It's not true!" 

"I'm sorry but it's true. You weren't suppose to find out, at least not this way." 

"What did you two agree on!" 

"You weren't suppose to know!" 

She turned around and began to leave. She headed to the living room, Oscar was there sorting out dad's stuff. 

"Tell me! What did you two agree on? On not telling me I'm your daughter! Is that it!" 

Oscar stood up at that moment and faced us. 

"What did you just say?" 

"Yes and no." 

"What do you mean no?" 

"What's going on?" 

"The necklace." 

She said as she showed me her necklace. It looked just like my necklace. 

"What? How did you get... Why..." 

"It's a long story, and I already told you, you're not suppose to know." 

"I deserve to know!" 

"We just had matching necklaces, that's all." 

"And they both happen to open a chest that has spell books and witchcraft books. Tell me the truth, all of it!" 

"Lily...we...your mo...Mary and I....we're..." 

"Just say it already!" 

"We're witches! Are you happy now! Witches! And you are too!" 

"What? That's not true. It can't be." 

I suddenly realized we were both crying, tears falling down our faces. 

"I don't understand. What are you two talking about? What chest?" 

"Tell me your lying. Please." 

"I'm sorry, it's true, all of it. I wish it wasn't I wish I can say it was all a joke. I wish you didn't find out this way." 

"What about Oscar? Is he..." 

"No, I'm sorry. You two are just cousins." 

How can this happen to me? Why, why now? It's just not possible, it's not true. It all got me so mad, so angry. I burst out yelling, crying. 

"You're lying! It's not true!" 

Suddenly everything started shaking. Was it an earthquake? Aunt...I mean my mother walked to me and told me to calm down. How could I after what she just told me. 

"You're telling me to calm down after what you just said." 

"You have to calm down. Please." 

Damian came up behind me and hugged me, I completely forgot he was here. His hug made me feel so much better. I slowly calmed down and suddenly everything stopped shaking. 

Damian walked me to my room. He took me over to the bed and I sat down. He put on some music to calm me down. After a while I calmed down and was forgetting about everything that just happened when my mother walked in. She looked at Damian. 

"Can you please give us a minute?" 

He looked at me then back at her. 

"Yeah, I have to go anyways." 

He gave me a hug then left. 

"How do you feel?" 

"Why did you give me up? Who's my father? Did you not want me?" 

"Of course I wanted you. But I just couldn't take care of you. And your father isn't important." 

"Tell me the truth. What did you two agree on?" 

"When we left our home and came to Florida we agreed on never using magic again. We were hated, cursed. No one ever liked us, at least not once they found out we were witches. We wanted to start our own families but how with every man hating us. We decided to move and have a fresh start. We didn't want our children to suffer like we did so we never spoke of magic at all. The chest you found, the books they were ours. When we moved we locked them up and never opened it again. The necklaces were given to us from our mother. It is given to and only to the next generation of witches in our family. Maria wasn't suppose to give it to you because you weren't suppose to learn about this." 

"What about Oscar?" 

"He might have gotten our families looks but he took after his father. He's plain human. Normal." 

I couldn't believe what I just heard. I'm a witch! A witch! This has to be a dream. Witches only exist in the books I read. She left my room and I got ready for bed. When I was laying in bed I began to think about everything that happened today. I found out I'm my aunt's daughter and that I'm a witch. Wow! Wait! Damian! He was there all the time! He heard everything! He knows I'm a witch and he didn't freak out! How is that possible? I know he understood me but I would have freaked out if I heard someone I knew was a witch. Why didn't he freak out? Why?