Woods Cabin Nights

Her life before

My granny died two years ago, before that we used to go to town together. Since my parents disappearance I've always been with her and the image of my parents vanished from my head an a early age, they left me when I was 4 at the hands of a 45 year old woman whose child had left her 8 years before and that child then a man one day came in with a strange woman and a little Istar.

Both left little Istar and left never to be seen again. I lived with her 18 years and she never allowed me to come near any person besides the sheriff and some regulars from her services, she was an herbalist and taught me everything she knew. She knew she were dying I know now 'cause she left me an enormous quantity of money. I'm still attending some of her old clients. I've never knew why, apart from the fact that some think that I'm a witch, her clients never talk to me more than necessary but they know better that our work is based just on herbs. I've tried but they dodge any attempt of me to build a conversation and when everything is done they left.

Today I went to town I drove the not so old truck from the 10 that granny bought when I was fifteen she though that if I'll start learning to drive it'll better be in a good shape vehicle and not her old truck "Sandy the black" from the 60's that had being living more than even my granny.

I park at the parking lot of the market the only one big enough to be considered and head to take a shopping car. As always people stare at me and when I turn to say hi they just turn their heads and walk away. I should be used to it but I'm not. Once a boy was trying to be my friend but granny find out and the boy never approached me again I was so devasted that I stop talking to granny for two days. She then came to my room and told me that that boy didn't have good intentions so she did make him stay away from me, his name is Sam. Sometimes I see him around when I come to town but he never tries to talk to me again, he is now married to Larah, I don't know her but I heard her name once when I was shopping and came across their path, she has a baby, I'd love to have one, a family, a husband and kids to love and fill my lonely days with happiness and love.

I know I'll end up alone, nobody even tries to say a word to me more than it's necessary. I spend all my days watching television, reading books and making the potions and medicines that my clients require.

I head to take what I need for the next month and a little more cause autumn is ending and the rains could make impossible to come to town some days. I'm deciding which cereals to choose when a little girl come closer to me. Pulls the hem of my dress to catch my attention.

-Mommy said you are a witch, are u a good one or a bad one?

She ask me with her innocent eyes, she is barely six... I guess.

-I'm one of the good ones-. I tell to her. it's not new to me that some locals think of me that way based on what I do for them.

-I knew it! Bad witches can't be as pretty as angels.

-Thanks gorgeous, where's your mommy? You should not separate from her....

-Layla! Stay away from that woman!-. Shouts a woman through the hallway and came running to her child, she looks at me with hatred and fear and takes the kid by her hand and walk away from me.

As I said I should be used to it but I'm not, this is the first time that a kid talk to me and the gaze that her mother gave me made me feel like I'm some monster.

I try to forget that for the moment and end buying everything I need and head to pay.

The people in line let me pass, another firs one, they always ignored me. I head to the front and when I'm about to pay I realize that the lady is shaking while she takes the money from my hands, she gives me the change and I head off.

Today is not a good day, people always avoid me they never fear me. I'm thinking to come another day to end my groceries and to buy other things but I dismissed the thought and start heading off to the mall I need some new clothes and supplies for my potions and balms.

When I'm entering it's so frustrating, what happened today that people are staring me with hatred and fear?

I need to ignore them. I get inside a clothes store at the first floor and start picking undergarments and night gowns, some pants and blouses, I don't need to try them, they are my size so I head to the cashier and the two girls on it are discussing about something, they haven't realize I'm on ear range.

-...I'm afraid she will extract my soul, I'll go to the back I don't want to be near her, the last time she touched my hand for just a moment and I couldn't sleep for three weeks, always when I closed my eyes all I saw were beasts, darkness and blood...-.

I get closer to them and the girl that was talking rush out to the back. The other girl stays and turns afraid her head to me. She tries to smile and I smile back, but she just limits to take my shoppings and pase the code through the machine and putting it on the bags. When she tells me the total I hand her the cash and she hesitates before taking it by the extreme side opposite of the one my hand is holding. When se gives me the change she just placed it on the counter and I take it, at first I though she might be friends with me, but she is just afraid as the others. I head out of the clothes store and go to the herbal store at the third floor on the far corner of the mall. In there when I enter the shop the owner an old man just stares me a little more than always and turns his vision away. I pick up a basket to carry the supplies and start picking from the shelves.

When I'm done I head to the counter and handed the old man a list with other things that I need he just try avoid touching my hand as always and after some minutes he brings everything on the list back and I give him the things from the basket so he can collect them. When he is done tells me the total and puts everything on a bag. I put the total on the counter then I'm heading out.

It's pass lunch when I'm out of the mall so I head to a coffee shop at the center of town it's comfy and it's packed with people I find free table at the corner and sit, the waiter comes, a boy about sixteen years old that looks at me in awe, his name is Ryan.

-What would you like to order miss?

I'm almost speechless, the kid doesn't show fear or hatred he treats me as any other client, so I gave him a smile and he flushes.

-I'll like to order a Caesar salad and a clam chowder, for dessert a slice of apple pie. And just plain water.

-Right away miss.

I notice how the people are staring at me and how some of the personal from the cafe eyes Ryan when he is about to enter the kitchen to have my order I see how a girl about the same age as him stop him and talks to him. He eyes me while the girl is talking and shows confusion and disbelief and then enters the kitchen. There's go my opportunity to make a friend.

When he is back with my order I see he is a little uneasy but keeps trying to treat me the same.

-Enjoy your meal, miss.

-Thanks, Ryan.

And he leaves, I end eating and he comes again to give me my dessert. When I'm done I ask the bill and left him a good tip. And I head off. People were looking at the kid in a weird way when he tried to be polite with me so I did not try to make a conversation I heard that he is new in town so that's why he treats me different. I don't want that something happens to him, the way they were looking at him was almost like when they look at me.

It's starting to chill out so I put on a hat when I'm heading out of the cafe I bump to a tall man with light brown hair and reading glasses, I excuse myself and leave.

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When I'm at home everything turns in my normal routine. I take groceries out and place it on the pantry, the ones for the fridge and freezer I put apart. My granny always used to be prepared for everything, so she always taught me to be prepared. I' go to the storage room and put the meat in the freezer and take my supplies for medicines, potions and balms to my work place that happens to be the storage room it's just separate by a curtain I start to work on somethings that Mrs Exposito will need in a couple of days. I don't know how I know but I know it, well maybe because a week ago she came to buy the usual an infusion of lavender and mint and others herbs that help her to relax and sleep tight, and I noticed some rash on her neck that look to be a mosquito bite but no... something else will appear and the rash will persist so I'm making a potion based on wormwood. It takes a time to make it so I'm doing it in advance, granny always taught me that if the patient appears with a mosquito bite it might be one but around here haunt some parasites that can make a little rash more horrible and later cause the death of the patient so the wormwood it's used as an repellent for those parasites and help cure the advance of the disease.

When I'm done making the potion I leave it in a cabinet, it needs to rest 24 hours and then distill that would take another day to end. I get out of the storage room turn the lights out and shut the door. It's past dinner so I'll heat the leftovers from yesterday, pasta with Alfredo sauce and shrimps. Once heated I serve a portion and head to the couch then turn the TV on there's a program of a contest where people assist to participate and win money so I change it, criminal minds... change, lost... change, Harry Potter... Ok I'll watch it for the I don't know tenth thousand time? So I place the remote and picked up my plate and start eating.

I can't remember when I fall asleep and the image of blue eyes haunt me I wake up when it's almost midnight I turn of the TV grab my plate and take it to the sink to wash it then go take a shower. When I'm done I dress on a night gown dry my hair and slip to bed.

(This is how her life was before the incident with Angel, actually it was the day before. Well I'll update on Monday or on Tuesday or may tomorrow, hahaha if I have time to end another chapter, but so far, so good? IDK... Thanks for reading)