Beautiful Secrets

Shadowhunters

       Currently my friends Clarissa, Ethan and I are at the Pandemonium Club. We are all dancing and having fun, when the Shadowhunters walk in. Shadowhunters are a group of people that believe they are purifying the world by killing Downworlders (Which in some ways I qualify as one to them). My aunt Alice as I now know she is, kidnapped me from my parents as revenge for having had her abilities and powers striped form her. She hid me from everyone, and cloaked me and found a way to lock away my own powers. When my parents found me they realize what she had done, and found a way to unlock what she had locked away from me.  As soon as they walk in I see them and so does Clarissa. I can see them because I'm part of their world, and Clarissa can see them because she is a Shadowhunter, she just doesn't know it yet. I freeze on the spot not knowing what to do, I look all over for my safest way to exit.

"Annabella baby what's wrong?" Ethan whispers in my ear, rubbing my arms and trying to turn me around to face him. We've been kind of dating for a few months, but he's too in love with Clarissa to really make it official.

      When I don't answer he starts shaking me and screaming at me to say something, but I can't really hear anything he is saying, I just see his lips moving out of the corner of my eye. I keep watching them as they scan the room looking for Downworlders as they call us, one of the guys eyes meet Clarissa's. She raises her hand and waves at him, shocked he begins to look behind him only to realize no one is standing behind him. He looks back at Clarissa and starts walking towards us. I look to see how far we were from any door that will get me the hell away from here, standing right at the main entrance my three saviors stand. They start waving me over to them, and I can see fear and outrage in their eyes.

"Who the heck are those guys Annabella?!" Ethan screams turning me around to face him, he never got a chance to meet them but Clarissa knows them well because she used to live where we live. She waves at them briefly, before going back to looking at the other guy.

"I have to go Ethan I'm sorry!!" I say panicking, the shadowhunters are getting closer to us.

"Why do you say that like that?" He asks, his face of pure heartache breaking my heart.

"I don't have time for this! I'm sorry, be careful and take care of yourself!" I say, getting on my tiptoes and kissing him briefly one last time. "Goodbye." I whisper in his ear.

      Once I kiss him and say my goodbye, I turn on my heel and run like a person set on fire. I can hear Ethan still yelling at me, as he quickly begins to follow me making me pick up speed. I reach the guys and we bolt out of the club, into the truck waiting for us and we speed off. As we are driving away I can see Ethan standing on the sidewalk with confusion, hurt and anger in his eyes as a tear rolls down his left eye. I can also see Clarissa and the rest of the shadowhunters standing behind him looking pissed. They missed me, and they aren't happy about that realization. Shadowhunters have one purpose and one purpose alone, to purify the world and rid of us downworlders as they call us. Only then will they be free, and the remaining magic will seize to exist in this world. Once we can't see them anymore I turn back around, and stare at the long road ahead of me back home.

"You know you won't be able see them again for a long time right?" Sebastian says, reaching back and taking my hand in his.

"Of course I do... I also know that when and if I see them again, there will be a lot of questions to answer." I say, giving his hand a squeeze. 

    After I say that I lean back and fall right into a soundless sleep, knowing that by this time tomorrow I won't be seeing Clarissa and Ethan. At least they won't know I'm still here, Clarissa hasn't been back to our hometown in a while so I know I won't run any chances of seeing her again. Plus she never went to my house, so that's another plus.

 **Ethan's POV**

      Here I am standing on the side of the road looking after the truck Annabella had just jumped into, with three guys I have never met before. Emotions suddenly overwhelm me, the three main ones being confusion, hurt and finally anger. What the hell would make her run away from me like that, and what the hell just happened?!

"What just happened Ethan?" Clarissa ask, reaching to rub my back.

"I don't freaking know Clarissa!! You tell me, one minute we are all dancing the next you and Annabella are looking at nothing!! Then she bolts out of the place like she has been set on fire!! What were you guys looking at?" I ask stepping away from her touch.

"I was looking at nothing..." I can see she is lying to me, by the way she is biting her lip and picking at her nails. Not being in the mood to figure out why she is lying, I turn around and walk away.

"Where are you going? You can't leave me alone here!!" She asks running after me.

"I'm going home, I'll see you tomorrow Clarissa." I say, picking up my speed to get away from her and that damn club.

       After walking for an hour and a half I finally make it back home, I unlocked the door and quickly walk up the stairs to my room. I wasn't in the mood to answer my parents questions as to why I was home so early, so I just close and lock the door then lay on my bed. Why did Annabella's goodbye sound like I wasn't going to see her for a long time? And why did Clarissa lie to me?! After laying in bed for a little bit longer thinking about everything that happened tonight, I finally let myself drift to sleep.