Enlighten Me

Prologue

*** "The children of the supernatural beings who had married these woman became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later" Genesis 6:4 ***

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PROLOGUE

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I never met my real father. My mum says I got my height from him and probably my 'gifts' too.

I don't really know much about him other than he was the most beautiful man she ever met. At close to 7 foot tall and all solid tan muscle with a strong jaw line, piercing light green eyes and scruffy straight black hair he was nothing short of a beautiful yet dangerous Greek god. 

Of course any 19 year old girl straight out of school would fall for him.

After she finished high school in Florida, America she decided to go back to Venice Italy, the city where she was born, for a few months before she would move to a little country called New Zealand. 

Her parents, my Nonna and Nonnu were planing on moving to New Zealand while she was in Italy and then after her holiday she would just move in with them for a while.

She had been in Italy for only two weeks when she met my dad in a little Venice cafe, he told her his name was Jonathan and that he was twenty-two.

 My usually sensible mother instantly fell in love and said she couldn't believe such a gorgeous man wanted to talk to her. 

Even though she barely knew him they spent the next two months together and she had never felt so in love. 

Thinking he loved her too she slept with him only to be told straight after that they couldn't be together and he's sorry she had to meet him and then he left her in tears. The last thing said before walking out the door was "tell my daughter I love her."

She then spent the next two weeks trying to find him but it was as if he had almost never existed. It was then that she realised she didn't even know anything about him. She left Italy completely heart broken only to find out a few weeks later she was in fact pregnant.

My name is Ana Moretti, I'm seventeen and I am half italian. I have olive brown skin, long wavy deep chocolate almost black hair and light green eyes, I'm also 5"10 tall which is much taller than most girls. I was born in Auckland, New Zealand and have lived there my whole life.

I love to paint and play sports, any sport really. I'm quick, flexible, strong, have amazing coordination and high endurance.

 I can also pick up any instrument and play it with ease. Same with languages, I can understand or speak any language, including those that aren't even used anymore.

 When I was younger my mum thought I was just babbling until she took me along to a work lunch because she couldn't get a babysitter and her Korean coworker asked her how she had managed to teach a three year old fluent Korean. 

To say my mum was shocked would have been an understatement.

It didn't take her long to realise I was different, at first she started to take me to different doctors, therapists and anyone that might understand why I could pick things up so easily but quickly understood that they knew even less than she did and they all wanted to study me.

She then spent the next few years hiding me from the people she had showed me to including homeschooling me until she knew I wouldn't accidentally slip up and undo the precious years she had spent making everyone forget about the 'miracle child'.

I've also learnt to lie like a boss. If I ever do slip up I can come up with a cover story so fast that even a lie detector would probably believe me.

I can also read emotions real well. So well it's almost as if I can read someone's mind. But I can't actually hear people's thoughts, unfortunately I'm just not that cool.

 Emotions are different. They sort of swirl around the skin of a person like a thin colourful smoke and the closer i get the more I can read it. 

Their body sends out little vibrations within the smoke and the stronger it is the more intense their emotion is. And if I accidentally touch someone when my guards down I feel it so strongly they may as well be screaming how they feel at me.

I can block it out of course. I can block everything out. All I got to do is put my mental walls up and I'm almost a normal teenage girl. Almost.

I suck at something though. Maths. I can read any language yet as soon as someone gets me to add or subtract I'm lost. Even with those stupid scientific calculators.

I've also failed my family when it comes to cooking. My poor Nonna has spent hours with me in the kitchen trying to find the 'Italian chef within' but only to be left heartbroken.

Oh and one more thing. I see things from different dimensions. Such as spirits, demons and other dark things. Things from the light are harder to notice. I don't see much good as it blends in more with it's surroundings but things that shift like black smoke with red eyes and other things that like to creep just tend to stick out like a sore thumb.

So is my life easy? I wish.

But is it boring? Never.

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Okay so tell me what you think? I thought I'd explain a bit about her in the prologue first before I start the story.

Also Nonna is apparently italian for grandmother and Nonnu is grandfather. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I personally have no italian in me.

In fact Ana is nothing like me.

I'm so short it's not even funny and her personality is not like mine ether. Oh and I suck at sports. I love sports... I just suck. Probably the shortness never helped :(

Also the only language I know is English so when I do put bits of other languages in the story I'll be using google translate. So if it comes out wrong it's not my fault.. Blame google!

Anyway..

Cast so far is---

Ana Moretti- Adriana Lima (a Victoria's Secret model- and yes Ana's meant to be beautiful because their is something unearthly special about her)

Image of her on the side

Maria Moretti (Ana's mum)- Monica Bellucci

Anyway feedback would be awesome.

Shayne x