LIFE: draft

Chapter 21: "why is my grandfather in love with you?"

Jill's P.O.V:

"Here I am coming to your house with Chinese and board games-"

"Dave." I interrupt but he ignores me pacing.

"feeling guilty that we haven't talked all day cause I was busy but you were busy too-"

"Dave I-" I try to interrupt him again but he's not having it.

"I felt awful for canceling on our studying today because of my primary school tutoring but I'll bet you didn't even read my messages." He's acting like a crazy person. "Nooo you were out doing God knows what with that-" He takes a deep breath sitting on my bed. "What is it about him? It's not like he's even soul so I don't get it really. I don't."

"Dave." I sit down next to him. "I would love to tell you everything but I'm not allowed to and-"

"You're a half-breed I know." He interrupts me.

"W-What-" I stutter."how could you-wait are you-"

"I'm a full light Phoenix." He answers me.

"What?! Is anyone around here human?" I say more to myself.

"Yes there are humans and-"

"What do you mean by light?" I ask him.

"It's been a long day. Why don't I just go home and I'll see you tomorrow yeah?" Dave gets up straightening out his button up.

"Why doesn't anybody answer my questions?!" I huff standing up.

"I'll see you tomorrow yeah?" Dave kisses my forehead and walks out the door. I let out a frustrated grunt and fall onto my bed. I'll just ask Harry. He might be an arse but at least he's honest with me. I pull out my clothes from inside the suit and drop my phone out of it. I ring Harry up but it goes to voicemail twice. I decide to leave a message the second time.

"Harry there's something more I need to ask you and I'm sorry about before I didn't know what was happening. You probably think I'm annoying right now but like please it's important you're the only one willing to talk to-" And the beep goes cutting me off. I hope he rings me back for more reasons I'd like to admit.

After a long hot shower. I change into my pajamas deciding to open the balcony doors tonight because it's hot. I jump a little when I see somebody on the balcony.
"Dave? What are you-"

"I'll tell you everything." He says walking towards me."I heard you on the phone. I realized by keeping secrets, I'm pushing you more to him. That's not what I want. He will ruin you-"

"Okay so when you say everything?" I smile at him widely raising me eyebrows. He laughs at me pushing me inside. "I'll go warm up the Chinese and you decide which board game you want me to smash you in." I tell Dave picking up the food and going downstairs.
As I descend the last staircase I hear chatter coming from the lounge. Great my grandevils are still here. I creep past the dining room only to run into grandfather in the kitchen.

"Juliana." He smiles half-heartedly.

"Grandfather." I nod walking to the microwave.

"So what have you been up to today?" He causally asks me.

"Nothing I was just with Zayn." I say looking around.

"Aaah and how is he?" Grandfather asks pouring the a second glass of wine.

"Alright." I say placing the boxes on a tray with the chop sticks.

"Why haven't you eaten dinner?" He asks picking up the glasses.

"I'm actually going to eat in my room now." I say picking up the tray and walking away.

"That doesn't look like it's for one person?" He follows me.

"It's for Dave and I, he brought me food." I walk faster.

"Well isn't that lovely." He tries to hide the excitement in his voice and I roll my eyes. "Tell the lad I said hello and if you see Lorrie tell her to put the bottle of wine back in the wine-cellar." He walks into the dining room.

"Will do." I roll my eyes, walking up the stairs.

"Do you need help?" Dave asks as I walk into my room. I ignore him walking out to my balcony, placing the tray on the table.

"You alright love?" He follows me out.

"First question, why is my grandfather in love with you?" I huff sitting down on the chair.

"What?" He laughs embarrassedly, scratching the back of his neck.

"Alright if your going to pretend like you don't know what I am talking about, I'll just not speak to you for the rest of the night." I fold my arms looking at him. He sighs sitting down and reaching for his food. I pull the tray away from him. If he's not telling me I'll just have to eat all of this food myself to feed my curiosity.

"Remember how I told you, that you were named after my mother and stuff?" Dave finally decides to speak, I nod in response pushing the tray over, he laughs. "I dug a little deeper into that and it turns out that your grandfather wanted our parents married." He begins eating. "Things were going well until your mother came along."

"How do you know all of this?" I begin eating too.

"After a lot of begging, me dad told me." He rolls his eyes.

"Why did he want them to get married, wait don't tell me he wants us to-" I scrunch my nose up not finishing the sentence.

"Our bloodline is almost as pure as yours. Each of the people married into my family have all been checked to be from the bloodline of Raphael. Your grandfather has done the same with your family your bloodline is of Gabriel." He tells me and I nod pretending to understand what he's taking about. "So he thinks that the union of our pure bloodlines will create a more powerful bloodline or will cause an angel to come down."

"Angel? What?! Like a real life actual bloody angel?" I stop eating.

"Yes you see, the only time an angel comes down is to honor the union of dimidium and that hasn't happened for thousands of years, so your grandfather is hoping that the union of our two families would bring an angel down." Dave continues explaining to me as if this were all normal.

"What is dimidium? I keep hearing everybody saying that but I've never known what it means."

"Aren't you gonna eat love?" He ignores my question and I glare at him. "Okay okay." He laughs. "Dimidium is your other half, your soul mate. One is created for each of us. When you find your dimidium and unite with them through marriage your power is made whole. The children of a dimidium couple are very powerful too." He explains.

"Why hasn't it happened in such a long time?" I furrow my eyebrows.

"The world got bigger, some of the Phoenix that mixed with humans wanted so much to be like them...After all humans are Gods most loved creation...some of them became so obsessed with having mundane lives that they forgotten their duty, some fell in love with humans and that's how half-breeds came to be. After so many scattered it became so much more difficult to find your dimidium that nobody cared anymore. Everybody just married whoever they wanted, this weakened bloodlines and newer generations. But some of the older more traditional Phoenix like your grandfather and mine tried to keep the bloodlines pure." Dave says finishing his food. "If you're not gonna eat that then-"

"I am, it's just cold now." I look down at my plate.

"I'll go warm it up for you then?" He asks and I nod, still feeling dizzy from all the surreal information he just gave me.

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I know this chapter is short but I needed it to end like this.

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