The Guardian (Final Version)

4th chapter: An hectic school trip (part one)

Mia's PoV

The week passed by faster than expected and without realizing it the day of the school trip was just a few hours ahead. Two nights and three days required a bigger luggage than usual since I was spending the night out of home; I was excited for it was the first time I was going on such a long school trip and this time I had someone with who I could share the fun with.

I grabbed Heart's necklace and noticed how it no longer was cold like when I first had touched it, but rather warm, warm like when Heart had grabbed my hand and placed it over his heart, the same warm sensation that was able to calm me down. It felt as if the necklace itself was alive and that thought alone made me smile.

However, the peaceful thoughts of mine were disturbed by a vision of the dark and fierce eyes of that scary man, it was as if I had just seen a premonition of a terrible future, my heart ached and my body cringed in fear, looking for the comfortable feeling the warm of the necklace gave me I grabbed it tighter to the point of almost hurting my hands waiting for my fears to simply go away.

Heart's PoV

I was sitting on the floor of my bedroom with both my legs and arms crossed staring at the empty bag in from of me. It was the first time I was going on a field trip and I had no idea what I had to pack apart from a change of clothes, obviously, but even in that certainty I wasn't sure whether it should be normal clothes or my second uniform.

"Arrg. Humans are so complicated!" frustrated I let out leaning against the bed and letting my head fall on top of the bed allowing me to stare at the ceiling.

For a moment the thought of going to Mia and ask for help ran through my mind but then I remembered it was too late to be going out and bother her family, if only she was strong enough I could have used the short cut but seeing as it wasn't possible I would have to go by foot. Getting back to my initial position I stared at the bag, once again, with a frown, I had to make up my mind soon or the time for leaving would come and I would still be staring at my bag.

"Well, I guess I'll just take both." I decided and picked up the two types of clothes to put them in the bag, it was then, however when I felt a slight tug all over my body and imagined Mia hugging the necklace. "Maybe I should have told her that I feel everything the dolphin shaped amulet does." I mentioned out loud.

Suddenly the tug intensified drastically and I felt fear coming from her making me jump to my feet. I closed my eyes trying to concentrate on the feelings I was getting from the necklace but apart from the sudden rush of fear I couldn't feel anything else, not pain or worse, the presence of a demon.

"If you're not being attacked what's wrong, Mia?" I asked to myself trying to understand what was going on.

I sat on the bed and took a deep breath, getting nervous would only make things worse, after all apart from being able to feel her feelings through the necklace I could also transmit my own to her and right now that was exactly what she needed so I took another deep breath and calmed down concentrating then on the necklace in order to pass those calm thoughts to her. After some minutes the fear coming from her disappeared and I let out a relief sigh, however I could not stop thinking about what could have made her so afraid and it was only around three o'clock in the morning when I was finally able to fall asleep.

Mia's PoV

The next morning I woke up to the sound of the alarm clock, I quickly turned it off as it was annoying and let myself stay in bed for a while. The birds sung their beautiful melodies and the sunrise was slowly bringing light to that lovely morning. I got up and opened my window to allow the sun rays to reach my room and slowly warm it up. Since I had to arrive earlier than usual because of the school trip, silence ruled the house; besides the birds not a single sound was heard and despite not liking all that silence I did my best to make as less noise as possible to avoid waking my mother up. I got ready in a flash and left the house but not before making sure I had everything I needed.