CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
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i. so you're a witch !

— ON MONDAY MORNING WHEN ANTHONY SWAN ROLLED OUT OF BED, he was still extremely tired.

Part of him understood that the witchy power stone had been helping him sleep, and he sort of wished it was still working.

Either way, he still had to get up and go to school.

Isabella was in the kitchen situating her binders when Tony's Iron Man socks hit the bottom step.

"Want to ride with me today?" She called while Anthony tossed his school bag next to the door and wheeled his oxygen tank to the counter so he could grab a piece of toast that had just popped up.

"Just you and me or is Eddie gonna be there too?" Tony asked, stuffing the toast in his mouth to hang from his lips while he opened the fridge.

"Just us." Bella ducked under Tony's arm to get back to the counter, grabbing orange juice out of the fridge as she went. Tony waited for her to be out of the way before he grabbed the milk carton and the glass that Bella handed to him.

They stood side by side at the counter, pouring their individual drinks.

Once Tony had a full glass, he took a few bites of the toast before handing it to Bella while he put the orange juice and milk carton away. Taking the bread back and picking up his milk, him and Bella clinked glasses before downing what was there.

"Where's Dad?" Tony asked as he used the back of his hand to wipe away his milk moustache.

"They're trying to hunt down the thing that's been causing all those attacks, so he went in earlier." Bella explained, departing to the living room to grab her keys off the coffee table.

"Ahh, I see." Tony nodded, shoving the toast back in his mouth while he rinsed his glass.

"Edward thinks they're vampires." Bella spoke.

Tony nodded, drying his hands off on a dish towel and taking a bit of toast. "So does Carlisle." He said, talking with his mouth full.

"Tony, that's disgusting." Bella's nose wrinkled, to which Tony just stuck out his tongue to put the food on better display. "Ew."

Anthony finished the toast and grabbed his bag from the doorway, slinging it over his shoulder while Bella opened the front door for him.

The two Swan siblings got into the rusty red truck and within minutes they were on their way to school.

"Didn't you wear that sweater for most of the weekend?" Bella glanced to the passenger side where Tony was playing with his sweater paws.

"Yes, your point being?" Anthony asked, not looking up from his sleeves.

"You never wear the same thing for three days." Bella pointed out.

"This is an exception, it's comfy as fuck." Tony snuggled deeper into the sweater.

"Tony..." Bella sighed with an amused smile at her brother's swearing, but didn't bother to scold him.

"So I guess you're on that relationship level where you steal each others clothes?" Isabella spoke, pointing out the fact that the sweater Tony was wearing was not, in fact, his.

"Hey man- I know for a fact that you stole Edward's sunglasses." Anthony defended.

"He has like- eight pairs. He'll live." Bella shrugged.

"It's never sunny in Forks what's even the purpose of eight pairs of sunglasses?" Tony asked, peering out the window at the rainy weather.

"I mean- they travel a lot don't they? Plus- if you have eight pairs then you don't have to worry about losing the other seven."

"Okay- technically, all of that was true." Tony stated as they pulled into the school parking lot.

It was quiet for a minute as Bella pulled into the parking spot.

"Don't forget, we're having dinner with Charlie at the Carver Cafe again tonight." Bella reminded.

Getting out of the truck, Bella bid her goodbyes and went off to find Edward while Tony spotted Jasper across the lot leaning against Emmett's Jeep, and rushed toward him.

"Hey there, cowboy." Anthony spoke up with a smile, wrapping his arms around Jasper in a hug.

Jasper smiled softly as their noses touched, "Hello, darlin'."

As always with that pet name, Tony practically melted, but he tried to keep up a flirty facade by chuckling.

"I told you, that nickname sounds so gay." Anthony whined.

Jasper laughed, leaning their foreheads together.

"Tony, we're dating."

Anthony raised an eyebrow and pulled back a few inches.

"I mean- I assumed we- I thought that we- you- I-" Jasper struggled to cover his mistake.

"Chill out, Texas." Tony laughed, and leaned forward to place a kiss on the corner of Jasper's lips.

Jasper stiffened slightly, tightening his hold on Tony while he looked over the boy's shoulder.

"What's up?" Anthony didn't bother looking behind him, still staring at the blond vampire.

Jasper's jaw tightened.

"Nothing." He lied.

Tony glanced over his own shoulder to see what Jasper was looking at, only to see a group of students huddled together and looking up at the couple every once in a while.

"Ah, yeah. Get used to that for a while." Anthony sighed. "Not only are we, deathly ill and looks like shit-" he pointed to himself. "And actually a god and looks like how hot chocolate tastes." He pointed to Jasper. "But we are also two people of the male gender. We're an odd fuckin' pair, get ready for judgement."

Anthony decidedly pulled away after placing a kiss on Jasper's jawline.

"I gotta get to class, I'll see you in history." Tony lazily mock saluted as he walked away.

"Yeah, I'll see you." Jasper muttered. "And hey, Tony." He called.

Tony turned and raised his eyebrows.

"I like your sweater."

Anthony grinned and did a mock curtsy while the blond smirked, a hint of adoration in his eyes.

— ART AND HISTORY FLEW BY LIKE A PASSING FREIGHT TRAIN, barely having enough time to appreciate the periods.

All throughout art class Anthony had been trying to discreetly come up with a nice way to ask Alice to prom.

Maybe it was the cheesy romantic in him that wanted his friend's lives to be the best they could be.

But the idea that Alice had always wanted to go to prom yet never had, gave Tony a feeling of responsibility.

He had to do something dramatic.

It just wouldn't be him otherwise.

Besides, Alice deserved the big show.

Though when he got to history it was Jasper that reminded him, Alice could see the future.

It was gonna be really difficult to surprise someone who could see the future.

So instead he just decided to put that on the back burner for now.

When Anthony and Jasper's free period came around they, like clockwork, made their way to the medical building.

They didn't really expect Reyes to be there this time. He hadn't been there for the past couple of days and they were almost convinced they'd never see him again.

And yet, it was Reyes that nervously greeted them at the door.

"Hello, Blue." Tony greeted confidently.

"Swan." Reyes offered an awkward smile as he walked with the couple to the seats.

It was silent for a few minutes before Tony broke the ice.

"Where have you been?"

Reyes cleared his throat, "Uh- I've been preparing for my sister to move in with me."

"Ah, how old is your sister?" Jasper piped up, trying to put himself in the conversation.

"She's- uh... nineteen.. twenty, I believe?" The Englishman furrowed his eyebrows in thought, avoiding eye contact as he leaned down to grab the oxygen tank.

"And she decided she needed a change of scenery? Or..."

"I'm pretty sure she just wants to get away from Mum. It doesn't take much for that woman to go mental." Reyes shrugged with a slight eye roll. "I mean- I love her, I really do- she's my mum- but she knows how to push all the wrong buttons... I'll be right back."

Once Reyes had gone to get the change of oxygen, Tony unzipped his bag and pulled out the amethyst, stuffing the rock into this pants pocket before Reyes could come back.

Gripping tight on Jasper's hand, Tony spoke up.

"Are we sure it's him?" He asked.

Jasper nodded, "Almost positive."

Anthony turned to look at Jasper, a bit of hesitation on his face.

"Almost. Meaning we could call him out for being a goddamn witch and he could call and submit us to a psych ward. Great, that makes my weekend plans a helluva lot easier." Tony stated sarcastically.

"He's the only logical person." Jasper assured.

"Yeah," Anthony sighed, trying to relax his shoulders. "I guess."

Reyes came back and it was quiet between them until Tony finally spoke up.

"Hey Reyes," he began, digging into his pocket and holding up the shiny purple amethyst to the fluorescent lights. "This doesn't happen to be yours, right?"

Reyes hummed and looked up, only for his expression and facade to fall. Quick as lightening, Reyes glanced around to see if anyone was watching while simultaneously grabbing the amethyst and shoving it into his white coat pocket.

"Don't just- pull it out- I wasn't supposed to give it to you in the first place!" He rushed.

Jasper and Tony exchanged a look, now knowing for sure that Reyes was something, and maybe their witch theory was correct.

"We've been doing a damn good job of hiding, I can't risk my entire society just because you decide to wave around an enchanted stone in public." Reyes continued.

"Sorry- enchanted?" Anthony went to ask before being hushed by Jasper, who was looking at the doorway off to the side.

"There's like- seventeen minutes until lunch, I'll explain some things then." The nurse rushed as he leaned forward again to situate Anthony's oxygen tank.

Just as he began doing that, another school nurse with blonde hair and glasses walked into the room, through the door Jasper had been looking at, and began looking through some files.

It was incredibly awkward.

— WHEN LUNCH CAME AROUND AND STUDENTS HAD PRACTICALLY FLOODED THE CAFETERIA, Reyes Jaylin sat down at the Cullen Clan's reserved table.

"So this is him?" Emmett asked.

Anthony confirmed with a nod as he plopped down next to Jasper, stealing the pudding cup off the blond's tray, knowing he wasn't going to eat it anyway.

"I'm not gonna lie," Reyes began. "I'm a bit nervous to be sitting with a coven of vampires... we aren't really supposed to interact with anyone outside our kind." Reyes glanced around the table. "But, I can tell you're somewhat safe."

Rosalie leaned forward with a glare, "Are you sure?"

"Your eyes are gold and you're all friends with a dying cancer patient." Reyes pointed out.

Emmett shrugged with a laugh, "I mean- he isn't wrong."

"How did you figure it out? Me being a witch, I mean." Reyes asked, looking at Anthony.

"Your glowing rock kinda gave it away." Bella stated as she sat down at the table next to Edward.

"Glowing-... damn it." Reyes' face fell and he laid his forehead against the table. "Damn it. Damn it. Damn it." With each 'damn it' he continued to smack his head against the table, making the wood vibrate with hollow sound.

"What is it?" Alice asked.

Reyes groaned in response, not lifting his head, "I'm a disappointment."

"Why's that?" Tony asked nonchalantly, grabbing a white plastic spoon to eat the pudding cup with.

"The enchantment wore off. I thought I was better than that." He whined.

"Okay- explain." Jasper leaned back in his seat, throwing an arm on the back of Tony's.

"I'm so gonna get trialed for this-... basically, yeah, witches are a thing, big whoop." Reyes started, still upset about the enchantment thing wearing off, or whatever it was.

"Hang on- why are you called witches?" Emmett asked. "Why wouldn't you be a wizard or warlock or something?"

"Uh, because we don't revolve around gender and it hasn't been changed from  'witches' since the Salem trials. Maybe the council is just lazy, I'm not sure- and before you ask, getting trialed today is not the same as the Salem trials, it's completely different." Reyes rambled, still slightly nervous in the presence of all these vampires.

"But um... yeah. Essentially we've got the blood of druids in our systems which gives us our element abilities and also helps us to enchant certain healing properties for them to actually work. That why I gave you the amethyst. There's nothing that can cure cancer but I figured maybe if you could actually sleep you'd feel a bit better? I was really only trying to help."

"Yeah, man. It did help, thank you." Anthony nodded, offering a smile while he leaned up against Jasper.

Alice moved to the edge of her seat, very invested in learning witch culture, "I did some reading, but there's not a lot about witches- you said you have 'elemental abilities'? Is that specific to one element?"

Reyes had pulled a sandwich in a ziplock bag out of his shoulder bag and took a bite while he nodded.

"Uh.. as witches we're all- I guess, for lack of a better term, 'granted' with an element. There are the elements that are seen as more powerful like... fire, earth, darkness and water- stuff like that. They're higher class. Then there's the 'lesser' elements like bugs, specific metals, grass, some just have an element of beauty." He paused to take another bite.

"My sister, Delphine, she's got water. A higher classed element. She hardly ever practices and yet she's still a damn hero." Reyes glared bitterly at the ziplock bag on the table.

"I'm guessing you're a lower classed?" Rosalie spoke.

Reyes looked down, embarrassed.

"Feathers. I have a lower classed element of feathers." He sighed, rubbing his eyes. "I practice constantly but I'm still at a level of manipulation, not conjuration... and obviously my enchantments are shit as well."

"Hey, no worries, you'll get there." Emmett tried to support.

"Thank you." Reyes smiled, glancing around the table again.

It took only seconds of silence for Alice to jump back into conversation, curious about witches and asking a billion questions.

author's note

Uhhh I feel like this wasn't a great chapter, I've been trying to get plans out for the rest of WDWG and for the new moon sequel 😬

I changed around my profile completely, sorry if it confuses people. Let me know what you think of it though, personally I like it better than my old one.

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