Dark Possession 'Cailyn's Chronicles' Book Three

Chapter Thirteen Double the Pleasure

The next few days I felt tensed up. Every part of my body was on edge and stressed because of the emotional and mental trauma lately. I guess I was in the angry stage of grief now and only angry. Even Ayden was at a loss for words now it seemed. I tried taking soothing baths to relax myself, exercise, meditation, nothing was working. Maybe it was my lack of acceptance with everything that was keeping me resentful.

Besides all that something strange was going on with Beth and Josh. I couldn’t tell if they were fighting anymore or just worried. They seemed stressed out like me but in a different way and Beth was unusually quiet. They missed a few days of school and she hadn’t asked me anymore about wedding plans. I was beginning to worry about them more and more.

“Are you guys okay?” I asked at lunch one day in the middle of the week that they happened to be at school. Beth looked up at me and plastered a smile on her face that she thought was fooling me.

“Just a little stressed about everything,” Josh took her hand and rubbed it reassuringly. Could she be tired from letting Josh drink from her?

Unfortunately it made sense. Even though I didn’t quite believe her everything that I explained to them that had been discussed over the weekend at first did strike them as very disconcerting. Talbot and Darius were out of town trying to hunt down some of their old vampire friends which could take awhile.

The twins were ignoring us as usual. I wanted to confront them. This was one of the main things that was tensing me up was the lack of involvement on their part. They sometimes watched with violence in their eyes and sweetness in their voices when they spoke to other students. Frequently I had to calm myself down so I did nothing impulsive.

“You need to relax Cailyn,” Ayden said quietly in my ear.

“How am I supposed to relax with all this fucked up shit storm brewing all around,” I hissed at him quietly at the lunch table.

“We are doing everything that we can right now and can think of,” Ayden tried to assure me.

“It’s not enough,” I snap at him and instantly feel guilty seeing the hurt in his face from my words. I got up and threw the remainder of my lunch away and walked off.

In the halls of the school which were mostly deserted, I stomped to my locker. Once there I leaned against it and my shoulders sagged, I had to stop fighting everyone around me. They were doing the best they could to protect me and all of us and I was acting like a spoiled child. I closed my eyes and let some of the tears flow out freely, silently.

I thought back again that my lack of acceptance is definitely part of what is making me feel so irritated. I needed some definite free time away from all the drama. Just enough to relax and forget about everything, feel normal again for once, even though ‘normal’ is just an illusion.

Arms wrapped gently around my waist from behind as I faced my locker, holding me trying to comfort me, the coolness of his body against me soothing me somewhat.

“Cailyn I am sorry I can’t imagine how hard this is and how overwhelming for you as a human, please let me do the worrying,” Ayden whispers consolingly in my ear holding me tight from  behind as my forehead presses against the cool metal of my locker. I let out a breath slowly, just let it all go.

“I’ll try Ayden it’s just unreal and I’m sorry for being such a brat,” I said breathlessly as if I was physically letting something out.

“Everyone’s entitled to at some point love,” he says with some humor in his voice. Turning me around and cupping my cheeks in his hands forcing me to look up at him he has a determined smoldering look in his eyes.