Aurora:
In a world where love had to be earned I would never be good enough. I was the black sheep in the family, the witch without magic.
While my sister excelled in every type of way I had to suffer in silence, tormented by the people I should ha...
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Aurora
The sun hadn't risen yet when Ronan and I left the academy the next day. It was cold outside but I had my personal heating pad with me that sent off waves of warmth into the air around him.
I could tell that he was nervous but he didn't let it show on his face. The only sign were his tense and rigid shoulders as if he was trying to keep up a strong facade.
I wasn't that worried about him. He had done this many times before I had known him. I was more worried about his father and if I could hold myself back when I saw him.
"We'll use this portal so the others won't see us when I shift" Ronan said and took my hand while marching to a portal far away from the academy grounds.
From my understanding it pretty much didn't matter from where we flew because the castle was so far from the ground. It was hidden deep in the sky within the layer that contained the clouds.
Last time I had been there -which had been approximately ten years ago- I had only been inside of the castle so I had no idea what it really looked like from the outside and neither how we would get there.
It would've been easy if I could've just teleported us there like I had done all these years ago but I had somehow lost that ability along the way.
I brazed myself for the portal but despite my efforts I still fell right to my knees as we landed on the other side. The world turned for a long while until I was finally able to see everything.
We had landed on a random piece of land, far enough from the academy where people wouldn't see us but judging from the terrain we weren't that far.
"Are you alright?" I heard Ronan ask beside me. He was kneeling on the ground next to me, looking completely fine. "I hate this" I told him, tasting the faint taste of bile on my tongue.
"It gets better" he promised and pulled me back up onto my feet. "Thanks" I mumbled, trying to orientate myself.
"Is there anything you want to ask me now? It would be better if you stayed in the background once we arrive at the castle" he said through gritted teeth. He had already instructed me that I shouldn't talk about anything private once we had arrived because there were ears everywhere that would deliver any information to his father on a silver platter.
But what actually hurt a little was that he couldn't see that we were in a relationship. I had to behave like I was solely a soldier in training, just like we had done in the academy all along.
Three more years, I told myself. If we survived all of this I would only have to wait a few more years until I could stop pretending. And then not only the academy would be over but also all of the suffering in this whole war. It had been so long since I had known about this war that I couldn't even imagine what it was like not to fear for my life every day.
