Zara's New Life

Chapter 11: The on coming storm.

It has been 2 years since I returned home. My sparkling is now twenty-one months old and she has grown quite a bit, I named her Aurora. She's quite a spark, always happy and lively. Aurora is strong enough to walk now but she still likes to be carried around sometimes. The bond between us has grown and like it says in the fanfic stories, we can talk to each other through it, Aurora knows when I'm sad and always tries to cheer me up and she dose, and I know when she is sad or hurt. Just to think, no one else is going to experience this but me. If anything happened to her I don't know what I would do. I know that if she would ever die, my heart would be broken and that I would probably follow her soon after.

It is the day of my seventeenth birthday and I'm in my room getting ready. My mum had invited some relatives and family friends over, Anna is coming along too. So it was sort of like a party. I knew it was going to be hard to explain what Aurora was to my relatives and family friends but I had to come up with something 'cause Aurora would not leave my side but I was fine with that.

Aurora was jumping up and down on my bed, watching me getting ready at my dresser. I finished putting on my earrings and turned to Aurora. I was wearing one of my best dresses, a crystal necklace and earrings, my hair was half up and half down with a beautiful crystal hair piece. And I wore my best and only high-heel shoes.

"How do I look, sweet heart?"

"Mamma pretty, Mamma pretty, Mamma always pretty." Aurora said through our bond.

I smiled warmly at her and walked over to her. "Your turn." I said as I picked her up and she let out a squeal of joy. I took Aurora to the bathroom and grabbed a damp washer of the side of the bath. I knelt down and as I pressed it on one of her armour pieces, she jumped and squealed in surprise.

"Sorry, is that too cold?"

Aurora nodded. I ran the washer under hot water and squeezed out the excess water. This time when I pressed the washer on her armour she let out a purr. One of the good qualities about Aurora is that she never misbehaves even when I say no to something she wants or wants to do.

I felt Anna's presence getting closer, and then I heard the front door open and close.

"HEY ZARA, WHERE ARE YA?" she yelled.

"BATHROOM." I replied. Anna made her way to the bathroom.

"Aaawww. Giving little Aurora a bath." Anna said in a babyish tone.

Aurora looked up to Anna in surprise and delight. She jumped up and Anna caught her.

"An here, An here, An here. An, Mamma birthday day." Anna could tell that Aurora was saying something.

"What she saying?" Anna asked.

"She's saying that you're here and that's it's my birthday."

"I know it's your mother's birthday..." she said looking down to Aurora and tapping the end of her snout. "That's why I'm here." Anna looked up to me. "Here." She said passing a present to me.

I put the washer on the sink and took the present. I unwrapped it and it turned out to be a scrap book. On the cover it had a picture of Anna, Patrick, Aurora and I. it was titled 'Best Moments Of Zara And Aurora'. I flipped through the pages, it was full of pictures of the best moments the four of us had over the past twenty-one months. I looked back to Anna and smiled.

"Thank you Anna." I said giving her a hug over Aurora. I pulled back. "Come here you..." I said holding out my arms. "I still need to clean the rest of your armour." And Aurora jumped into my arms.

"I'll meet you two out in the lounge room." Said Anna.

"Alright." And Anna left.

I finished cleaning Aurora's armour and sighed. "Aurora dear, could you do something for me?" Aurora nodded. "When the guests start to arrive could you go to my room and stay there till I say you can come back out. Alright?"