Ancient Darkness

1: Just a Dream

--------- it's so hard, I can't stop...... 

     I sat up rubbing the sleep from my eyes, and grabbed my cell phone. Your parents are not who you think they are. What? I thought to myself. The text came from a blocked number. I didn't even know you could do that? I've been woken up by the same message for the past week. 

   "Hey your awake. Yay, that means you can't be crabby at me for waking you up, since I didn't." My best friend, Briawna said shutting my bedroom door and sitting at the foot of my bed. Bri spends most of her time at my house since her parents died. They were in a nasty car crash a month ago, leaving Bri and her older brother, Michael, their gigantic house and 12 cars. Briawna is very beautiful. She is about 5'4, with straight blonde hair about to her hips, strikingly blue eyes, perfect heart shaped lips, and small ears and nose. 

Michael, though I prefer to call him Mikey, had dark brown hair cut just above his small girl ears. His eyes, though, are a bright green. They don't look natural, but Bri swears they are. He toweres over me. He is about 6'2 and im 5'5. He says me and Bri are Dwarfs. Bri and I look almost exactly alike, except my eyes are a strange purple, and my hair goes to my knees.

     After their parents death, Bri can't stand to be at her housse. I don't blame her. Mikey, however, just sits at home in the hall in front of his parent's bedroom, just staring at the door." I love the way you decorated your room." Bri said snapping me out of my thoughts. "Umm Bri, you helped me decorate it last year." I said with worry in my voice. "Oh yeah." is all she said.

    Last year Briawna thought my pink room was to girly. I agreed because I hate pink. So we asked my parents and they thought redecorating would be fun. So we painted the walls black with lime green polka dots. All my furniture is black. My bedspread is lime green, and my rug, over my black carper, is lime green. Bri's room at her house is decorated the exact same way, because those are our favorite colors.

  I got out of bed and walked to my closet. All my clothes are black and green. I grabbed a black tee with a green alien on the front, a pair of regular blue jeans, ok so not all my clothes are black and green, and green panties. I quickly got dressed, then looked at Bri. She was still in her pajamas.

       "Come on, Bri let's go get you some clothes." I said after brushing my teeth. "Do we have to go to my house?" she asked with tears in her eyes. I felt so bad for her. "Yes remember we have to get your brother anyway?" i asked, "and I need to borrow some makeup." This perked her up. Bri loved doing makeup together. "All right, let's go." she said.

      It took about five minutes to get to her house, sinve we live next to each other. Both of our housed are four stories.Although the fourth floor is just a pool. We walked through her front door. The ceiling rose up leading to the second floor. Bri headed up the stairs, but I  went to the hall behind the staircase in search for her brother. Mikey got the second floor, Bri the third, and their parents the first..

    Michael didn't look up when I approached him. "Hey Mike." I said. I didn't call him MIkey, because he doesn't like it and I didn't want to upset him. He didn't say anything. just sat there staring. I sat beside him.I've had  a crush on him since we were little. He isn't that much older than me. I'll be 17 in six months and he'll be 19 in two. " I sit here thinking they'll come out and hug me like they used to." He said trembling. I turned his face towards me. "Mike they love you, they don't want to see you wasting away here." I told him. "They need you to be strong for Bri." He looked at me and wiped the tears from my cheeks. I didn't even realize I was crying."I'm sorry I haven't been there for her." He said appologetically, "I'm glad she has you or she wouldn't have made it throught this month.

    MIke stood up and reached down to help me up. I took his hand and as he pulled me up I tripped over the rug and fell forward into his arms. He caught me looking into my eyes. I steadied myself and looked away before he could see me blushing. I lokked over at the sound of him chuckling. " Still have that crush on me, I see?" He said walking off. " I ran up the stairs, my cheeks still flaming. When I  reached the black door on the third floor I stopped. Bri was on the other side sobbing. I shouldn't have brought her here.

     I knocked on her door, waited a minute for her to pull herself together, then I walked in, "So you wanna do my makeup, or shall I?" I asked smiling at the look on her face. "I think I'll do your makeup" She said. "You always make yourself look like and emo clown." Laughing she grabbed her makeup box and pushed me in the chair. Sadly what she said is true. I always go overboard on my makeup. 

   Bri only put a little eyeline, mascara, and green eyeshadow. "Ok all done." She faced me towards the mirror. I don't know how she does it, but she always makes me look awesome. The black and green on my eyes made the purple stand out. 

    "Wait, let's put some lip gloss on." She said happily. "Do we have to?" I asked. I like lip gloss, but not when my hair is down, it always gets stuck to my lips. " Serefina, lip gloss will not hurt your hair."  She said, shaking her head. "That's easy for you to say, you always have your hair twisted in a messy bun on your head." I said. " You never get yours stuck on your lips, It's quite annoying."

      " Quit being a baby, and go make sure my brother is ready. I need a shower." I left Bri to herself and climbed down the stairs to find her brother. I have no idea what room he is in. He takes advantage of having a whole floor to himself. I checked the first room, but he wasn't there. "MIKEY?!?!." I yelled.

    "What? And don't call me that." he yelled from behind the third door. I opened it and walked in without knocking, realizing too late what a horrible idea that was. I ran into him making us both fall back on his giant bed. To make matters worse, he was naked. I looked down at him, getting lost in his green eyes. " Guess you havn't heard of knocking?" He asked trying to be serious, but failing. "I know you want to see me naked, all you had to do was ask." He said with a smirk on his face.

     "What makes you think I want to see you naked?" I asked cheeks flaming. I so did want to see him naked, but he doesn't have to know that. " The fact that your still on me." He said raising his eyebrows. I looked down and rolled off. "Sorry!" I said closing my eyes as he stood up. I heard the bed creak and felt him lowering himself over me. I kept my eyes closed hoping he would kiss me. His breath smelled like mint as he breathed on my lips. I raised my head slowly, eyes still closed. I felt him laugh and move away. " Told you, you still want me." He said laughing. I opened my eyes, he had a towel around his waist. "Your a jerk." I said with tears in my eyes.

         "Hey , calm down." He said stepping closer. "I was just kidding. Come here." He stepped even closer and pulled me in a hug. I wrapped my arms around his neck, he wrapped his around my waist. He lowered me back on the bed. "I've always liked you." He whispered in my ear. After staring into my eyes for whar seemed like an hour, he started to lowerr his head. OMG hes going to kiss me, I thought.

     I closed my eyes as he brought his lips to mine. Wow, he tastes so good. He lowered himself to where he was laying completely on top of me. He broke the kiss to whisper in my ear " wake up" he whispered. "What?" I asked as he sat up. "You need to wake up or we are going to be late for school." He said grabbing a glass of water and splashing it on my face.

     I woke up to Briawna standing by my bed with and empty glass and a big smile on her face. "It's about time." she said