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One secret, one curse, is enough to change everything. Everything she knew, everything she thought she understood, became nothing, twisting into an ultimate heap of confusion. He is after her, the one that has...
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The cold invites me in with open arms. The bitter air welcomes me on every inch of my showing skin, goosebumps forming on my arms while the invisible hairs covering them stick up high. My body violently shakes as I step into the ankle deep snow that covers the ground in every direction.
I hug the thin coat closer to my body in as attempt to gather more heat, but the subtle gesture does nothing of the sort. My focus averts when I hear the slamming of a door coming from the background, I crane my neck backwards, enabling me to see behind, but I'm met with nothing.
Just a figment of your imagination, Vivian.
No other sounds come, signaling that I'm all alone out here in the cold, which is what I want, to be alone to sort things through, to escape reality for a little while until I'm thrown back into it like a ball in a soccer game. I stride into the trees, not knowing - let alone caring - where I'm going. All I want is to escape from the mansion for a little while, until someone comes father me.
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Birds fly overhead, in perfect unison they soar. They spread their wings out, stretching to the sky. Each one weaves through the group in no specific order, they go in and out as if they were tying an invisible braid within the transparent air.
When I was younger, I always wanted to be like the birds, free to roam where ever I want. To discover new places and always move to the south in the winter to escape the bitterly bleak air. But now I have a different animal living inside me, one that I thought would never, one that I thought was fiction made up by the Greeks in the legend of Lycaon, or where ever they came from.
A thought about the curse comes crashing into my head, the memory that Mother shared. The Curse of Godinez. Alakade mentioned it too. The people in the vision were scared of Mother, like she was poisoned, like she was a monster, but a different kind then the rest of them.
I'm jarred from my thoughts to the instant sound of gunshot, the birds from up ahead fleeing as fast as they can. I immediately get to my feet as quick as I can. My heart begins to race. I've been hit by a gunshot before, one that has left a permanent scar, and I don't want to be hit again.
I rush as fast as I can towards the way I remember coming in, but that's before I'm instantly stopped when she comes around the corner, the shiny piece of metal in hand. She twirls it with her fingers over and over again.
"Hello Vivian," she says in a sickly sweet tone, one that makes me heave.
"What do you want, VIctoria?" I say her name as if it were bile from my stomach in my mouth, spitting it without a care. She has hurt me before, and I'm not going to let it happen again.
"What's with that attitude? I was only coming to check on you," she says, though I know full well that she's bluffing, and she knows that I know. I roll my eyes at her, and she scoffs.
"I thought I made myself clear that he doesn't love you, that feeling...it's fake Vivian." She steps closer towards me, "aren't you going to give up?" I don't move back, for I am not intimidated by her foolishness.
"But, it seems like I have to tell you again...this time I'll have to make it stick, won't I?" She states, now only inches away from me. She pulls the gun closer to her side, slowly lifting it up, the gun making a loud clicking sound, signaling that it is locked and loaded.
"Go ahead, shoot me, I dare you," I spat.
At that very moment, she comes at me, clamping a firm hand around my neck, but I resist the struggling and act as if she's not hurting me, showing no weakness.
"You're strong, Vivian, and I admire you for that, but sometimes you just have to quit with it. You know you don't belong, neither does your mother," she slowly puts the gun to my forehead, the barrel of the gun barely touching me, but I can still feel the algid metal.
My knees start to shake, but I try so hard not to make it noticeable.
She's just bluffing.
She's just bluffing.
She's just bluffing.
"Your mother was never fit for this job. I must say, she's a terrible Luna, and a horrible mother. Don't you feel any kind of anger towards her, for what she did to you, Vivian?"
"Don't you dare talk about her like that!" I shout, almost like a growl, which leaves me startled for I've never heard of that tone of voice come from me before.
"Say all what you want, Ellis, you mean nothing to me, and you never will!" And with that, I bring the back of my cold hand up, and slap her cheek so hard that even stings my own hand. She stumbles backwards and is reluctant to let out any sort of shout.
She trips on her feet and topples to the ground, she falls straight on her back, and I can't help but feel myself lose control. Everything in my line of sight seems to darken as my pupils dilate, my sole focus is on her, and only her. I bring my boot up, and kick her hard in the side.
Then, I knee beside her, as she vigorously yelps, holding her side, her cheek bright crimson red.
"This aught a teach you a lesson to not come near me again, Ellis," I say, a wicked smile with a mind of it's own comes across my lips, taking over them like a raid.
I pivot on my foot, walking away from her body that lays in the cold snow, just ahead the mansion stands tall. A voice, her voice, interrupts me from my path a she yells out to me with such anger, I can almost feel it as if it were a blow to my stomach.
"He will get you, VIvian! And When he does, I can finally get what I want!"
"In your dreams, monster"
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