Silver Satin (Book Two)

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(AN: So I was listening to Little Things by 1D so it kinda inspired this chapter. Just a least the whole reminiscent part lol. Actually I just like the song. But whatevs! I appreciate all the messages and comments and votes! I really like knowing what you think, who your favorite character is, whether you think the story is good or bad etc. So dont hesitate to let me know! ReVomment loves! -Opal )

14.
When I woke up the next morning, I was completley drained physically and emotionally. I felt like I hadnt slept at all. I stretched and got up, noticing that Lucas wasnt in the same room. I got up and went to find him.

I walked down the hall and down the stairs and heard voices. "You cant tell her..." I stopped at the sound of James' voice. "She's going to find out James you cant keep that from her," Lucas replied. I stepped on to the stairwell silently and waited for the conversation to continue. "Look Cora told me that one of the people here...Maris or something, that she is a healer, she can heal my face up, she doesnt have to know what Cora is doing, she cant know!" James pleaded.

I dont know why Cora breaking him was hurting me so much. I should hate him. He was a cheater, he had a kid, he was older than me, like WAY older than me. He lied and he was part of a pack where the whole population wanted me dead and had a vendetta against my mother. But the thought of Cora doing something to James made my heart break over and over.

I flashed back to the dream I had the night before and shivered as the image of Cora hitting him with the whip went through my mind. I snapped back to reality shaking the image from my head and walked down the stairs.

I turned the corner once I reached the bottom and I saw James' back as he left the kitchen leaving Lucas standing nervously in the center of the room by himself. "Morning Sunshine," he said smiling. It was fake. His fake smiles never reached his eyes. He was lying to me too, or he was going to if I asked the question I wanted to, and that fact hurt me just a little bit more.

"Where's James?" I asked pretending I didnt just see him leave the room. "I...I dont know." Lucas stammered. He lied. Like I knew he would. I forced my own fake smile on my face and I walked to Lucas. I could feel his energy pulsating and he was starting to get nervous. Lucas never got nervous. Lucas got mad, angry, pissed off but never nervous. I leaned in to hug him and I whispered in his ear. "I can tell that your lying and I dont appreciate it," I then walked away ignoring the calls he made after me as I left.

I had to admit that the house was pretty damn big, especially for being ontop of a mountain. I got lost looking for James and ended up in a library. Who has library's in their house? "I do," a voice said. I jumped. 'I can read your mind you know, its a great enhanced gift that I have, one Julianne will forever regret letting slip through her fingers." Cora said. She got up from a couch in the corner of the room and walked towards me. I turned to walk back out of the room, when what she said next made me stop in my tracks.

"You cant save them both you know that right, you'll have to choose and choose soon because she's coming." she told me. I gulped in air, I wasnt getting any. Cora's energy was flowing over me and i couldnt get away from it. I started to get dizzy and then the all to familiar feeling of passing out came to me and I was out like a light.

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"Which one do you choose little miss Eden?" she asked. Julianne looked outrageously beautiful and meanacing at the same time. She held Lucas' neck in a vice grip the touch of her skin burning at his flesh causing him to scream and fidget in pain. James was bent at his knees. Silver shackles around his hands. Every time he tried to move, it electrocuted him but he made no sound. He was completley broken, under Cora's control but still limited to his movements because of the silver. Could he shift? Had he gotten that far in his sessions with Cora? Was it even possible. Lucas was clawing at Julianne's hands and crying hard as her touch not only burned his neck but his hands as well. She was killing him. I couldnt do this. How could I choose?

James looked up at me and I saw nothing but coldness and no fear in his eyes. But a swirl of emotion showed and a spark, a slight one but a spark nonetheless showed up  and then Lucas screamed my name. I knew who I had to choose.
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I came to and gasped for air, this time receiving the oxygen that I needed. I was laying on the floor looking up at the ceiling. What was the point of all of this if I couldnt save everyone. If I couldnt have them both. It wasnt selfish of me was it? To want my best friend and my mate alive. Sure I hated him, or loathed him but that didnt mean I wanted him to be Cora's and not mine! "You dont have long, I dont know when she's coming but she will be here. She let your mother go for now, crazy woman gets so caught up in her tirades that she doesnt remember what and whom is more important but that doesnt matter. What matters is that you need to know who to choose when the time comes, your best friend or the man that deep down you love but the one who wont love you back," Cora told me than she left the room leaving me on the floor to cry.

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One time when Lucas and I were 15 we had our first kiss. It was crazy, stupid and awkward, but he was my best friend, the only guy I trusted and at the time I was dead set on him being my first for everything. So we were in my room laying on the bed. We had just finished our homework and we were talking about one day saving the world from the abomination called Julianne when he  looked at me and his eyes bore into mine and it made my heart skip more than  few beats.

Feelings like that meant you were meant to be with someone right? He pushed the hair back that had fallen in my eyes and the feel of his skin on mine made me shiver. "Im going to kiss you," he whispered and then he closed his eyes and moved in and his lips touched mine.
We didnt tell anyone and we didnt do it again. But the fact that that happened was going to be my downfall. I loved him. I loved him more than a best friend should but I didnt Love him like I did James. I didnt know him but he was that missing piece that my mother always said that my dad was. Her missing piece was him, Ryder while my missing piece wasnt Lucas, but James. But how could I choose between my missing piece and the other half of me? Because thats what Lucas was. My other half.

And my other half is who found me a few hours later in the same position that Cora had left me and in the same situation as well. I had still gotten no where and no where fast.