Aspen yawned as golden sunlight hit her bed, she started rubbing her eyes.

Her cat stretched out on her blue blanket and yawned with her.

The smell of coffee tickled her nose, she moved lethargically down her stairs to the kitchen were John stood slurping his coffee, staring out the window above the perfectly white and clean sink.

Aspen grabbed a coffee cup with only one eye open and poured.

“Do you have academy today?” John asked while raising his eyebrows.

“No it’s Saturday, Jesus” she answered in an annoyed manner

“ oh that’s right, I remember why I don’t talk to you before you’re coffee.. that I made for you” John told her.

The only reason John was her roommate was because he was a regular Human. Making it harder for evil spirits sniff her out.

Usually this would be unheard of most humans hated witches. But John loved aspen and couldn’t say no to her when she asked him to roommate with her. Aspen was clueless to this fact she assumed that he was apart of Those humans that fan girl witches. Most humans hated them but not all.

“ you didn’t have to, I didn’t ask you to. I literally could’ve snapped my fingers and a cup of coffee would apear at my bedside” she spoke to him in a very matter of fact tone

“Wow” John said in a very elongated and loud way. “Then why do you always drink mine?” He asked

“Because it’s good” aspen replied with a smile

John softly smiled back.

John knew aspen since they were kids and had been there for her as long as she could remember.

Their home was In a mirroring dimension, the human government casted all witches out, but not before creating the dimension. Humans could come and go as the pleased but usually didn’t because they had to have some magical ability to get in. They made expectations for government officials, although this was rare. When aspen brought John to her world she had to hold his hand and they had all but a five minute window to enter.

The humans gave this new world its name

The Void & Vivid

The laws although were made by the witches and their president, they are as follows

No murder or spells that involve murder No resurrection spells No dimension spells, no underground dimension spells (were it’s the awful and evil version of their world) No riding brooms faster then 80 miles per hour No turning people in to animals

No time spells.

There was less important rules that do not requiring covering but breaking these top rules and it’s punishable by death.

In front of everyone on live television through beheading the criminal/criminals.

“John, would you still be my friend... if I did something awful. so awful that I could get beheaded” aspen said so softly she almost whispered it.

Johns eyes started watering

“I do not wish to think of something like that.

And whatever it is won’t bring them back aspen. I’m sure those laws are in place for a reason” John answered

“Did the neighborhood have a reason for spray painting murder on my house? Did the cops have a valid reason for taking me to labs to test me for witchcraft for four days straight? Did my Ex-boyfriend’s parents have a reason for telling me I’m a disgrace to god when my test results came back?” Aspen went on with tears in her eyes.

John wrapped her in arms.

"I'm so sorry" he whispered.