DID YOU SAY MANGO CAKE?

Promise

Nina

...running... running  away from a voice that was haunting all my thoughts.

"Go! They're coming for you" I turned towards the voice only to see Tony, fake concern covering his face. "Run Princess!"

...

Tolie alley. Once again I was back in the pouring rain holding a blade. Muttering foreign words that were now starting to make sense. The pain wasn't any less intense as I watched myself slice my wrists again, hearing myself mutter strange words. Words that I could  now understand... the words ...a curse. To keep me away from Chad... to save myself from the hurt... and the pain

That didn't work out ,did it?
...

"I did this to myself, I made myself a monster....  " I gasped as I opened my eyes to see a concerned Chad , he was holding my limp body against his on the rock.

"I...I cursed myself..I" I started sobbing. Feeling my body shake uncontrollably .
"Shhh, it's okay" he wrapped his warm arms around me , "it's okay" I felt  water drop onto my forehead and I looked up to see a crying Chad. Oh come on!

"Look, I know this is a cheesy moment and all...but you're being a major wuss " I felt his lips smile against my forehead. His chin in my hair.
"This is all in your head." He smirked "I'm not really here.. maybe you're dreaming"

"Enough with dreams." I walked away from his embrace and sat beside him on the stone he was sitting on. A stone which I made... I didn't even know how. "What do I do about this?"  I patted my hands through my hair till I felt a sharp prick, I pulled my bleeding hands out of my hair. Chads eyes widening in surprise.

"So...the horns are still there .. but they're tiny....Are they retractable?"

"No.. ..I..I dunno ,and if you haven't realized I haven't really gotten a hand on the whole...thing, what the hell am I?" I sighed and slouched as I sat on the rock my back against Chads chest.My mind a busy highway of unprecedented thoughts. Dilly? Roderick? Eva? ..Tony? ..Tony, that idiot.. hope he rots in hell. I felt my eyes darkening and my control started slipping.

My bracelet around my wrist started to heat up and I regained control , the heat had turned my wrist red. Leaving an imprint of the jewelry on my bare skin and the smell of burning flesh in the air. I guess that's what it's used for.

Flashes of my little killing spree came to mind... Nat my kidnapper.. the guards... Tony....the people... my friends.
"How's the castle?" I asked Chad, he turned away from my gaze. "How bad was it?"I pressed on.
"Half of the people there are dead" his voice dropped low. He spoke like he was scared I would switch into a man killing monster or something if he said the wrong thing,...oh wait...

"But..what exactly am I?"

"You're a Nymph...a shadow Nymph .. I'm guessing you are part Druid ,part Demon and part human", he held his hand out to me and helped me up from the rock. It would take a while for me to digest the impossible news he had just told me,

"Dilly? Roderick? Eva? Are th..they?"
He shook his head at me sympathetically "no, they're alive. Well Eva's unconscious . But the rest are camping in the forest"

"Why did you leave them? I could have killed you when you came out here alone"

"Well ..eherm..they were..well..eherm" he scratched his head.
from the blush on his face I could tell exactly what they were doing.. Rodrick had better get his slimy hands off my sister.

"Oh" I felt the warmth rush to my face as well.
.....

"N.nina! You're back?" Roderick gulped while Dilly ran to hug me. Her tiny body squeezing the air out of my lungs.

"Yeah..." I gave Roderick my best you-are-so-dead glance .
"Nina.. we have to leave Gransfortham " Chad broke the comfortable silence of the reunion.
"What!? Why"

Roderick spoke for him  while patting Him on the back like it would be something very difficult to say! "the elders.. they would have you killed if you go back, we can't let th--"

"-- can't we explain to them? , can't we tell them i wasn't really in control?"

"Nina the elders have always wanted you gone.. and you've given them a perfect opportunity to do so, they see you as a hazard" his face contorted into a pained expression.

"No.. what about you Chad? Your birthright!? The throne. Come on. I won't let you do this"that was the main reason why we started this suicide mission in the first place. For him to get the crown.. and for Dilly and I to have a home.. guess we get none of those.

"It doesn't matter. " he wrapped his arms around  me pulling me back into his embrace, "yes it does Chad. You've worked for this.. we've worked for this, you can't just let it all go to waste"

"It would all be a waste if I let you go without me. Truth is I never did this for the throne,.. everything I did. From the day I caught you in the school , was to get you back. I couldn't sleep... I couldn't eat and it felt like I couldn't breathe. It was too much for me. For years I looked around for you. Country after country, state after state. Till Roderick and I found you in Tomawhee at St.Bloody Mary high."

I couldn't stop myself from laughing at the school name. And from the looks of it no else was bothering to even try to contain their laughter. "Who named that place?" Dilly spoke up ,while wiping a tear from her red face.  "The question is which parents would even dream of sending their children there?" Roderick held his stomach. Laughing till his face scrunched up in pain.

"Anyway. I found you..and here we are. In this mess. " the laughter died down.
"I should have told you about all of this earlier. But you wouldn't have believed me.you would think I'm nuts ... "

"Well, I won't lie and say I wouldn't have  hit you with a hard object if you had told me that from the beginning.. but this is what it is. And talking about the past doesn't make it any better. We need to get back to the castle. I'll talk to them. Maybe they will understand."

"Nina., they won't understand." He scratched the back of his head in frustration at my stubbornness

"Give it a chance Chad. If they don't understand I'll leave the island with you " I held his hand and squeezed it tightly. "I promise"