Chapter Ten: Tragedy in the Past

Winter break has finally ended and its finally time to go back to school again. I did my morning routine as usual which is get ready for school, eat breakfast, go to the bus stop, and arrive at school.

Thankfully the weather is starting to get less cold like it has for the past few weeks. As I was walking, I saw Iri towards the distance. She seemed very tired. I walked up to her and asked how her Winter break was.

"Hey Iri, how's your winter break," I asked

"Well its been fun but I forgot to do my homework so I had to work on it last night, and I didn't finish it," she says

" I could help you, don't worry most of the answers were really easy and you didn't need to show work," I say, trying to reassure her

"Even if you help me, we only have ten more minutes before class starts," she says in a nervous voice.

"Well then hurry up and take your homework out so I can help you," I say

We sat at a nearby bench at the cafeteria, Iri took out her homework and a pencil. I gave her the answers while she wrote them down. Most of the questions didn't need work to be shown anyways.

When the bell rang, she quickly put back her homework and pencil into her backpack. Thankfully she needed to answer one more question which is okay since it won't lower her grade down. After school, I took the bus home.

I finished everything that I had to for the day. I was bored, as usual, and had nothing to do, Grandma was busy with her traveling so I haven't heard from her yet, Iri is taking archery lessons so she's busy as well, Myra and Lunar are offline due to a big project they had to do so they're really busy, as well.

I really had nothing to do but sometimes I lay in bed and think of what will happen if I take of my ring? Will I be able to use its powers? Why wasn't my grandmother shocked when I turned into a demon? How did she figure out a way to turn me back to normal? How does my grandmother know about the garden? Is my grandmother a demon as well? I had lots of questions that I couldn't get off my head. Although I had lots of questions in my head, the most important question that pops in my head all the time is, How did my mother die...?

My grandmother never gave me a straight answer when I asked about my mother.'s death. She said she died two years after my dad left us but she wasn't very specific. Did she die in an accident? was she killed? did she have a disease? was she poisoned? I wanted to know how my mother died. Never in my life had my grandmother had ever taken me to my mother's grave.

I always thought that my mother died due to a demon. Since it possessed me. Hours later, I checked into my grandmother's bedroom and opened 1 of her closet doors. It had a picture of Me, my grandmother, and....my mom. She looked so beautiful. I had my hair up in pigtails, and my hair was still brown. I smiled at the picture, but eventually put it back in the shelf. I finished up some homework I forgot to do and headed to the kitchen for leftovers to eat. I wasn't feeling to cook today. I checked on my laptop to see if Lunar and Myra were online. Still no one. I decided to fight a dungeon, and trade with a nearby player. I closed my laptop screen and decided to head to bed.

I wish I could see my mother again...to see her face...to know....if she was ever cursed...like me...