Loves Forbidden Touch (A Supernatural Story)

Chapter 9

Alana opened her eyes and peered into her teacher's face, she had fallen asleep or so she thought.

"You never sleep in my class Alana." Mr. Lackey said.

She looked at him oddly, "You are my prize student, I hate to see anything bad happen to you." He said and she realized she was back in school with Sam behind her. She smiled suddenly, "I'm sorry Mr. Lackey, I guess I was exhausted, I promise it won't happen again."

He nodded and moved away as the bell rang. She jumped from her seat and turned to face Sam and to her dismay found no one there. "Sam?" she said.

"Alana? Who's Sam?" Mr. Lackey asked.

She turned to him with sad eyes and shook her head, "No one." She said and fled the room. She ran from the school and sat on the bench outside. What had happened to Sam? Was he truly gone?

She tried to hold the tears back but as they fell down her cheeks did someone sit next to her. "Why are you crying?" Rosa asked and Alana sat up and hugged the poor girl. "You're here!" she said happily.

"Yeah, I just dropped you off not long ago. I saw you out here and came to see if you were alright."

"I am slightly, but Rosa, Sam isn't here!"

She shook her head as her eyes saddened, "Alana, I lost Sam two years ago."

"No! He was alive; he saved me from losing my mind. The dark watchers, they let us go! Why isn't Sam here?"

Rosa held her friend and tried to calm her down. "Alana, honey, please stop. You must have hit your head or something and now you're scaring me."

She stopped but her crying continued. "I want to see Riley." She said.

Rosa nodded, "That's fair. Come, I will take you to him." She said as they walked to her car in the next parking lot. As Alana got in, a feeling of pain overcame her. Was this even her world? Had the dark watchers done this to her?

As Rosa pulled up to the house did her fears overcome her. They were at her home!

"Rosa? This is my house, why are we here?"

"Alana, Riley is your father."

Her mouth dropped. "WHAT?!" she yelped.

"Sit still and I will tell you a story of how your mother Mariah and our father Riley met. The year was 1988 and your mom was 18 years old. Our father fell madly in love with her and made her one of us. She bore you a little later and in the end she went mad. Riley weaved stories in your head to confuse you of your true heritage but he felt he should keep close to you anyways and when the man you called 'father' took you away to be his daughter did Riley feel pain. He did this to save you a life of pain and torture Alana. He didn't mean to hurt you."

"But..." she stopped; kissing him had been a dream!

"You loved Sam; you wanted nothing more than to be with him even at this young age. I found you two in bed and I nearly had an attack. My brother was not supposed to do things like that to a girl your age. I was furious and told him to stay away from his sister, his twin sister." She stopped and looked over to Alana, "But that is in the past. Anyways, he stabbed himself and bled out."

Alana whimpered.

"You drove yourself into a deep depression and kept your head in your books and kept your grades high. Lately, it seemed as if you were coming out of that haze you've been in for the past two years."

"Then what I experienced...."

Rosa interrupted her, "You dreamt of an alternate world, one where you felt loved. One where you felt a love forbidden of a father and a brother. Your mind was trying to kill the fact that all you dreamt was lies."

"I am so messed up." She said.

Rosa opened her door and got out of the car, motioning for Alana to do the same. "You do know Riley is not here, right?"

Alana shook her head.

"He died last year of a heart attack. The doctors said that the blood had been drained from him." She laughed, "Makes you think of vampires doesn't it?"

Alana shot her a look and then it all came together, all Rosa had told her had been the truth. She was the daughter of Riley and Mariah, sister of Sam, Rosa, Anna and Tanya. The world she thought was real was in fact a dream of her own to keep the pain away.

"Then what now?" she asked.

"We move away. I found a place in Vermont that sounds promising and our Aunt Teresa will be there to raise us. Four girls is quite a chore but she wanted no other way."

Vermont. Alana shivered. Her life was different now, the way it was meant to be.

"Oh, and Alana, did I happen to mention that you have a high school boyfriend?"

Alana just shook her head.

Rosa laughed, "I'll tell you about him soon, but for now welcome home."

Home. She was finally home.