Celestial Heartbeat (Book One) COMPLETE

Chapter Twenty Eight - Forces (REN)

NOTE: SORRY FOR THE SHORT CHAPTER. THE NEXT ONE WILL BE MUCH LONGER AS IT IS FROM EVIE'S POV. :)

Evie was gone.

Vanished. Just like Marcy.

And this time it was not just guilt eating away from me. If I couldn’t bring Evie back in one piece I would hate myself forever. I would hate everything that my world would become.

I leant against the doorway to Evie’s house and did my best to regain my breath as well as my strength.

As much as I wanted to stand up and go darting after Evie, I knew it was a foolish plan for my current state. I felt weak. The amount of pull that Rebecca had had over me was scary. Even when she was occupying a body that wasn’t her own; it was one of the most powerful, yet disturbing things to ever happen to my body. When she told me to sit I knew I had to. I didn’t know why, or how, but when I tried reasoning with myself to disobey her, my body only fought back to make me do what she wanted, causing me physical pain over every inch of me until I gave into her commands. My body was meant to be own. I was meant to have my own free will and ability to think on my own, but when Rebecca was around it was gone. It didn’t matter one bit what I felt or thought, it only matter what she wanted. If she told me to jump off a bridge, I would have done it, despite the amount of screaming in my head that would go on, telling myself to stop, my body was not my own and in the end, it would complete her wish.

I pulled myself to my feet, attempting to combat the shaking of my body as I did so. I trotted down the steps and to the edge of Evie’s driveway hoping to find some trace of her. There was the faint smell of magic in the air, but the only scent of Evie’s were the prominent ones nestled deeply within the edges of her home. It was comforting and yet disturbing. My thoughts were completely whisked away from me once more as a pure white streak came racing towards me like a bat out of hell. The small feline leapt just before it reached me, its body curving and stretching until I was face to face with an all too familiar human. I knew that trembling was a side effect of shifting while your body readjusted itself, but Cosmo wasn’t just trembling, he was shaking so violently that he looked like he was experiencing his own personal earthquake beneath his feet.

“YOU IDIOT! YOU COMPLETE MANIAC! YOU POOR EXCUSE FOR HUMAN BEING! YOU!” Cosmo hissed, a little of his spit cascading onto my face while he threw his hands in the air out of frustration.

“Calm down,” I said. The words were meaningless coming from the boy who could barely stand on his own two feet about five seconds ago, but my mind was clogged up with so many thoughts and emotions that I couldn’t handle being able to think of something to say to Cosmo. There was nothing to say. ‘Sorry dude, I got your girlfriend captured. Don’t know where she is.’ I didn’t have an answer, an explanation or even an apology for that matter.

Thwack!

Cosmo hit me squarely across the jaw. I stumbled back a few steps, raising my hand to rub at the area that should have felt some sort of sting, or numbness to it. But I felt nothing. Was I that past caring?

“You insufferable bastard! What did you do with her?” Cosmo screamed, raising his fist towards me ready to swing once more.

“I didn’t do anything to her.” I argued feebly.

Thwack!

Cosmo hit me once more, this time the blow knocking me over, landing on my backside with a loud thud. I still felt nothing and yet it felt so wrong. It was the sort of fragile nothing that terrified me. I wanted to feel the pain, to have some form of punishment for letting Evie just walk away to her doom. But all I was left with was the slow suffocating of nothingness.