Unspoken Power (Unspoken Trilogy #1)

leah legend

I woke up to pain that was just the same as last night. I rolled over on my side that was not wounded to grab my phone. I was flooded with texts from my friends.

Angry ones from Addy, Paige, Kayla, Becca, and even Marshall. Asher didn't text he was going to give me an earful in person instead probably.

Marshall: What the fuck Leah? Running off with Atlas instead of staying for your own fucking friend? I get not for Asher, but Kayla?

Addy: We saw you run off... and with Atlas of all people? You know Odessa has said not to trust him.

Kayla: I should know not to trust you. Odessa told me not to. Thanks for letting me down.

Paige: Odessa said you would do this... I should have listened.

Becca: Leah, I know you have to have a good reason for this... I still trust you. But on a night that meant a lot to Kayla?

I closed my eyes. This whole keeping a secret identity thing was absolute shit. How can I go on? I won't have friends by the time this is over.

Odessa is the one I now know I can't trust. I didn't want it to be but it is. I find comfort in that, I didn't trust Atlas really either. He trusted me but not enough to tell me the whole truth.

I couldn't confront Odessa about any of this, that would make me look even worse. This was a stupid situation I was in. I meddle and now I am sinking in the quicksand because I didn't listen.

I thought that this was a grand idea. No, absolutely not. I did like using my powers to save people, getting almost killed, no. Losing my friends is also a no.

But I liked being Leah Legend. It was who I truly was and as much as I have been absolutely getting my ass kicked I liked... being a hero. I liked being my real parents' daughter.

I couldn't tell my friends who I was... how do I even tell them I'm an alien. My brother, who was one of my best friends, would probably hate me. No one would look at me the same way. My real parents gave up everything so I could live a normal life, not be who I truly was. They left me to live normally and I couldn't even do that. I was drawn to save people. I have always wanted to know my future like everyone else... Maybe this was my future.

Leah Legend, my future. Leah North, my past. Who I am now is not who I want to be. I want to know who I am, my culture, my powers, how to fight, how to do the things I should know how to do.

How do I even start?

Texting my friends back instead of having a life crisis.

I didn't know what to even say. I mostly left everyone on read except Kayla. I had to text her. I apologized and said some other things. I was in so much pain it didn't even really matter to me.

I tried taking ibuprofen but I don't think that works for me anymore. Not the alien side of me at least. On my way up the stairs Asher and Marshall were here. I could hear their laughs inside his room.

I knocked on his door and Asher leaned in the doorway, "What?"

"Can we talk?"

"No. And you can find your own ride to and from school yeah?" and he slammed the door on me again.

Yeah nevermind he didn't want to talk at all. I grabbed my doorway in pain slowly making my way back to my bed.

I felt my eyes light up and I could sense someone was in my room. I looked over in the corner and someone was sitting in my chair.

They had reptile skin and oval yellow eyes staring back at me, "Leah Legend, I haven't seen you since you were a baby. My, my, how you look like your parents."