NEW BEGININGS

A teenage girl with brown curly hair and Beige colored skin walked out of a van clutching her small purse as her hair and dress flew around from the strong breeze. Soon after, a pale-skinned boy that looked like he was around her age came out of the driver's seat and asked "Should I help you with you the luggage?"

"Don't worry, I can get it myself," said the girl.

"Nah, don't worry Isabelle I got it," said the boy.

"Thanks for giving me a ride Zane," said Isabelle.

"No problem," said Zane. After an awkward pause, he continued and said "Sorry about your grandma, I know she was the last family you have left."

"Thanks," said Isabelle.

As he brought her luggage out of the trunk, an older black woman came out of the front door of the house they were parked in front of.

Once she saw them she said, "Thanks for helping me pick her up, my car got totaled this morning when some idiot crashed into me."

"No problem," said Zane.

"Hey Shauna," said Isabelle with a smile and a small wave of her hand.

"Hi Isabelle, how was your bus ride," said Shauna.

"It was ok," said Isabelle.

Noticing the awkward tension between the two of them Zane said "Ummm... I gotta go run some errands, Isa text me tomorrow when you get to school bye miss Bordeaux ." after he said this he hopped in his van and drove off.

Shortly after he left, Isabelle pulled one of her suitcases and Shauna grabbed the other and they proceeded to go into Shauna's small homey house.

Shauna gave her a quick tour of the house and they dropped her luggage in her new room and asked her to come to the kitchen and that her daughter, Abby was finishing off dinner.

By the time they reached the dining room, Abby had already dished out the food. When she saw Isa she dropped the bowl and went to hug her. She then asked, "are you ok?"

"I'm fine, I spent the summer with my aunt and I had a lot of time to grieve," said Isabelle.

"well if you need anything were here for you, I know your mom was just my step sister and we never really saw eye to eye but..." said Shauna, but she was cut off by Isabelle who said, "let's just start over and let bygones be, plus dinners getting cold."

Shauna and Abby both nodded their heads and started dinner after that they all went to their respective rooms and turned in for the night.

Meanwhile, back at Zane's house, he was having an even more awkward family dinner with his uncle and his twenty-something year old girlfriend.

Zane stared at his plate of badly cooked mac and cheese as he watched his uncle and the girl who looked like she could be in the same class with him make eyes at each other.

After enduring it for a while he said "Umm, I need to turn in I've got homework."

"But you've barely touched your food," said the young lady.

"It's okay, Celine, I'm full," said Zane.

He stood up and was about to leave when he looked towards the tv and saw a news headline about a girl that was around his age that was murdered and found in the woods the investigators suspected that it was a precise preplanned murder from how they were specific knife cuts on her neck.

As soon as Celine saw this she looked distressed and when she noticed the two men had noticed her expression she said she was squeamish and that she needed to go get some fresh air outside.

Once she got outside as far away from them as possible she brought out her phone and started a call, "Hello, Erika are you and Percy crazy how dare you two start the ritual without my permission. We haven't even found the last piece of the ritual yet." said Celine.

"Actually the last piece just walked right into town today, now you can do it and get our powers back," said Erika.

"Wait that's amazing news, but it has to be precise or nature won't accept the sacrifice no more screwing around from now on ok," said Celine.

"Bitch please I was just trying to move your slow ass along, and stop bitching at me for being impatient at least you still have some of your magic, My aging process has kicked in I look like a fifty year-old woman!" said Erika.

Then Celine laughed and said, "So you have run out of magical trinkets to keep you young."

Erika replied by saying, "What little magic artifacts survived are losing their power with time and I refuse to be a bag of bones and.." but before she could finish Celine heard Zane's uncle Dave call for her, and then she cut her off and said, " Talk to you later, bye," and then she looked around and went back inside.