Betrothed (The Selection series and Red Queen Fanfic)

Chapter 57- Siblings Are Forever.

"Delancy... Wake up!... Please!..."

I gasped for air, my eyes shot open
and immediately felt the cold sweat running through my burning forehead.

Maxon's face appeared in front of me, his eyes were red from lack of sleep but his body was alert as he should be.

"You alright?" He asked calmly.

I ran my fingers through my cheek expecting something to hurt but felt nothing instead. The answered him with a nod.

I looked around me, taking everything silently. Maxon must've noticed my disturbing glares.

"What was it?" He asked gently.

"N-nothing. Just some stupid dream" I answered.

Maxon shrugged then gave in.

"Alright. Let's go back to sleep" He whispered.

His arms wrapped securely around me. My nose tickled his soft skin making him giggle.

"You're ticklish, aren't you?" I cooed.

"Not as ticklish as you" He mumbled before leaving a kiss in my hair.

His breathing steadied while I'm still wide awake. Reluctantly, I touched my cheeks, wondering if it happened. Fortunately, I didn't feel anything painful. I smiled in delight.

I began to trace invisible patterns on his chest that was covered with thin white shirt. Suddenly, I feel fast asleep.

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Birds were chirping when I woke up. I looked beside me only to see Maxon still sleeping. I glanced at the clock beside me and saw it was already 10 AM.

Woah!

Playfully, I jumped on the bed trying to wake him up. Maxon groaned but kept his eyes closed.

"Wake up sleepy head!!! Wake up!!!" I said in a small voice.

Slowly, I saw his eyes partly open then he smirked. I smiled at his sleepy face. Suddenly, Maxon pulled me at him. He got on top of me, tickling my guts out. We laughed out loud that we didn't hear the doorbell.

A loud, continuous banging on the front door made us shut up. Quickly, Maxon got up to open the door. I threw on my black coat and head to see who was banging on the door.

It was no other than my annoying siblings with their partners and a girl that I don't know.

"Delancy!!!!!" They cheered.

Before I could even call them back, they managed to pin me on ground. I heard the others laugh at us.

"We miss you so much!!" Wendy said.

"I miss you too!" I replied, my voice sincere, polite and full of manners.

I didn't know why I did that.

"Maxon, please don't tell me that you're giving Delancy some manner lessons in here?" Amielle asked, his eyebrow raised in confusion.

"No. I don't" Maxon laughed.

I saw Amielle wrap his arms around the tiny waist of the brown-haired girl. My twin noticed my confusion but he just laughed it away.

"This is Mareena Titanos," Amielle smiled at me. "My girlfriend"

"Oh My Gosh!.. Welcome to the family, Mare!" I squealed, I reached to hug her which she gladly accept.

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"So Mare, tell me about yourself" I said.

"Well... I'm Mareena or Mare as everybody calls me. I'm a silver, House of Titanos and I have electrokinesis as my specialty," She smiled. "Your brother and I met through Cal's ball" Mare blushed.

Their meeting didn't rang my ears, Cal's ball does.

"Cal's ball?" I asked.

"Cal's Parting Ball" Amielle answered.

"He's going to the war front?!" I exaggerate.

Whoa! Whoa! WHOA!!

"It's a General's position to be with his soldiers, sis," Mathew says. "Just like you and Amielle does. However, you're just inside the commanding room and your twin does all the fun."

"Okay. Okay" I answered sarcastically.

Suddenly, Maven's phone rang impatiently. He fished it out and looked at the caller ID, Maven immediately excused himself. We just watch him as he ran his fingers through his hair then scratching his pale neck. The call ended, he turned to us with a disturbed face.

"What was it, Maven?" Wendy asked sweetly.

"Cal's legion was ambushed," I dropped my tea. "There's no news about them until now"

I can feel a huge chunk of rock fell on me. Cal's one of my closest friend, he became my brother, protector, lover and ally. He is important to me. Cal's ring may not be on my finger, or his last name on mine, nor his lips touching mine every day, but he is family, he's in my heart and I folded and tucked our romantic memories in the deepest part of my heart.

"What if my brother died? Wendy I love my brother" Maven says, his hands were shaking.

Clearly, my sister was having a hard time calming Maven down. When my sister failed to calm her sweetheart, I did the job.

I invade Maven's head, the conversation was clear to me, his memories with his brother, pains, and childhood ran inside me like water. I calmed him down by showing calm sights, memories, and his brother laughing with him before his memories overwhelmed me. Slowly, Maven closed his eyes and fell on Wendy's shoulders.

"That should do the trick" I clasped my hands together.

"Thank you, sis" Wendy says.

"You're a silver?" Mare asked.

"Half silver" Amielle answered for me.

"How?!" She asked.

"Mom has a silver blood. Whispers. Then for generations, it only affected my mom and passed it on both of us" I answered, gesturing to Wendy and me.

"So Maven's related to you?"

"No. He's not," I shook my head. "Elara's bloodline wasn't ours. You see, our mother doesn't have silver blood running in her veins. Our blood is pure Red. The abilities was once Recessive trait neither in our grandparents. It is also the recessive trait of Amielle and Mathew, but for me, Wendy, and mom's case, It all came out as one of our Dominant traits"

"Thank goodness, I payed attention to our Biology class when I was in 9th Grade" Mare mumbled.

"I beg your pardon" I said.

"It's all Genetics terms. We encountered that when I was in 9th grade. It's nice to understand few words some people don't understand" She laughed.

"Oh! I apologize for the terms I used. Sometimes, it just came out naturally" I blushed fiercely.

"It's fine. No biggie" Mare reached out to touch my hand.