His Dream Woman

Chapter 8: She Stole His Power

Memories flooded in Bill's head, both happy and sad memories. Bill stood by his window in his study in thought. Staring blankly into space, his hands in his trouser pocket he remembered his grandma, the person who got him through his tough childhood. 

Rose Connor, Bill's grandma helped him and guided him through the path of magical discovery and helped him develop his abilities while Bill was with her in Nevada. 

He couldn't stay with his parent in New York because his powers was getting stronger and heightened every day. And while at his grandma's, he stayed away from social gathering and was home schooled to avoid exposure. 

Though he loved his stay with his grandma, Bill missed his parent and brothers and crave to come back to New York to see them. 10 years later Bill came back home from Nevada to New York. He was nineteen years old, tall and handsome when he came back. 

As soon as he got back, his father wanted him to attend business school so he could be well vast and experience in business administration, so after spending three months at home, they enrolled Bill in one of the best business school in United states. He had to leave home again for six months to his dismay. 

He was just settling down to catch up with his brothers and spend time with his friend, Aaron. It devastated him, he would have objected and rejected the idea but he knew they also enrolled all his brothers in the same school to study business administration, no matter the course they studied in the university and the career path they choose. 

Their father believes in becoming a business savvy, his children must be able to manage the family business when they eventually take over from him. So Bill had no choice but to leave home again for business school. Six months later, Bill came out of business school with good grades. 

Upon arriving home, they gave him a welcome party. It delighted him to be back home with his family and friends. His brothers invited their old friends to the party. They partied hard till the early hours of the next day. Their friends left half drunk and exhausted from dancing and having so much fun while Bill and his brother retired to their rooms to sleep. 

Bill woke up late feeling drain and tired, he tried to rise from his bed but couldn't get up, his legs were heavy and his eyes were shinning with a blinding light, quickly his hand went to his eyes, he couldn't see anymore. 

He was about to panic when his vision cleared slowly until he could see and move his legs again. Relief washed over him as he rose from the bed to take a long shower before dressing up for the day. Putting on his boxers and underwear, he quickly wore a black tight fitted shirt on a brown slack before putting on a white trainer. He looked like a model on a fashion magazine cover but Bill was not conscious about his looks or dressing. 

He was worried because of the earlier incident; it had never happened to him before since he got his abilities. 

"What is wrong with me?" 

He mused warily before picking up his phone and called his grandma.

"Hello grams. How have you been? He asked her lovingly. 

Bill adores and love his grandparent so much and losing his grandpa at an earlier age was a great grief to him.

"Carissime how have you been dear. Are you ok?" 

His grandma greeted him using his magical name. Bill smiled warmly before speaking again. The only people on earth that knows and call him that name are his grandma and his wicca friend, Aaron. 

"Grams, this morning I had a weird experience." 

"When I woke up, I couldn't feel my legs,"

 "And my eyes were blind for some minutes before regaining them back."

" What is wrong with me grams?" He asked his grandma, feeling tensed and worried. 

He was so restless, and the lines of his face were showing.

"Oh my goodness Bill. What have you been up to. You are drawn out or slowly drawn? It might just be stress from lack of sleep. Have you been sleeping well?" She asked him quickly, sounding alarmed. 

Suddenly remembering last night party, he blurted out to his grandma. "There was a party last night grams. I stayed up till early this morning." He informed his grandma weakly as dizziness caused his head to spin. He quickly slumped down on the couch in his room and held the armrest tightly to balance himself. 

"Are you saying am stressed or tired grams?" He added, talking slowly from dizziness. 

His grandma was quiet for a while before speaking again. When she spoke she sounded rush and alarmed. 

"Bill are you dating? Or did you come in contact with any woman recently? 

Bill answered immediately, he was not dating, and he was being careful with women. He never forgot his grandma's warnings. 

"Be careful with women, they can be your downfall. Make sure she's the right one Bill." She always told him, so he was sure it couldn't be a woman. 

"No grams, it's not a woman. I've not been dating and .... I only danced with a girl yesterday. She was so persistent to dance with me. She's my friend's girlfriend. He told her weakly, his eyes glowing light wildly. 

"Grams got to go. I will call you back."He said his goodbye, cut the line and quickly dialed his friend.

"Aaron I need you. Come quickly." He told his friend before the phone slipped out of his hand. 

"Brackium emendo.. brackium emendo." Bill chanted, trying to heal his leg and hand till he couldn't talk anymore. 

There was silence in the room, no sound except the continuous ringing of his phone but Bill couldn't do anything. His energy and power was slipping away as if someone was consuming his life source. Suddenly his room door burst open, Aaron, Lisa and his brothers rushed inside

"Recipere sanitatem vestram. Anapneo anapneo anapneo..." Chatted Aaron and Lisa in unison, they chanted continuously for several minutes and suddenly Bill jerked up looking flustered but feeling his energy returning back to his body and several minutes later he was back to his normal self. 

Bill rushed on his feet, relieved. "What the f**k just happened to me?" He shouted as he looked around the room at his brothers before staring at Aaron.

"Sheila!" Aaron and Lisa muttered at the same time, glaring at no one in particular. Bill looked at them as if he's seeing them for the first time since they arrived. "Who's Sheila?" He asked furiously. She dared try to steal my powers?"

Aaron and Lisa were silent for some minutes before Lisa spoke. "Aaron's girlfriend. She's a witch and she's obsessed with acquiring more powers. She tried that s**t with Aaron last week and I warned him to stay away from her." Lisa informed them, looking unhappily and gave Aaron a slurry look.

Bill was appalled by what he just heard. Pacing his room, his hands in his pocket. 

"That is so disgusting. She must be an evil person to pull that kind of act..." Bill said angrily before turning to his friend. 

"You better stay away from her or forget about me, Aaron. I don't want anything to do with black magic because What she's doing is evil. It's black magic." He told his friend, his expression serious and angry.

Aaron raised his hand to comb through his hair as he stared blankly into space.