Alexandria’s House (Natalie)

When we leave the mall, I head back to Ash’s place to put my new clothes away. Then I pack for the night at Alex’s, as I finish packing I head down to say goodbye to Ash. When I walk into the kitchen and don’t find him I begin to panic. I walk through the whole house but don’t find him, when I finally get to his bedroom I can hear shuffling around. I guess that he wants to be left alone so I walk towards the front door. After two steps I hear him call my name and his bedroom door opens, I turn around just in time to see him emerge from his dark bedroom.

“I’m going to Alex’s now so I just come to say goodbye and goodnight.”

“What do you mean goodbye?” He asks suddenly distressed

“Only that I won’t see you for the rest of the day, so I was saying goodbye.”

“Okay.’’ he replies a bit happier, glad that goodbye

was not forever. Then he does something unexpected, he comes over and hugs me. He holds me tightly, not letting go, like if he lets go I would be gone forever. When he finally lets go I step back smiling

“Goodnight, see you tomorrow.” And he nods.

When I arrive at Alex’s place I don’t know what to expect, her house is always full of surprises. I go up to the door to find that it is already open, so I let myself in. I find her sitting on the couch in the living room eating biscuits. She looks up from the computer that she seems to be studying and says

“Sit, we have a lot to talk about.” Ever since she asked me to stay at her place I’ve been dreading those words, what could she possibly want to talk about. I sit down on the couch beside her and wait for her to start.

“You know how you told me about the nightmares you were having and that they started about a year ago.”

“Yeah.” I say wondering where she’s going with this conversation.

“Well I was looking it up on the Internet about three days ago and I found a peculiar website that had strange information on it. It was called Ma vista. I don’t know what that means but I think you are one of the three that live in the world at one time.” She looks over at me to see if I am comprehending what she’s saying, “They were created to stop monsters from destroying the human race, the website said that it started 4 thousand years ago when a wizard realised that the world was under threat, so he casted a spell that started the Ma vista’s. At first they fought as one, but when the oldest one died in battle, the second oldest turned on the third and killed him immediately. It was from that day that the Ma vista’s fought alone, it was more dangerous but they could never find each other. The second eldest – the one that killed its fellow Ma vista become evil and when he died, the monsters wanted a new master and an evil race of Ma Vista’s were born. I personal believe you are one of the Ma vistas reincarnated and I also believe that you are one of the good ones.” When she finishes I am completely speechless, she knows. Oh my goodness! She knows about me! I’m hoping she hasn’t worked out Ash. She would probably think he is the evil one.

Finally I get the courage to say
“Wow, you looked up all that information just for me, but I have to tell you something too.” She nods her head waiting in suspense

“I have already found out what I am because when the explosion happened it was actually a monster and it killed my family and said to me “you are the last Ma vista to be born this century.” So that means I’m the last one to be born until another one dies.’ The look on her face is priceless. I think she thought it was just a made up story and that the nightmares would eventually end, but that’s not true.

After 10 minutes of silence she speaks again
“I didn’t want to believe it was true, because that means you are in danger and a monster could attack any day.” Well she certainly thinks that I have a great chance of surviving. When I ask

“Do you think I should leave and go looking for these monster and kill them?”

“No.” she replies quickly

“Well at least not until we have researched more and you have learnt how to fight with a sword and bow and arrow as well.”

The rest of the afternoon we spend looking up places where we can learn combat skills but when we find one she tells me something I’m not expecting. The place is called ‘Learn to defend yourself and kill your enemy.’ Well I think that’s a bit dramatic but I book myself in for a class in one weeks time along with Ash. He doesn’t know yet but I will tell him tomorrow.

Finally when we have had enough of looking up battle camps. Alex declares that dinner is ready. So I set the table while she gets dinner out of the oven. Alex has always been a good cook, always cooking amazing meals every time I come over. When Alex tells me that I will need 3 seats at the table I think maybe Aaron’s coming over. But then someone

knocks on the door and Alex answers it with a “Nicky it’s so good to see you.’ Oh, shit. Alex

continues with ‘how was college?’ And Nicks saying
“It was good.” Then Alex says “What happened to

your face?”

There’s a short pause before he says
“I got in a fight at one of the petrol stations around

here. Then they walk into the kitchen and they both stop walking when they see me sitting in the corner, Alex is thinking I’ve lost the plot and Nick thinks it’s because of the incident at the petrol station. After a quick frown he smiles a horrible, mean smile and says “What a lovely surprise. What are you doing here Natalie?” I don’t know how to respond at first but when I realise that he’s pretending we haven’t seen each other, I decide to go along with it.

“I’m just staying for the night before I leave in a weeks time.” Alex nods, but Nick seems taken a back, he hasn’t expected me to be leaving town, but he probably doesn’t know about the explosion either.

“Why are you leaving town, does your family know?” Well that answers my earlier suspicion.

“I am leaving town because I have to, my family died in an explosion yesterday and I need to leave.” With that statement Nick seems horrified, like he can’t even remember the incident at the petrol station and is now in shock about the death of my family. Maybe it’s because it was the same day we had the fight or maybe he knows something else about the explosion. Nah I doubt it. Nick quickly apologises and we go along and finish dinner without any more conversation between us.

We go to bed and in the morning Nick makes everyone breakfast. When Alex sees that I don’t have any shoes, she gives me half of her collection because we have the same shoe size. Finally I say goodbye and I’m on my way back to Ash’s house, which will now be my house as well for the next couple of weeks. After that we will have to figure the next step out together. I haven’t even taken 4 steps when Ash barges through the front door and picks me up in a gigantic bear hug.