Surprises!
So I followed Raven to the warehouse. And yeah, I'm pretty spooked. I arrived at the warehouse to see no one in the courtyard. Suddenly, a light flickered on. I know, I'm stupid, but I walk over to it and open the door. Only a single lamp overhead shines down. I step inside, and darkness envelopes me.
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I wake up to a man standing in front of me. Crap. I look at him.
"What the HELL am I doing here?", I yell. He just smirks at me. I realize I'm tied to a chair. Cole and Luna Stevens, a new girl who I became friends with, are next to me, also tied to chairs. Luna is a tall girl, with glasses. She's pale, with small red lips and hazel eyes and dirty blonde hair. Where the hell did he get them? They didn't follow me, I know that. Luna is still out, but Cole is waking up.
"Well, you should know.", a voice says. "Let the one on the left go." I can instantly tell who it is by the voice.
The man unties Luna, she looks murderous. Cole seems scared out his wits, still looking at the shadow. I can see why, a figure just moved! Crap. I look back to Luna and she's looking at the shadows as well. The figure just moved out of the shadows.
"You! What the HELL are you doing here?", Luna yelled, because Raven had stepped out of the shadows and unties me and Cole. Raven snaps her fingers and the whole place lights up, because we're inside a ring of fire, forming burning walls.
" Again, you should know. This is what I DO! How long does it take you to understand? Cause if you can't understand my silence, then how will you understand my words?", Raven said.
"Oh? Then where were you at dad's funeral? Is this what kept you from coming to that!? You can't live like this!!!", Luna says.
"I already said. I was in police custody and I'm the one that killed him! Why would I go to his funeral if I killed him?", Raven says, rolling her eyes. I can feel a family feud coming on. "Here. I got bored with this.", she says, pulling out the stuffed bear I mentioned earlier, and tossing it to my feet.
Luna pulled out a silver knife, identical to the one Raven has, except with a rose quartz handle, instead of turquoise. She ran over to Raven and held the blade to her throat, so Raven had to look down. I'll admit, I admire Raven in certain moments like this. She kept her face calm, composed, what with having a knife pressed to her neck, and surprisingly, actually looked like she was enjoying this. I would be scared if someone came up to me and put a knife to my throat. Oh... wait... that already happened!
"Really, now sis. One thing you should know... Don't be in a position to be so easily disarmed. Cause now I can do this..." Raven grabbed Luna's wrist and forces it away, so now the blade is in Raven's hand and at Luna's throat. "Now when I do things like this, I make sure of 3 things. 1. Painful as possible. 2. No traces. 3. No witnesses. But I don't really like getting my hands dirty."
Cole is looking shocked, and I'm pretty sure I looked the same. She turned to us, smirking.
"You two are sisters?!", Cole suddenly yelps. Raven and Luna look at each other, and roll their eyes at Cole.
"Well, duh. Weren't you listening?", Luna asked. Suddenly, Raven pulls a gold ring out of her pocket.
"Where's yours? Or are you thinking I stole it?", Raven smirks. Luna hesitates, but pulls a silver ring out of her pocket, almost identical to Raven's. Celtic knot. Irish?
"I'm older by 2 years. She's in the 6th grade, while we're in 8th. She's just in the gifted and talented. I'm the witch. She doesn't have any powers. But we both have techniques that are useful. If we're cold, we can focus our energy to become warm.", Raven said.
"But I'm the nicer one. Raven had something happen to her that made her evil. She wasn't always like this.", Luna finished. Raven? Nice? Hard to imagine.
"What happened?", the man asked. I forgot he was there...
"We'll start at the beginning, Jack. You just need to listen. We actually also had a brother. He was born with a heart condition, and he was older than us, but his condition worsened, and he died about the time Luna was born. He was 13 when Luna was born. Our family had more problems than that though. Dad was cheating on Mom. Mom was drunk most of the time. We were a dysfunctional family at our best.", Raven said. She looked at our anxious faces, nodded to Luna, and hugged Jack. He hugs her back and kisses the top of her head. Hm... I never thought she'd be the type to fall in love...
"A few weeks later, she had a fight with him, and he accused her of lying to him. He said it was her fault Ryan had died, when in reality, it was his heart condition. Raven was 5 and I was 3 when we decided to run away. Raven said we couldn't live there anymore, because it was too destructive. We went to our grandma's house for a few years, until she died of leukemia. We didn't have anywhere else to go, so we were put up for adoption. I was adopted, but Raven was still at the orphanage. I don't know what happened to make her evil, but this is the first time I've seen her in 5 years.", Luna finished, looking to her older sister for anything she may have left out. Raven nodded.
"Right. Now to explain some things. Angelina! Do you recognize him?", Raven turned to me. I shake my head. "You should know him. He knows you. Aren't half-siblings supposed to know each other?"
I am... confused. Raven just told me that she killed her dad, she almost just killed her sister, and now she's introducing me to my so-called "half-brother". Um... should I trust what she is saying? Cause I can't tell what's right and what's wrong anymore. I really can't. But she snaps her fingers and the circle of fire slowly disintegrates.
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