Lilith's Reincarnate

Chapter One

 The wind bites ferociously at my backside, whipping my wild mane of rusted-golden locks around like stocks in a field of abandoned grain. The sky held a rather dull pigment to its palette as dawn was just beginning to rise.

Birds of all sorts chirped till their little hearts were content and their vocal chords began to tear. The forest, full of towering trees bare of their bountiful leaves, settles noisily around us. Winter was beginning to behold the States and I was admiring every moment of the change.

"Aleyne." I snap my head towards Jensen, who sat facing me, his violet-tipped hair sticking up in the morning humidity.

"Jenny." I retort back, grinning wildly enjoying every second we have together. Soon we would be off to college and I knew for a fact Jenson was going for cosmetology and I most definitely not. I couldn't cut hair if my life depended on it, which thankfully that has yet to take action.

"What about me?" I turn to look at Cosmo, shaking my head. "What?" He asks, pouting his lower lip.

"Cosmo." I say. He playfully glares at me, placing his hands on his hips. "That's why."

"Now that's just rude, Aleyne." I stick my tongue out at him in response. "Isn't that right, Jenny?"

"Don't call me that!" He turns to the side and punches Cosmo straight into his shoulder. "I hate it. Only Aleyne gets to call me that."

"Yeah because you like her." I hear him mumble. Jensen looks at me, horror possessing his green eyes.

"I-" 

"Wait-" I smile softly, raising my hand in order to quiet him. It was never truly a secret. Everyone knew he liked me in second grade, but still I'll let him keep his little secret.

"Cosmo, don't pick on Jensen because of your shitty name." Cosmo looks at me, his plump cheeks looking as though someone took a wide paintbrush, dipped it in tomato sauce, and smeared it on. Scratch that. They look like the tomatoes.

"Jerks." He mumbles, biting his cheek and laying down on the slightly dewy grass. I follow him, letting my head slowly lower to the ground. The sky was just as drab as before, except for the sliver of sun that peeked through the dense tree-line.

Jensen lays between us, his eyes scanning the skyline. "Can you guys believe it? We're leaving in a few weeks."

I feel moisture building up in the corners of my eyes. "I know, it's heartbreaking." I'm taken aback by how fast the emotions take hold of me and all I can feel is my body wracking with each sob.

Two hands, one pudgy and the other well-muscled, pat the small of my back to comfort me. "Hush Aleyne. Don't worry, we'll come visit you or vice versa."

I manage to smile through the tears, pushing my hair back behind my ears. "I'm sorry you two, I don't normally do that." They wave it off, wrapping their arms around me. I rest my head on Jensen's shoulder, enjoying one of the last mornings we'll share in a long time. Cosmo squeezes my hand, humming a sorrowful tune.

* * *

My two best friends had left for the day but not without making plans for later. We were going to meet up at the cinema and catch a horror movie that was just released and my excitement level was through the roof.

I hadn't been to the theaters in a long ass time, but Cosmo all but begged to go instead of catching an older one on Netflix.

So that brings my sorry ass upstairs in my attic room, where most of my clothes, clean and dirty alike, sit in a ginormous pile on my long dresser. There's piles around the room as well, along with notebooks, pens, rando papers and notes from old classes. Basically I was learning to be a packrat early on.