Three Wishes

Chapter 7

                  

When I finally teleported back into my room my heart was in turmoil. I had just decided to make friends with the quartet, only to find them sneaking around the museum, searching for who knows what. I don't even know why I let Jay go, letting evil slip past me wasn't a normal occurrence.

"It's because he interests you dummy." My mind was taunting me with the truth that I didn't want to believe, which made me never want to go to sleep. Only fearing that my dreams would either make me regret letting Jay go, or thank it graciously.

I quickly change back into my night clothes before flopping in my bed. Although I quickly noticed that I wasn't going to get any sleep at...one in the morning. So, I did something that I hadn't done since I was 12, so about in 4 years. I opened my door, locking it behind me before walking down to Ben's room. Even though the halls seemed scary at night, I knew the directions to Ben's room better than the back of my hand, only because I've sneaked there so many times before.

Knocking on his door, I hear a groggy voice inside before I open it. Ben is sitting up in his bed, his brown hair now messy and green eyes fogged with sleep.

"Hey Gem," he greets with a yawn, "did you enjoy your outing?"

"In a way, sorry to wake you though." Even though I apologise I still don't leave.

"Let me guess, sleepover?" Okay, I lied before, when I said 4 years it was actually about 4 weeks. Long enough though. But I'm still 16, just a very shameless one.

"Please." I climb into his bed, clutching the blankets closer to me. I feel two arms guide themselves around me, pulling me closer. You would think that this action would be awkward, or mean something romantically, but it's normal for us. We are practically siblings, anything else would give me the creeps...

"You're shaking, did something bad happen?"

"I'm fine, just want to sleep." Although my mind is pretty worried about facing the descendants now, I don't alert Ben, not for him to go beat up himself. However, since I now know they aren't here to only try normal life, but trying to do something....I don't know what...I'm going to be keeping an eye on them. With that last thought I fall asleep, snuggling into Ben to calm my nerves.

The next morning I wake up to Ben's shaking, seeing him sitting on the edge of the bed staring at me, trying to get me awake. I sit up, knowing that I'm a mess but not caring. The blanket was still on me though, mostly because of the coldness that his room contained.

"Hey, did you already take a shower?" I ask, wanting to get ready because due to missing dinner last night, my belly was having an intense argument of hunger right about now.

"Yea, I was just looking for clothes when I thought it was time to wake you up. You okay?" He looked somewhat concerned, probably because of how I acted last night.

"Yea, I'm fine. Just need to freshen up. Give me ten minutes."

"I'll give you nine then I'm leaving."

"So mean..." with a pout I walk to the bathroom, washing up quickly and zapping on my attire for the day. Today I had on royal blue jeans with a light blue halter top and light blue genie flats to match. Obviously, the lamp earrings and bracelets are there also as I do my hair in a different style than before. My hair makes itself into a ponytail and falls over my right shoulder, with a bang that covered my right eye.

I walk out of the bathroom with one minute to spare, Ben staring at me with an annoyed expression which spoke, 'thank goodness you're done'. We then trot down to breakfast, my belly grumbling three quarters of the way, Ben's laughter filling up the last quarter.