Indigo

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     That night was beautiful, a full moon had shone without clouds and surrounded by stars. All good things come to an end, though. We bid the boys good night as soon as we got back to the motel and went to crash in our room.

As I fell asleep, I could feel a vision taking me away. They'd started coming quicker now, like my brain was itching for the fight.

The vision began at the calendar again, like Midnight was taunting me with the date. October Seventeenth. I wanted to reach forward and grab the pages to keep them from turning to that awful day. It quickly flickered out of my sight.

The next image that faded in was the motel. My head spun as it became smaller, zooming out. The street became level with my eyes. As if I was in a car, the vision progressed up the winding mountain road. I was dizzy by the time it stopped at the top near the fire station. So this is where it would happen.

The vision took to a bird's eye view and I saw the future me walk up to the doors with the others. None of us touched the doors, yet they opened as if welcoming us.

I urged myself through the opening and saw my parents bound to a pole. Future me ran to them, but halted in the middle of the floor, a wild look in her eyes.

The room went black and changed to what I guessed was a jail. In the room nearest to me, Portia and Robin were shackled to a wall, blood was spattered everywhere. Near them was another silver cart gleaming with scalpels, pliers, and other things that I didn't want to look at.

A figure clothed in shadows entered the space. I couldn't see their face clearly, but their straight white teeth stood out in the darkness, their lips curled in a cruel sneer.

My eyes trailed up their unidentifiable face to their eyes. The lights turned on and I saw the eyes of a hound. Pure blue.
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     I, being the scared idiot that I was, woke up screaming. Portia and Robin immediately went to get the boys and made me tell them everything.

     Portia and Robin were obviously scared, and who could blame them?

     "I-It's going to be fine. The future isn't set in stone, right?" I tried to reassure them, but I probably wasn't helping.

     We all knew the truth. The vision would come true, none of us could change the inevitable.

     The next few days were harsh, waiting, watching the date draw nearer. Our rooms weren't full of laughter like they normally were. The girls' had become less prone to smiling lately, but Portia still tried to encourage the rest of us like the upbeat person she was.

     On the thirteenth, they all decided to take me out for my birthday, so the mood was a little lighter. Robin made me get dressed up and made sure the boys did the same.

     Portia was dressed in a long-sleeved real dress over leggings that complemented her olive skin and dark hair perfectly. Her silver bracelet, her power, glistened against her dress.

     Robin had on a yellow dress underneath a light gray cardigan, her dark brown eyes set off like fireworks by her turquoise dragon amulet.

     They both eyed me disapprovingly since I wasn't wearing a dress. Instead, I had on gray pants, brown lace up boots and a plain red shirt underneath an army green jacket.

     "I don't like it, but maybe... This will help," Portia twirled a red and gray scarf over my shoulders. Robin insisted on curling my hair so that it bounced off my back.

     We walked out of the room, laughing when we saw the boys. They all looked highly uncomfortable in their collared shirts.

At the restaurant, we all forgot about life for awhile. We laughed and told stories about our pasts together the whole night. Needless to say, it was the best birthday I'd ever had.

After dinner, we walked down to the park in the middle of the town. The moonlit darkness just added to the beauty of the empty swings and and silver glittering slide. I could only imagine what it had looked like when it was first built. Now, however, it was completely deserted.

The swings creaking in the night breeze, the slide reflecting only the stars and moon, and the tree with so many names carved in it, waiting for just one of them to come back. They were all so distracting, I didn't even notice Lucas come up next to me, in the same trance that I was.

I don't know why I did it, my heart told me to, maybe, but I walked up and took his hand in mine. He looked down, hiding a red face, but it seemed like he was enjoying it. I knew he felt it too. The current that ran through me whenever someone said his name, it pulled our hands together comfortably, like they were meant to be held by the other.

"I-Indigo?" His voice shook a little bit.

"Yeah?" What? Was he nervous or something. I mean, so was I.

"Can I," He paused.

"What?" There was an awkward moment where neither of us said anything. I looked up at him and rested my head on his shoulder. The silence continued for a second, then he started again.

"Indigo," He took my face off of him and spun me so that we were facing each other. He looked at me for a second, then leaned forward and gently placed his lips on mine. I jumped a little at first, then leaned into the kiss. Some part of me knew that I'd been hoping for this, but still, he's surprised me.

It was small, but if felt like it lasted for a thousand years and only a few seconds at the same time. And I never wanted it to end. Not ever. That small kiss showed us both something we'd never felt before.

It was so sweet that I felt like I'd never felt real love before. It wasn't a hungry, needy kiss.

It was so simple that I knew: he would never leave me and I would never leave him.

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Hey guys! Sup? School's starting in 4 days! Wish me luck, I'm taking my first AP this year and I'm kinda freaking out internally about it. Also, YES Jerome is a real place in Arizona, and YES there is actually a park there with a silver slide, and YES the one in the media is actually the park in Jerome because someone took a picture of it.
Well that's all I have to say right now. So...

Good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!

    -AJ