Midnight's daughters

Midnight's daughters 15

Hearing Zee's tortured voice snapped us out of our thoughts and we instinctively reacted blocking her from him, flanking her and glaring death at them. He ignored our 'rot in hell' glares and our defensive postures. Most of us had no idea what was going on and how he could make Zee sound like she was about to burst into tears. Hell they didn't know how they knew each other but there was no way we were going to let HIM hurt her.

"Ree ree...Is it really you?" Caleb said sounding like he was afraid this was a dream he had so many times and he had never made it this far into the dream and if he woke up and realised this was all a dream he would commit suicide. The jerk. He broke her heart and drove her away himself he didn't deserve to know her name much less be her best friend. Ex best friend I mentally corrected myself.

Zee snuck out behind our protective shield to answer his question "Yeah Cal, it's really me." She whispered, tears were going to spill out from her eyes. That idiot. Jared grabbed her arm to stop her from going towards the enemy.

"You've changed Ree ree. You look like...Wow." He said as he came closer to her and hugged her. Zee didn't react, she acted like she was a statue. What was going on in her head? A tear rolled down her face and dripped of her chin. Satan reacted instinctively and pulled him off her and looked like she wanted to kill him very much.

"Look, I don't care who you think you are but back away from my sister." She threatened looking deadly.

My (new) phone rang and a text message popped up distracting Satan from her prey. "Well?" She snapped and I flashed her my phone.

It was iris. The message read : What are you girls doing?! Mary saw what happened and reported it to dad! You need to leave now! I'll take care of Joey! Just go now!

Oh god. Stupid Mary. Daddy's personal pawn. It was obviously sent to the other girls and we all had to leave asap. But instead of leaving Caleb here to face the music like he deserved, Zee dragged him off with her promising to explain everything soon.

"Come on, we'll go to our house, your dad doesn't know we have parents." Jared said as he grabbed my hand and dragged me off to his car. As ironic as it is, instead of feeling scared about being alone with him, I felt safe. Like he would protect me from anything that tried to hurt me. I must have had too much sleep. Yeah that was probably it.

Keep telling yourself that sweetheart. My inner voice said smugly. Stupid voice.

Zee's P.O.V

I stared at Caleb. I still loved him. I loved the way he laughed; I loved the way I could read his facial expression. I loved the way his grey eyes clashed with his surfer boy looks and how they darkened or lightened according to his mood. I loved every little thing about him I once went star watching tried to give each star a reason why I loved him. I was doing fine until I ran out of stars. I even loved his annoying habit of making me blush without trying.

And I hated him for it.

He was with me for every part of my life. My own personal love story. But it went wrong. My prince charming married the evil witch. My enemy. He knew I hated her but said I would learn to care about her and that she wasn't that bad or I was exaggerating. He couldn't stand to hear a bad word about her. They started dating a year later, and the last shreds of hope that life was fair died in me.

They were all lovey dovey, I never realised it but Caleb was my only friend. As time went by, he started to forget our little traditions because he was wrapped around Selene's ring finger. Selene loved flaunting her prize to everyone. Including me. Let's not forget she knew I loved Caleb and I knew that's why she went after him in first place. I also knew she cheated on me but she threatened to tell Caleb about my little crush on him. But adding in her own little details to make me look like the bad guy.

Ironically I hated Joel for making Selene cheat on Caleb. I never hated Selene after she got together with Caleb; it was the way she made him so utterly happy when she was with him. I loved him too much to hurt him, to take her away, but too much to stick around and watch them play happy family. So when dad came, the already desperate to leave me agreed to go with him.

I had sold my soul to the devil and it was too late to change that. So I adapted. I stopped being all positive and hopeful because it only hurt you. It was hard trusting my sisters but it got easier over time. I now had a proper family. I smiled at the thought.

I saw Selene the slut cling to him like a baby. At first she glared at me and clung tighter to him obviously saying 'he's mine' until recognition clouded her features. She shot me a back off glare.

"Ree ree...is it really you?" Caleb asked sounding upset, hurt, a little angry, at the edge, relieved and a little dumbfounded.

I snuck out from behind my sister's protective shield to prove that I was alright and okay. To prove to myself that Caleb was not part of my present or future. Although it hurt, it was true. "Yeah Cal, it's really me." I said my voice breaking on the last word. I shot the girls an 'I'm okay' look. It fooled no body.

I froze in shock when I realized that even Jared and Jarl had tried to block him away from me and did not miss the anger that flashed through Calebs eyes when Jared held me back from him. Maybe they really did care about us and we judged them too quickly.

"You've changed Ree ree. You look like...Wow." He said as he came closer to me and hugged me. I had to force myself to freeze and not melt into him and hug him back tightly. "Why did you leave Ree ree? Why did you leave me? Your mother? She committed suicide after you left." He whispered into my ear sounding like he was in agony.

"I had to. I had no choice. I'll explain everything to you okay? I promise." I whispered back. A tear rolled down my face.

"There's always a choice. Why did you leave? You could have found a guy that loves you as much as I love Sel and be happy like I am with her." He said sounding pained. I wanted so badly to tell him I already found the guy I loved to bits. He just didn't love me back. But I couldn't. I felt my heart get stabbed. All the band-aided and stitched up and healing wounds were abruptly ripped open. Just as abruptly as Satan ripped him away from me.

"Look, I don't care who you think you are but back away from my sister." She threatened looking deadly. Bad luck's iPhone went off causing Satan to momentarily forget her prey. "Well?" She snapped and Bad luck flashed Satan her new phone.

Damn you Mary. One look at each other and we knew what we were going to do. It was easy. Jared and Jarl's house. I grabbed Caleb's arm and dragged him away towards my car.

"What's going on? Where are you taking me?" He demanded.

"I'm sorry Cal, I'll explain everything as soon as we're at Jared's house." I said softly.

"You mean your boyfriend?" He asked sounding mad.

"NO! Ew, gross. He's a friend." I said in my 'duh' voice and Caleb smirked and laughed.