Gems

||TWO||

I wake up with a cold rag on my forehead I look around and I'm in my bedroom. I sit up and try to remember last night. I remember running but I was running away from something or someone. I shake it off and get ready to go out with Pandora. Today we'll be going downtown she likes to shop around while I just love to watch her get excited and shop till she drops. 

"What do you think about this?" Pandora asks. She puts on this purple bucket hat and poses like she's on Vogue magazine. 

"It actually looks good on you that color goes great with your red hair," I say. "I'm surprised you said knowing how you feel about the color purple," she giggles. This is kind of true I like purple but I don't like it when it's paired with the color pink.

"Purple is a nice color it's just not my favorite especially when you put it with pink," I say. "Why are you so opposed to girly things?" she asks with a stern face. "I'm not. I'm just into neutral colors. I guess I'm just simple," I say with a shrug.

We walk to the antique store that Pandora and her mom love, they collect old trinkets I don't understand why but hey I don't judge. 

"Hey isn't that Adonis's family's meat shop?" Pandora asks pointing at the shop across the street. It was a red brick building with black letters in a very elegant font that read "Esylium Family Butcher Shop". 

"I don't get it," I say with a confused expression on my face. "Get what?" Pandora asks. "The Esyliums seem so classy, clean, and rich. Why would they own a butcher shop?" I ask.

"Because it's a family tradition," says Imogen Esylium. Pandora and I jump at the sound of her voice. We both turn around and find Imogen and Cordelia are both behind us with sly smirks on their faces. 

"A family tradition," "Yes, you sound surprised," Cordelia says with a smile. "Well, it's just you two and Adonis look nothing alike. I mean I look nothing like my parents but I'm adopted," "You're adopted?" Imogen asks. "Yeah when I was a baby I was left on my parents' doorstep and they adopted me eventually," I nod.

The more this conversation goes on the more it reminds me of the first day they came to school and their brother asking me ten thousand questions.

 "So you don't know anything about your biological family," Cordelia asks. "Nope not at all," I say with a shrug. The twins look at each other with a worry some look and then smiles at Pandora and me. "Well it was nice talking to the two of you but we gotta get going," Imogen says. 

Pandora and I say goodbye to them as they begin to cross the street. "Oh and Amethyst Adonis is out of town he had an accident so he won't be at school until Wednesday or Thursday," says Imogen. "Okay, why are you telling me this?" I ask with a confused expression on my face. "He told us about how you and he had gotten close the day we missed school and please we see how you're always staring at him," Cordelia says and the girls both begin to laugh.

"Do you have a crush on Adonis?" Pandora asks as we're in the antique shop looking around. "No, I barely even know him!"

 "Well, the twins surely think you've got a thing for him," "Just because I stare?! The only reason why I stare is that he's staring at me,"

 "But how do you know if he's staring at you if you're not staring at him?" pandora asks with a smirk. "Ugh! Just forget it I'm going over here," I say and she laughs while I flick her arm. 

As I take a walk around the store I begin to think about Adonis and our encounters trying to understand why is he so interested in me enough to talk to me about his family. As I walk past the healing crystal section something catches my eye. There is a pile of purple crystals in a glass bowl they all were similar except one. There was one on top and as I got closer to it the more it glowed. I picked it up and suddenly it begins to light up the whole store.