Two children forged and bent in both good and evil. It is fate, as the prophecy states two special beings shall come together and merge as one. As the bond between good and evil is weaved
and the barriers are broken to nothing but dust, only one side shall attain full power. In this battle between good and evil a sacrifice is of outmost importance, it will come like a thief in the night be watchful and alert...
'Listen and listen well, you are meant to be, together you will either destroy or create, love or hate, the balance of the world is contained within
THE CHOSEN ONES'.
That sharp pain returns once more as those words repeatedly play inside my head. I broke a cold sweat as I felt my whole body submitting to the wincing pain. The burning sensation of a pair of hands reaching out to grab ahold of me increased the throbs and aches, it felt as if someone was slowly trying to rip me apart bit by bit.
The hands repeated, in a short space of time, I felt someone approaching once again. I let out a loud scream as ice cold water collided with my skin. My eyes shot open to find both me and my bed drenched in water.
I rose out the bed at full force intending to leave a mark on the face of the stupid human being who had dared to pour water on my... well, not so covered flesh. I heard a groan as my fist collided against the face of my mortal foe causing me to quickly gain consciousness.
My eyes widened as my hands slowly rose up to my mouth as I watched a pained Leon rolling on the floor in pain. I could see the blood violently oozing out of his nostrils that were currently cupped up in his large hands.
Khloe, our sister came running into my room, worry swept across her face probably because of Leons loud grown and I'm guessing she also heard the thud produced due to Leons gigantic self colliding with my bedroom floor from downstairs. Damn!!! I swear I didn't punch that hard, I think.
I ran over to the currently growling boy on my floors to try and 'help' him but I know that there is not a place on earth that I would be able to drag let alone carry his gigantic self, Leon is very tall, Hefty, he has stern dark blue eyes, he has tan skin and a sharp jawline. So yes, carrying him off the floor is a struggle. I grabbed one of Leons arm and threw it over my shoulders completely ignoring his protests. I tried standing from my crouching position but I fell right on my butt.
'Ouch,' I screeched 'what the hell do you eat?' I asked Leon only for him to roll his eyes at me. I tried again and this time Leon and I landed flat on our faces, before I could let out a cry Khloe was on the floor clutching at her stomach laughing, her tears threatening to pour out.
'What a sister,' I rolled my eyes at Khloe. I could have sworn Leon mattered curse words, something along the lines 'wicked obnoxious women...'. I scoffed and stood up throwing his arm aggressively onto the floor earning a loud grown from Leon. I dragged Khloe out of my room with a smile plastered on my face in victory as I heard Leon struggling on the floor cursing. I mean you seriously can not insult a woman who is trying to get your sorry behind off her bedroom floor.
Hand in hand Khloe and I walked down the marble white staircase headed straight for the kitchen to fill our empty stomachs. We ended up racing to the kitchen when the scent of food snickered teasingly under our noses.
'Damn you Bacon and cheese, why do you have to be so good' I whispered as I picked up my pace.
'Oh great! Now I talk to myself how delightful,' I said seeing as no one replied.
My little conversation with myself was quickly cut short as I saw the food spread out on the nicely decorated table, just waiting for me to dig in. A yelp of excitement escaped from my mouth.
Everyone knows you not to trust Khloe and I with food so Leon was either going to suck it up be a man and come down to eat or a coward and let Khloe and I happily feast on his breakfast mercilessly.
As Khloe reaches out to grab a strand of bacon from Leons plate, 'you can call it perfect timing or he's got supernatural strengths', I whispered to Khloe 'Why?' She whispered back 'ummm...because I can hear heavy footsteps coming down our way and I think...,' I was cut off quickly when the owner of the footsteps came into sight. And may I just say to our disappointment we were looking up at a staggering Leon struggling to come down the last case of stairs. He looked slightly angry, ha, that's an understatement the boy clearly looked like he was about to bite someones head off and by someone I mean Khloe and I.
Leon came straight to the dinning table, smacked a dumbstruck Khloe on the hand that was still lingering somewhere in his plate. Khloe shrieked and started rubbing her hand. Leon pulled out his chair glaring daggers into what was left of my soul. After I took a quick glance at his bloody nose, I could not contain myself any longer. I fell to the floor laughing and instantly knew I was not the only one laughing when I heard a distant thud from the other end of the table where Khloe was. After what felt like hours of laughing at Leons current nostril situation and after receiving multiple glares from him, he finally stood up and went to clean himself up.
Mom walked into the lounge a few minutes later holding our lunch bags and carefully placed them on the podium by the door.
Khloe and I ran to her and tackled her in hugs and kisses
'You guys are going to be late on the first day of school,' she chuckled lightly as she hugged us back and granted us both kisses on the forehead.
Dad who was currently lazing around in the lounge reading the local newspaper, shaking his head in disapproval as he clicked his tongue and threw the newspaper to the other end of the room in frustration. He rubbed his temples and signed walking over to us. Leon walked over to where we were standing and hugged mom.
'Good morning monkeys,' dad said as he kissed all of us on the forehead. Leon tried to move away but ended up getting kissed on the lip 'ha ha, you should have seen that coming' I laughed. You should have seen his face, the little boys face looked horrified and disgusted at the same time. It was priceless. Dad was just so chilled about it and he shrugged at Leons reaction and moved away laughing his head off.
'Okay, like seriously you guys are going to be so late if you don't leave now!' Mom said with a stern voice but still managed to look kind and innocent. We grabbed our lunch bags, hugged mom and dad as they lead us out bombarding us with a million questions like insecure parents sending their children to boarding school for the first time. 'Do you guys remember the route?' Dad asked 'and the name of the school?' Mom added. 'Oh God! do make sure you have everything you need,' mom went on until I captured her into a tight squeeze. 'Mom!' Relax we will be fine'. We've done this before remember?' I let out a small laugh and she nodded.'now off you go, you crazy hypnotic monkey,' she said playfully hitting my arm.
We said our goodbyes and headed straight to our cars, Leon has a silver BMW X6, Khloe and I share a red Porsche. Since Khloe and I clearly did not know the route, we let Leon lead the way to school. We quickly got to school and well, were right on time thanks to Leons great navigation skills. The school had already sent us emails with our parking spot numbers together with our main and gym locker numbers. The emails also sent us the list of classes and the timetables. Khloe and I were to take the same classes because we were twins. "yeah that's why we share almost everything". But Leon being two years older, he is eighteen and Khloe and I are fifteen, he had to take up different classes from us. Don't ask me I don't care at allllllllll.
So, Khloe and I are twins but we do not look alike at all. If I do think of it I don't look like mom nor do I look like dad. Strange. I know. But mom told me about how Khloe was born first then I came out five days after. The doctor said between mom and I one of us had to die or both of us will. Mom being the fighter she is refused to abort me and 'BAM' out came a healthy bouncing baby girl but she mentioned because of all the surgeries performed on me my features were changed, so yes, Twins.
I think we are literally drawing a lot of attention to ourselves as we were parking our vehicles side by side. We came out the cars Khloe was looking fabulous in her baggy black Nike track pants together with a baggy white vest showing her black sports bra. She wore her colorful purple, black and white Jordan's to add color to her outfit and tightly tied her hair in a long ponytail.
Leon wore a pair of black nike slim fit, a white vest that stuck to his body you could clearly see he has been working out, what a show off.
Leon tied a red and black scotched shirt around his waist and had a clean pair of white Nike's on, he had his hair in a short wavy ponytail and left a few bangs in the front that covered his huge forehead. I on the other hand wore leather black tights, a white vest, with a maroon leather jacket that was a crop-top in front and then ridiculously long in the back. My blond hair was parted horizontally through the middle of my head, the front was in two coiled buns and the back I just let it lay back.
We made our way into the school ignoring all the stares and whispers directed to us from the other students. In the hallway, was a corner to our left where a short ginger headed girl was standing behind the information stand. We walked over to her casually.
'Hie,' we all said simultaneously smiling at the short petite girl.
We glanced at each other momentarily then let out short laughs as we had realized how we said that at the same time.
....Weird!
'May you please assist us for a bit if you don't mind,' Leon kindly asked.
'Um.....s-sure,' she said sounding unsure of herself. 'W-what can I help you with?'
'Do you mind directing us to the school receptionist?' Leon asked as he tried his best to smile. Point to be noted, Leon needs serious smiling lessons.
Well, his plastic smile seemed to do the trick because I could see her slightly blushing from behind her round glasses. She came out from behind the stand, straightening her orange dress and slowly lead us to the reception. It was a very short and quiet walk.In a short space of time we had reached our destination as we were standing in front of a slightly tall middle aged woman wearing round shaped, black spectacles. 'Hello,' she greeted with great enthusiasm as she acknowledged our presence in the room. 'You must be the Strongholds!' She proclaimed merrily. 'Yes,' Leon confirmed returning the smile. Khloe and I just smiled at her sweetly and nodded.
The turned her gaze to the petite figure behind us 'thank you miss Hatherway for being far too kind as to help these three pumpkins find their way here,' the receptionist thanked the girl and continued on to ask 'Oh! and Carol I hope you don't mind leading them to their assigned classes and later on giving them a tour of the school?'
'N-no problem Mrs Owen,' Carol said finally managing to smile but still nervous.
'Thank you,' we all said looking at Mrs Owen before we walked out of her office.
Carol lead us down the hall asking us what classes were on our timetables so she could show us the rooms. She was finally starting to warm up to us, it felt nice. When we got to the English Literature room, we hugged Leon and said our thank yous and goodbyes to Carol.
Khloe and I walked into a room filled with noisy teenagers and a short skinny man wearing square spectacles, a pair of oversized black trousers, a white shirt, an overcoat and weird looking brownish shoes. He was in his late forties I guess. 'Well so I guess that's the teacher,' I pointed as Khloe gave my left arm a light slap. I pouted and she just shrugged. We headed straight for the short mans desk. As we were a bit closer to the desk, the whole class grew quiet and fixed all their attention on us. 'U-um.... you must be our new s-students,' the poor teacher said tiredly looking slightly pale but still managed to offer a small but bright smile. I would also look this way if I had to teach a bunch of hooligans.
'Yes,' we said simultaneously as Khloe smiled at everyone in the room while I just stayed neutral. Something about this did not feel right. My gut was telling me something bad was definitely going to happen soon. I wondered what until my shoulder was pinched. This is something I trust only Khloe would dare do.
'Please introduce yourselves,' he said motioning to the rest of the class.
'Hello, I said sternly to make sure everyone knows I mean business. 'My name is Stormi and I will be taking this class together with you, the rest is unfortunately none of your business'.
Khloe shot me a scolding eyes. Ha ha I mean I thought she saw that one coming. I shrugged and waited for her to introduce herself for what felt like hours. Honestly, it was just a few minutes but well, I'm impatient so what. Khloe nagged my shoulder, I looked over and she gave me a grin. This only means one thing. She was way to shy to introduce herself (*rolls eyes*) and she wanted me to do it for her. Wow!!!
'And this is Khloe,' I said holding her hand,' My twin sister'.
'I am professor Levy,' he extended his right hand, 'nice to meet you.'
'Like wise,' I gave him a quick handshake with my right hand since it shows more respect and also because my left hand was quite occupied as it was currently pinching Khloe's arm. Why? You may ask. Oh well, it's because a certain someone was looking reluctant to shake the hand of the sweaty man. Ew! I know but still, it's rude not to.
I shot her a piercing look and as always she had no choice but to shake his sweaty hand. Her now pale shaky hand shook the professors briefly and she quickly pulled away. I stuck my tongue out at her as I noticed not only her hand but her face also went pale and she was clearly about to puke out her own guts. Mr Levy lead us to our seats which where practically in the middle row. There are exactly eleven rows in the room and we had to be placed on the sixth row!!! I personally think placing Khloe and I in the center of these rowdy, mannerless, repulsive teenagers was an extremely bad idea on Mr Levys part. I reluctantly seat there trying my best to ignore all the stares and whispers coming from all directions. 'Argh! I let out a sigh of frustration. 'I hate being the center of attention'.
Well I guess I was alone in that one because Khloe enjoyed getting attention. I could see her make faces at the girls who looked a bit mean and were staring daggers right into her soul. But nevertheless together with Leon they needed goodness and smiling classes 101 because man! They looked a bit distasteful if you ask me. All gloomy and dressed up in black like 5 year olds all dressed up trying to make a serious statement but just ended up looking foolish and awkward.
After sometime Khloe and I had settled in pretty well then the lessons commenced right after professor Levy had made sure we had settled in. Wow! This school has great hospitality I'll give it that.
Time to time he asked for our input and opinions based on what we had already learnt. He had also asked us how far our last professor had gone in teaching us. He was a bit taken aback when we informed him about how we had already finished with the book they were still lingering and struggling on. They were on chapter 2. It went on like this for more than 30 minutes until,.....
'Is this professor Levys class? The husky voice asked in an extremely low tone, I almost could not hear what he was saying.
That was until it hit me. This reality check was a cold, hard slap right across the face. This voice was way too familiar. I just wished and prayed that someone else who sounds exactly like him and has the exact same build as he does in this world. Anyone!
All I could think about now was why? Why? Why, was he in this school not to mention in the class I take, at the same time.
How dare he follow me after what he did!!!
Thank you guys for ready I hope you liked this chapter!!! And if you have questions, leave a comment or send me a message and I'll answer you. If there's something you want to happen in the book please do tell, I'm interested in your opinion❄️.
By K.C