Concealed

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Roads, cars, plants and trees rushed past us as we exited Phoenix and headed towards California. The journey had just begun yet I was homesick. My eyes were officially out of tears. I had spent three months weeping over Noah's death. His mark still hung on my neck, and every time I glanced at it, I would be proven wrong and more tears would collapse. I felt numb, cold, and emotionless. Nothing that happened registered in my mind anymore, only reruns of the dreaded night. I would give anything to cuddle against Noah, to feel his masculine, woodsy scent. I would do absolutely anything to see him smile his cocky smirk and make contact with his warm eyes. I would die if it meant Noah would be alive again. His life was too perfect, to have been snatched away from him. Ever since the incident I hadn't seen the shadows anymore, and if I did I would kill them. It was all the shadows fault. But I couldn't help but feel crazy at the fact only I could see those shapeless monsters. Was I really insane? Had Noah seen them too? I sighed as I saw the sign 

'You are now exiting Phoenix.' 

I couldn't leave this place to go to some weird place probably filled with perverts. But I had to. I still couldn't figure out how my mom had contacted the school, since there was no public sign of them. 

"Earth to Eva, Earth to Eva," Gabriella's voice and anxious face broke off my train of thoughts. 

"What?" I asked, wearily. 

"Nothing, I thought you had died there." 

I winced at the thought of death. 

"Crap. Sorry." She mumbled and turned around. Zane rolled his eyes from behind the wheel. 

"Shut up, Gabriella."  

"Sorry," she muttered, and gave me a sad smile. 

Zane turned on the radio and put the volume on loud.  

'Use Somebody' by Kings of Leon were on. My heart sunk when I remembered the time me and Noah had danced to this at our Sophomore Homecoming Dance. I remembered us gazing into each other's eyes as we danced for the entire song. This song was when I realised how much I loved him. 

"Turn it off." I yelled, clapping my ears with my hands. 

Gabriella quickly turned it off, and both of them glanced at me, startled. 

"Sorry," I mumbled, "I don't want to leave you, Gabby. Please don't take me," I sobbed uncontrollably.  

"Oh Eva, please don't cry," she said, her eyes tearing up too. She dangerously stepped into the back seat from her place in the passenger seat, and cuddled me, as I sobbed into her chest, and kissed my head, numerous times. 

My mum was too depressed to drop me off, so Zane and Gabby had come instead. Both of them were clones of me; or I was a clone of them, as they were three years older. With their very tanned, olive skin, and black hair, they shared pale blue eyes but I had strange violet eyes with golden specks. We were never considered American, but Middle Eastern or Mexican.  

Gabby wrapped her arms around my frame and squeezed gently, and tilted my chin upwards. 

"Don't cry, love, I promise it will all be okay." She whispered, with her soft, motherly voice. 

I shook my head and wept. 

"Noah will never come back, I will always be considered a murderer, and I will always remain insane." Gabby knew about my 'shadow sightings', as did Zane, but they never judged me for it. Well they couldn't, they were my siblings.  

"Eva, I promise you'll get over it, nobody mourns forever," She whispered. 

"But it was like magic, Gabby, Noah kissed me and this sudden lightning hit the trees we were sitting in between and they caught fire and I got through but the tree blocked Noah almost as if it was after Noah and the shadows were bigger than I'd ever seen them." I said back.