~ The Unworthy Title ~

~ Chapter 1 ~

The sun hadn't shown its full light yet. You could still hear the night's silence accompanied by the forest's sounds. The water was cold and warm at the same time. These moments were my favorites. Every day I left home and went there to my favorite spot, a lake deep in the forest that only I was aware of. The water was calm and cold like a mirror exposing every kind of secret. When I saw the sun coming out I got out of the lake, wore a black leather jacket and my black shoes then I started following the twenty minute path for my house.

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After twenty minutes I got home and ran to my room making sure no one noticed that I had left. When I made it to my room I opened the door and left my jacket on the chair of my desk.

   "Aiden are you up?" No answer. I looked at my brother's bed and I saw nothing but the blankets. I found him sleeping on top of his books with the desk light on. He was up all night studying, again.

It was the fourth time in a row. I got next to his head and yelled at him "Aiden!". He suddenly opened his eyes and slowly got his head up. When he saw me, he started realizing what time it was and what happened.

   "I did it again, didn't I ?" He asked me all innocent, trying to make me pity him.

   "You have to stop this Aiden, it's not healthy."

   "I know, I know. Don't worry I will um... stop it okay. What time is it ?" He asked me with his eyes looking straight to me trying to focus.

   "The sun has just risen, want to dress up and go to eat?"

   "Yeah I need to." I nodded in agreement and started looking for something to wear. Aiden is my twin brother. We have the same blue eyes like our mother's but I have white hair and his are brown. We are always together even though we are completely different. I found a nice white, long shirt with long sleeves and a black pair of pants. While Aiden wore a purple long shirt and some blue pants.

   "Ready ?" He asked me and I nodded. Then he opened the door and we left. When we left our room I looked at Aiden's face, he seemed fine for someone who has just woken up.

I mean he wouldn't be over the moon yet, but after eating something he would get back to his normal self. While on the other hand there's me. I hate mornings, I feel exhausted. We walked for a few minutes and finally made it to the kitchen. We found our older brother Keir sitting on the table eating his breakfast. He noticed us and smiled.

   "Good morning kiddos." he said, I put some apples on my plate and a knife in my hand.

   "Good morning Keir." said Aiden smiling at him. Where do they find that energy? I sat on the table and started peeling the apples. Keir glanced at me and said

   "Good morning to you too sis."

   "Morning." I said, still looking at my plate, cutting the apple on my hand into small pieces and placing them on the plate.

   "Hey Aiden, what happened to your eyes?"

   "He stayed up all night studying, again." I threw a glance at Aiden to see him looking at me betrayed.

   "Aiden, I know you like to be consistent with your studies but you have to sleep, right ?" Said the big brother...

   "I know guys you don't have to worry, really." Aiden looked at his plate and then at me and back at his plate, he looked like he was trying to remember something.

   "Um Crys, I think dad told me yesterday to remind you to go to his office."

   "Yeah he told me too but I won't go, I already know what he wants to say."

   "Crystal just go and see what he wants, don't play with this." Keir said, looking at me seriously.

   "I mean he is so predictable, he probably wants us to play some songs at that stupid ball."

   "It doesn't matter just- "

   "Okay, okay see you in ten minutes." I said, interrupting Keir.

I left the room and started thinking. What does he want? He probably wants to ask me to play with Aiden on the ball, that's in two days or maybe it has to be something with practice. Well I won't find out if I don't open the door in front of me, I thought looking at his office door.

I took a deep breath, put my hand on the doorknob and opened the door. His office had always been tidy and simple: a desk with a big pile of papers ready to be signed, a big library with huge books and two armchairs in front of his desk. I took two steps inside and asked him,

   "Father, you wanted to see me?" Emerson, king of Vesta, kingdom of fire, one of the strongest warriors in history and also my father raised his head to look at me.

   "I did, take a seat." I did as he wanted to leave this room as fast as I could...

   "So what did you want to say to me ?"

   "As you know, there is going to be a ball in two days." Here we go, I thought.

   "Yes I know, what about it ?"

   "I wanted to ask you if you and Aiden could play some songs." I knew it, classic Emerson.

   "Yes we can do that."

   "Alright that settles it." I stood up and asked him

   "Can I leave now ?"

   "Um yes and before you leave I want you to know two things. One, for these two days we are going to train after lunch and dinner. Two, I would like you and Aiden to attend every dinner from now on." Okay, the training part was acceptable. It's training, I could do that but having to see his face every day at dinner too?, I thought to myself.

   "Um, does my opinion matter on this?"

   "No, it's not an option. It's an order." He finished his sentence and got back to his papers.

   "Alright see you at practice then." I closed the door behind me and started to think why am I even trying when he won't listen.