8 FLASHBACK

The sunrise showed up on the horizon, in the beautiful clear sky.

Today is a special day for the De Reilly family.

They will be celebrating their twin's 15th birthday and May Eve festival.

The family woke up very early to harvest their produce on their 50 hectares farm in Carlow with the help of their farmers.

A bountiful harvest of leafy vegetables, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, sugar beets, cucumber and onions, herbs, eggs and dairies, and meat from their livestock.

The closed ties Wiccan community will come to help with the preparation of the food and some will bring in potluck for the big celebration by lunchtime and fire festival at night.

That's how the bond of their community stands amidst chaos in the human world.

Gatherings are huge in every festival and celebration.

Throughout the morning, everyone is very busy. Everyone's bustling in and out from the huge barn house.

Boisterous laughter and the smell of newly baked loaves of bread and pastries filled the air.

Different kinds of luxury cars lined up in the open garage next to the house and visitors started to pile up outside, cheerfully greeted one another.

The Wiccan community in entire Europe excelled in the human business world in terms of technology, medicine, and real estate.

And the De Reilly is one of them, they have vegetable and meat shops in all cities and towns in Ireland and owned a total of hundredths of land properties.

The twins, Caelum and Crater are very excited, to meet their friends again from different parts of Europe, after the Winter Solstice celebration.

This year's birthday celebration for them marks freedom, freedom to choose their witchcraft field of studies, and they are given the opportunity by the Wiccan community to choose their twin flame.

That is how tradition works for men in their community.

But women will wait to be chosen or some arranged by their families as they pleased.

And Caelum knows in his heart whom to choose.

Caelum is trying to find Crater in the crowd, inside their parlor room.

The house is full but not crowded since it is spacious.

Then he finally saw him talking with one of his best friends Kai, and he called him out "Hey, younger brother!" He turned to face his brother. "Excuse me guys, but I need to speak with Crater, please?" Caelum braces him on his shoulders. And everyone started to disperse to give them chance to speak.

"Caelum, what is it this time?" he said in full of annoyance.

That's my younger brother! He valued his time talking with his nerd best friends than me.

We are total opposites.

He is such a genius nerd with just quite a few human friends in school. But in our Wiccan community, he is a famous young scientist, who discovered new types of herbal teas to cure sickness.

Yes, I'm so proud of him. We are all proud of him.

But as for myself, I'm just an ordinary witch guy who could toil the land and help the plants grow in a snap and I think that's also a good business like our family does.

I ushered him out into our house, near the open garage.

Then, I started talking again "We need to talk." Then, I cleared my throat and continued. "So, you see Crater, we both know that later... Mom and Dad will let us choose our twin flame." I'm trying my best to spill out my heart's desire. This is the first time that I'm this serious.

"And?" he replied and sounding curious.

"Do you remember last year's birthday celebration? Do you remember Emirose? And she's special to me." I announced.

"Are you out of your mind, Caelum? Emirose and I have a special mutual understanding! Are you blind?" He sounded mad learning about it.

"But, you aren't in a relationship with her my younger brother. Emirose and I did!" I tried my best to be calm and controlled in the best that I can.

"No, that is not possible!" Crater replied and run back inside the house. I know he is badly hurt.

A year ago...

"Hey! Why are you here alone?" I seated next to her in front of the bonfire.

She smiled and send me shivers.

Her beauty speaks like she's from Asia, her long jet black hair, round brown eyes with ivory skin.

She's glowing in the night, her skin shimmers as the flame flickers.

"Aren't you not enjoying the festival?" I speak gently to let her feel comfortable with me.

"I... I'm fine. It's just that, I may be tired from our trip, trying to adjust to the time difference between Canada and Ireland." She said sweetly in a different accent.

Emirose is half Canadian and half Filipino. She is the same age as me. Her parents owned a huge real estate company in Canada.

And this is the first time that I have met her in the Wiccan community.

We have enjoyed our conversation about our passion and hobbies and what we look forward to in the future.

When suddenly Crater approached us "Hey, elder brother!" he said while tapping Caelum's shoulder.

He introduced himself to Emierose and she was surprised to learn that he is the famous young scientist of the Wiccan community.

Then they keep on talking and I decided to excuse myself and meet my other colleagues in our Wiccan Elite Academy.

But my mind still wondering about Emirose.

Hope I could meet her alone again later.

Everyone is participating in the ritual drama, holding torches, in traditional Wiccan traditional dresses, headdresses, and traditional make-up.

I keep looking around to search for Emirose, which is quite difficult since everyone has almost the same faces.

Then, the event was completed with merrymaking and game activities.

Then suddenly someone approached me, a beautiful lady in a white traditional dress and full of flowers and leaves at the hem.

And she started talking in her beautiful accent "Hey, Caelum! It's me, Emirose. Do you remember me?" her voice is like a melody in my ears.

"Yes, of course, I do" I replied.

"You are like a moon shining in the night beautifully" I bow down to express my respect.

And she turns red and punched me on my shoulder.

Then, I reached for her hand and asked her if we could talk somewhere privately.

Then, she nodded.

I escorted her to my favorite spot on our farm, our beautiful pond.

And we seated.

The moon shining brightly above us.

The crickets and the sounds of our livestock echo in the silence.

The music filled the air from the merrymaking activities.

Then I started to speak "Can I have a dance with you, beautiful princess? I flashed my best grin.

"Yes, sure" She smiled.

Then, we dance in the magnificent beauty of the night and the fireflies joined us in our sweet moments together.

Then, I braced her tight and asked "Do you want to see the farm from above Emi? It will surely be beautiful."

She just nodded.

I raised my right hand to summon my new gold wand and whispered in her ears "Hold tight, beautiful princess!"

Then, we fly.