Flaws and Repercussions

New Beginning Pt. 1

The week passed by quickly, and before I knew it the seven days were up.

White Light Academy was just as boring as any other school that I've ever attended. The only difference was that they taught magic. Or as they put it "Training the the youth of Sutra to use the purity within themselves for the sake of the Sutran Empire". I never really had a sense of pride for my nation, but I never really disliked my nation either. But if I ever heard someone say "Gilligan the Grand" again...let's just say that rocks will be thrown. Seriously, that guy is everywhere. Plus it turns out that Mrs. Cheverino has been listed as a "missing person". I wonder what those harbinging bitches did with her body...

Anyway since Ashley has been M.I.A I have been even more bored and lonely. But I have been meeting up with Sebastian early in the morning, much to his annoyance. He really likes to sleep. Lydia told me that he could spend the entire day sleeping if it weren't for her waking him up for school. I knew that she wasn't being entirely honest. I could see it in her eyes, and I know that Sebastian has been having blackouts. I don't think she knows that I know.

I don't think she knows that I know that she's a succubus, and that Sebastian is an incubus. What does Lydia know? Well it doesn't matter right now.

I wonder how Tristesse, Claudia, Nerium, and Erna are going to show up to me....

I'm walking towards my house now. The sun has already set, and the air is cool. Everything is surprisingly quiet. Due to my detentions I wouldn't be home until after the sun went down, but even then people (usually teenagers or twenty-somethings with friends) would be outside talking or doing something stupid. Yet tonight is quiet, and there's barely any activity on the streets. I'm not sure if it's eerie or nice. The only thing that I can really hear is the thoughts of those that are within a 15 meter range.

The most exciting thing happened over the week was my calculus teacher, Mr. Derond, fell down the white marble steps. You know you're bored when seeing a teacher fall down some steps gets you excited. He had to go to the nurse, and i'm pretty sure an ambulance was called as he dislocated his shoulder. Though I don't know why they had to call an ambulance when this is a school that specializes in magic, and people do know healing spells and potions. People can be so stupid sometimes....

As I finally turned on the street that my house was on I noticed that everything was dead silent. Not like the nice, yet eerie quiet on the other streets. Pure silence. If I dropped something would it echo?

I continued walking, albeit cautiously. I couldn't even clearly hear the thoughts of others. It's like when when someone is talking on the other side of a wall, and everything they say is muffled. This is obviously some freaky shit. By the time I reached the front door I was about ready to punch a grandma if I had too. The thoughts of my "family" were even being muffled....no....they were being suppressed by something in the house. I noticed that the thoughts of those closer to my house were even more muffled than those farther away.

Fuck. I have to walk in there.

I swallowed my worries, and knocked on the door. I heard some shuffling, and my mother's face greeted me with a small, yet emotionless, smile. "Emmaline..." my mother said softly, as she fully opened the door. I walked in thinking she would continue, but David spoke loudly before she could get anymore words out. "What have you done to Penelope?!" It's been almost a week, and she's bringing this up now!? I mean I knew she was planning something. I overheard most of her thoughts over the week, but I never got to hear the final parts of her 'plan' because of school....

I turn my attention to Penelope who is sitting at the kitchen table. Everyone's thoughts were muffled to the point that they might as well be completely silent. I don't like being here, and I definitely don't like the fact that I can't hear thoughts clearly.

"I'll say it again!" David said as he, once again, knocked back the chair while he stood up. "What did you do to Penelope!" I didn't respond nor did I look him in the eyes. This added more fuel to the flame that is David's anger. But this time he grabbed a fist full of my hair, and forced me to look him in the eye. I could see all of his anger and contempt in his, usually cold, and dark eyes. "I didn't do anything to Penelope." I said being semi-honest. "That's a lie, she slapped me because I caught her with Sebastian in a 'compromising situation'." Penelope said with an obvious 'I'm acting like i'm sad' voice. I could never fall for it and even my mother even seemed to be doubting what Penelope said. David, however, fell for every single word.

"Sebastian fuckin' Mara?! That scruffy, uncultured, poor excuse of a man?!" David said with a tone of anger, shock, and.....humor? His grip on my hair loosened slightly as he laughed in my face. "That boy with the whore of a mother and you? It's fuckin' perfect. Lowly things belong with other lowly things." Even Penelope seemed a little shocked at this. After his laughing fit David's grip on my hair tightened tenfold. "You slapped Penelope." He said as his furious tone returned, like he hadn't just had the laugh of a fucking lifetime. "No one ever hurts my pure little angel." he said as he slammed my head into the kitchen wall behind me.

That hurt.

The bang that my head made against the wall was so loud that it seemed to echo around the house. He let my hair go as I slid down the wall clutching the right side of my head. I could see little crows flying around, and my ears were ringing. My mother ran to my side as I lay on the floor. Her violet eyes had tears in them, and she was yelling something at David. I couldn't hear what exactly what she was saying but it did piss off David. Who gave my mother a hard slap. My mother became silent with this, and stood up. As she stood up I could feel her magic beginning to crackle with a spark that I could never have thought she was capable of. She raised her hand to give David a magically charged backhand. He went flying across the room and lay on the floor. Instant KO.

My mom snapped out of her daze, and turned her attention back to me. She sat me up, and put her hands against my head. My head began to feel better, and my ears stopped ringing allowing me to hear what exactly she was saying. "Emmaline. Emmaline are you okay? Can you hear me?" I nodded my head as I gripped her into a tight hug. "Thank you. Thank you for standing up for me..." I said. I finally glanced at Penelope who was standing in the entrance to the hallway looking slightly pissed.

I felt my mom go limp in my arms. Oh shit please don't tell she just died?! I hurriedly checked her pulse, and her breathing. I gave a sigh of relief as I found that she was alive, yet exhausted from the use of her magic. I lay her on the floor as I got up to go to my bedroom.

"You gotta be fucking kidding me." Penelope seethed as she stomped upstairs, and slammed her bedroom door closed.

I sighed as I walked to my bedroom door....

I stopped directly in front of the door as I noticed the familiar, and faint, scents of cherry blossoms, alyssums, cherries, and corpses.....

Awe shit....don't tell me. I opened the door and.....

"Took you long enough~" said Erna.

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Note: Hello, readers FiveStarKitsune here. Sorry it took so long to update this story. School kinda got in the way of updating every week.... But i'll be trying to update as much as I can~ Anyway, I hope you're enjoying the story so far, because it's not even close to ending....