Thirsty Temptations

Chapter 16- Learning

Layla's eyes widened, and her heart stopped when the woman she was seeing lunged at her. She dropped to the ground and watched the woman fly past her and attack the person who was about to grab Layla.

She never heard the person come in, or come up behind her, and wondered how it got past Alaric and Adrian. She stood up, picked the book up off the ground and was going to look at the person the woman attacked, but it was gone.

Her breathing became faster, and quickly spun around in a circle to see where it went. "Where are you?" she asked, nervously and breathing heavily.

Layla's hair flew up and down fast, and felt a cold draft run through her. The book she was holding pulled out of her hands, and flew away from her, landing in the center of the room. She watched the book open, and the pages flip fast, then abruptly stopped.

She walked over to the book, kneeled, then sat on the floor looking at the where the pages stopped, and the letter she had used as a book mark. "I don't understand what this all means!" she cried out "Tell me, explain to me what this says!" she demanded.

Her hand lifted and was placed on top of the book, her hand then formed into a fist with her pointer finger out. She then heard a whisper "Close your eyes." she felt her finger sliding over the page, and was asked to concentrate. "Open your eyes, and look." she was told.

Her eyes opened, and looked down at the page. As she looked at the scripts, she took a deep breath and relaxed herself. While concentrating on the scripts, she was able to figure out what they said. She picked up the letter, looked at the writing and figured out what she was instructed to do.

While sitting there, she started speaking to her mom, asking that she show her face and to explain to her how her adoption all came about. "I demand to know!" she yelled. She began flipping through the book to see if there was a spell to bring someone to life, and her hand froze. She felt someone grab at her hand and looked up.

She gasped as she saw a vision of a woman, the one from the picture and knew it was her mom. "Please, explain to me everything. I need to understand who I am, and why these treachers are after me." she begged.

Phoebe looked at her, reached her hand out, and placed her hand on her face. She saw a spitting image of her, and smiled. She then explained to Layla what happened and why she did what she did, to save and protect her. "Who was the woman that was just in here?"

"Your grandmother Evelyn." she replied.

Layla didn't know it, but the longer she was in the room talking with her mother, the weaker she was becoming, and was using all her energy to see, and speak with the dead.

Alaric was standing outside the door, while Adrian was on the opposite side of the house, both on the lookout for any danger that could appear. Alaric started getting a bad feeling, and could feel Layla was becoming weak.

"Shit..." he muttered under his breath. He didn't want to leave his location, afraid to miss something, but was worried about Layla.

He opened the door, peaked his head inside, and called for her.

Layla could hear Alaric calling for her, and tried letting him know she wasn't finished yet, but could barely get the words out.

Alaric turned his head towards the woods after hearing movement, and debated on what to do. "FUCK!" he accidentally yelled out. He rushed inside, called out to Layla and searched for her.

Adrian heard Alaric yell and looked around, he didn't see anything on his end, and rushed over to Alaric's side. He didn't see Alaric, looked up and flew on top of the roof to see what was going on around them.