Take a deep breath in, hold for ten seconds then exhale slowly. Deep breath in, slow exhale out. Clear mind, sane thoughts "Mallory" opening my eyes to look over, my arms are out as I do Warrior II pose. My eyes focus on my uncle who is in the doorway of my bedroom "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Sure" leaning backwards a bit so I can get into the reverse warrior pose.

Uncle Charlie is my very human uncle, whom I don't disclose anything with and am barely close with. Even now after living with him for a few months. He has short dark brown hair with facial hair, light colored skin and chocolate brown eyes. He stands above six foot and lives a somewhat healthy life, eating out a lot of the time since neither one of us likes doing the dishes and we don't have a dishwasher. I was going to offer to buy one but decided against it since it would have wounded his ego.

"Do you remember your cousin Bella?" He asks "My daughter?"

Staying silent having him think I'm trying to remember but I don't need reminding, I know exactly who she is "Vague memories"

"Okay" he mutters under his breath "Um...you and her use to play with Jacob Black as children" Why is he bringing her up? Last I checked she lives with her mother and her mother's boyfriend down in Arizona.

"Please get to the point" standing up turning off the music I had in the background "uncle"

That's the thing about Uncle Charlie, he gives you your space a lot of the time. He doesn't really butt into people's business which is funny since he's the chief of police and it's his job to butt into people's business if someone goes missing or something like that.

"She is moving here" What? Did he just say she's moving here? "To Forks, to live with us for a while" Okay, so I didn't mishear him. She is moving here, why? I remembered the last time I saw her she threw a tantrum about coming to Forks, hating the cold and the rain. Yet here my uncle is telling me she is willingly wanting to move here.

"Where will she sleep?" I ask

"I was hoping" he motions to the bedroom "you and her could share this room, since there's only two bedrooms here"

The Swan household isn't that big to fit that many people, living wise. Having people over, there can be people it will just end up being a bit cramped if too many people come. The max amount of people that can be here is about thirteen people, anymore people and it'll get really cramped.

The house is a two story white painted single family style home. The kitchen, a small bathroom and living room are on the main floor, you don't exactly have a dining room because what is technically the dining room is the small space between the living room and kitchen that is open since the divided wall that was up was taken down years ago to try to make the place a bit more spacious. The bathroom is small, you can't push but pull the door open since if you push it makes things more cramped. The toilet is across from the sink, with a small gap between the toilet and sink.

On the second floor is the one full sized bathroom and two bedrooms, the rooms are right next to one another with somewhat thin walls. It's why I put up a silencing bubble around the room, so Uncle Charlie doesn't listen in to anything he shouldn't.

You've also got an attic and a basement but both places are filled with boxes of old stuff, Uncle Charlie goes into the attic more since he's not comfortable with going to the basement. He thinks the basement is haunted, I mean the door to the basement is even locked. Has been for years, judging by the lock I'd say the basement has been locked for decades.

If you're wondering like I once did, Uncle Charlie and my dad shared the same bedroom that I'm currently living in. In the many years of marriage, there's only been two children to grandpa. Dad and Uncle Charlie, no other kids.

"You want us to share a room?" If we do that, then I'll need to hide all my witchy and supernatural shit. I could go down to the basement and have my things be down there.

"Yes" he nods his head "Bella isn't...coordinated when it comes to some things"

"A klutz" I ask "you mean?"

"Yes" he rubs the back of his neck "and there's no where else"

"The basement?" He stiffens at the mention of the basement, see? Scared.

"No" with a firm tone "no basement"

"Alright" looking around the room at how it's filled with my shit "I'll have to put some of my things away, maybe you could give me the key to the base"

"No" Uncle Charlie orders "You and Bella are never to head into the basement, ever" looking around at everything with a hand on his hip "there's room in the garage, even the attic"

We are silent for some time before he leaves, closing my eyes as I flip into my bed. Lifting my one hand a bit to flick my wrist having the door close then lock, fuck! I hate Bella! But I need to tolerate here because of my stupid cousin slash former stepsister Hope, if I had a choice I wouldn't be here but it was too hard being in my old life. So trying to make a new life for myself. It sucks.

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"I miss you" looking at my mother who sits next to me, a little bit away on the bed is the Enchanted Prisms Emma made.

"I know" mom lifts her hand having her fingers lightly brush over my cheek and jaw bone before pulling away "today was a particularly hard day huh?"

"You could say that" my subconscious that has formed to be mom, she tilts her head already knowing what happened. She's just waiting for me to say it "it's the upcoming Raven's father son basketball event. I thought about you. How much fun those fathers and sons had in the past, how you and I use to have that" my voice cracks as I begin to choke up a bit "you were taken too soon"

"Remember what I once said" mom offers me a smile "you are my peace Mal, I couldn't have imagined my life turning out any other way without you in it"

Nodding my head as a choked sob escapes my lips "I love you mom"

"I love you too Mallory" she leaned forward and briefly kissed the top of my head before disappearing, I wish I could speak to her again in person and not my subconscious's version of her. But we don't always get what we want.

Putting the Enchanted Prism away, will I need to keep using it? Probably. I don't know which is better this or actually physically going to therapy, I mean even before you've had many other different treatments that witches would use therapy wise besides this.

The Enchanted Prism is just one. The Prism is this pointed triangular like clear crystal at the top while the sides are smooth, you've got mini crystals of different shapes that are similar in size around the base. When the main big crystal glows, it glows this gold color while the mini crystals become a light pink color that when mixed together share this beautiful glow.

Wiping away my tears then grabbing my bag, Lucas is picking me up since I'm going to the father son basketball event. I'm the only girl on the basketball team, Coach Whitey Durham said he saw my dad's natural talent for basketball in me so he wanted me to join. It's hard since I have to hold back, given who and what I am. 

Seeing Lucas's red pick up truck that he uses to tow cars, he works at his uncle's repair shop. His Uncle Keith is a kind man, Lucas's dad Dan though? No. I don't even know or see why Karen would even go for a man like Dan, I mean if you got rid of the age and how he knocked up two women his personality sucks.

"Hey" Lucas looks my way as I put on my seatbelt closing the door "are you alright?"

Nodding my head "Yeah" looking his way, his blue eyes meeting mine. Lucas has short blonde hair with blue eyes and warm ivory skin who stands above six foot, he is a basketball player and I know he plans on being a writer one day. He's very deep with his thoughts "Are you? After what Dan said"

He clenches his teeth. Lucas shows his emotions sometimes, so you know what he's thinking sometimes. I'd like to say I never show my emotions in public like Hope, but that would be a lie. I've shown my emotions when I wish I hadn't.

"He means nothing to me" driving us away from the house "is your Uncle Charlie going to be playing beside you?"

"Yeah" everyone in Forks knows how my dad is dead but I don't talk about my mom, they assume she is gone on business trips for long periods of time like Nathan Scott's mom "So, get this? Do you remember our cousin? Bella?"

"The one" seems he vaguely remembers her like me "who threw a tantrum about coming to Forks given how rainy and cold it can become? Briefly. Why?"

"She's moving here" Lucas thankfully made it to the school and parked the truck, it takes about twenty minutes to the school from the Swan House.

Lucas looks my way baffled "What? Like she's coming back here" he points with his finger downwards "Here, here?"

"That's what Uncle Charlie said" getting out of the truck, Lucas and I walk side by side "I don't know the full story but apparently it had to do with her mom marrying her boyfriend, her mom had a boyfriend not Bella. Just clarifying if it sounded"

He nods his head "I get it...I remember her being a brat"

"I remember she stole my necklace" the very same necklace I'm wearing, it was the last thing I have of my dad before he died from a car accident.

My necklace is this silver chained heirloom that belonged to my great grandmother from my dad's paternal side. It has this pentagram shaped pendant hanging from the chain, vines with small leaves wrapped around the circle of the pentagram while in the middle of the star there's a ruby. I checked and it apparently is supposed to ward off evil spirits.

"I remember you once covered her head with mud and worms" we both smile amused at the memory, the smile goes away for Lucas when he sees Nathan and Haley hug.

Lucas hates Nathan. Nathan is his older half brother, one of them. Nathan is a bit taller than Lucas but only by a couple of inches. He has dark brown hair like his dad with blue eyes and light colored skin, I actually don't know where Lucas gets his blonde hair from. Maybe one of his grandparents since Dan has dark brown hair and the only one with blonde hair like Lucas is his older half brother Brian, Brian visits a few times a year in Forks to see Keith and to check in on Lucas. Brian has a non existent relationship with Nathan like with Lucas.

Nathan plans on going to the NBA, do what Dan wasn't able to. Dan is living his dream through Nathan because I think that is all Dan sees Nathan as. Someone to live his dream through. It's sad really.

She's helping him with his education, I listened in and briefly saw the test where he got a high score. So that's why they are hugging "She's happy he got a good grade, this is good Lucas"

"Is it?" He asks

"Yeah" he doesn't believe me "now that he's getting good grades, there's no point for Haley to tutor him anymore" taking his hand and drag him into the school "come on"