Dark Meets Light

Family Bonding, Oh Lord

Amora's Pov

I woke up in a dark room, chains locked to my small wrists and ankles. My whole body was sore, as if someone beat me up with a bat while I was sleeping. Images flashed through my mind of people that I didn't know hitting me with metal rods, burning my arms and chest with a boiling liquid, cutting my skin open, hitting my back with a whip for hours. But one thing stuck out from the rest, a girl was forced to watch. The girl I shared a room with, my first love.

I looked around the room trying to find her. "Grace," I called out, not receiving any sort of answer. Many different conclusions came to my mind from maybe she got out or they just put her in a different room, maybe it was a hallucination from all the pain I was taking in. As I stood up, I heard a high pitch scream come from the other room. I built up all the strength I had left in me and ripped the chains off. I ripped the door open and ran out into the room.

A man had a knife to Grace's neck looking straight at me. Two people grabbed me and held me in place. I noticed a small patch of blood on her shirt that was growing. "Let her go," I yelled at them. They all laughed. Tears streamed down Grace's cheeks as the guy pressed harder on her neck with the knife. Rage and fear started building up in my chest. I was forced to watch as the knife went across her neck, blood pouring down onto her white pajamas.

A broken scream left my lips and power surged through my body knocked the two people off of me. I ran to her as her body fell to the floor. I bit my wrist as I pulled her into my lap. I held my bleeding wrist to her lips, trying to heal her using my blood, but it was too late.
Another scream, louder scream left me as tears poured down my face. Everything around me went up in flames, burning everything and everyone.

I jolted awake, my breathing uneven and my chest filled with pain. I quickly got out of the bed and ran to the bathroom to examine the damage. I discarded my bloody clothes and went over all of the wounds that were slowly starting to heal. I sighed and then hopped in the shower.

After a long boiling hot shower, I got out and started drying off. My skin was bright red and warm from the heat of the water. My hair dries itself in the matter of seconds, one of the pros of having supernatural abilities.

I walked out of the bathroom and saw some clothes neatly folded on my bed. A small note was on it.

You should probably lock the door next to the book case. It connects to my room.

- Alice

I pulled on the black crop top and jeans, smoothing out any wrinkles. I pulled on some shoes and walked to the living room where everyone else was. "Can I go out and get some clothes and stuff for my room," I asked Tony and Steve.

"Yeah sure, but Alice will have to go with you," Steve replied. "Gotta make sure you don't run away. Oh there's keys to the cars in the garage, have fun." Tony added in.

"Okay, come on Alice," I mumbled. I walked to the elevator. She just stood there. "Let's go loser, I can't hold the elevator door forever you know." Alice scoffed and got into the elevator with her hands in her pockets and presumably listening to music.

Alice's pov

     I texted Carmen in the elevator before putting my phone away and taking out my earbuds. "So....." I wanted to make conversation because if I didn't it would be really awkward but now that its been over 5 seconds and she hasn't responded makes it MORE AWKWARD.

     "Sorry I spaced," Amora mumbled as she hit the button for the garage. "Oh..." I looked around fiddling with my earbud cord. After what seemed like forever we finally got to the garage, it was big, pops usually lets me drive his cars and play with things while he, Peter and Jaden work down here. I walked out of the elevator and waited for Amora who soon followed. I wanted to ask her if she was okay after last night, it didn't sound like she was sleeping too well.

     I decided to ask, "so, you had a bad dream last night?" She tensed up before saying anything, "Oh...I have them a lot. It's kind of normal so no need to worry about it....Anyways how old are you?" She changed the subject on me, how dare she. "Its rude to ask a lady her age." I responded, looking around the garage.

     "It was just a simple question. You act older than me but you have the tendencies of someone younger than me. The way you hold yourself together and stuff like that," she laughed.

Amora's Pov

      She never answered back. I grabbed a random pair of keys and tossed them too her, "Well if you're not going to answer, let's get going." We both walked to the car, her in the drivers seat while I sat in the passenger seat.

     After fifteen minutes of silent driving, Alice finally spoke up, "Here's a card to get all the stuff with, don't take me anywhere boring you got that?" I simply laughed in response as she handed me the card, "Me take you somewhere boring, never!"

     The car stopped in the mall parking lot, we both climbed out of the car and walk into the mall. I let her take me to her favorite places to get clothes and shoes, among other things. By the time we got out, we were struggling to hold everything. It was a good thing that we parked close to the entrance.

     Alice's phone buzzed as soon as we got into the car, "Some of the things you ordered are already at the house." I nodded, "Mirror and furniture check." I heard her laugh, the first time she showed something that wasn't cold towards me.