Vulpecula ✔️

Reunited.

Ava's POV

We landed in England half an hour ago. All three of us were still sitting in the plane. None of us had the energy to move. My eyes were closed and my head was throbbing so hard that all I wanted to do was bang my head against the wall.

"We have to leave." Clayton groaned.

"Eventually." I barely moved my lips. No energy at all.

"Let's go and then we can rest at our places." Kayden suggested and got up. Out of the three of us, he looked relatively presentable. His hair, although was out of place, looked good. But mine? They were in ugly tangles on top of my head. And I had even forgotten to take my pills. Bingo!

I got up on my wobbly legs and asked the air hostess to hand me a water bottle so I could take my meds. Once I gulped them down, I ignored the questioning gaze of Kayden and got down the plane.

Not wanting any of them to work more, I took the driver's seat and waited as my head rested on the wheel. Kayden sat beside me, and Clayton laid down on the back seat. I just hope papa gives the staff of the plane a well deserved holiday. I might not even be able to wake up tomorrow. I could just sleep my way through.

I strapped the seatbelt and began driving. First dropping Clayton and having some lemonade made by Anne, then dropping Kayden, where Mrs. Murphy asked me to call her Charlotte, while she was laughing and then she handed me some coffee so I could reach my house safely. I thanked her and left, but not before noticing the cautious gaze of Kayden.

"My baby is home!" Mamma yelled as soon as she saw my car pull up into the driveway. A smile grazed my lips immediately disregarding the head ache that was killing me. Just behind her, papa came running out with a spatula in his hand. "John, oh John, my baby." She was in tears as I got down and paced towards them.

I took her in my arms and let her cry. I was barely gone for a week and she missed me. This is the form of love that I've always craved for. Now I know what a family feels like. What coming home feels like. When you know that there is someone waiting for you at home, it's just the most blissful feeling ever.

"I missed you both so much." I sighed into her shoulder and stayed there, until I felt another set of arms engulf us both.

"We missed you too baby girl." Papa kissed the side of my face and just held us there. A family.

My family. And I'm finally home.

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I was sleeping in the next day. Not caring about anything. Aldrik would not harm me and my sleep. He can't take away my sleep from me. He stays away from me when I'm sleeping because I could very well kill him before time.

I'm not even sure how I feel about killing him. It's alarming how I'm so ready to kill him. But I know that he has done too bad deeds. Yet I shouldn't be as okay with killing him as I am. Because there will be blood on my hands, I will have taken a life by the end of the month. And I'm not sure if I'll have to kill just him.

"Ava. Ava. Ava. Ava. Ava. Ava." Someone was calling out my name continuously and it was getting annoying as the time passed. I groaned and shot up from my bed and glared at the intruder. Clayton.

He looked guilty, as if he'd just murdered my kittens to reach my room. Good. He should be guilty. He murdered my sleep in cold blood. Stupid.

"What?" I groaned and hid my face in the pillows.

"I and Kayden decided that we both will come with you to kill Aldrik while the others be guarding the area. So because I'm going with you, I'll also have to train my mind, let's do it together." He plopped down on the couch and glared at me.