❥︎ 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙈𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 ♡︎

C.XIII - The Past is What we Hold Back

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We're running... Huff Huff "Ah! Ouch! Wait up!"

And runnin'

And runn-

"A- ow!" Thud I toppled over into a heap of bushes, while Praxina had her head in her hands with disappointment.

"How- just how are we related?" She said as I straightened myself, dusting off the leaves and tiny thorns. "By blood?"

"Ugh, just- whatever! It was a rhetorical question, brother!" She groaned, blowing a hair out of her face, and continued to walk off without me.

We've been through a lot together, therefore makes sense we'd be annoyed to see eachother's face as the first thing in the morning everyday. "Hey! Wait up sissy! - okay I'm sorry... I didn't understand!!" I ran after her.

"How pant are you pant so pant fast - for a thirteen year old?!"

"You're just lathergic. Nothing surprising." She rolled her eyes, before they brightened at the sight of something afar.

It was Willow - the tree, I mean. (A tree we, as in I, named so brilliantly) Its vines having drooped so low as to touch the blades of grass, Praxina pushed away a gap for us to take our entrance in the area hidden under.

"This is someone special - so be on your best behaviour! - we don't want any unwanted first impressions, do we?" She eyed me and I nodded vigorously "No ma'am!" Trust me, you would do not want to get on her bad side. Oh ho ho, no.

She elbowed me in the gut just when we heard shuffling around the other side of the tree trunk. A boy walked out. Shoulder length, white hair - dark gray shades and reds with accents of cyan clad him - bright red shining eyes - numerous freckles scattered over his milky white skin. He was the most beautiful boy that could've existed then.

"Good evening, friend! And friend's friend - who wants to presumably be my friend too?" His eyes grew babying at me too irresistible to decline the proposal.

"I'm Mephisto, thirteen." I stretched out a hand to un-awkwardize the moment any further and he accepted it.

"Kade, fourteen." He smiled but in an almost - eerie way. A crippling feeling still lingered upon my senses, days after our meet.

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"Hey Meph!" I heard a voice say, presumably to me, from the nickname. I turned to face Kade, the eerie kid from my nightma- I-I mean realities. (Reality or nightmare - what's the difference anyway?)

"Aha- hey! Creative nickname- I guess... " I rubbed my neck in uncertainty. The guy seemed to have changed his personality from the inside out, including the beauty that was the first attraction - only to change into disgust, after knowing I'd be used as the worthless pawn for their (Kade and Praxina) darker plans. I've been the brains for every one of their 'so called pranks' that were merely harmful physically, but soul crushing mentally, for the people who they pulled them on.

Mentally draining the confidence, self esteem and intelligence out of others was annoyingly fun for them. I'd tell the headmistress of our school, if Praxina wasn't my beloved sister who everyone adored - because of her skills in dark magic, and her vast knowledge in spells. Who would ever believe a complaint against her from her useless, last in class brother?

"Sooooo.....-" Kade continued, "We just made another amazing strategy to physiologically irritate someone, till they're at their tipping point. After that- well you know what happens after." He laughed. "It only takes a spark for a wild fire, doesn't it now?" He smiled, leaning on the locker door.