It was my 16th birthday. My brother, Caleb, and I were outside, poking at the coals of the fire. While we were waiting, my parents were in the woodshed, getting some more wood to burn. Little did I know that, on that day it would be the last time I would see my parents.
A frightening scream came from the forest. I realize, right away, that it was my parents. Caleb jumps up from his seat and tells me to stay put. Then he takes off, shifting into his grey wolf. He disappears into the shadowy woods while I sit in my seat alone. Then my hands start to tremble, and my heart begins pounding in my chest. Another minute goes by and I find myself sprinting into the dark forest. The woodshed comes into sight, and I burst into the cracked door. My heart rises in my throat and I freeze in the doorway. Laying, dead, on the floor is three wolf bodies. A smoky grey one, a cream coloured one, and a lighter grey body. My father, mother and brother. Their blood soaking into their coats, making a small creek of the red blood down towards my feet. As the rain pelts down on the tin roof, I sink to the wooden floor, my knees resting in the pool of my mothers blood, and rest my head on her shoulder. The blood staining my new, white dress. My breath is shaky, sucking in a breath of the musty air, I stand up and back away, then bumping into a body. Scared to death, I slowly turn, seeing a woman. Her hair, as black as a raven, and her eyes, a reddish-brown surrounded by a bright green. With a wave of her hand, a dark flash of light hit me. I'm out cold.
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"Hurry up Amber I don't have all day" Zale shouted at me from up stairs.
"Coming Ms. Bloodgood" I called back from the kitchen. I put her food on a plate and rushed up the stairs. I slowly opened the door trying not to spill any food, and place the platter of food on her lap. Zale looks down at her meal, disappointed by what is on her lap. She scoffs and looks back up at me.
"Next time make it a little quicker, I have important things to do with my life. Anyway, here is your chore list for today," She says, handing me a crumpled piece of paper.
"Now leave me, you filthy child." I take the list and walked out, while closing the door I said;
"Yes ms. Bloodgood." I closed the door behind me, looked down and read the note.
"Clean the kitchen, mop all floors of the house, vacuum the carpet, dust, trim hedges, clean chicken coop, collect chicken eggs, and make all beds, I'll be back by 7 pm. All chores better be done by then." Of corse another huge chore list, but I'm used to it. Zale kidnapped me one and a half years ago, on my 16th birthday now I'm almost 18. Thankfully, I won't be with her for to much longer...
The day went on and I completed my chore list, and Zale should be back anytime from work. Normally when she gets back, she heads straight to her room and falls asleep. It was completely silent until I heard a car pull in, and footsteps crunching on the newly fallen fall leaves, then the door creeks open and Zale steps in. She holds three wolf skins and two coyote.
"What are those for?" I ask almost tearing up, but she isn't worth crying over,
" Its for paying fir the food that I eat " with that she headed up stairs in her heeled boots.
I walked away and went in to my room, downstairs and in a room made of stone bricks. How could she do that? Why would she do that to my own kind? And why would she only say for her to eat? All of this made me so mad. Then I heard my inner wolf growling at the things I just thought to myself.
When I was younger, my mom and dad taught me about mates, transforming and lots of other Werewolf facts. After a while of being lost in my thoughts, it was dark out and the witch was making herself dinner, like always she'd never made anything for me, so, after her roasted turkey and boiled peas, she went up to her room. Thats when I would creep down stairs to grab a bite of bread or scraps that the witch didn't finish.
Once the witch was asleep I will kill her for killing my parents my brother, ruining my life, keeping me as a slave, never letting me leave, and killing all those innocent animals.
"Amber come here right this instant" Zale shouts from her room.
"Coming Ms. Bloodgood" I shout back I scramble up the stairs and open the door to Zales room.
"What would you like, Ms. Bloodgood?" I ask
"I would like it if you talked nice to me you awful child. What I called up here for, is that I need you to clean my bathroom. And it better be ready by the time I wakeup." I walked to Zale's bathroom and opened her door. It was so foul, and sickening I couldn't believe what I was looking at. I closed my eyes and walked in to start cleaning. Later, once I was done, I walked out to see Zale sleeping on the bed, snoring.
Thats it. I'm sick and tired of Zale treating me like garbage. I slowly crept down stairs to grab a bucket of water, because water kills witches, they can drink it but can't have it on their skin. It's like acid for them. Thats what Zale told me, anyways. I creep up the stairs trying, not to spill any water on the steps. I walk through the frame of Zales door and step by her bed, holding the water over top of her head. I look away and dump the water before anything else. I ran out of the room and out the back door...
Authors Note-
Hey I hope you like the first chapter sorry if it was short. Please keep reading and thanks for the reads.
The picture on top/on front is her family. The grey one is her brother, the near black one is her father, and the light one is her mother:) -S&A
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