Frequencies.

2. Aren

[A/N - since I have time now so I will try to update as much as I can... These first few chapters will mainly focus on the character's introduction... Also these are from a third person's point of view which I am sure all of you would have figured out by now... For now sit back and enjoy]

"Teach me how to fight
I'll show you how to win
You're my mortal flaw
And I'm your fatal sin
Let me feel the sting
The pain
The burn
Under my skin

Put me to the test
I'll prove that I'm strong
Won't let myself believe
That what we feel is wrong
I finally see what
You knew was inside me
All along

That behind this soft exterior
Lies a warrior..."

When she was nine years old

" C'mon darling, get up and fight ", the man urged the little girl who had slumped down to the ground in front of him while he stood in a  fighting stance, his toes open at  forty-five degrees , his knees bent and his hands raised and his feet shoulder-width apart
The little girl whined out "no" for the hundredth time  but of course that didn't stop the man from encouraging her. It was like this every time and the old man had gotten used to it. He took it up to himself to train his daughters in karate. Shrey was more submissive than Aren but both were equally bratty and many a times there behaviour had made the  man cuss out in front of them after which they stared at him with their big doe eyes as if he had  the power to curse the entire nation of Olympus.

 
The man in front of the little girl just wanted her to be safe like any other father would want for their daughter  and with her being so close to The Hawkins family , being safe was going to be a problem. Everybody in that family had taken liking for the  little girl in such a short time that it scared her  father. The fact that his daughter was getting closer and closer to the family where he worked as a publicist  was a little overwhelming for the man especially since he knew exactly the kind of people The Hawkins were. He had been working as their publicist for a span of 2 years now and in this short period he had protected Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins from tarnishing their image ( which the family was very good at )  in the public several times. He knew exactly the kind of people they were  and to what extent they could go to cover up their mistakes.

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When she turned 14

Mr. and Mrs. Zenl smiled warmly at the scene taking place in front of them. It was their daughter’s  birthday and she was not in a particularly good mood  and she was getting more and more annoyed every passing second as her best friend , who had vowed to not let her sleep on her birthday continued jumping on her birthday .
Aren was one of those people who don’t like celebrating their birthdays but since she couldn’t skip school , she had dragged herself out of her bed and on getting to her school entrance she had tried to blend in  with other students as much as she could as to avoid being spotted by her friends but that didn’t help of course. Her friends had immediately hogged her and  had yelled “ Happy birthday “ at the  top  of their voices in  the middle of the hallway which of course didn’t go well and they had been scolded by their homeroom teacher but Aren was grinning by then . She loved her friends to death. They were exactly the type of people  one would want to befriend and as for Aren , she had been friends with them for the past  8-9  years . But her good mood didn’t last long , like she had wished. Her best friends Kyra and charlotte had left her in tier first class together that day to go  somewhere with Amanda . She knew it was wrong to be jealous but she told herself she wasn’t jealous just a little hurt but it was getting harder and harder to hang out with them every day when the strain in their friendship was not lessening . But other than that her day was relatively good.
On returning home that day , she had  gone to her room almost immediately . As she had sunk in the comfort of her bed , she went over all the incidents that had happened at school that day . She  chuckled when  she remembered how she had responded with a “ same to you “ when one of the most scary teacher at her school had smiled at her and wished her “ Happy birthday “. She had also bunked a few of her classes but she was able to use her “its  my birthday”card and get out of the mess. She had  tried to not think about Ky and Char and after a while she had fallen asleep  only to be woken up by her noisy best friend , Ky . She was their to celebrate  her birthday and when Aren refused to get out of the bed , she had taken all of her blankets and was making as much noise as possible for  a 14 year old human child as she had hopped on her bed .
Aren had sighed in defeat as she knew now that sleeping was definitely not going to be an option now . That day they had talked . It was the first time Ky had Aren actually cry . Sure there had been instances where she could see her on the verge of crying  but the raven haired girl never let anyone see her cry ( not because she believed that crying was for the Weak  but because she ugly cried ). They had talked that day and Ky had apologized that day for not being a  good friend to Aren . Aren knew she should have apologized too but she wasn’t able too.