BeWitched

One way

Sasha Willow is your everyday 17-year-old teenage girl. She wasn't exactly partying or drinking or even falling in love like everyone else, but from the outside she looked normal.

She was actually the daughter of Miranda Willow, who's the current Beldam. A Beldam is like the "queen" of the current generation of witches. They played a more important role in the 15th century, but the tradition still remained. She used a magic amulet to bring life to her daughter because she thought men were unwanted parasites. She raised Sasha in a small coastal town and tried to hide both of them from the witch hunters. Miranda taught Sasha to be just as strong and powerful as herself, both as a woman and as a witch.

Sasha wakes up in the morning in a pretty whimsical bedroom she has. It's filled with stars and vines. She gets out of her huge-ass bed onto her moon-themed rug. She goes out to get herself ready for school in the bathroom. She puts on some black jorts, a green zip-up, white Converse, and messy black nail polish. Her mom made her some pumpkin pie for breakfast. She eats a slice, then rushes to school. Her mom insists on not using any magic-based travelling methods to get to school, not to get caught by anyone.

She gets to school slowly. First class is Chemistry. She deeply hates this subject, like, what do you mean anyone cares for what literally anything is made of on an atomic scale? She is a good student (thanks to her using thousand-year-old spirits to write homework), but she's a bit troubled. She had a few friends over the years, but none could last longer than a few months.

The day went on fast, like any other usual predictable day. After the classes, she has detention. She got it as a reward for punching a classmate in the throat after they insulted Sasha. The boy ended up in the emergency room. Someone else steps into the classroom. It was usually only her and her PSP she spent the whole time on. A beautiful girl from a year above Sasha sits down at another desk without saying anything. She starts sketching.

A few minutes later, the detention teacher has to take a call and walks out of the classroom. That's when the new girl tries to start a conversation with Sasha.

New girl:
Psst! Hey, why are you here?

Sasha:
I killed someone... JK, they survived. Barely.

New girl:
Damn... I just put graffiti in the girls' bathroom.

Sasha:
Wait, that was you? What did it say again? "The principal is a pedo Nazi"?

New girl:
A rapist, not a pedo, but yeah. I'm Esther. You?

Sasha:
Sasha Willow, at your service.

The teacher comes back in a hurry and turns towards the two girls.

Mr. Wilson:
Detention is dismissed! My wife went into labour!

Esther:
Fuck yeah! Congratulations, Mr. Wilson!

Sasha:
Aye, congrats, Mr. Wilson!

The two girls walk out of the school early, chatting about school gossip.

Sasha:
Guess that's it. See you around soon?

Esther:
I'm sure of that.

Sasha walks home while listening to music. She passes by the church. What a cult, she thinks. She always gets this burning feeling when she's near a holy place. Guess the Pope put a generational curse on her bloodline.

She arrives home to her beautiful suburban house. She calls out to her mom. No response. Sasha goes searching for her mother but couldn't find her anywhere. She went upstairs to check the bathroom and found Miranda lying on the floor. She is unconscious. Sasha cries out for help.

A few hours pass. Her mom is in bed in the master bedroom. Their close friend Samantha (who happens to be a shaman) and Sasha have a conversation in front of the bed:

Sasha:
When will she get better?

Samantha:
She needs a few weeks for the herbs to really do the work. Can you take care of her until then?

Sasha:
Of course. *frowns*

The night is quiet. Sasha is in her bedroom writing in her grimoire. She's wondering who did that horrible act. Deep down, she actually always wanted a mystery of her own. She heads down to their library and searches for a book about revelations. She brings it to their living room, opens it, and starts reading a spell to locate the one that caused harm to her mother. Suddenly, the doorbell interrupts the séance. Sasha goes to open the door, annoyed, just to find Esther with a sports bag in her hands.

Esther:
Sleepover?

Sasha:
What are you doing here?

Esther:
My mom came with some Christian bullshit again! I couldn't stay.

Sasha:
O-okay... come in.

Sasha rushes to the living room to clean up the candles. She guides Esther to her bedroom and puts down an extra blanket on the ground for the guest to sleep on.

A few hours pass with Sasha and Esther just chatting when they both realize it's 2 AM.

Esther:
I knew you were coming into my life soon.

Sasha:
What? You're an oracle?

Esther:
Noooo. I just had the feeling there is someone like me out there. Someone who isn't like the other sheep from the town.

Sasha:
Oh haha, me too.

Sasha finds it a bit fast for them to call this a friendship, since they've just met yesterday. Although there was something off about this new ally, it really interested Sasha.

Sasha goes out to the kitchen at 4 AM; everyone is already asleep. She drinks some milk from the fridge. When she closes the fridge door, a dark figure appears behind it. Sasha jumps back and almost lets out a small scream. Sasha uses her telekinetic powers to turn the lights on, just for the ghost figure to disappear immediately. She still doesn't feel safe.

She heads down into their basement filled with countless magical objects. She sits down in the middle of a pentagon carved into the stone floor. She closes her eyes and starts levitating. She is entering the astral plane. She is looking for answers. She's locating the harmer, the ghost, the reason for Esther to be here, and then it just stops. Sasha falls to the ground, getting thrown out of her meditation. One of her fists is holding something she wasn't before. A pretty antique golden key with a butterfly symbol on it.

Strange.