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Anaya got out of her car, determined to punch Fergus Leblanc in the face until he told her what her sister was planning for Valentina's future. So as soon as she saw the man sitting in the council leaders' chair she laughed out loud, getting his attention.
- Why are you here ? - he asks angrily.
- Are you in a bad mood because you know this place will never be yours? - Asks the mocking brunette.
- If you're done, you can go away and let me enjoy the good things in life. - He answers looking at the cave ceiling.
- Would the good things be brainwashing Valentina? - she asks and the man looks at her. - I don't know what Genevieve intended raising Valentina like a puppy that will do everything she wants, but I'm here to let you know that it's over, your ambition won't get in the way of that girl's destiny, I won't let it. -she completes and he gets up and scratches his beard.
- What my sister plans with my niece doesn't interest me, I have different interests than hers. - He says and Anaya looks at him.
- You know, ever since Valentina turned two and had her first contact with Isabelle, Genevieve has gone crazy to leave town for no reason and then she made Emma's head. I've wondered for years what made her act this way and now that Valentina is here I can see it, I can understand it. - she says and the man scratches his beard bored.
- And what would it be ? - curious question.
- Someone she can't control, she's used to controlling Emma and thought that with Valentina it would be no different, but she was wrong, so she took Valentina away from everyone, but especially Isabelle, because she knows they are destined to meet as many as times necessary for the prophecy to be fulfilled. - she answers laughing. - But do you know what I think most disappoints you? - she asks and Fergus is silent. - You wanted to control everything, you wanted Valentina to be the trump card for your ambitious plans to succeed, you wanted war and her being one of the chosen was a dream come true, but what you didn't expect was that it would backfire, because the prophecy will be fulfilled yes, but it doesn't go the way you wanted. - completes and the man looks at her red with so much irritation.
- You can talk this nonsense, but you know very well that their destiny is that only one leaves alive in the end. - He says and she denies it.
- Fate changes all the time based on our choices. - says calmly. -Valentina is not the merciless killing machine that you so wanted to create, she will write her own destiny and you will have to watch her biting her tongue in anger. - She completes and walks away, but before disappearing from the man's sight, she looks back and smiles.
Tbhe brunette leaves the place with the certainty that the two girls will be more than everyone expected.
They will surprise everyone.
That wasn't even clear.
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Pov. Izzy
As soon as the bell rings indicating the end of class and we're cleared, I quickly gather my things and put them in my backpack, then leave the room with Sarah following behind me. We walk in silence to the parking lot where we see Nick kissing with Anne who was half gone, I hear Sarah sigh as we approach the car and I look at her.
- What it was ? - I ask and she looks away.
- I don't like this girl, there's something strange about her. - She replies with a really troubled face.
- Are you by chance my brother's crush? - I ask and her eyes widen.
- What ? - She asks nervously, making her laugh.
- No need to answer, that was enough for me to know that. - I answer and she lowers her head.
- Sorry, Izzy. But I swear we'll never be together, I'd rather have your friendship. - She says making me confused.
- Why do you say that ? - I ask and she looks at me. - Look, I'm not like the Lee Flynn of the kissing booth, if you're into my brother, it's fine with me, it doesn't affect our friendship, but if one day they get together and you hurt him, then I'll have to break all your teeth. - complete serious and she smiles.
- Knowing that is comforting, but he's already well groomed and I'm crazy number two in town, so I think he'd better stay with the hot exchange student than the crazy one. - she says laughing.
- Just to clarify, you're the number one freak in town, I just joined you and I can't even remember why. - I say amused and she rolls her eyes.
- Maybe, but I gave you the baton when I left, so now and with you. - she says making me laugh.
Really.
Maybe now I'm crazy number one.
We get in the car, greeting the two of them, I ask Nick to drop Sarah at home soon and then take me home, since he's going to spend the rest of the day with Anne, he just nods. As soon as I get home I see Valentina's car parked in front of her house, so I decide to take a quick shower and go talk to the girl. As soon as I'm clean and tidy, I head out to the house next door and just as I'm leaving I see Valentina's uncle standing across the street looking at the girl's house. I stare at him without understanding anything and I must confess, I didn't like him, he has a strange way and doesn't give me confidence. I see him turn towards the forest, but before he looks at me and smiles in a strange way and waves, I don't wave back, I just watch him disappear into the trees.
I did not like that.
I hope it's just my bullshit towards him.
I take a deep breath walking towards the house next door and when I'm facing the door I close my eyes and take a deep breath again and then ring the intercom. I wait for an answer, but it doesn't come, so I ring again and again there's no answer, I sigh at the thought that maybe she's not home and I feel silly for being here knocking on her door after three days of not speaking properly. I turn around, determined to head back to the house, but stop when I hear the latch click, look back at the door and am surprised to find Sasha standing there, looking at me with an amused expression.
- Well, my mother said you would come as soon as you got home from school. - She says amused and when she notices my confusion she starts talking again. - Come in, I'll explain everything while I finish heating the food my mother sent to Tina. -she completes giving me space to enter and I do.
We walk in silence to the kitchen where I see several pots on the stove and I smile seeing that Aunt Naya hasn't changed at all, always exaggerating when it comes to food.
- I imagine you're wondering what I'm doing here. - Says Sasha catching my attention. - Well, Valentina is sick and Mom sent me here to feed her and give her medicine, but if you want to take care of it, feel free. - she says and I look at her.
- What does she have ? - I ask seeing Sasha turn off the fire and grab a plate from the cupboard and start putting food on it.
- I think it's a virus. - She answers with a shrug, finishing putting the food and then putting it on a tray that already had a glass of juice. - Okay, you can go there, I'll take advantage of you being here and I'll go get some herbs to make tea. She says and I nod.
I take the tray and go up the stairs, when I enter the room I see the girl sleeping on her stomach wearing pajamas that miraculously weren't black, gray or dark red, but the blue blouse and white shorts. I place the tray on the nightstand carefully so as not to make any noise, then walk to the other side of the bed, pull the armchair close and sit watching how beautiful she manages to look even sleeping with her hair slightly messy. I brace my arms on the edge of the bed and lean my head on them and imagine how much I must look like a psychopath looking at her like that, but I don't care, she looks so beautiful like that and I don't want to miss it. I notice that she has a little dark circles under her eyes and her facial expression is one of pure tiredness, she squirms a little and I think about why she didn't tell me she was sick, although she must have been very tired just needing her bed.
I'm feeling retarded.
On a very high level.
- Eavesdropper. -I hear her voice and look at her seeing her smile with her eyes closed. - You know, I'm starting to think you love me. She says and I smile.
- Perhaps. - I say amused and she opens her eyes quickly.
- Hmm... So I'm special to you? - she asks in the same tone.
- I think I can say that. - I answer and she takes a deep breath and then leans her head on her arm and looks at me seriously.
I swallow hard because it brought her face right next to mine and she smiled.
- Why are you nervous? - she asks and her tone of voice was loaded with pleasure to see me like this.
- Because maybe I want to hit you for ignoring me and not telling me that you're sick. - I answer and she rolls her eyes.
- I think it's fair, but I don't think it's just that. - she says convinced and I feel like punching her in the face, but I don't.
- Think what you want, but know that I'm upset with you. - I say getting up to end the proximity of our faces.
I hear her sigh and shift in bed as I pick up her dinner tray.
- Where's Sasha? - she asks and I look at her. - What it was ? - question.
- Nothing, she went to get some herbs to make tea. - I answer watching her take the plate.
Why am I feeling upset that Sasha knew first and was here before me?
What's going on with my stupid head?
- Isabelle. - she calls me and I look at her. - Are you okay ? - she asks worriedly and I nod.
- Yeah, I was just thinking. - I answer and she looks at me for a few seconds.
- You know you can tell me anything, right? - He asks and I nod feeling weird.
- I really don't have anything to say, I was thinking nonsense, nothing much. - I answer smiling without showing my teeth and she makes a face.
Am I really upset that I'm not the first to be here and find out about her health?
What drug did I take?
- I didn't know I needed to see you, until I saw you here. - she says and I feel my heart speed up and my hands sweat. - Thank you for coming and I'm sorry for not saying anything, but I was really bad, I didn't want you to see me like that. - completes and I feel my breathing become uneven.
- You do not need to say sorry. - I say confused with my internal and external reactions.
- Isabelle, I want to tell you something. - she says and I feel that if I continue here in her presence I will go crazy.
- Sorry, but I have to go, I promised I would go with Sarah to the park. - I say without looking at her and then I leave the room almost running.
As soon as I close the door behind me, I run down the stairs and don't stop until I'm out of the house, I only stop when I reach the sidewalk, feeling suffocated I run my hand over my hair and look back, taking a deep breath, then run down the hall. street confused with everything.
I need to talk to Sarah.
I really need it.
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Pov. Valentina
I stand at the office window watching Isabelle standing on the sidewalk and then she runs desperately down the street. This leaves me with an odd feeling, I hear the office door open by Sasha, but I don't look back.
- She's fine. - she says and I see her sit at the table by the reflection in the glass.
- I figured you hadn't gone anywhere. - I say and she laughs.
- No, I just stayed in the living room eating in silence so you could talk quietly. - she says and I nod.
- But she had better things to do. - I say and hear her laugh again.
- Don't worry, she'll come back, she's just confused. - she says and I turn to face her.
Confused by what?
About Sarah?
- Do you think she likes Sarah in a romantic way? - I ask and she denies it.
- When my parents separated, I was only ten years old and my mother and I moved here. Sarah and Izzy were only seven, we've been friends ever since and I can guarantee they never looked at each other other than friendship and sisterhood. - She replied thoughtfully. - This confusion has nothing to do with Sarah, nor will it ever have, because there is only friendship between the two, between Nick and Sarah and more complicated, the two always had a crush on each other, but they never dared to do anything about it. this, which was a mistake. - complete.
- I understood. - I say confused.
- Don't make the same mistake as Nick and Sarah okay, two friends who like each other and don't stay together is enough for my share of troubled friends in love. - she says laughing.
- Why are you saying this ? I ask and she rolls her eyes.
- You've been with some girls, right? - she asks and I nod. - And what did you feel? - her asks and I think a little before answering.
- Nothing. - I answer and she laughs.
- None ever made you nervous or wanted to throw them on the wall and rip your clothes off? - her asks making me laugh.
- Look, if you want to know if I've had sex, just be direct. - I answer calmly and she stays silent waiting for me to continue. - I only slept with one girl and it wasn't very good either time. - I say remembering Nina.
- Why ? - Curious question and I cross my arms.
- Because it was never out of feeling, it was always to escape the routine. - I answer seriously, I don't like to remember the mistakes of the past. - I lived trapped in my family's castle, training night and day, sleeping little, with no time to live any of what I'm living here. I didn't know what it was like to meet people who didn't expect anything glorious from me, who didn't demand that I be the best twenty-four hours a day. - I'm still thinking. - Once, a friend of my mother went to the castle and took her daughter, that girl was Nina. She saw me training once and since then whenever her father went to the castle she would come along and watch me train. At one point I was upset that Genevieve had forbidden Emma from seeing me because I had failed a mission. - I say turning around so that the brunette doesn't notice my nervousness with the memory of the day I got the scar that goes from the abdomen to the rib.
- Let me guess, did she show up and give you some comforting kisses? - fun question.
- Almost that, let's say that I had stolen the drinks from the cellar of the castle and Nina appeared, she was talking to me and I don't remember well, but at one point she started to say a few things and we kissed. - I say and look at Sasha who was attentive. - Since then whenever she went to the castle we drank and stayed. I once ran away from the castle with her, we'd had too much to drink that day and before we got to town her car broke down and we got stuck on the road. We had sex right there, both extremely drunk, this was repeated over and over and I ended up having problems with drinking. It got to the point where I couldn't stop anymore and it affected my performance in training making my mom angry, she found out about the drinking and that I was becoming an alcoholic so I was imprisoned in the dungeon and stayed there for three months just leaving to train over her fierce gaze. - complete.
- Wow, you're so peaceful, so quiet, I can't imagine you ever had a crazy phase like that. - Says Sasha laughing.
- It is true. But going back to the end of the story, when I got better from the addiction and my routine was normal again, Nina appeared again and that's when I noticed that I didn't feel anything for her, because I didn't think about her at any time, I spent three months hating her. my life and having murderous thoughts, but the girl never even came close to my thoughts. So when she showed up offering fun, I refused and it made her angry, so she made up to her father that I tried to grab her by force and it caused the loss of an important supplier to the family business. Genevieve blamed me and to this day she blames me for it, but she's right I shouldn't have let myself get carried away by the anger of living the way I did. - complete and Sasha shakes her head.
-bIt wasn't her fault if the girl wanted to screw you for not wanting her. - her says and I shrug. - Look, what led us to this matter, I asked because you don't know how to identify important signs, so I must warn you of something. - Continues and I nod. - When you feel like doing something, do it. Not even if it seems wrong or crazy. - completes making me smile.
- You can leave it now... - I stop talking when I feel a strange sensation.
- What's it ? - asks the brunette. - You're going to vomit blood again, wait for me to get the bucket. - he says and I deny it.
- Is different. - I say and she gets confused. - I'm feeling a strange sensation, as if something is going to happen. - I say and only one name comes to mind. - I need to do something. - I warn running out of the office so she doesn't have time to stop me.
I run out the door like a madwoman without even knowing where my gut was taking me, I feel my vampire side fighting with the werewolf side, the two bloodthirsty sides leaving me dizzy. I run through the forest feeling my heart pounding and my breathing ragged.
What is it ?
What's happening to me ?
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