Our Deathly Love

Mother Goddess

I rolled over in my bed unable to go back to sleep. I took a look at Mimi's clock, which was flashing the time in a bright pink color. It was 6am, and no one was awake yet. Classes did not start until nine so everyone was allowing themselves the extra time to sleep in. I, on the other hand, could not sleep, no matter how much I wanted to. Images of last night kept flashing in my mind over and over and over again. I could not help but cringe as I thought about Gabriel. There is nothing good about the way he looked at Arya. I was still at a shock, unable to get why she would sign, but I understood that the need must be great in her to find out how much time she had left, but to go to such measures was not good.

I knew that I had to shake those thoughts out of my head. I hardly knew the girl. I may not be cruel but it was not my job to take care of her. She was a big girl after all and could take care of herself. I needed to focus on myself right now. I was only hours away from my first class, and nervous as hell. I knew that I should start my morning rituals early this morning so that I could be prepared for class.

So grudgingly I forced myself out of my bed and tiptoed over to my closet. The doorway to the closet was immersed in blackness. So horrified I jumped in the closet. Terrified, I ran my hands over the closet walls and tried to find the light switch. After scratching the walls up a bit I was able to locate and flick on the light.

I searched my closet, and I decided upon wearing a black balloon skirt, black and white striped thigh highs, a black short sleeved shirt, and my bright red cloak as well as a pair of Oxford heels. I loved this outfit. It made me feel comfortable, and yes I did look hot. Even I will admit that.

So, smiling slightly to myself, I stepped out of my closet and over to my trunk. Lifting the lid I shuffled around in it until I found the things I needed:

A jar of honey, a small piece of rope, a dog made out of clay, an old key, a silver necklace chain, and a black candle with a lighter and a piece of black silk, as well as a large black bowl, sage, rosemary, licorice root, mint, and holy water.

Getting all of those things together, I put them in a drawstring bag smiling at the progress I had made at just getting those items together in the first place.

I walked as quietly as possible out of the bedroom. No one was in the living room upstairs when I entered. I walked quietly down the stairs silently cursing at each moan and groan of the old steps.

Sadly all of my quietness was not justified as I noticed people lounging tiredly in the kitchen.

Mikey was shoving down pancakes like he hadn't ate in a week, Tristan was sitting on the kitchen counter sipping coffee and reading some large textbook of sorts, and Chloe was making a large banquet of sorts, which consisted of pancakes, toast, eggs, sausage, French toast and waffles.

"Oh Emmy your awake! What will it be?" Chloe said happily tapping her toes on the floor of the kitchen.

"Actually... I've got to get going.. So can I just have a banana or something?" I said giving an apologetic look her way. Chloe looked upset for a moment before nodding to me and placing the fruit basket in front of me, with a thud. Obviously she was not happy with me skipping out on her breakfast! Yet I knew I had not enough time for it so instead I stared longingly at the fruit before deciding on taking a bag of grapes and a plumb, as well as a bottle of water with me.

I quickly shoved the things into my already bulging bag. I took notice of the weird looks I was getting from Tristan as he stared at the red bundle in my arms. I knew it must look weird, so to answer his questions I pulled the drawstring bag on my back before unwrapping the cloak and pulling it on.

The material felt swooshy and surprisingly light on my arms. The light brushing of the material on my arms when I moved caused the hair on them to rise up. I knew the Cloak was a sight to behold. But I never expected the reaction I got from Mikey, which scared the shit out of me when he suddenly jumped up and ran over to me grabbing at the material a weird ferial look was in his eyes.