TRAINING WITH A WITCH

TRAINING WITH A WITCH
Aja has seen Calian twice, two times in the last week and a half! And one of those was a facetime call. You would think sleeping in the same room they would have to atleast see each other at night but no. Aja waked up he is already gone, she go to sleep before he gets home. The only reason she knows he does sleep that night because she smells the scent he leave behind. They text all day though and the amount of flirting is insane. He’s really good at it and is very consistent, but Aja doesn’t know how to respond sometimes. Although, even when she gets self conscious he somehow knows and makes her doubts leave quickly. But honestly she is reaching her limit, she wasn’t aware of how used to him she has become and being away from him is taking a tole on her. But at the moment this is how it has to be. She feel the energy around the house and even around town, it’s like everyone is on high alert. Everyone is busy working on something. This is the least I could do while everyone else is working hard. I could learn how to control these powers the goddess has blessed me with and used them to protect my people, so that history doesn’t repeat itself. I know have been learning alot from Sarah and evertime I see the side of her lip twitch slightly I know I’ve done something right. I feel stronger too, Mikha has been training me “for combat” as he calls it. And everyday I feel like I am improving. Seeing the strength in my body improve day by day gives me this high, like I start to believe I can do anything as long as I work on it everyday. I haven’t been training that long and I can already feel some muscle around my arms and legs. I can see glimpses of my aura but I am not sure if I have the color right yet so I haven’t mentioned it to Sarah. I want to see it clearly before she tests me. Everytime I achieve something new the first person I tell is Calian, I wish I could see his face but I’m making do with his texts instead. He has gotten really busy lately he says, there are things he needs to take care of now and he has some fast approaching deadlines. I don’t think he is teling me the whole truth, I have a feeling part of the reason he is so busy has something to do with me. I don’t know if he has found something new that he’s looking into or if something is wrong and he’s trying to protect me from it. But I am choosing to trust that he will tell me when he can or is ready to. I know he must have his reasons for wanting to keep whatever it is from me for now.

“Again!” Sarah orders.

Currently I am trying to focus on the wind and removing the head rap she has on from her head using just the wind. I can manifest the wind but focusing it to do my biding is another thing completely. Sarah told me to use the anger I have inside me to hone in my powers but, I don’t like being angry, I don’t like sulking in negatively so I am working on trying to use something else as a way to conjure the elements by. Although I haven’t told Sarah that yet, but by the way she is looking at me she can tell I am not following directions. She sighs and walks up to get right in my face and I try not to wince. She is a petite women but super intimidating when she needs to be.

“What are you doing?” she glares at me.

I try to clear my throught “I, I am trying to remove your head band” Aja respond, shit! She told me I need to speak louder.

“Yeah? She furrows her eyebrows “Becasue what I’m seeing is your body standing here like a vegetable while your mind is floating somewhere far away.” she states “You are not focused, are you trying to waste my time?” she asked firmly.

Aja shakes her head “No, ma’am”

“Good” she turned back to stand at her position “Again” she says calmly this time, it actually scares Aja more than the screaming.

Aja focuses on the past memories that cause her anger. She doesn’t like remembering, but Sarah says that if I want to get stronger, I need to exercise my mind too and it means my memories might become clearer and I might remember thing I don’t want to. There are a lot of things I don’t want to remember clearly. But there are things that I cherish I wish I could see clearly. So since I can’t pick through my brain I will have to just be open to all of it coming back and dealing with it at. Sarah says that dealing with it instead of trying to shove it down and forget isn’t going to help me move forward and improve. So I am choosing to only think about the good things I might be able to remember and use that as encouragement.

For now though “I picture Calian with a silver dagger pointed at his heart while I look on helplessly. I remember the twins and the last time I was able to see them before I lost them too. I remember my parents laying in their beds drenched in blood.The memories flood back one by one and I try to hold in the tears but they start flowing and at the same time I can feel the wind, its wrirlign around my body, I can see it as a long string dancing infornt of me. I look over at Sarah and see the headband sitting on her head and imagin my string pushing the head band of her head and dropping to the floor. I want it done now! seconds later I see a white-ish string passes by the side of my head in a flash Sarah feels it as she closes her eyes but stays still, a moment later the headband falls to the floor. And I stand motionless, did I actually do it! Or is it in my head?. Sarah opened her eyes and gives me a small smile.

“Good job” she says. Omg was that an actual smile! It was small, but it was there I definitely saw it.

“Omg!” I jump up and down “I did it!” I scream. Yay I go up to her and give her a tight hug still laughing at how happy I am right now. Oh shit! I touched her. I get my hands of her as fast as possible and move back.

“Sorry, I wasn’t thinking” I tell her hurriedly “I’m so sorry” when I look back up she has a bored expression on her face

“I am not a hugger” she says plainly.

“I won’t do it again, so sorry” I say again. She sighs and waves me of then head to the side and picks up her water bottle to take a few sips.

“Let’s end for today, I got some stuff to do, so go work out with Mikah for an hour” she points at me “One hour, not two, not three” she looks at me and waits until I nod my head “I don’t care what he says, you don’t need more than an hour. If you end up confined to a bed because of how sore your body is….AGAIN!, I will take it out on both of you” she says.

I nod my head “I won’t, I promise”. She finally seems satisfied because she turns away putting her stuff in her bag.

“Sarah, I was wondering about something” Aja walked up to her again.

“What” Sarah said as she placed her bag over her shoulder, she then turned to face her.

“Um, Is there something I could do instead of focusing on my anger as a way to control the elements” she asked and rambled on “It’s just remembering these things everyday…I just wanted to know if there was an alternative” she finished.

Sarah assessed her face “The best welders of magic don’t need to focus on their emotions to conjure their powers, they just can by sheer force of will. However, she are a newbie and doing it by just practing everyday isn’t going to get it as strong as I know you can be. The fastest way to move you along is to focus on the feelings that can help you conjure up the most power possible at a time.” she said

Aja nodded but her shoulders sagged in disappointment, Sarah could tell. And unfortunately she was not immune to this girls charms, just like the rest of this family. She roots for her and even lets her hug her apparently. This family has never been the hugging type but for some reason she can bring it out of every single one of them.

She sighs before adding “Right now the strongest emotion you have inside you is anger, sadness, the pain you went through causes the strongest reaction, so, it's the easiest to use. But, if you have any other emotions that are stronger then the once we are using then that could be an alternative” she says.

Aja’s eyebrows furrows in thought, she nods her head “okay, I understand”

Sarah nods her head and walks out towards her car.

Aja understand, but is her happy memories stronger than the negative once?, she’s not too sure. She rode her bike to the training grounds, where Mikah and the other wolves train daily. Calian got her the bike after she said she never had one before, he even wanted to show her how to ride it, thinking she didn’t know how. But felt bad because he didn;t have the time. Aja thought it was sweet but assured him she definitely knw how. Being taught how to ride a bike by her father was one of the few things she got to do as a regular kid. And even though she hadn’t ridden one in years, it took her a few tries to get the hang of it again. She did let Mikah try to teach her for a few day, he also thought she didn’t know. But she thought it would be funny to pretend not to know, she made him run next to her holding on to the bike it was a pretty funny view. He even fell once. I told him the truth after that, I felt bad. Leny was disappointed saying I should of pretended longer to see how far he’d go. He warned he was gonna get me back after I confused and he definitely did. I ended up on bed rest for a day after he almost killed me during a work out. I will NOT be pranking him ever again.