The Rescue Mission Saga: Rescue Mission: Zavrina Bennett

Selena and Mariah Bennett

Selena Bennett, a girl of medium height with smooth brown skin and almond shaped dark brown eyes, long dark brown hair with tawny highlights walked quickly around the campus of Berklee College of Music in Boston in search of her twin sister, Mariah. When they spotted the other, they ran to each other.

"Did you feel that?" they asked the other simultaneously.

"What's going on, Lena?" Mariah asked, her eyes wide. "I was behind the board and I..."

"Felt a surge?" Selena finished for her. "Yeah me too."

"What's in Mystic Falls, Virginia?" Mariah questioned as they walked toward their dorm.

"No idea but we've gotta go, Benny," Selena told her.

"It's like a pulse now, right?" Mariah asked.

"Yeah. It's like this undeniable pull," Selena said. They smiled at each other. Selena and Mariah had known that they were witches from the time they were about fourteen. They accidentally found their grandmother's grimoire while cleaning up her room after she became ill. Helen Bennett over the next two years taught her granddaughters everything thing that she could. She left them everything magical in her possession when she died so that they could further their magical knowledge and learn more about their family history.

"I'm super..." Mariah started.

"Freakin'..." Selena said.

"Excited," they said together as they got to their floor. The girls were suitemates. They looked at each other before entering their respective room.

"What the hell are you doing, Benny? You just ran out of the studio," Mariah's roommate, Carly, asked as she entered the room. Benny had been her nickname since childhood. It was short for Bennett. After she started calling her sister Lena, Selena decided that her sister needed a nickname too, but Mariah didn't like Mari so Benny was born. "You going somewhere?" she asked as she watched her roommate throw things in a suitcase.

"Uh yeah. It's a family thing, Carly," Mariah said as she ticked off on her fingers everything she was going to need.

"You can't just leave," Carly shouted. Mariah stopped and looked at her.

"First, don't yell at me. Second, I just said it's a family thing. I'm going," Mariah said with an edge to her voice. "I'm taking my tablet. I'll try to find some time to write. No promises."

"How are you going to explain your leaving to Prof. Kennisworth, Benny?" Carly asked, folding her arms across her chest.

"The same way I just did to you," Mariah said, zipping her suitcase. "I'm not leaving school, Carls," she said as she put her arm around her friend. "I just have something I have to take care of."

"Fine, call me," Carly said hugging her.

"Of course," Mariah said returning the hug.

Xx

"Hey," Mandy, Selena's roommate said when she entered the room. "What are you doing?"

"Oh, uh I have to go do this family thing in Virginia," Selena said truthfully.

"Is everything ok?" Mandy asked as she helped Selena pack.

"No idea," she chuckled nervously. That was the truth, she and Benny had no idea if something was wrong or not but the power surge meant something.

"Well, let me know, Lena," Mandy said as she watched Selena zip up her bag.

"I will," she smiled as she opened the room door.