Northern Lights

Chapter 2

She didn't necessarily want to stifle Skye and not have get a life outside of hers since she was being rather selfish when she wanted him to be there for her at all times, especially when she's doing what she loved best: dancing. It was an eye-opening experience to her that she had to make space in her heart to care for Skye's new girlfriend since Skye cared for her. It wasn't that she was jealous...she just wasn't used it, that's all.  

Her name was Sienna and she was a goth-emo-punk girl who would have looked stunningly beautiful if she let up on her eyeliner a bit. She slapped herself at that one. Aurora didn't have the right to judge her.

"Is he in any sports?" Sienna asked her as soon as Skye was out of sight. He had gone to get lunch, leaving the two in a silence Aurora hoped was not in the least bit awkward. She was trying hard to get to know that girl and not let her selfish desires cloud her judgment.

"What? No, he's not. He doesn't like jocks. Bad experience in middle school. Long story."  

"Then how come he looks so...fit."  

"He goes to the gym like three, four times a week."  

"He goes to the gym?" She asked, looking pleased at the prospect.  

Aurora furrowed her forehead at the girl's reaction. "Yeah, at Sun Valley."  

"Wow, isn't that an expensive gym?"  

Aurora shrugged. Skye's parents were well-off, as was hers. But she didn't want to tell that to the new girl yet. So she's probably letting her inner demons take control of her thoughts—she couldn't help it.  She's always been wary of how people acted around her when they found out she was a rich girl.

"Typical Ivan." Maverick remarked as he observed Skye and Sienna cuddling underneath the umbrella table where Aurora would soon be joining them. Jace, Maverick's twin caught sight of Aurora and grinned warmly at her in greeting. "Hey Rose!"

Maverick pretended to notice that he had walked up to her. "Oh, hey Red." 

She scrunched up her nose at Maverick's nick name for her since elementary school and he just grinned goofily at her.  

"So what's so typical about Skye?" She asks.

"His girl. Of course he would pick the damage looking ones with a horrible past and family. I mean there's a golden girl right in front of him." He winked at Aurora and she blushed, despite herself.  

Ignoring it, she soldiers on, "You think she has a horrible past?"

Even Jace gave her a look that told her she had just asked a dumb question.  

"Don't you see the hair job, the eyeliner and the hunched up she carries herself? It screams 'I hate my life and my family, someone save me!' and Ivan answered the call like the Prince Charming he is."

Aurora giggled, her mood lifting already from the twin's presence. She had been feeling a bit...ignored but that was to be expected of the new couple.  

"Come sit with us instead of the PDAs."

Aurora turned to look at her best friend to see his face glued to Sienna's. A little disgusted by the sugary scene they were displaying, she agreed and followed the twins to the tables near the freshmen who were trying for football like Maverick and Jace.

Skye wouldn't miss her. He had his princess of darkness with him.  

She saw some of her dance team mingling with the new cheerleaders and waved at them, catching the eye of Zoe Morel, the beautiful blonde cheerleader who smiled cheerfully at Aurora. She gave a meek smile in return. She had been slightly intimidated of the popular girl since kindergarten. 

"How are your classes, Rose?" Maverick's face swam in her vision and she pulled away from the boy who doesn't know what personal space meant, unlike his twin who was polite and oh so cute. Yes, Jace had been her type too, along with Skye before she caught sight of her broody boy.

 Jace's dimple appeared. "We haven't talked to you since sixth grade."  

She smiled apologetically at them. In elementary school, she had been close with them and Skye since they all lived right next door to each other. But start of middle school, she had been shipped off to an all-girl private school in France for two years. She wasn't forced, more like coerced and badgered till she had no choice but to say yes to stop her persistent mother. And she was sort of bribed.  

She was allowed to attend public high school as long as she experienced—suffered—through a rich school and mingled with other rich kids like her. She absolutely hated it.

She hated girls and she hated being rich. Even amongst the rich and famous, she was another tier, someone to be put on a pedestal just because her mother and father made more money than your average rich parents. Damon Winters was the third richest man on the planet while her mother with just her own fortune inherited from her mother and father was the tenth richest woman, making them quite a couple. They never advertised having a daughter because Aurora insisted. She wanted to live a normal life and not one under media eye scrutiny and also for her own protection of sorts. No one knew she existed as Damon and Roslyn Winters's daughter and she liked it that way.  

But even if she attended a public school, she was quite spoiled.  

Her car was not your average car and her clothes did not fit a middle income family she was trying to portray.  The same went for Skye and the twins. They had always stood out from the rest since they were little kids. They were used to it. But the fact that they had her to knock some sense in them whenever they got too full of themselves helped tone down their ego.