Finding Truth

Chapter 6

Once Aden and I had gotten back to the cabin we sat on the couch for a few hours just enjoying each other's company. With everything that has happened today it really felt like something out of a TV show. My life is turning into a nightmare but also the most exciting thing I've ever experienced. I'm not sure how to take any of this anymore or how my future is going to look. What I do know though is Aden will be in it and that's what matters. The real question though is how long will Aden be in it? Until I'm old and wrinkly? Or until I'm in my mid thirties? It would look really weird if people saw us in public together in the future and I looked like a cougar from Las Vegas. He's already over one hundred years old and looks like he's twenty. Who knows how long he'll look that young for. Not to mention the fact we didn't establish if we're actually together now. We both obviously agreed we love each other and had the perfect first kiss but after that we just headed back without speaking.

My mind drifts off thinking about college and school. Am I even going to go anymore? I got accepted into four different universities for their English program but I'm not sure that'll happen. How can I go to school when I just found out I'm part witch with 'gifts' that I can't control? It wouldn't end well. I can see it now. Sitting down for an exam with stress flowing off of me and then boom, papers are floating around me and everyone goes into a panic. I know it's not a thing to burn witches at the stake but I feel like the humiliation i'd get from that would be equivalent. Continuing to think about that makes the hairs on my arms stand straight up. Ya know, maybe I could go to one of the witch schools Aden was talking bout a while ago. They train people on how to use their gifts. That would be good for me. But how would I explain that to my parents? Just go up to them and say 'hey mom and dad, so I found out I have powers and now I'm going to head off to a witch school instead of going to college.' Yup, that'll definitely go over well. Not.

I didn't even realize how late it's gotten until checking my phone. Nine o'clock already, man how the day has just been zooming by. I should really go throw on some pjs and head to bed. The goal for tomorrow is to go exploring down a trail that leads to a part of the mountains where you can hear the gray wolves howl. I've always wanted to be in a place where I can hear mother nature's creations living life to the fullest and here I feel like I can do that. I don't know if I'll ever want to leave after tomorrow. There's just so much to do and it feels like we have so little time. Okay Sammy, you really need to go to bed now and see if Aden is coming to bed with you I tell myself.

"I think I'm going to go hit the hay. You coming? Or do you not sleep, because that would make a lot of sense." I say jokingly nudging Aden with my elbow.

"You think you're so funny don't you? But yes, I do sleep. Just not a lot. Never needed to. Next to you though? I'll sleep all damn day long. That's if you want me sleeping with you and not in the other room."

"I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want you to dumb nut." I snap back while grabbing a pillow on the couch that's within reach. Finishing my sentence with pillow in hand I whack it at his head with all the force I can muster up hoping being Fae makes him pillow resistant.

When the pillow collides with the back of his head I hear Aden let out a big grunt and next thing I know I'm being thrown around landing on my back with my arms pinned above my head.

Staring into those green eyes I just smile. "Welp.. that didn't go as planned. I was hoping for escape time."

Chuckling he leans in closer, almost making our noses touch and whispers "Good luck ever getting a chance to escape me darling."

Not knowing how to react to that, I try to come up with any comeback I can. "Okay, well, um, uh, good luck ever getting another chance to do this again." I say finally breaking eye contact to look him up and down, but when I look down I realize both his legs are between mine and he's holding himself up by the knees and his hands that are on my wrists.