"Catalina...! Come here! Your Lola wants you to bring her food in her bedroom..." Rebecca, her mother, shouted hastily at her. " You don't want your Lola to be angry at you because the food is getting cold, do you?"
"I'm coming! Tell Lola to wait for a little bit, my hand is dirty, I will wash them first..."
Catalina is a 17 yr old girl living in a small town with her mother. Her family is far from ordinary... Her mother Rebecca uses witchcraft to heal sick and bothered people... She uses her ability to help rather than using it for bad intentions...
she once witnessed her mother's power when a young lady, not older than she is right now, puking and having the most disgusting blisters she has ever seen.
The girl name Alexa came to her mother's aide because she has been caught having an affair with a married man. The latter's wife learned the affair and she hurriedly took the girl's photo to a dark witch up in the mountain to make an act of revenge and make Alexa's skin ugly.
Her mother feeling pity for Alexa asked the dark witch through her crystal ball to stop the spell or her mother would make the dark witch feel her power's wrath... The dark witch obeyed but she left with a warning. "You have the most amazing power but you insist on using it wrong. Your power will decrease every time! And when you lose your strength, I shall take my revenge on you!", she reminds her with a very wicked smile then turns around to Catalina, watching her worriedly through her image in the crystal ball. The transmission stopped when Rebecca flicked her thumb... worried that the dark witch saw Catalina.
" I told you to stay away from when I am working Catalina.!", she scolds her with her voice cracking. "I don't want you to be exposed to this situation especially with the dark which...", she said wiping her sweat in her forehead forgetting Alexa for a moment.
" Don't worry ma!", she said innocently. "I closed my eyes when the dark witch looked at me just like you told me...!"
She assured her mother. She hugged her daughter firmly with tears ready to roll on her cheek.
"Don't sneak up on me like that when is im working huh?" She wiped the tear that escaped her eyes.
"Yes, ma!" Catalina agreed.
"Can I go play now...?" She asked.
"Ate Alexa seems fine now. Thanks to you mother!"
Her mother looked at Alexa looking pale but fine then to Catalina. "Of course dear, you may go play but stay close because you should sleep early..." she shouts at Catalina as the innocent girl runs to the front yard hadn't heard any of her mother's pleading.
Rebecca warns Alexa.
"The dark witch won't bother you anymore. But you should not have an affair with a married man" she asked of her.
"If you will decide to do that again... I won't be helping you." She said with a guilty look in her eyes.
"Thank you so much for your help, Rebecca..." She thanked her. "This good deed will be broadcast tomorrow I can assure you...!" she said as she handed her five one hundred bills.
" You don't have to give me money", Rebecca told her.
"I insist...!" Alexa said. "You should buy your daughter pretty dresses and candies to cheer her up. She looked scared when the dark witch looked at her. It is the least I can do for the help you gave to me... "
"Are you sure the dark witch saw my daughter...?" she asked worriedly.
" YES..."
The voice of Alexa echoed in her mother's ears... Not hearing when the girl said goodbye to her mother.
And that is the last time her mother practice witchcraft and that made Catalina very intrigued.
With her past freshly coming back to her, she snaps when the coffee from her cup spills in her toe.
"Aw," she said with a teary eye.
"that's what you get when you daydream while having to watch the store", her mother laughs.
" Haha. I don't daydream ma...!" She denied with a laugh.
"It is just I am having a flashback. I could not forget the dark witch's face... it bothers me. That's all..." she told her mother.
"Really...?" "Your birthday is coming up. What do you want for a gift?" She said, obviously changing the topic. "I can buy you anything you want dear...!"
"No, you don't...!" She pouted.
Rebecca just owns a sari-sari store in front of her house and does not entertain any "patients" since then...
"Well, I can buy you something interesting I can assure you. " Rebecca wink at her daughter before closing her Sari-Sari store.
Come on Catalina... Help me prepare dinner tonight.
