Chapter 9
Time to Take It up a Notch Tarran
Diamond

That morning, Tarran and I went to school early, at 7:45 where we kissed in the classroom where no one could see us. We kissed each other for 15 minutes and then we set up the classroom. “Come on can’t we kiss for another 5 minutes?” I asked when I leaned over Tarran’s desk. “Lucid, we’ll get in trouble besides the kids will start coming in soon.” He said. “Fine!” I said angrily and started to walk off, then he grabbed me and kissed me. He stopped for moment and said psyche, I smiled at him and we continued to kiss. I wore a white blouse that had flowers decorated on the sides with a faded pink mini skirt that had white leggings with it and light blue flats. She put her hair in a bun with moon earrings, bronze rings and a charm bracelet. That’s when they stopped and she went to go and gather her books so her friends wouldn’t get suspicious of them. She told them she had gone early to write down the board stuff. Ruby raised one of her eyebrows but said nothing. We sat at our usual tables and then the boys came and sat down with us. I thought it was weird, but they said they wanted to sit with us from now on. We all raised our eyebrows but kept silent. Justin was able to sit next to Topaz while Zane sat next to me. “D, how’s your day?” Zane whispered. “Hmm, I guess it was fine, but why are you guys really here?” I whispered back. “Well you could say that we finally want to hang out with you guys, I mean we are all friends’ right? We have been talking about sitting with you guys, but we always stuck at that table.” He whispered. “I see well I guess you could hang out with us just make sure Justin doesn’t sit near Topaz too much.” I whispered back. Zane was always like a brother to me, he was better than Deev who acted like a total jerk but was sometimes caring. Zane had dark greenish blue hair and his eyes were sea green, he was tall. He always had the sweetest smile when you were sad. He had light skin and always was fun and smart. His brother was Shane. Justin had tan skin with bushy looking eyebrows. He had sandy color hair with brown eyes and was a jokester kind of guy. Shane had brown hair and it looked like Zane’s with golden eyes. He was tall, a prankster and very friendly to other people. Dean had red hair with very small freckles that you couldn’t see them and dark blue eyes. He had dark skin and was a jokester with Justin. Ash has black hair with dark brown eyes and pale skin. He had long bangs and often had to go to a hair salon to get it cut. Hart had dark chocolately hair with blue crystal eyes. He had light darkish skin and he had brow short bangs that sometimes covered his eyes. Most girls fell for his hair, bangs and eyes, I know I did when I was 10 but that was 4 years ago. Luke had pale blond hair with yellow bangs and blue eyes. He had a thing for pranks and jokes. Jack had orange hair and deep brown eyes; he was very smart and often gave us goofy looking faces when we needed a laugh. Ruby had beautiful long red smooth hair with cherry red eyes too. Her skin was light and she always painted her nails in different red colors. Sapphira had rich dark blue hair with light blue eyes. Her skin was pale and her nails were always painted in blue colors with a design. Pearl/Natal had smooth black hair with milky eyes. Her skin was light and nails were painted in milky looking colors. Topaz has silky orange hair with golden eyes. Her skin was tan and her nails were painted in orange shades. Emera had brown hair with green streaks; her parents didn’t allow her to have green hair just have green streaks. She had emerald eyes with dark skin and her nails were always emerald color. Amest had pale blond hair with purple streaks since she couldn’t have purple hair. She had dark purple eyes with pale skin and nails were painted in different shades of purple. Pedriota had long green hair, her parents allowed her to have green hair. Her eyes were light green with light skin and nails painted in shades of green. Turquoisa had long rich greenish blue hair with sea green eyes. Her skin was pale with nails painted greenish blue. “Zane, where’s Tarran?” I whispered.
“He had to show this new girl around, I think she has a crush on him because when she met him, she had dreamy eyes on him.” He whispered back. “Humph, that girl she should know that Tarran is my boyfriend.” I whispered. “Oh yeah I heard congrats.” He whispered and put up a big smile. I smiled back at him, I stared around the room and saw Tarran, but he was with the new girl. She had red frizzy hair with green eyes. Her skin was light and she was wearing this ugly green dress that had green blobs around it. She looked like a poison ivy, maybe because she is one I joked in my mind. Tarran saw me looking at me and smiled; he said something to the girl and walked off before she could reply. “Hey guys!” He high fived Zane and took the seat next to me on the right. “Tarran who’s that girl you were with?” Topaz asked. “Oh she’s a new girl, her name is Ivy, she’s in our history class and I managed to get stuck with showing her around. While I was showing her around she had weird looking eyes on me.” He said. “Those eyes would be dreamy eyes Tarran, dreamy eyes means that she wants to have you as her boyfriend, and she likes you.” I told him after I took a bite out of my chicken salad. “Well she can’t have me, I already have a girlfriend.” He smiled proudly. I rolled my eyes, but couldn’t help but blush a bit. I turned around to only see Ivy walking towards us with an evil smile on her face. 20 people could fit in each lunch table, so Ivy could sit here. “Umm, hi my name is Ivy, I was wondering if I could sit with you guys?” She smiled at us for one second then kept on smiling at Tarran. The others shook their heads. “Umm, I’m Lucid and well I don’t think you can sit here Ivy and by the way did Tarran tell you he has a girlfriend?” I asked her. Her smile disappeared when I said did Tarran tell you he has a girlfriend. “Oh, I’ve heard of you, I see and who is Tarran’s girlfriend?” she asked. I clicked my tongue. “That would be me, Ivy, I’m Tarran’s girlfriend” I said and smiled politely. She just stared and said bye then walked off to another table where some girls sat there. “Nice going D.” Topaz smiled at me. “You think I wasn’t too harsh on her?” I asked. They all shook their heads including Tarran who just smiled at me. We all gobbled the rest of our lunches and headed out to our classes. I slipped into science class, Zane, Hart and Amest was in my science class. I slipped into a science table and Zane sat next to me. We had to do boy, girl for science. Hart and Amest sat next to each other, Zane acted weird around Amest. So he thought it was better for him to sit next to me. Unfortunately Ivy was in my science class, so she came in but this time she wore skinny jeans with a checkered blouse and blue sneakers. Her hair had been tied in a ponytail and she wore some lip gloss with pink eye shadow. I looked at myself; I wore a dark blue checkered blouse with black skinny jeans and light blue air walks. I put my blond hair into a flouncy side ponytail and painted my nails in a pretty glittery purple green nail polish. She walked towards our table and she had an evil smile on her face again then she turned towards Zane. “Zane, may I sit here?” She asked in a sweet voice and batted her long eyelashes. Zane keeping his cool even though his face turned a little pink. “Sorry Ivy, in this class you have to sit boy girl, the tables here are for 2 and plus I got here first.” He said. “Oh.” It was all she said and then walked to a table where Ben Buckely, a smart guy who usually got good grades like me. He looked surprised to see her sitting next to him, but then looked back at his science book. Ivy just flipped through her science book as well and took notes. “Thanks” I whispered. “No problem, I didn’t look mean did I?” he asked worriedly. I rolled my eyes and the rest of science was ok, the teacher was giving us too much notes though. When the bell rang, Ivy raced out first and I knew she must be going to look for Tarran, but luckily she knew where his next class which was right next to hers. She ran out and look for his English teacher’s class and found him walking alone; she then sneaked up on him and tapped his shoulder. He jumped and his books fell on the floor, he whipped around and he looked into her eyes. “Woah! Geez Lucid, don’t scare me like that.” He said and then laughed. “Oops, sorry, I didn’t expect you to drop your books” she apologized and bent down to gather his books. “Aww, its ok” he said and picked up his books. When she have him the last of his books, he leaned in and gave her a kiss in the cheek. His lips felt warm, she smelled strawberry in his breath. “Mmm, your breath smells like strawberries” she admired. “Oh, that would be from Ivy’s perfume when I showed her around, I liked the smell and the strawberry smell went into my mouth” he explained. “Oh” I said sadly. I stood up and started walking to my next class; she didn’t wait for Tarran because she was too sad. Tarran caught up with her and he walked close to her which made her feel sick. It’s Ivy’s fault she thought, she’s making me sick. “Hey, you ok?” he asked worriedly. “I’m fine, I think I’m going to go to the nurse” I said and hurried away from him. The nurse allowed me to go home since she said I did look a little bit sick, I went out and gathered my things. A blue piece of paper dropped out of my locker, it said: Dear Lucy, You looked a bit sick, but do you want to hang out tomorrow? Call me. Sincerely, Tarran. She felt like ripping the paper, but she felt happy that he wanted to be with her. She had a feeling that Ivy was going to ruin her life somehow to only get her hands on Tarran.

Seventh Chapter
My Knotts Berry Farm Trip
Diamond

So it was the day for the trip and excitement was in the air! I wore an apple green tank top, leather mini skirt and royal boots with musical note earrings. I brought everything I needed in one big bag which wasn’t oversized. My hair in a ponytail with the end being all curly. We went in 8 groups, 10 people in each group. (Yeah we really do have 80 kids in 3 8th grade classes) I got paired with all my friends, with Tarran and Zane who was happily to be with Amest and we got 4 extra people because there were more people in the groups. They were Justin, Shane, Luke and Hart. They all high fived each other and talked about which rides they were going on. We went to the water log ride. We could fit 4 people in; I went with Ruby, Pearl and Emerald. I got soaked because I went 4 times with them. We then went on Bigfoot and got even wetter! I went on it 3 times and super duper soaked! I went to the drying machine and stay there for 12 minutes until I was dry enough. We went on the Ferris wheel and dragon swing. Bumper cars and I bumped Tarran when he wasn’t paying ne attention. He bumped me back and then we went to the train ride, and Jaguar. We went on other roller coasters, went to lunch and played a game booth. The game booth was to throw a small ball in a white, blue or red bowl. The prize was Pokémon stuff animals; white bowl was small stuff animal, blue for medium size animal and red for large ones. I got 3 smalls and 3 mediums with 14 tries. Tarran got the red one 5 times; he let me have 3 of them. I put my medium and small ones in a bag and let my friends hold the large ones. We went on more roller coasters and played game booths. At 6:30, we went back to school and went home. I was really tired, but I had fun and I got a lot of prizes from the game booths. I then called Tarran to see what he was up to. “Hello?” He asked. “Hi Tarran, just called to see what you were up to. “Umm, hey Lucid look its not a good time to talk, can I call you back?” “Umm, sure bye Tarran.” I hung up the phone and felt a bit lonely. I decided to talk to Ruby, and she pretty much knew what to do when her friends felt sad. Plus, she knew boy’s minds better than anyone else so she would know. I asked her to meet me at the park and in about 5 minutes, she showed up. “Hey what’s up Diamond?” She asked. “Well, I wanted to talk to Tarran, but he said it wasn’t a good time to talk… So I felt lonely.” I said. “Aww, don’t worry D, it will be alright. I think he was with another girl because I saw him and he was with another girl yesterday at NYC.” She said. “What!? I can’t believe this; I thought we had something…” I said in tears. Then all of a sudden, my cell ringed and I saw Tarran had called me just he said he would. “Let it ring then we’ll here his message.” She said. “Hi, I’m sorry if I couldn’t pick up the cell; I have either gone out, at friend’s house or in a class, please leave a message! BEEP!” The cell said. “Umm, hi Lucid, I sorry I couldn’t talk earlier, someone came over and well I was hoping we could meet at the park now because I need to talk to you ASAP, so uhh please come to the park. I’ll be waiting at the statues and well see ya.” He said. I felt nervous and my heart pounded like crazy making me fall down off the swings and on the hard and sharp woodchips. I rubbed my butt and Ruby changed my pants to a short blue skirt with a red sash. I changed my red sneakers to red flats with a candy hairpin I found in a store. I saw Tarran and Ruby encouraged me to go and pushed me. I walked very slowly and he saw me with a serious look on his face. “Umm, hey glad you got my message” He said and his face turned pink. “Ok, enough of this, what did you want to talk about?” I snapped, I wanted this to be over already. “Well, I want to be with….. you.” He said and took my hands. His hands felt sweaty and warm, I looked into his eyes. They glittered as in hoping I would say yes. “Umm, well I want to be with you as well.” I said and leaned in and kissed him. He kissed me back and after 3 minutes we broke apart. “But, Ruby saw you with another girl in NYC, who is she?” I asked. “Oh she was my cousin and well yesterday she confessed her feelings to me and well I rejected them to be with you.” He said softly. I smiled, he invited me to ice cream, but I told him I had to go now and I waved goodbye. Ruby was waiting at the swings, biting her nails nervously, her painted nails was almost gone. She stood up when she saw me with a worried look. “Well what happened!?” She asked impatiently and worriedly. “Well let’s say I got a new boyfriend.” I smiled in a sneaky way. “Omigosh! Tarran is your new boyfriend!!! Congrats D!!!!!” She squealed and hurled herself towards with a big Bear Hug. “Hahahaha, thanks R.” I said. “We have got some serious texting to do let’s start now!” She squealed. We texted the other girls and they texted other people they knew. I was pretty happy, I got the boy of my dreams, but will it be enough to satisfy me?

Sixth Chapter
Battle, Battle, Battle
Diamond
This week only we were learning sword fighting and archery then we are going to do a sword fighting and archery tournament. I worked extra hard and practiced 3 hours a day for archery and sword fighting. The tournament was tomorrow and I was more then prepared to fight. My friends didn’t sign up to be in the tournament because they weren’t really good at it and said they were better off cheering for me instead. So the archery tournament was first, we would have to shoot targets while going through obstacles that will try to distract us. I pretty much won the archery tournament and now it was the sword fighting tournament. I had made it to the final round, the last round where winner would face me in the final round. Jake and Tarran were facing each other, my heart pounded to see this; of course the girls were camera recording. Jake made the first move and had almost hit Tarran directly, Tarran had made his direct attack and had knocked out Jake’s shield now he was defenseless, the battle went on for 10 minutes and Tarran had won. I was happy, but was already getting ready to beat Tarran and so the final round had begun. Tarran had struck me 2 times, but I managed to dodge them, I struck him 5 times and missed 2 times. I was able to knock his shield away from him making him defenseless. I had to strike him one more time and then I would win, but I didn’t know he was really fast, he ran around me and then went behind my back, but I heard him and struck with him. We were pushing each other to our limits back and forth, the audience became wild, I could hear my family and friends cheering me, and then I made one final move, I focused all my energy and pushed so hard that Tarran lost his balance and fell on the ground and his sword was in the air. I caught it and asked him if he surrendered and he said yes, I gave him a hand and hauled him up on his feet. I won both tournaments, but I had a feeling that Jake and Tarran were still going to fight for me. Of course my family came to congratulate me and my friends said they were going to post this on Youtube.com which I stole the memory chip and said no. Tarran came over and congratulate me and asked if we could talk alone because his parents want to talk to mine about something. He took me to a tent and then wrapped his arms around me and kissed me. I was shocked and surprised of course I knew the girls were tape recording I could feel the video camera’s gaze. We stayed there for 10 minutes until I finally pushed back, so did he. “Umm…Wow that was amazing, why did you do that?” I asked. “Umm, well err well I felt like doing that, hehe. He chuckled and turned pink. “Umm, ok then well I better go”, I said, but before I went batted my dark black eyelashes at him and kissed him and walked away. I felt all pink and red, I knew this would definitely change our friendship, but it was a chance I had to take, but I felt so bubbly, happy and cheerful because of what I did.  Sapphira called me in the middle of the night, she sounded cheerful too. “Hello Miss Tarran’s girlfriend! I know it’s the middle of the night, but we just had to call you!!!” she said. I groaned. “Be quiet Saph, you know nothing and what do you mean by “we”? I asked. “Oh I’m so sorry, but we all had a late sleepover.” She answered. “Oh ok, as long as you guys have fun and STOP bothering my beauty sleep, I’ll be alright.” They giggled, said alright and said goodnight. I turned off my cell and went to sleep because tomorrow was the fieldtrip to Knotts Berry Farm!! I tripled check everything and made sure my money was kept safe from Deev. He was always stealing my money for his dumb junk, comic books and clothes. His friends sometimes stole my money too when I wasn’t around or if I was sleeping. I put bubble wrap on my floor so when he came in my room I would jump on him and scare him. Making him scream and run away although my brother, sister and dad won’t hear. I made sure they wouldn’t hear, I put bubble wrap and cotton on their doors so they wouldn’t hear. When Deev complains to dad, he won’t know what Deev is talking about and will get punished for ruining his sleep. Dad always gets mad if we wake him during the night. He punishes us, by taking away our cells and makes us do the servant’s or maiden’s chores. When Rini was young, she often woke dad up and got punished to wash dishes. Glyth was worse, he always pulled pranks at us during the night and often made a lot of noises. He really got punished by doing lots of homework and cleaning when he was young. Deev and I only got punished sometimes, usually for arguing over the TV, phone, computer and desserts. Rini had creamy skin with sea green eyes. Her mouth was always light pink with straight teeth and her eyelashes were always long and brown. Every guy loved her eyelashes especially if she winked and batted them. She had long shoulder length pink hair with pink bangs and her nails were always painted. She rocked the guys and girls, with her looks, smartness, kindness, popularity, attitude, abilities and control. She bossed guys who usually didn’t like getting bossed around. Glyth had light skin and brown chocolately eyes with a cute and sweet smile. His teeth were straight and blue smooth hair with blue bangs. Every girl loved his bangs, eyes and smile, they often stared at him with dreamy eyes. I guess I sometimes had crushes on him, but that was years ago. Everyone liked him because he was kind, caring, cool, smartness, attitude, abilities, looks and control. Deev had rich golden eyes with a tan skin and straight teeth. He had shaggy golden hair too with golden bangs and sly personality. He’s pretty much a chilled guy and cool. He has lots of friends and often made girls faint with his winks and smiles.

Fifth Chapter
Sleepover
Diamond

The next day it was Sat. I prepared for the sleepover since I wasn’t going to come home until tomorrow afternoon; I kissed my dad goodbye and walked to Natal’s house which wasn’t very far. Tarran crept up on me and surprised me, making me jump and fall down. “Whoa sorry I didn’t think that would make you jump, are you going to a sleepover? He asked. “It’s alright, yeah going over to Natal’s house I won’t come back until tomorrow afternoon.” I answered. “Oh I also have a sleepover today too, hehe so I’ll see you later.” He said and waved at me. I waved back and headed over to Natal’s house, I was the first to come and after 2 hours, the rest came. We went shopping, a theme park, and park and came back at 8:30 PM. We ate dinner, watched a movie and started the game of Truth or Dare. The dares and truth questions were funny and fun, but also scary; my dare was probably now my fear. My dare was to take a rose bouquet and take it over to Tarran’s house with a note saying for Tarran and compliments about him. It was so embarrassing, so I did the bouquet part, and the girls followed me with a video camera, I left it at Tarran’s door and rang the doorbell and hid in the bushes. Shane, a smart guy who had a crush on Ruby opened the door and picked up the bouquet and closed the door. There was a window opened so we spied on them, we saw who was there, Shane, Dean, Tarran, Jack, Luke, Justin, Ash, Zane, and Hart. Dean, a cool guy used to be friends with Jake had a crush on Emera, Jack, nice smart guy, had a crush on Sapphira, Luke, weird and kind guy who had a crush on Turquoisa. Justin, cute, smart and rich guy who had a crush on Topaz, Ash cool, sweet guy who liked Natal, Zane, smart, cool, kind, fast runner and rich guy who liked Amest a lot. Hart, nice, cute, smart, fast swimmer, strong guy who liked Pedriota. “Hey guys! Check this out, it’s from Lucid, weird of her to bring a rose bouquet, but then again she’s always weird.” Shane said and laughed, the rest laughed too. I punched my fists hoping that sometime I would get to slug him soon with my fists. “Let’s see who she gave it to…. It’s for Tarran here you go bud.” Shane said. “Thanks, she never gave me this before.” He told. “Cool, that means she is digging you, she never liked anyone since her mother’s death I think, I mean she had friends, flirted with people, but only to make them do stuff for her.” Luke said. “Flirted? Never liked anyone? How do you know? He asked. “I’m one of her childhood friends, known her for 14 years; our mothers met each other at the same hospital and became close friends.” He replied. “I see, anyone else whose childhood friends with her?” He asked. Justin, Hart and Zane said they knew her and said a lot of people actually knew her pretty well. It was true, but those 4 boys knew me better than anyone else. “Well, I don’t think she’s digging me that much.” He said and turned red. “Then why is your face red dude, Hahaha.” Zane asked and laughed. They all laughed and continued their Truth or Dare game too. We then silently crept away from the house and ran back to our house. We left a bug that could listen to their truth or dare questions, stuff and watch them. Jack dared Tarran to call me and ask to meet him outside of his house and then grab me and kiss me. Tarran’s face turned red and said alright, stood up and called my cell, we laughed and my cell ringed, I was reaching for it, but Topaz picked and said hello in a sweet way, she put on speaker and told us to shush. “Umm… Hello, is this Topaz? Ouch stop trying to grab the phone Justin!!!” Tarran yelled. We had to bite our lips to stop from laughing out loud. “Err, what’s up Tarran?” Topaz asked. “Can you tell Lucid to meet me outside my house in 8 minutes; I know Natal’s house is close to Lucid’s and my house so will you tell her? He asked. “Sure, bye Tarran!” Topaz replied. She hung up the cell and they dressed me up in a pink flowing flower samurai dress with white strapped sandals and my hair is in a bun. I went outside and walked and saw Tarran waiting for me, I saw the guys looking and recording, and they saw me staring at them and disappeared. “Hey you wanted to talk to me?” I asked him, faking like I didn’t know what he was going to do. I was starting to get impatient and started to walk away, he then grabbed me and leaned in to kiss me, our lips touched again, he held me tightly, after 3 minutes we pushed back. “Umm, wow hehe.” I said. “Umm, yeah well I’ll see you later.” He said. I waved to him and walked back to Natal’s house, my face was all red and I giggled. The rest of the sleepover was great; we stayed up until 3 AM and went to sleep. The next morning, we took turns for the bathroom, had breakfast and dressed up to go to the Greek museum. After 2 hours in the museum, we all went home.

Romance in 8th grade
By Kaylin Le Nguyen

Chapters
1st chapter: Myself
2nd chapter: The new boy
3rd chapter: Kissing Booth!
4th chapter: Spring dance
5th chapter: Sleepover
6th chapter: Battle, Battle, Battle
7th chapter: My Knotts Berry Farm Trip
8th chapter: Time To Take It up a Notch Tarran
9th chapter: A Fatal Mistake
10th chapter: Winter Dance
11th chapter: Rini and Glyth
12th chapter: My family becomes a vampire family
13th chapter: Stepmother Serena
14th chapter: Dad dead and Jake….Leaves??
15th chapter: It’s Only Us Now
16th chapter: A Future We Can All Handle

Chapter One
Myself
Diamond
I didn’t know I would be in love with him so quickly. He seemed so nice and sweet, and I thought I could win his heart, but technically it will take awhile. (Oops, I forgot) Sorry, Natal told me I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Lucid Natalie Conner, but I like to be called Diamond. My friends’ names are after the gems like emerald, ruby, sapphire and all the others. My family is rich, my mom died when I was 5 years old and I have 2 brothers and one sister. My dad told me that before my mom died, she gave him an amulet and told him to give it to me. It was an amulet that had three Greek goddess animals on it, Artemis’s animal, Athena’s animal, and Aphrodite’s animal. When I was born my dad said I had some kind of power within me, my mom had powers too, so it would make sense I had them too. While I was growing up, I began to control my powers and plus I had any kind of power, like magic and invisibility. I am 14 years old; I live in CA, Gemstone city and Diamond Street. I live in a mansion and I’m in 8th grade. I’m beautiful and super smart thanks to my powers. I have blond swirly-curly hair like my mom, blond bangs and blue eyes. My lips are red and my eyelashes are long and black. I am American and my skin is kind of light and dark. My teeth are straight because I had braces when I was 8 years old. I’m super smart, I get perfect grades, and I have the most perfect record of not be late and doing all of my assignments. At school most 8th grader boys like me except for the ones who are bad, have bad grades and my good friends that are boys. Some 9th graders like me and most of the 8th grader girls want to my friend, but I only have 8 best friends. They are Natal, Sapphira, Emera, Ruby, Topaz, Pedriota, Amest, and Turquoisa. Natal and I didn’t have gem names so we made our own, mine is Diamond and Natal’s is Pearl. Sapphira is called Sapphire, Emera is called Emerald, Ruby is Ruby, Topaz is Topaz, Peridota is called Peridot, and Turquoisa is called Turquoise, and Natal is called Pearl and I’m called Diamond, and Amest is called Amethyst. Last year, when it was the last day of 7th grade, Jake a close friend of mine confessed his feelings for me, and I did too. I promised him after summer, we would be together, boyfriend and girlfriend, but that changed when I met him.

Long Lost
Light Angel
White Dawn
Night World 5

Long Lost
(Continued story of Huntress)

Persi

Finally after 10 years, he had finally found her, his beloved one, Anya who he fell in love with, but she had left him because she couldn’t be with him. He had searched for her everywhere, tried tracking her down and finally he saw her, her short rich red curly hair flowing with the wind. Her glossy smooth luscious red lips, her fair ruby color eyes showing pride, honor, compassion, power and her pale skin glowing. She was riding a white stallion and wore a checkered sweater with black rolled jeans and high heel brown buckled boots and she had baggage on her horse. They were in Texas, for some twisted reason she was here, he was still 17 thanks to an aging ring she gave him. With the aging ring, he would stay the age he was until he took it off, but he never took it off because it was the only thing that reminded him of her. He saw her going through something, it looked like a shadow portal or something, and he put down his binoculars and climbed up his brown horse and followed her. Then everything went black.

Anya

It had been 10 years since she saw him, but she knew he was still looking for her. He didn’t know that she was now courting with Delios who loved her from the day he saw her. They shared each other so many thoughts, their love was strong and she was happy, but her heart ached and longed for Persi. She shut out that feeling and instead moved on, she and Delios had been together for 8 years and she was sure they were close to getting married.

Persi

He woke up in a strange place, an alley and everything was so bright and loud. He groaned and stood up; he went out of the alley and looked for signs. He saw a sign that said Las Vegas, and he saw a shadow near him. He felt eyes staring at him and he whirled around to only find Anya standing there with cold hard eyes. “What are you doing here?” she asked with an icy voice. Clearly she was not pleased to see him, this is the warm welcome I get for coming here, he thought. “I came to find you, Anya, I’ve missed you and I’ve been searching for you for 10 years now” he answered with a hint of love in his voice. “You shouldn’t be here after what I did to you and I had high hopes you had moved on” she said and looked away. He came closer. “I forgive you, you’re my soul mate and how could I move on without wondering how you were doing?” he asked with pleading eyes. “Don’t come here anymore, I’ve moved on and I can’t be with you without hurting you!” she yelled whipping her head back at him with water in her eyes. “No, you didn’t mean to hurt me, I love you! We are soul mates and there’s nothing that can changed that” he said without putting much anger in his voice. They stood there, it was warm in Las Vegas since it was May and they just stared at each other. He would never let Anya get away from him.