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“Just Like Her Father »

“You are a witch?” Eva laughed. “Really…? Oh My God, your mother must be so funny. Even

when she was going to leave you, she wrote such a silly, lame excuse. Oh my God, I am going to

die laughing so hard”. Each and every letter of my mother’s letter started dancing in front of my

eyes. My blood started boiling and I felt that my head would explode if Eva kept talking like this

infront of almost all the girls of the hostel for even a minute more. I couldn’t understand but my

hands started clenching and after 5 seconds, I had punched her so strongly that she was on the

ground and then I was holding her from her throat with all the power I had. She was suffocating

but I couldn’t understand it until I came into my senses when the hostel warden pushed me away

from her. I don’t know where this power and anger came from. I, myself, am very shocked. I am

feeling guilty too. I didn’t want to harm her but this time, she had tested me with something that

is out of my patience level. How could she come inside my room without permission and read

my mother’s letter? I am very angry right now but I am still frightened for her, she was not

looking right when paramedics were taking her to the hospital. I am alone in the hostel’s head

warden’s room and waiting for the Head Warden to come and give me punishment for my

actions.

Actually, to be honest, everything is my mother’s fault. She was the one who left me and I had to

go to Child protection centre, centre for those children who don’t have anyone in this huge world,

and government, to avoid such childrens to die on road by the -21 degree celsius freezing nights

of Edmonton, Canada, put them in centres that works under Canadian child welfare system. I

was 12 when she left me and I had to go to the protection centre. She suddenly left me one day,

but she left a letter behind for me in which she wrote the reasons why she left. I found out about

the real reason for my father’s death from that letter. Actually she was a witch, yeah an actual

real witch, from a witchland named Quixone, I know it’s weird but she actually was. She fell in

love with my father while she was wandering on the Earth and she married him after telling

everything about her. 1 year later after their marriage, she took him to Quixone to make him see

the place where she lived but my father was murdered there by a rival witch group. My mother

couldn’t stay there any longer and had to come back so I could be safe as I was going to be born

in a month. After my 12th birthday, when she got sure that I could live without her and I had no

powers, that I am not a witch and I can stay here in this world safely, she left me so no one can

trace her and me here. So she left me for my safety.

For a 12 years old, that was not a good goodbye letter. I thought she was joking, she would be

her when I woke up the next day. But then I was put into the centre of the child welfare system. I

waited and waited, and didn’t accept the things she told me in the letter until… I found out when

I was 15 that I have POWERS too. To be honest, I still don’t know perfectly about all my

powers, but I know I can become invisible and I can change my appearance into anything living

whenever I want. And now I am thinking that the energy in my hands today was also something

unusual, maybe that is a power too. But anyway, I can say that I am a witch. I think because I

was half human, that’s why my powers did not appear till I was 15 and my mother thought that I

didn’t get any powers. So when I get to know about my first power, after that I have this dream

constantly, One time in every month, where I was told the way to go to the Quixone. Everytime I wake up scared because I don’t want to go there. I don’t know If i can find my Mom there or not.

But now that I am 19, I am happy here. I have a job here, friends here and I want to live my life

as a normal human being. That’s why when I heard Eva calling me a witch, I got mad with anger.

I don’t know what happened to me but I couldn’t control myself.

Eva is my classmate plus my hostel mate but if I give you a more accurate introduction, she is

my enemy, the first and probably the last enemy I have made till today. The word enemy became

a petty little word to describe her hate and contempt for me. I don’t know why she don’t like me

but it’s like that from the very first day I came to the University. She is always around me to find

any weak points in me to hurt me and today she found one. Of course, she doesn’t know that I am

actually a witch and that everything written in that letter is true too, but she will make fun of me

till the last day of our university. She is weird, I know but I hope she’s alright. Oh wait…I think

the warden is coming. I can hear someone’s footsteps.

The door opened. Eva came inside. “Eva!! What are you doing here? Are you alright…I am very

sorry I didn’t…”.’’You can’t kill a witch by a punch or two even if you are a witch yourself.” Eva

chuckled. “You were hiding yourself from the whole world but I knew If you are really Cherian’s

daughter, you will be provoked by my words and now I am damn sure about your true identity.”

she frowned and started moving towards me, «  You are an angry little witch just like your

mother.” Eva sneered venomously. “And beautiful, just like your father.” I stopped breathing.