Stolen Souls

Part 2- Chapter 1

Carter's POV

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As soon as I got on Scarlett's back I had fallen asleep. It feels as if two minutes later I wake up but in reality it's more like two hours. I feel the crisp breeze of the mountains flow around me. Everything happened so fast, Sonia with the dagger, Scarlett being a dragon. I shudder then open my eyes.

"Scarlett?" I ask.

"Oh! You're awake! My house should be at most ten more minutes away." Scarlett says. 

"Oh, ok." I say looking at the beautiful nature around me.

We sit in awkward silence as she continues to fly and I relax. I felt my heart break when Sonia... Yeah...

My thoughts drift back to when we sang together in my bedroom. In harmony, while holding hands. That's when I realized that I loved her. Truly loved her. She used me. And-

"Ok we're here!" Scarlett said interrupting my thoughts.

As we descend, I see the river flowing through the lush green forest and a very nice looking secluded home. 

"Whoa that's your house?" I asked in shock.

"Yeah, it has four floors." 

"My god."

We landed and I got off. She transformed back into a humanoid dragon and smiled at me.

"So um we might have some company if that's okay with you." She said blushing.

In my head, I was wondering why she would blush, after all we are just friends.

She took my hand and led me inside the house. My eyes widened in shock as I stared at the counters with high chairs. On the other side was the kitchen and behind that was the living room and the study.  I looked at her small hand which was wrapped around mine and smiled. 

"Scarlett are you home?" A voice said from another room.

A boy walked out of the study holding a thick book and stared at us. He raised an eyebrow and that's when we realized that we where still holding hands. I felt myself blushing and let go of her hand. She played with her earrings awkwardly to avoid the fact of the boy standing there. 

He had shaggy black hair that looked pretty cool like he was a bad boy or something. His eyes where a crystal blue and looked as sharp as rocks. he had on glasses that made his eyes look larger than they actually were. He strangely wore a tuxedo with dress pants and dress shoes. All black.

"I'm Adrian." He said with a smirk as he held out a hand.

"I'm Carter." I say.

We shook hands and I noticed he had a tattoo of a crow on his forearm. Bing!

Me and Adrian turned to look at Scarlett who was on her phone.

"Aw man, Ky wants me to prepare dinner. I'll go do that now, can you show Carter around?"

"Sure, just follow me Carter."

"Um ok." I say as I look around, still in awe of this place.

"So first how long are you staying here?" 

"Oh I um have no other place to stay." I say awkwardly.

"Oh, so I guess we are your family now, don't worry you'll get used to us."

"Uh, thanks I guess."

"You sound confused."

"I um, the person I liked died less than twenty-four hours ago."

He turns and stares at me.

"Shit. Who did it?" He asked.

"Oh well I figured out that she was evil." I say with a shrug.

"So what are you?"

I stare at him with a confused look on my face.

"Well come on, you have to be something Carter. You can't just be a human." He said with a smirk.

I glare at him and say "I'd rather not say."

He rolls his eyes.

"Well ok fine. Let me just say that there are eight people that live here currently: me, Scarlett, then we have Ky who runs the house and gets us food and stuff you don't want to mess with him, and then Jake who is always either drunk or wasted, then we have Raven who can turn into a crow, and then we have Iris who tends to all the plants and stuff; she's really sweet, then we have Amber who has the power to control fire, and then we have Fred who is the house prankster. I swear to god if Fred puts cat litter in my coke again I will literally kill him."

I started to laugh really hard to which Adrian punched me in the arm.

"Dude that wasn't even a punch." I say smirking.

"Ok whatever, your bedroom is here." 

"Ok thanks dude." I said as I smiled. I had started to calm down.

"See you at dinner." He said.

"See you later." I said with a smile as I wave to him.

As I get situated and get dressed into a much fancier outfit that I found in the closet. I think I just made a friend.

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Yayayayyayayyayayayay! I did it! I continued it! So don't worry I'll totally update this story. Idek how much longer I'll write it for. But don't worry cause STOLEN SOULS IS BACKK.

-Octavia <3