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"I need to tell you something." I say very seriously as I make my way back to my room, "what?" Kaiara asks looking slightly amused thinking I was being over dramatic, "I have to tell you because we don't keep secrets and I feel bad." The amusement drops as she looks at me a bit more seriously, "what's wrong?" I sigh, "I kissed Rafael, but not because I wanted to because I needed to siphon him and we were trapped in the spider web and because if I didn't we couldn't died, like it was a real life or death situation." She doesn't look sad or mad and instead she starts to laugh, "that's what you've been feeling bad about?" I nod a bit confused as to why she laughing. "You're not mad?"
"Why would I be mad? First of all it was a life or death situation and second of all I'm not dating him, I just had a small crush on him I guess." She shrugs, "had?" She shrugs again, "had, have, I don't know, you know what it's not even important, if you like him then you shouldn't not go for it because of me, I'll be fine we barely know him and the feelings aren't that deep, plus we know better than to let a boy get between us." She says making me confused, "I never said I liked him." I tell her, "I can tell you do and I think he has a thing for you actually, so I say go for it." I gape at her, "what no, I'm not going to compete with you for a boys affections." That would be weird, "well I won't go for it if you don't." Why was she pushing this so hard? "Fine." I agree, "ok great, now it's up to him but no hard feelings regardless." She says holding her pinky out to me, this was so dumb, I hook our pinkies as we both kiss our own thumbs. It was a stupid thing we had done since we were young to signify a pinky promise of sorts, but it was more serious.
"You're so strange." I giggle as she sends me a look, "so are you." I shake my head and jump into her bed with her, "anyways tell me about your day at mystic high," I tell her, "it was ok I guess," I nod and listen to her describe her day before I share mine.
The next day uncle Ric let's us know about the honour council and how there would be a member from each supernatural faction and all that, I didn't care because I wasn't going to run, it'd be something josie would be good at although she wasn't going to run because Lizzie was.
Currently I was with Rafael because he wanted me to go with him to talk to Jed he thought I might help but I didn't know. "I need a favor." Raf tells Jed after agreeing to do his history paper, "You've been in the pack for five minutes, and you want a favor from your alpha?" I shift on my feet nervously, "You're obviously gonna be elected to the honor council. If it comes down to it, will you do what you can to keep Landon in?" Rafael asks, "That's a great idea, foster kid. I'll bring that up at the first meeting." Both Raf and I smile, "So I can make sure your boy gets the boot." Our smiles drop pretty rapidly, "Why? I joined the pack. Yo, I'm following all the stupid rules that-" Jed cute Rafael's rant off, "Well, consider that punishment... for not respecting my authority when you got here. The rule is this: What the alpha says goes. And I say Landon goes."
Rafael shares a glance of disbelief with me, "come on Jed that isn't fair." I try and plead, "you're not a wolf so don't get yourself involved in our business." He tells me harshly making me just blink at him for a second he has never spoken to me in such a horrible demeaning tone. "Right." I murmur quietly before gturning on my heel and storming out of there feeling complete humiliated.
"Arabella, stop what are you doing!" Rafael calls as he runs into my room to find me trashing the place, "I hate him! I hate him for making me feel so stupid, for breaking my stupid heart and then speaking to me like I'm stupid! Stupid stupid Jed!" I cry throwing anything I could get my hands on, "I hate being so angry, why am I so angry?" I cry stopping for a second feeling the anger dim and the sadness grow, "why am I so angry?" I whisper looking at the mess I had made, my eyes stop on the picture frame Kaiara had on her desk, "it's because of you!" I scream grabbing the picture and throwing it into the wall. "You did this to me." I cry throwing the other one.
"Arabella hey calm down." Rafael says wrapping his arms around me from behind. "It's ok." He tells me as I turn around so my head is against his chest. "I'm sorry." I whisper, "hey no, come on ari breathe with me." He instructs.
"Oh my god, I'm sorry." I tell him after he calms me down and we look around, "oh no what did I do?" I say running over to the pictures I had smashed into the wall, "no, Kaiara's gonna be crushed." I say trying to pick up the pieces. "Arabella maybe that isn't the best idea." Raf says crouching down beside me and putting his hands on my arms to stop me. "Oh my god." I say picking up the shattered frame, "why's it so important, who is that?" Raf asks, "my dad, there aren't many pictures of him out there, my grandfather destroyed a load, and my mom has a few saved, but these pictures meant the world to Kie and I ruined them." I mutter feeling like such a sucky sister, "nah we can save them, we just need to put them into different frames, you're lucky they survived." Rafael says taking them from me, I lift my head to smile at him. "Thanks Raf."
"You helped me the other day, so let me help you today." I nod, "oh hey, you're bleeding." He notes slightly panicked noticing the cuts on my hands from all the glass, "right come on, let's get you cleaned up." He says leading me over to my bed, "so what's the story with your dad?" He asks me as he cleans the wounds on my hands, "I mean you don't have to tell me, since it's pretty personal and all," I shake my head, "it's ok, well he's dead, which is why the pictures mean so much to Kie." He nods, "I'm sorry." I shrug, "I never met him, he died the day my mom found out she was pregnant with us, my uncle decapitated him." Rafael looks up wide eyed, "the one that found us in the woods?" I shake my head, "no a different one, he married my aunty."
"you seem scarily fine with that." I shrug again, "well my life's been full of this messy drama since before I was born so." He nods, "right, so you don't like your dad?" I shake my head, "not really no, like I told you he was a siphon like me and um well you could say that he was also temperamental like me." I explain, "but your sister loves him?" I nod, "it's easy to do that when you get the good parts, she got his blue eyes, his smile, his laugh and all of the other beautiful things whereas I got his anger, his defective magic and his violence." I smile sarcastically, "looks like you drew the short stick." I nod, "yeah, Kaiara's perfect." Rafael's eyebrows furrow, "so are you Ari, just in a different way."
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Rafael stuck around to help me clean the room and we even found new frames for the pictures, "your mom looks really pretty." He notes as we put the wedding picture into a new frame, "so does my dad." I say with a small smile, before I realise what I had said. I don't know why I had said that but it just felt right, "I've never seen my mom so happy before." I murmur looking at the smile of pure joy on her face, and then the matching look on dads face, was he really that bad if he brought her so much joy?
