Life by Patricia Silva (e books for reading TXT) 📕

The reporter began talking about new renovations being made to a local castle. I turned the tv off and just sat quietly.

"Siena..." Tomas said, facing me.

"No," I replied, still looking at the black screen.

"Siena, look I-"

"Who told creatures about this? I thought we agreed it was to be kept a secret!"

"Siena, listen. It had to happen sooner or later, and I don't see what's so bad about it."

"What's so bad," I said, standing up, " is that my life, and Sophia's, are about to go public; more than public, world-wide! Every single creature on the entire planet is about to know everything about us!"

"Siena, this is a good thing."

"How?!"

Tomas stood up, "You're different, Siena."

"Gee, thanks for reminding me," I muttered, crossing my skinny, muscleless arms.

"Siena, that's a good thing. You're going to be a leader."

"A leader? Are you kidding me? I can't even work up the nerve to flirt with a guy at school. I get nerveous everytime I have to read aloud in english class. I have to force my self to run slow in p.e. so people won't think I'm super athletic and will wanna challenge me and stuff. Tomas, I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm not exactly 'Miss Popularity'. Not in this world, not in the human world. To most people, I'm just that wierd, quiet girl in the corner. To most creatures, I'm just some stupid, little wizard girl who barely knows what she's doing."

"But you do know what you're doing."

"Well, creatures like to think that I don't. Know why? 'Cause I'm not a leader, I'm not social, I'm not outgoing. I'm nothing. I'm normal, less than that. The only thing that makes me superior to anyone at all is my gift, that I can't even control. I can't control myself, how do you expect me to control an entire planet?"

"You feel that way now, but alot can happen in five years, you know."

"Like what? Tomas, this isn't me. I'm not a princess, and definatly not a queen."

"Well, obviously you're not completely ready yet. You'll have to train a bit more, but you aren't stupid, why do you think I've been teaching you about politics and all that? It isn't for nothing."

"Well, maybe I'd be better off using that for a job like yours. I mean this whole time that's what I thought I'd end up doing."

"Well isn't being a Queen much better than being some government worker in an office?"

"Maybe to most creatures, but not me."

Tomas sighed. "Why must you be so stuburn, Siena?"

I shrugged and Tomas sighed again."Well, why don't you think about it for a while, I bet you'll change your mind," Tomas said.

"Doubt it," I mumbled before going upstairs to my room.

 Siena

I stood in the middle of a clearing in the forest. It was pouring rain through the trees, yet I stood there, motionless. I couldn't have noticed anyway, my eyes were glowing and I was in the middle of having a vision. The leaves rustled behind me and I blinked, coming back into reality. I tilted my head up and closed my eyes, feeling the rain fall onto my face. Most creatures with common sense would've gone home, or at least someplace dry. Not me, I love the rain.

The plants in front of me shifted. I looked and saw nothing, then the ones behind me moved, then the ones to my left, then in front of me again.

"Blake...I know it's you!" I shouted.

There was no reply. He didn't jump out of the bushes.

 But something else did.

It jumped straight at me and rolled me down the hill, then pinned me to the ground. It was big, about twice the size Blake was when he's in wolf form. It growled in my face, saliva dripping from it's teeth and its black, matted fur sticking up. I winced and tried to slip out from under its grasp but I couldn't move, its hold on me was too tight. I could feel its claws ripping through my sleeves and digging into the flesh in my arms. I could feel the blood trickle down my skin and it stinged at the source when the pouring rain drops hit it. I tried to push it off, but it was too heavy. It growled deeper in my face and I felt a second of relief when it let go of me, so I began to sit up. However, my relief was replaced with pain when the giant, dog-like beast easily swiped its claw at me and I slid back a few yards, hitting my back against a tree.

I opened my eyes and felt dizzy. My face felt really wet but after a moment I realized it wasn't from the rain. I reached up and my cheek burned as I touched it. I looked at my fingers and saw they were dripping red. Then, I looked up and saw the creature walking towards me. I stood up but then fell back down again, my head was spinning way too fast. My weak arms were shaking, I tried to scream out but my voice was incooperative. Before I knew it, I was against a different tree, at a different angle, my head hurting even worse. I put an arm over my face as the monster charged at me again. Then I heard a bark and looked up to see Blake leap out of the bushes and pounce onto the beast.

Happiness flowed within me for only a moment again before there was a blood-curdling screach and Blake fell to the ground with blood spilling out of several spots and several bones sticking out. I couldn't scream, I was too horror-struck. Then, all of the sudden I felt pain run through my whole body, and everything was tinted in red. For a minute I thought I finally heard myself scream but I couldn't be sure if that was it.

I woke with a start, for what seemed like the hundredth time this month. I was being haunted by nightmares just about every day now. My breath was heavy and I could almost feel how bright my eyes were glowing in fear. I looked around found I was in my room and it was still the middle of the night. I jumped as the door swung open and Tomas came in with a startled look on his face.

"Is everything okay?" Tomas asked.

I paused "Yeah, why?" I replied.

"I heard you screaming..."

He sat down next to me on the bed, "Again" he added. A flash of lightening struck down, clearly visable through the open window, and thunder followed, making me jump again. Tomas reached over me and closed the curtains.

"Just a storm," he said, "I thought you like the rain".

"I do.." I looked at the open door and squinted at the light coming in from Tomas' room down the hall.

"You okay? Want some of your medicine?" He asked.

I shook my head and looked up at Tomas staring at me. "What?" I asked, realizing I was shaking a little.

"I'm worried, Siena..." Tomas began.

"Why? I'm fine, Tomas, really." I tried to persuade him, but we both knew it was a lie.

"No, you're not," he said looking into my eyes.

I looked down and Tomas sighed, then hugged me closely. I nudged my head into his chest and tears began to stream out of my eyes. I knew I shouldn't be doing this, I shouldn't be crying into an adults' chest as if I were a helpless child.

But I couldn't help it. I was scared and just wanted the nightmares to stop. But they wouldn't unless I took that special medicine, but I didn't like taking it. It made me feel wierd, it's hard for me to use my powers, it makes me feel restrained.

The worst part about it all was that sometimes my not-so-bad nightmares came true, and now they were all getting bad, the next worse than the last, and one hasn't come true in a long time.

"It's okay," Tomas crooned, putting a hand on my head, "It's okay, whatever it was, it was just a dream."

"You don't know that,"I whimpered.

"Siena..." I could tell he wanted to say something to make me feel better, but he didn't know what to say, so he just put his head on top of mine and held me closer.

Sometimes, I knew that Tomas felt like he was doing more than his job. He was my mentor, he was only suppost to teach me magic and train me to fight. He didn't have to care for me this deeply. He didn't have to be holding me  like this. I wasn't his daughter. Though, I hadn't seen my real father since I was a todler, and Tomas knew I never really received anything like this from my mother either, so it didn't feel that wrong to him. It didn't feel that wrong to me either. I wouldn't mind if he was my father.

Siena

I decided it was time to wake up. To get out of bed, that is, I had been awake all night. After Tomas left my room last night I opened my curtains again and stared out the window, watching the rain, and after a while I just stared at the ground, at nothing. But now it was a little past seven o'clock so I pushed the blankets off and walked over to my closet.

I slipped on some black tights, then black shorts and a Pierce the Veil t-shirt. I made my bed and slipped on some socks and boots. I looked in the mirror and combed out my black hair that fell just past the bottom of my chest. I put on a black beanie, grabbed a jacket and went down stairs.

Tomas and I spent the morning reviewing spells and making an abundance of potions. Towards the afternoon we went to the end of another forest, to a hidden building called The Round. The Round was a type of black market where creatures sold and traded things, mostly potions and medicines and hard-to-find specialty spells. It wasn't exactly illegal, but not everyone knew about it. Some of the local police officers and government related workers, like Tomas, knew about it and actually went there to trade or sell but never reported it. There were plenty of places like it all over the magical world, but none of them were ever shut down. I took it as just another example of how corrupt the government was.

However, I actually kind of enjoyed going there sometimes, and it's not like the creatures there were bad or anything, most of them are pretty nice in my opinion. Though, sometimes I did see creatures hanging out there that had run away from the cops or broke out of jail. Sometimes, I also saw bounty hunters, waiting for requests to go after, or even kill, certain creatures or even humans. That probably made the place a bit illegal, but I always stayed clear of the bad creatures like that.

I didn't have a problem with the place, but I was glad that Lisa didn't know about it and wasn't into doing things like this,