from the kitchen then found everyone in the living room and plopped down on the sectional. Smiling, I shook my head and walked up the winding staircase to the third floor, and my bedroom.
Familiar creaking floorboards brought me back to the present. Disappointment filled me as I remembered that tomorrow was registration day. I was going to be a senior. My last year of high school, and I had to go through it with Sebastian, my new crush, and my ex-boyfriend, Langdon. Butterflies swarmed my insides as I thought about Sebastian. He was a vampire, a supernatural creature, like me. But he was into his soul mate, who also happened to be reincarnated, and it wasn’t me. Well, he never said it was, but he never said it wasn’t either. It wasn’t fair. I wanted to know if I was Amaryia reincarnated. Yet at the same time, I didn’t care to know. If I had been her in a past life, then Sebastian had waited for me, but if I wasn’t her, then my heart would break at the thought of never kissing him. Grunting, I flopped facedown on my four-poster bed. Helios jumped on my back and started gently kneading me. His purrs and weight were comforting, and I soon fell asleep.
A hissing and growling Helios woke me up. The fur on his back and tail were sticking up, and he was crouched at the foot of my bed, staring at my closet. As I tried to soothe him, I watched the closet. Shadows shifted and stirred. I watched as Helios began to calm down and the shadows in my closet disappeared. With my nerves unsettled and my mind racing, I went downstairs to the kitchen to get some warm tea. The dying rays of the setting sun filtered in through the windows, lighting the dust motes as they settled in their place. It was only nine o’clock, which meant that I had slept for three hours. Alexandier was snoring somewhere on the couch, and my parents were talking quietly in the kitchen. They smiled when they saw me and continued their conversation. I got the teakettle out of the cupboard, put water and tea leaves in it, then placed it on the stove and turned it on. A few minutes passed and water spewed out of the spout. Carefully, I moved the kettle to different burner to let it cool down and poured the hot tea into my cup.
The old metal staircase was cool against my bare feet. Shivers traveled endlessly down my spine and I brought the cup closer to my body. When I finally reached my room, I saw that Helios had crawled onto one of my pillows and fallen asleep. Sighing, I sat down carefully so I didn’t disturb him and sipped away at the heat in the cup. Delicious aromas filled my nose as I took another sip. My tense body relaxed, and I started to feel calm. After I finished my tea, I leaned farther back into my pillows and got under the covers, and let myself fall back to sleep.
He sat in front of me. The teacher was rambling about some math term, and I didn’t care. It was already in my notes, so I just stared at his glorious dark brown hair. At times, I would even lean closer so I could smell him. I could hear everyone whispering about me and the new kid. Sebastian had been there for at least three months now, and they still called him a new kid. We were officially together, but couldn’t be together in the way we wanted to until everything was figured out.
After school I was going with him to Clamora’s and she was going to do a ritual. This ritual was going to be able to tell us if I was really Amaryia reincarnated. I was completely thrilled. But I was scared at the same time. Sebastian had already told me he loved me, but that didn’t mean it was going to make him stay if I wasn’t her reincarnated. My heart picked up its pace as I thought about it. We had one more class before lunch, which meant the day was almost through. Taking a deep breath, I tried to focus on what the teacher was saying.
A loud clap of thunder tore my attention from the whiteboard. Heavy rain ripped through clouds, and wind threatened to knock over the small trees. And
Familiar creaking floorboards brought me back to the present. Disappointment filled me as I remembered that tomorrow was registration day. I was going to be a senior. My last year of high school, and I had to go through it with Sebastian, my new crush, and my ex-boyfriend, Langdon. Butterflies swarmed my insides as I thought about Sebastian. He was a vampire, a supernatural creature, like me. But he was into his soul mate, who also happened to be reincarnated, and it wasn’t me. Well, he never said it was, but he never said it wasn’t either. It wasn’t fair. I wanted to know if I was Amaryia reincarnated. Yet at the same time, I didn’t care to know. If I had been her in a past life, then Sebastian had waited for me, but if I wasn’t her, then my heart would break at the thought of never kissing him. Grunting, I flopped facedown on my four-poster bed. Helios jumped on my back and started gently kneading me. His purrs and weight were comforting, and I soon fell asleep.
A hissing and growling Helios woke me up. The fur on his back and tail were sticking up, and he was crouched at the foot of my bed, staring at my closet. As I tried to soothe him, I watched the closet. Shadows shifted and stirred. I watched as Helios began to calm down and the shadows in my closet disappeared. With my nerves unsettled and my mind racing, I went downstairs to the kitchen to get some warm tea. The dying rays of the setting sun filtered in through the windows, lighting the dust motes as they settled in their place. It was only nine o’clock, which meant that I had slept for three hours. Alexandier was snoring somewhere on the couch, and my parents were talking quietly in the kitchen. They smiled when they saw me and continued their conversation. I got the teakettle out of the cupboard, put water and tea leaves in it, then placed it on the stove and turned it on. A few minutes passed and water spewed out of the spout. Carefully, I moved the kettle to different burner to let it cool down and poured the hot tea into my cup.
The old metal staircase was cool against my bare feet. Shivers traveled endlessly down my spine and I brought the cup closer to my body. When I finally reached my room, I saw that Helios had crawled onto one of my pillows and fallen asleep. Sighing, I sat down carefully so I didn’t disturb him and sipped away at the heat in the cup. Delicious aromas filled my nose as I took another sip. My tense body relaxed, and I started to feel calm. After I finished my tea, I leaned farther back into my pillows and got under the covers, and let myself fall back to sleep.
He sat in front of me. The teacher was rambling about some math term, and I didn’t care. It was already in my notes, so I just stared at his glorious dark brown hair. At times, I would even lean closer so I could smell him. I could hear everyone whispering about me and the new kid. Sebastian had been there for at least three months now, and they still called him a new kid. We were officially together, but couldn’t be together in the way we wanted to until everything was figured out.
After school I was going with him to Clamora’s and she was going to do a ritual. This ritual was going to be able to tell us if I was really Amaryia reincarnated. I was completely thrilled. But I was scared at the same time. Sebastian had already told me he loved me, but that didn’t mean it was going to make him stay if I wasn’t her reincarnated. My heart picked up its pace as I thought about it. We had one more class before lunch, which meant the day was almost through. Taking a deep breath, I tried to focus on what the teacher was saying.
A loud clap of thunder tore my attention from the whiteboard. Heavy rain ripped through clouds, and wind threatened to knock over the small trees. And