Eight - Too Much

A formal dinner is all I can think as I mindlessly go back to my room to figure out what goes on at a formal dinner. Then I pause and wonder, whom or should I now say what kind of creatures and exactly is going to be at this dinner. My breath hitches and my mind races…I go to sit in one of the beautifully carved pieces of furniture examining it as I sit to try and relax.  Running my fingers along the carvings, a werewolf, a dragon, a fairy, a mermaid and there’s a knock at the door….

Faulk walks in, a giddy up in his step. In his arm is the most beautiful black dress I have ever seen. He lays it on the bed, and looks at me….instant concern in his eyes

“Aurora don’t worry, everything tonight will be fine! Leonids and Lindy have invited some of there most personal and trusted friends to meet you. So  you can see for yourself the different creatures and mythic’s there are still out there still. Assuming that IS what you want to do. You are gonna stay around and choose right? to uphold the secret?” He looks at me with sadness in his eyes.

I instantly start to cry and sob, the ones the hitch you in the chest and you can’t breath. Gasping for air tears pouring out. 

“I’m so sorry”  I slowly got out as he tried to comfort me. I flinched away.

“This is all way too much to quickly. One minute I am at The Little Sunny Orphanage, where I have lived my entire life trying to hide and blend in. The next I am in the most beautiful castle I have ever seen, with a brother I didn’t know I had, meeting kings and queen I never knew existed, who talk about creatures and MYTHIC BEINGS” I scream and blackness takes me again. 

Again I can hear them around me, moving and talking to each other. I can’t seem to move anything tho, not open my eyes nothing. Kind of like I am pinned to the bed being forced almost to listen, 

“What happened Faulk I heard her screaming?” I hear Lindy exclaim as I can feel her getting closer to me. Feel her heat radiating off her. Faulk is very close checking my eyes, which I still can’t open. I can feel him as well. He is much hotter then Lindy. A very different temperature, I wonder if it’s because he is a wolf.? 

“ She was over whelmed I think” Faulk says in a sad low tone. 

“Faulk you understand, all matters we deal with have the same time frame! Always have. Always will. She is slowly running out of time. Her birthday is comming quickly!”  Lindy says quickly almost worriedly I thought. 

“I know, I know we talked about this. As soon as she is turned the males will come out hunting, no matter the species. She may be that that powerful.Even I am pulled to her by some force! We must get her changed and help her find her fated mate as quickly as we can!” Faulk says worry in his voice….worry for me….

….darkness…..

 

Light, very very bright light I can feel on lids when I realize I am awake. My thought instantly go straight into my head. Almost as if on full blast! 

Me powerful? I laughed.

Did I hear that right…males will come out hunting…? Anxiety runs into me instantly at the thought, hunting? For what? I gulp 

I wonder how I change into something else….terror at the thought pulses through me. What is a fated mate? My heart skips a beat for some odd reason.

The light makes me wanna rub my eyes when I realize I can as I try to open them…..horrible idea makes me close them quickly and rub.

I open them gently trying to adjust to the light, realizing that Faulk is sleeping in one of the chairs by my bed. I get off my bed as quickly and quietly as possible.

“Aurora are you okay?” I hear Faulk rasp out, sounding like he hadn’t had a drink in hours. 

His voice in that second scaring me out of my senses. I end up going face first into the ground. 

“Aurora” Faulk rushes over to my side.

“I’m fine, I’m fine”, I reply as I get up quickly adjusting myself. 

“ Please come and sit with me” he says as he gestures towards the living area. He plops himself down in a big chair and I sit awkwardly to the side of him. 

“ Aurora are you ok? I know that all of this, the dinner and everything is a lot to take in. Are you going to go through with it? I am so sorry that it all had to be this way. It’s the only way for our kind!” He looks sad, worry across his brow.

“I will chose” I said with a smile on my face! 

He looks up at me shock in his face, at what I have said. 

“Did you bump your head?” He looks at me concerned and confused. 

“ The truth is my brother” I grin, at the word brother feeling happy at my blackness state. It made me see. 

“I want to chose! You have shown me I have a little family and in the time here I have felt more love and life even in the craziness that is going on around me. I feel alive now, I want there to be more to this world then all the heart ache and pain I have felt in my short life! I want to find more!” I beam at him grinning from ear to ear. Terrified excitment 

 He smiles and starts to come at me for a hug, but stops as he realizes what he was about to do. And I couldn’t help myself from taking those steps between us quickly, and grabbing my new brother into a real hug. 

My life was about to change!