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Hi, my name is Catherine Thorne. I'm 17 years old and my birthday is in 1 week. I'm usually described as loving, selfless, and fun. I'm the eldest child of Joanna Thorne, who committed suicide when I was 8, leaving me to care for my younger sister. I live in Salem, yes as in the Salem witch trials. The people of Salem who were responsible for the witch trials weren't exactly planning well, and I'm living proof of that. I'm a witch, a direct descendent of Elizabeth Thorne, one of the most powerful witches to ever live. My younger sister, Tia, just started getting her powers, she's 14. My best friend, Marissa Williams, is a witch, a direct descendent of Tiffany Williams, a witch who lived with my ancestor. Sierra Cunningham, a close friend of ours, is a witch as well. Lucy Wright, a cousin of Marissa's, is a witch too. Hailey Robins, we just found out, is a witch as well.

We are the Sisters of Salem, a clan of witches that have been bonded together to protect each other since the early 1500's. I am the leader of the clan. My 18th birthday marks the 400 year apex. The week leading up to the leader of the clan's 18th birthday is called the 'trying time' to see whether or not my generation is fit to live with such great powers. The 'trying time' was instituted in the early 1600's when Elizabeth Thorne broke off from the clan to live with the love of her life, leaving her younger sister to care for her recently birthed daughter. The remaining members of the clan, including Elizabeth's sister, Mariah, were angry about her choice. They wanted to make sure that no leader would ever leave the clan again. With their collective power they cursed the daughter Elizabeth had left them with so that the eldest daughter each generation would go through a trying week before being given her full powers.

Let me explain what the 'trying week' is, to those of you that haven't already heard of it. During the trying week, should the clan leader use her powers she will become ill and pass within the day. But, since Elizabeth ran off to be with a guy, they just had to throw that into the mix too. To prove your loyalty to the clan, during the week the daughter would come across her soul mate, someone who is basically irresistible to her. She must withhold herself from him (which, fyi, means she can kiss him, hug him, make out, whatever, but she can't have sex) if she didn't withhold she would die. Lastly, the markings, when the markings appear begin an hour of pain and agony. Each daughter will have seven markings appear on her arm, each one giving her about a ten minute warning before a searing hour of pain, one marking every day of the week. Every 200 years, as an added test, the clan leader's soul mate would be a warlock, it proved more difficult to resist the pull of the soul mate when he was a warlock. Lucky me, I'm the second of what they call the 'warlock apex' which means my soul mate is a warlock.

There's only one problem for me with this whole 'trying week.'

No one's ever survived it.