A girl, haunted by her past was living in solitude. A man, running from his own demons. When their paths collide, the girl wants to run, but the guy is determined to chase after her aura.
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Aurora Ravenscroft was living her life in solitude, plann...
I fell in love with the Devil , And now I'm in trouble
I'm underneath his spell
Someone send me an angel
To lend me a halo , I fell in love with the Devil
Please, save me from this hell
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"My mother became the ideal submissive wife he had wanted. Just so he could let her give birth to us. My mom never said that, but we could see it in our father's eyes. How unwanted we were.
My father was a lawyer, even though he made his home office permanent. HE still had to go to court. It was our routine. Mom would spend the day with us and the moment my father came home. We would become strangers to her." She looked dazed. Her body was here, but her mind was back in London.
"We?" Phoenix questioned. That brought her back to the present.
"Me and my twin sister," Mentioning her sister, she smiled that reached her eyes.
"That picture, It's her. She doesn't have the blue flecks in her eyes like you do," for a
Aurora looked at him with her blurry vision. "That's my sister, Aurora,"
Phoenix felt lightheaded and beyond the revelation, Though Aurora didn't give him much time to dwell on it.
"Aurora and I were identical twins. The only difference was the blue in my eyes. We were a team. The first memory I have of my mum is playing in our room. For Aurora and I, she was our best friend whom we called 'mom'. She would come feed us, play and teach us things. Then leave. Then I remember going to the stores with her. That was the only interaction we had with the outer world and the only time When Aurora and I went apart. I used to sit in front and watch the sun through the window. It always calmed me to see her like that."
"That painting. That's her, isn't she? Looking out the window. That's why your eyes hold so much longing when you look at the sunrise," Phoenix said in wonder, thinking about the time when he had thought she was an enigma. Everything she did had a simple reason behind it.
"Mom used to take me to ballet class with the money she saved by returning the things, after showing the receipts to my father. I didn't understand back then, Why she would buy things only to return them. Aurora was not interested at all she was into—"
"Cheerleader..." Phoenix completed it for her.
"That and she was a fast learner. We used to watch TV shows and the next thing I knew she is doing the same to my hair or when mom cooked something, she would give her commentaries. She would have been a perfect YouTuber today.
