"Are you going to school?" Nicholas asks while examining my face. I pause at his question. "Here let's go outside" he says while making his way towards the door and into the hallway.
"I don't want to be away from Orion and the others" I answer.
"Is that the only reason?" Nicholas asks.
"Yes" I reply immediately.
"Adi I can tell you are lying" Nicholas leans against the wall.
"Okay, fine. I am afraid something will happen to them while I am gone" I confess my real decision for not wanting to go.
"Adi, they can take care of themselves"
"I know that they can but what if they make a mistake and hurt themselves in the progress?"
"They won't"
"How do you know that when the future isn't set in stone?" I look Nicholas in the eyes.
"I don't..... but you should at least believe in them" He says while we are locking eyes.
"I do believe in them but....." I pause.
"But, What?"
"Anything can happen to them especially Orion. Edith wants to send him to Tokyo so that he can be the CEO"
"Do you not want Orion to help the company out?"
"I don't want him to overwork himself" I speak honestly to Nicholas.
"I know that working in the company can be tiring but he can take it Adi"
"I know but still-"
"If you know than why don't you let him. Are you still keeping him in the dark"
"I am not keeping him in the dark"
"You still think that he is a child"
"I know he's not a child"
"Then why are you doing this? He may hate you for babying him"
"I am not babying him"
"But you are keeping him out of sight. That is babying isn't it?"
"It's called trying to protect him!"
"It's babying"
"I am protecting him. What do you know anyway?"
"I know a lot actually. I know that you are trying to keep him in the dark because you are afraid that he will surpass you"
I snap at his last sentence. My eyes turn dark purple meaning Astrid is in control.
Astrid punches Nicholas in the chest causing him to fly through the wall and cough up a mouthful of blood.
"We barely see each other and yet you have the decency to accuse us of keeping Orion in the dark. If it wasn't for us he would've already been buried 6 feet under ground like our 3 siblings and Ellora. Adira was the one who seeked justice for Mika while you all cried like the little wimps that you are. Adira and I have done so much for Orion while all you have done is see him once a year. You are a sad excuse of an older brother. You are weak, stupid and blind if it wasn't because you are Adira's brother I would've had your head long ago, so if you still are accusing us of keeping Orion in the dark you are wrong. So wrong. She is so afraid to lose Orion and if something tragic would happen when she is not around she would blame herself and live on hating herself. If that happened you can say good-bye to present Adira and say hello to lifeless Adira. And I don't think you would like to have lifeless Adira back". Astrid shouts at Nicholas with different emotions but mainly anger and sadness.
I take control over my body, my eyes change back to a medium purple. I stand in front of Nicholas.
"I would love if Orion did surpassed me but he can't. If there was a way to transfer all my powers to him without both of us being wounded I would without hesitating and if you were me and had gone through the same experiences that Orion and I suffered together you would know why I am so reluctant to leave or hand Orion over to Edith" I say not in a hurry.
I turn around and walk through the hole in the wall. I look up and see that my all of my older brothers are watching me. I ignore them and walk past them. I return to the room which we were in before grabbing my bag and walking towards the front exit. I grab a hold of the handle and twist it before turning back to where my brothers are still shocked at the turn of events.
"Happy birthday Sage, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. Good-bye, love ya. Mwah!" I blow a kiss to them before walking through the exit and onto the street.
It is about 5 o'clock now so it is still bright even though the sun is setting. I walk towards the food alley to relieve me of the anger I have towards Nicholas.
'How dare he say that I am keeping Orion in the shadows because I am afraid that he might surpass me. Hmph, if i could I would give all of my magic and skills to him but whoever made the magical race thought that we would all love our magic. Argh!' I say to Astrid in my head.
When Astrid takes over my body it takes a great toll on her health. So she established her own little house in the back of my mind literally.
'I know right. I am so pissed he said that. Although you show indifference on the outside but inside you are really loving. Especially towards Orion, the Myth's family and to the enchantments' Astrid says while laying down on the bed in her room inside my head.
The enchantments are what my followers/army are called. They came up with the name their selves. There are a lot of enchantments probably more than 1000. They are separated into 7 different groups; Orange being the weakest followed by yellow, blue, green, aqua, grey, and purple being the strongest. There are less than 10 people who are in the Purple elite group with Orion and I included. Killian and Aria are in the Grey group while Atasi and Lance in Aqua.
I arrive at the food alley and spend a ton of money on food so that I can stress eat. I tend to pig out on food when I get too worked up about something. Actually I always have food in my mouth even under dire circumstances like being held captive by a powerful enemy.
I find a comfortable place where I can eat the food that I brought. When I finish all of the snacks I buy a couple of more snacks before strolling in the direction of the airport that our jet landed in. I start savoring the snacks slowly on my way.
I walk for 2 hours until I am in front of the 10 feet high airport fence. I have already eaten my snacks so I easily climb over the fence and walk towards the grey jet. From the distance I can see that a few cars are parked out front.
'Mm, I wonder who the cars belong to' I think in my head. I keep walking until I can finally make out the cars in front of the jet. They are my brothers. I thought that they would fly back to Spain seeing as the sun has already been down for a while now.
"Ah" I yawn. "Seems like there is going to be a huge argument" I say lazily while continuing walking towards the jet in the dark.
When I am a few meters away from the jet I can hear voices. "How long is she going to play around? It is already night it's not safe for her to be wondering around alone" A clear male voice says.
"We wouldn't have to wait if it wasn't for Nicholas. What did you even say to her?" another voice says curiously.
"I only spoke the truth" Nicholas voice replies. I smile coldly at his response.
"Well whatever you thought of she took it bad" the voice that asked the question says.
"Mm" is all Nicholas responds with.
I walk up the jet steps and step into the room with an indifferent expression plastered on my face. My brothers, the Li triplets and Wang-tao are sitting in the plush seats. They all stand up when they see me in the doorway.
"Adi" some of them say but instead of responding I walk past them while scooping up Tate and Zinnia.