Chapter 10
"Can I just keep your towel since you don't need it anymore?"
"And why would you want to do that?"
"Look there is no point me using a new towel when I can just use that, you don't need it anyway since you have a new one."
"Yeah but you also have a new one, what are you going to do with that?"
G.o.d must she ask so much questions.
"Nothing, we'll just keep that in case someone needs a new one."
"Can the two of you stop shouting across rooms, some of us are trying to sleep."
"Well it's not like there's another way for us to talk since somebody said I can't be 10 metres near you guys."
"Well you shouldn't be talking anyway, go to sleep."
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I tried and tried but for some reason I just couldn't. I couldn't close my eyes and travel to the world of dreams. I searched and searched but I just couldn't find sleep. Giving up, I got out of my bed and walked towards the living room, to find I wasn't the only person deprived of sleep. She couldn't rest either.
"What are you doing here at this time of the night?"
"I should be asking you that question, b.u.t.terfly."
"Don't call me b.u.t.terfly,"she commented, shooting me a dark glare.
"Why not, b.u.t.terfly?
"b.u.t.terflies are beautiful, elegant, gentle and naïve; everything I'm not."
"Well you definitely aren't naïve or gentle or elegant for that matter."
"Wow you sure know how to make people feel better about themselves," she muttered sarcastically.
"You didn't let me finish, those qualities are not what makes a b.u.t.terfly, a b.u.t.terfly is still a b.u.t.terfly whether it's has those qualities or not. What I'm saying is that anyone can be a b.u.t.terfly because it's beauty is not about how it looks, it comes from the inside."
"Did you hear that?"
"My heartwarming speech?"
"No, someone is at the door, I can sense the person's pain and sorrow."
"What, you're just tired, go to sleep."
"The person is hurt, I can feel it, go get uncle."I rushed out of the room, arriving later with the rest of her family.
"Yna what's all this?"
"Someone in pain is at the door."
"What, I doubt that," her crazy Uncle said while rus.h.i.+ng to the door.
"See told you there is no one there."
"I felt it uncle, the person must be around here somewhere."
"Yna wait, where are you going, do you know what time it is?"
I couldn't help but follow her, I had no choice, my feet moved on their own accord. We ran and ran, through the trees in the dark. She kept going and going, but then she stopped and fell to her knees.
"Yna, what's-"
"Help me carry her, she's in so much pain." There it was right in front of me, a girl our age swimming in a pool of blood. We struggled to get her back to the house, it took twice as long as the time it took us to find her.
"Oh my goodness, where did you find her?"
"In the woods grandma, we need to help her." We laid her on the rug as her grandmother went to get some cloth to clean her wounds.
"She's losing so much blood," Yna said panic in her eyes. She placed her hand on the wound trying to stop the blood. Light s.h.i.+mmered over her pale skin.
Did her hand just
She lifted her hand, shocked at what had just happened. The body sucked back in the gus.h.i.+ng blood, covering the wound with layers of skin until it was hard to believe there was any injury and like magic, life seemed to slip back into the body.
She really is a witch. Dad was right.
"She's awake. How did you do that?"
"I don't know."
"You're a witch, my dad was right."
"She isn't "
"Didn't you see what just happened, she just healed a human."
"She's not a witch, is that what you were told?"
"What is she then?"
"She's a Starhian, they are people with powers."
"So you all have powers."
"No, just her."
"What's going on? Where am I? Who are you? Please don't kill me."
"We are not going to kill my dear, we rescued you, you are safe with us. What's your name my dear?"
"Amor," the girl replied weakly.
"You need to rest, we will speak tomorrow, Yna take her to Ara's old room."
"And where will I sleep?"
"I don't know, the sofa is available. Well goodnight everyone."
He's got to be kidding me.
I laid on the sofa, too tired to argue as I watched everyone else going to their rooms. I stared into s.p.a.ce still not able to sleep even though I was tired.
"Are you asleep?"
"No, why are you here, again?"
"I can't sleep."
"How come you didn't tell me you had healing powers?"
"I didn't know. No one has a clue about what I can do and not do."
That explains her shocked face.
"How did you know she was in pain since she was so far away from here?"
"I don't know, I could sense her pain and sadness, it was like I was the one in pain."
"Weird, do you have any clue about you or your powers."
"Now who's asking questions?"
"What, I'm just really curious," I chuckled.
"Can you tell me about you and your life before you met me."
Does she have a mental health issue that causes her to ask so much questions? It probably runs in the family.
"I don't want to talk about it and why do care?"
"Please, you don't have to tell me in detail, just describe it."
"No, just go to sleep."
"You either tell me or you can find somewhere else to stay."
"Fine, it was horrible, difficult, boring, unfair, annoying, stressful, oppressing, depressing, dangerous and pretty much stupid. Is that good enough for you?" I whispered softly and slowly it could put someone to sleep, which it did.
"So much for not being able to sleep. What a liar. She probably was trying to get close to me. Not that I'm complaining but she really should learn how to lie a bit better, " I chuckled quietly.
She looked beautiful when she's sleeping. Her deep but calm breaths echoed in my ears. Her beautiful b.u.t.terfly lashes curled with grace.
So much for not being elegant I thought to myself.
I laid there befuddled as I contemplated whether to carry her to her room or just leave her there. I cuddled next to her, not wanting to wake her up by trying to take her to her room. Not that I knew where her room was anyway, I would have had to check each room to see which one was empty.
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"What the heck is going on here? Yna why are you not sleeping in your room?"
"Uh what, oh sorry we were talking and I must have slept off. Why didn't you wake me up Nyx?"
"I didn't want to disturb your sleep."
"More like you were trying to cup a feel and Yna, why were you talking after I told everyone to go to their rooms. What were you thinking? You could get pregnant."
He such an over the top drama queen. Nothing even happened.
"Nothing happened I promised."
"What going on here?"
"Yeah dad, we heard you shouting."
"Yna and this thing spent the night together."
"How could you be so stupid Yna, you don't have time to be a mother, you a future-"
"Mum, you do realise there's something called protection, you did use protection right?"
"Whoa, nothing happened, we were talking and I fell asleep."
"Oh okay, you almost gave me an heart attack Eduardo. I knew my granddaughter isn't stupid enough to ruin her future. She gets her smartness from me," her grandmother, the only person I actually like apart from Yna and miss quirkiness, said relieved.
"He could have taken advantage of her while she was sleeping," her stupid uncle suggested.
He is so paranoid. Is he always like that? Wow, her life really does suck. What sin did she commit to get stuck with such an infuriating being?
"I did no such thing. Nothing happened I promise. I fell asleep minutes after she did."
"Good morning, oh sorry I didn't know you were, I didn't mean to interrupt, I'll just go back to my room." The girl from yesterday said before turning round to go back to her room
"No, stay, this conversation is over."
"Good morning dear, how do you feel?"
"Fine I guess."
"Let's go to my room, grandma you should come too."
"Okay, thanks for yesterday."
"I helped too you know," I just had to say.
"Thanks."
"Oh you don't have to thank me for saving you, I was just doing my job as a nice person."
"I don't get it, you told me to thank you and then I did but then you told me I didn't need to. It makes no sense."