Their Dreams, My Reality (Book 1 in the Mystic Dreams Series)

I dont like my backstory (sucky title sorry)

"The beginning is always a good place to start," I stare at mom waiting for her to explain who the hell Zander is.

She sighs, "ah, well, I guess that means I will have to start with you if you want to know who he is."

"Sure, whatever, I don't care"

"Well Tessa, your name wasn't always Tessa Sanger."

I looked confused but allowed her to continue.

"Your name use to be Tessa Premix."

"But what about my parents?" I ask still confused beyond belief.

"They weren't your real ones."

"But I have memories of them since I was young!?"

Mom sighs, "well that has something to do with their gift. See when your real mom and dad were killed, we needed someone to look after you. Their gift was perception, they could tamper with memories a slight bit in order for you to believe you always knew them."

I beyond shocked, but all I do is nod. I want her to continue and crying won't help that.

"Your real parents were evil, sorry to say. They were also friends of mine. Angelica and Neil tried to take over this academy. They believed that if the people with gifts uses them as one, they could rule the world and rid it of the normal humans."

I chuckled ruefully, "you mean like X-Men? A movie was designed after MY FREAKING PARENTS?!"

Mary put a hand on my arm from her spot in the chair next to me. She silently reassuring me to hold it together.

"Well the movie wasn't part of the original plan, but we needed a cover up." Mom said to me. Wow. At least she is being honest but still?! My parents were so bad they needed a world wide cover up. That feels great on a persons mind.

I sighed and put on an emotionless face, "fine, fine, I understand. Tell me more."

The face she wares is shock, but she still continues, "Right. Well, I guess you would want to know their gifts."

"Well yeah! I mean I have been in the dark for so long, please enlighten me." I roll my eyes, and Mary tightens her grip on my arm.

"Your mothers gift was dream and mind manipulation. Her gift is almost unheard of. your fa-"

"Woah, woah, woah. Can you please explain because one, I've never really heard about them, and two, I want to know how it works. After all I had to get my gift from somewhere."

Mom nods, "Angelica could make people do simple things. Basically mind control, but not fully. She couldn't make you like jump off a bridge or anything, but she could implant thought to make you want to on your own. She could also speak and enter into people's dreams. Much like the mind control, she couldn't do much, but she could implement things for you to dream about and talk to whomever in their dreams."

I take a deep breath and signal for her to continue.

"Your father was an absorber. I trust you know what those are, but they are rare so I'll tell you to some extent about his. An absorber is someone who can become certain things they touch. For example, if your father touched brick, he would be brick, if he touched gold, and only real gold, he could wear the gold like a armor for his skin. He could only do this with no living objects, so no trees, humans, or anything along those lines."

"What happened to make them want to take over the academy?"

"I really think it was your mothers doing. Your father was sweet, and kind of a nerd. Angelica was always very cunning and spiteful. If you crossed her, she made sure you payed for it. She took a liking a liking to me, and I was able to calm her some with my gift. All the work I had done to keep her nice and level headed changed when she started drugs and drinking. After that she went back to her irritable self, but she still was nice enough to me to where I didn't think anything of it. She met a boy named Derek, and she thought she was in love. She went everywhere and did everything with him. She really thought she loved him, and was engaged to be his wife. Well, that was until she caught him cheating on her with the second most popular girl in school."

Mom took a breath, "Angelica blamed the, both, and she killed them. Angelica broke the girls neck as she pulled her off of Derek. Now, she slowly drained Derek of his blood over the course of a week. She kept him tied upside down in a cave and would come cut bits of him each day, until one day he finally passed."

We all sat waiting for her to continue.

"She mourned his death and I spent time comforting her. At the time I didn't know she had been the one to kill Derek, but I had my suspicions. After some time I introduced her to Neil, a nice book nerd to calm her. Slowly and do I mean slowly she fell in love with him like Derek. She actually married him, overtime she corrupted him. Who once was a kind loving husband, was a cruel man who would abuse anyone."

"Angelica loved him even more than this, but she still took precautions, if Neil even looked at a girl to long, she would kill them. One time when Angelica was killing a mortal girl, Neil came home early and found her. He didn't yell or beat her, as she thought he would, but instead he joined her. Together they made quite the Bonnie and Clyde. As they were cutting this girl, Angelica's hand was cut. She decided to force the girl to lap up the blood her struggling had caused. When the girl ingested the blood, she became ill and died in an hour."

"They had discovered how when a mortal ingests a gifted's blood, it kills them. They spent time testing their theory and scheming. About two years into their shit hole of a marriage, they had a son. Another two years later they had a daughter. Myself and a group of specialists stole the daughter away to keep her from becoming as corrupted as the others. The son we didn't have time to retrieve. The night we went to get him was the night they attacked the academy."

"They thought that the gifted would see their way and join them in a battle against the mortals, but the students weren't stupid and went against your parents. Some were killed, but in the process the students over through your parents and killed them. "

I took it all in and was confused at first, "ok, so I know I'm the daughter, but who is the son?"

Mom looked at the paper in my hand, the gray paper with black writing.

Suddenly it clicked, "Zander. Zander is my older brother?"

"I'm sorry," her shoulders dropped, "we weren't able to take him back then, but we had gotten you, and I thought he was killed along with his parents."

I stood up infuriated, "yeah well you thought wrong. He turned out to be alive, and evil just like them! He didn't even have them to grow up with!, and he's still evil! Just like they were!" I started to shrink down and Mary pulled me into a hug and I cried softly into her neck, "what if it happens to me?" I whisper loud enough so the silent room could hear.

She runs her fingers through my hair and down my back, rocking us back and forth on our feet, "you won't." She tuns to mom, "I hate to me mean, but quite frankly Tessa can't take this right now. We are leaving right now."

The others took that as a cue and walked out the door. Mary took my arm and walked with me to the door. She looked back at mom, "we may come back later. Don't be surprised if you don't see us for a while." She flipped her off to my surprise and we walked out and headed to our cabin.