[ON HOLD] Exclusion, Confusion And Delusion.

Chapter 22- Tough Ass

I’m awakening to the smell of breakfast cooking down stairs; the smell of boiled blood smothered over burdock, chamomile, and jasmine leaves filled the air. Don’t get me wrong I love, it’s practically my life line, but most humans can’t even stomach the site of blood, yet Uncle Axel willingly handled blood and raw meet for Charlie, Auntie Quinn and I. I guess he’s different from most squeamish mortals.

 I sped down stairs, I see Uncle Axel sipping his coffee while filling out a jigsaw puzzle, Adis chomping on a salad jam packed with herbs and spices and Harley sipping hot blood of a mug, I guess my nose smelled the right things… Just not in that order.

“Good morning Evie.” Harley sips more of hot blood while tapping away at his gigantic phone. Who could he be possibly texting? Jealously knawing away at me, why do I even care? “How did you sleep?” I sense a very antagonizing tone to his question, so I chose to ignore him.

I look to stove; I don’t see any extra food for me. Maybe it’s in the microwave. “Uh… Guys… where is my plate?” I turn around to three clueless men. They all look at me like I’m speaking mandarin. “What plate? Oh you thought we were going to cook for you? Harley asks annoyed. I don’t know what is this guy’s problem; is, first he runs into me, then stalks me at a party, then randomly shows up to my house, and now he has the nerve to be a douchebag in my house… My house!

“Evie, Lulu asked me not to cook for you anymore, she says you have to learn to take care of yourself.” Uncle Axis looks up to me apologetically before looking back to his puzzle. Why would Auntie Lulu tell him to do that, I’m starving and I just got my fangs and wings, my appetite has completely transformed. I can drink an entire heard of cows and still have room for the whole damn farm.

After fumbling in the kitchen to find the best way to heat up blood without it spilling over and where exactly taste good with dandelion root, I sat and ate giving everyone the death stare. “Well when you’re done with you’re… Rabbit food, meet us out back. You have class.” Harley stands up and glides out the room like an angel, an ass hole angel.

“Get up!” Harley screams harshly from across the yard, every time he tells me to charge at him he throws me across the yard. Exactly how the hell is this training me when he keeps flinging me like a rag doll? “Charge me!” He crouches down waiting on me, and nothing new he flings me again, this time landing in the bed of flowers.

“Ok now… You’re ruining these precious lilies. Harley let’s give the fighting tactics a break and work on a little infusion and flight.” Adis helps me off the now crushed flowers; he bows down in front of a flower. The flower is crumpled and damaged; he waves his hands over the delicate lily. The once destroyed, limp flower now sprang back up to life.

“Evie, I want you to transfer your energy to this lily.” He holds the flower up to me. There is no way in hell I can bring that flower back to life, that little guy was a goner, thanks to Harley throwing me around.

“Is there a spell or a chant I can do to bring it back to life?” I ask confused as Adis rubs his temples apparently frustrated already with me.

“Evie… We are faeries, not witches. We don’t use spells; we sometimes use chants to help focus our energy. We don’t make human or animal sacrifices, all our energy comes from the earth and the earth alone. It came be used for good and only good, it takes real skill and years and patience to be able to use our magic for evil, but this is a simple task so you don’t need a chant… So just breathe and focus, imagine seeing a perfectly healthy flower.”

I try my hardest to imagine a white lily in front of me than the pitiful one; suddenly I feel like a humungous weight on my shoulders, drowsiness consumes my whole body. I hear a loud thud, my body collapsed onto the floor.

“Evie!” Adis helps me up. “Yeah that happens when you first start using magic, it drains you. I guess that happens when we aren’t practicing by the tree.” Adis picks up the flower. “This was a lily… Evie… You evolved it into a tulip. How… Did you do that? Evolution takes years of practice how did you do that on your first try!?”

My head is rushing, to incoherent words Adis is screaming at me was being drowned out by the loud ringing in my ears. About the time the ringing stops Harley walks up to us un-phased. “Are you two done playing Hogwarts? I hope so cause we have important shit to do.” He scoffs walking away.

Wow just when I though Lulu was a tough ass, I’ve never been more wrong. “Get your ass up and charge me.” Harley yells on the opposite side of the yard. I would give anything to be Charlie right now.