An Angel's Kiss

Chapter 20

I woke up in the most normal place ever. My bed. Celine was nowhere to be found, but there was something that seemed odd about my room. There was something missing. It didn’t feel like the same place that it had been before Celine came.

Luckily, the power had come back on, so I wouldn’t need to go and hunt down a flashlight or something like that. There was a note sitting on my table.

She won’t always be there to save you…

So, for the billionth time, I was indebted to somebody for saving my life. Wonderful, right? The only problem: I had absolutely no clue who that person might be. The first people that came to mind would be Clarissa or somebody with her, but then they would still be here. She wouldn’t leave until she knew that I was one-hundred percent alright. But this person/ thing had.

But still, why would Celine do that to me? Out of everybody, she was the single person who had made me feel the most comfortable with everything. Even days after we have first met, she was trying to make me feel better. All of it seemed to be a ploy to get me to trust her, and I had fallen for it.

I knew I couldn’t blame myself, though. Clarissa would have kept her away from me if she had known what Celine was up to. Everyone trusted her- enough to the point where they wouldn’t think of anything that she was doing suspiciously. Celine had tricked us all; it was good to know that I wasn’t the only one who had fallen for her façade. The only question was why she had needed to have one. What was Celine trying to cover up? Why?

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I was still in my room, unable to sleep. Thank god that it was a weekend- otherwise I would really be I trouble. All of my teachers were going easy on me for the time being, and I didn’t think that it would last for very much longer. I didn’t want it to either. Special treatment just made me feel like I didn’t belong here, if I ever did.

I looked around my room. There was nothing missing, nothing that I could see. Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something important to me was gone, and that Celine had taken it. But if Celine had taken it, who would have come to help me, and let her get away with that? It must be something important, otherwise it wouldn’t be bothering me like this!

My forest drawing lay across my bed. I looked at it with new eyes, seeing things there that I hadn’t before. The way the trees cast shadows…They were hiding something. And it wasn’t something that was in my drawing. I was going into the forest again.

And this time I was going to find what I was looking for.

Alright, so I’ll admit it. It was scaring me out of my mind to go into that forest, but I really didn’t have much of a choice. I did, but it wasn’t a valid enough choice for me that I was just going to dismiss it.

I heard discarded branches and leaves break with a cracking sound under my feet with every step I took. It wasn’t the most pleasant sound to be hearing right now, especially as I was the one entering the woods. Alone.

I shuddered, remembering the last time I had entered the woods in the night. My life had been changed forever, and I’m still not sure that it was for the better. Maybe…Maybe I should come back another time…

I knew that I didn’t really want to do this, but what I did want was for everything to end. It probably was not going to end on a good note, but it would end. And something told me that if I wanted everything to end, I was going to enter that forest. And something else told me that I would absolutely hate it. Ignoring that thought for the moment, my thoughts went back to that note.

Somebody had saved me, and it was Clarissa. Somebody had stopped Celine from doing whatever she was planning on doing. That most definitely meant that that someone was not human. Celine may not have been a full-fledged angel, but she certainly was not weak. She would have been able to take down my parents.

Besides, my parents had not come home yet. I guess they decided that I needed some space. They left, and were probably planning on coming back tomorrow. Make that today, considering it was already past midnight. So who else could it be?

They way Celine had wrote that note made me feel like she was very bitter about something. Whoever stopped her had really irritated her. But that person let her get away with whatever she took from my room, and leave a note for me.

A note. A note! That’s what she took. I froze for a moment, horrified. Celine had taken that note from me; no wonder my room felt so different.

Slowly, I tried to move my frozen feet. After a moment, they complied. I continued on walking, still in a daze.

That settles it. Whoever stopped Celine from finishing whatever she knew was someone who was okay with harming me. They would have known what that note meant to me, and they let her get away with it.

Which probably had something to do with the reason she was so bitter in the way she wrote the note. Celine obviously did not like the person who had forced her to stop. But she had listened. So Celine couldn’t overpower them.

Somehow, I felt like it could have been my sister.

I don’t know why, but that just seemed like the most likely candidate. Celine would have been required to listen to her, because Sierra would not have come unless that thing had sent. She would have had the promise of a threat on her side, and Celine would listen to her easily.

“Ah, I see. Figured out the mystery, now have we?”

Sierra….

“What do you want?” I made sure to inject as much venom as possible into my voice.

“Now, now, Scarlett. Is that any way to thank me for what I’ve done for you?”

“Shut up Sierra!” I hissed through clenched teeth, trying not to let her see how much she was getting to me. If anything, that would only add fuel to the fire. “You’ve done nothing for me. If anything, what you just did only evened out everything that you’ve done to me in the past.”

My words made Sierra freeze for a second, as she was stunned by what I had said. Quickly, she shot back, “Oh really? And what would that be Scarlett?”

“I think that you’d know better than I. Since you are, after all, the reason that we’re standing here like this.”

It only seemed to infuriate Sierra more, but I didn’t care. She deserved that, all of it. Before she could retort, something caught us both by surprise.

A man was slowly descending down at both of us. We were standing a few yards apart, and he managed to land directly in between both of us. I knew who it was instantly. And now I was scared for my life.

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Yeah, I know that i haven't updated in a while...So sorry, but I have now! And surprisingly, I actually do like this chapter. I was planning on ending it earlier, but then decided that I was going to continue it, at least for the sake of the people reading this. Unless of course you're evil. then, BEGONE!!

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