What Happens Behind Closed Doors

Mila's POV

It has been 3 days since we heard from Evan, well his body anyway. Something or someone was controlling him. It was creepy. Things have just got weirder since then. Derek has gotten quiet and barely talking to me. He's hardly ever home. So I stand at my bedroom window wondering what this could all mean. What's going on? I take a deep breath and sigh when exhaling. My mind going a million miles a minute, I back away from my window and begin pacing the length of my room. That's when it hits me. I have to go to Jade's house and find our things to do a search on someone. Plus I need something she's had recently.

I take a small bag from my closet and pack some sage, a couple of incents, a small potions bowl for mixing, and my wand in my hand. I throw the bag over my shoulder and head out the door. Derek not home again like usual these days, I walk behind the house into the woods then disapparate straight to her house so he won't be able to follow me. I didn't want him to know what I was up to. For some reason I didn't feel I can trust him right now. I'm thinking whoever or whatever was controlling Evan had gotten to Derek. Which left a very uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

I slowly inched her door open, peeking in. It was so dusty I knew she hadn't been there for a couple of weeks at the look of it. I knew I should call the muggle police first and then report her as missing to the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol, but I needed to do our search ritual. It had always worked before unless she thought to put a block on herself. Which is very possible. Jade was always good at that kind of thing, unlike myself. I just hope I can remember how to perform it.

I went up to the closet where we had the hidden door. Some of the things we used weren't exactly common and were hard to come by. Which meant they could be considered dark arts objects.

Once inside the closet I moved a large box aside to expose the door. I pointed my wand at the door and it flew open. I pulled out the censor, chalice, our sword, and the athame. I needed all of these things and the dried herbs we had stored in there. I carried the things down the hall to her bedroom grabbing a stray shirt that was laying on her bed, then shoving the bed over to the side, revealing the same place we always create our circle.

I brought her shirt to the center and laid it down, then the censor. I took the sword and as I said the enchantment I drew a circle causing magical fire to appear in a circle. Laying the sword down I lit the sage and placed it in the censor I brought from Derek's. Then started mixing the herbs in the other, continuing the enchantment. I took the athame and stirred it once counter clockwise then took the knife and swiped the mixture across my forehead.

After I was finished with that I placed the chalice on top of the shirt.Then took a seat in front of it indian style and meditated chanting the incantation for the searching ritual, concentrating on Jade. I kept this up for a couple of hours getting nothing but small sparks from the sage. There's a connection there but not strong enough to pick up where she's residing at the moment.

Getting frustrated with it I broke the connection and stood up. "Shit. Where are you, Jade?" I asked the empty room.

I began clearning things away with my wand then carried the chalice, athame and censors back to the little hidden place in the closet of my room. I replaced everything as I found it then returned to her room. I sighed and moved the bed back where it was, going down stairs and calling in the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol.