SELENE EIN 👁 🌙

TRUTHS

"Woah, and here I thought we were over with this riddle play" Ein grumbled sipping on her juice.

"Why don't you date Aze?" Zem abruptly popped the question.

Ein splattered the juice all over Oliver's face

"jeez Ein" he shrieked all wet, like a wet cat, he wiped his face. Ein had turned all red, thank god Aze was not there otherwise it will be hard to conceal it.

" Why would you ask that suddenly Zem?" Ein enquired.

"you guys would make a lovely couple that's why" she retorted cooly.

"but he must already have a soulmate right? according to Selene tradition" Ein enquired her interest piqued.

"nope he doesn't " Ol replied finally having cleaned his face.

Ein lifted her eyebrows questioningly.

"his soulmate is either not born or dead. Our parents have never spoken of the girl, so we don't know who she was" Zem explained.

"how do you guys know when someone is your soulmate ?"

"already curious aren't you? We have no idea because we have been soulmates from such a young age" Oliver declared.

"do you know how much I stan you guys?" Ein confessed. Zem and Oliver gazed at each other with lovey-dovey eyes.

"that's why I am saying you should date Aze as both of you don't have soulmates," Zem said.

"I don't have a soulmate?" Ein questioned a little disappointed.

" I don't know clearly but once you are twenty you will meet your soulmate if you guys haven't met in childhood, as no one has come to claim you, I believe you too don't have a soulmate" Oliver explained.

Aze came into the room suddenly.

"We are deviating from the topic guys" Ein announced with pleading eyes to change the topic.

"what was the serious discussion about?" Aze enquired.

Ein begged with her eyes not to disclose what they were discussing.

"Nothing much just some random stuff about the riddle" Zem said.

Ein vents the breath she was holding on.

"guys I have a dinner date with my parents, you guys keep on figuring out the riddle" she took her coat and started moving towards the door. She stole a glance at Aze, he was staring at her. She looked down and made way towards the door.

Her mom and dad were settled in their usual seats at the Cibo Italian restaurant, they usually dined.they were both looking like gods descended from heaven, as usual there were a group of people gawking at their beauty.
She settled in between them.

"hey, mom and dad" Ein muttered her greetings.

"Hey, sweetheart " they replied in unison.

They had already ordered her favorites .she loved family dinners, unlike the usual teenagers.

"hows the foo-" her dad stopped midsentence starting shocked at her neck.

Her mom followed his glance and was transfixed there too.

She brushed her neck. Was there something?

"oh you guys love the necklace?" she asked assuming that they were stunned by its beauty.

"where did you get that chain, Ein?" her dad queried in a serious tone.

Should she tell them and scare them? or should she say it's from her friend? Would the truth upset them? Will they start worrying their daughter is an alien?

Meanwhile, her parents were having an eye discussion. She felt like her mother was pushing on dad. What was this all about? She chose not to tell them.

"Ein we need to have some serious talk" her dad interrupted her before she could open her mouth.

"ok?" she replied genuinely confused.

"first answer me honestly " dad proceeded. Ein nodded in reply.

"do you know about the Selene?"

"yes," she noticed something like sorrow pass his eyes.

"the daturas gave you the necklace?"

"yes, dad" her dad let out a sigh and put his head down on the table.

"Dad?" Ein had started feeling scared.why was he reacting this way?

"Noah we must tell her it's already past the time. It's better to know it than face them oblivious" her mom said placing her hand reassuringly on his.

Anxiety bubbled in her stomach. How do they know about the Selene and the daturas? They must be linked somehow as the portrait was stored in their house her mind pointed out the fact she had never given a thought until now.

Her dad pulled up his head stared seriously into her eyes.

"Ein I believed I would be able to hide this from you forever but I guess not. First, you must know that we will always be your parents and will support and love you forever.
As you might have learned by now we are all descendants from Selene. We have been bestowed with powers of the moon and clouds and have been living fairly well under Selene Olea, who was the previous Selene. Then the war of black broke out."

"How do you-"

He gestured Ein to be silent and let him finish.

" The black phantoms were our enemies from the very beginning, they had black powers cultivated in them. You were just born at the time. We were strictly instructed by Selene Olea to escape from the clan and alter our identities to protect you because you were the future of our clan. Selene Olea was my dearest and only sister. We moved here with you and have been living here for the past twenty years peacefully. The war ended, the last we heard about Olea is that she was killed, not even her body was recovered. It was her last wish to protect you. Most of our clan were killed except a few of us but they were successful in the war, the blacks were killed. I still regret to this day not being able to protect my sister but I won't let anything happen to you even if it costs my life. I know you will have to confront evil, but you must know that we are here for you like real parents"

She had a lot of questions bubbling up inside her head but the last phrase caught her in a tornado.

"what do you mean like real parents dad?" she questioned.

She looked at both her parents. What did they mean? are they trying to pull out some kind of April fools joke on her?

"Ein you are not our daughter" with that sentence her world started to tumble down. her head began spinning, her whole life flashed before her eyes, tears started filling up her eyes. Her parents were her ultimate support system, they were the only people who she trusted entirely. Was her whole life a lie? She wanted to erase this conversation and go back into their normal happy lives.

"What?" there were cracks in her voice.

"you are the daughter of Selene Olea"