Free The White Witch by B.C. Morin Page A

aren’t willing to open your mind.” He sits with a calm that is unnerving.
    “I appreciate you helping me from whatever it was that happened.” I open the door and look at him one more time.
    He regards me with a sadness now. “When you are willing to learn the truth, I will be here.”
    I walk out the door and am suddenly in the woods behind my house. I turn to look at Mr. Wentworth, but he is gone. The entire building has disappeared as if I were never inside of a building at all. I look ahead, a path to my house very clear in my sights. What the hell just happened?
    As I emerge from the woods I see that the moon is high overhead. How long was I gone? I see several people through the windows of the house and one stops at the back door. Ana .
    She throws open the French doors. “She’s here!” She yells as she runs to me, all the people in the house running out behind her.
    “Katelyn!” Ana yells as she approaches me and I brace myself for the impact. She throws her arms around me, squeezing me tight. “Are you ok? Where the hell have you been?”
    I open my mouth to answer, but my dad comes up right behind her and takes me in a bear hug. “Katie-Kat!” He hasn’t called me that since I was about five years old. “Are you alright baby?” He releases me, but takes my face in both his hands turning it every which way, looking for some sign of injury. Beside me, Liz takes my arms and does the same.
    “I’m fine.” I say, but they continue their inspection. I grab my dad’s shoulders. “Daddy!” He stops searching me and looks straight at my eyes. “I’m alright.” I say calmly, though calm is the last thing I am right now.
    “Where’ve you been?” His eyes are red and a bit puffy. “We tried calling you and when you wouldn’t answer, Liz and I came home, but you weren’t here either and when we saw your phone on the hammock, well, we thought-“ He pulls me into another bear hug. “We thought you could be hurt or something.” He says onto my shoulder before releasing me again.
    “I-” I stop and take in their faces, Ana, her parents, Liz and Dad and two police officers.
    “Come on baby,” Liz wraps her arm around my waist, nudging me forward.
    I can see everything clearly and though I can think clearly, my memories of what happened seem like a dream.
    We get inside and Liz hands me off to my dad who sits me at the kitchen table while she goes to make coffee.
    I look again to the police officers and to my dad.
    “Kiddo, we were so scared, we were trying to report you as missing, but because it hadn’t been twenty-four hours, they couldn’t make it official.” He tells me, explaining the officers’ presence.
    “Miss Miller, if you could let us know where you were and what happened?” The taller and slightly rounder of the officers speaks first.
    My dad shoots him an annoyed look before looking back at me. He might be annoyed at them for asking, but I can only imagine that he’s just as curious, if not more.
    “I was sitting in the hammock this afternoon when I saw someone in the forest behind the house.”
    “Can you describe the person you saw?” The shorter, thinner officer steps forward, his name badge flashing beneath the kitchen lights. Bell. 
    “I’m sorry. All I saw from the hammock was two eyes and what I think was a trench coat. The face might have been hooded because I only saw shadows between the trees.”  I turn my attention to Liz who hands me my favorite mug filled with coffee. “I got off the hammock and started walking into the forest, but the person got further and further away, and when I turned to look for the house, I couldn’t find my way”.
    I contemplate whether or not to tell them about Erebos, but I choose to leave him out until I talk to Logan. “I must have fallen and hit my head because I thought I was in a house, and when I got up to walk out the door I was back in the forest and it was dark.”
    The two officers look at each other. Deputy Bell