What ritual was Avery talking about? What would be so dangerous? What if I sneak out and...? I sighed loudly. There are still so many unanswered questions in my mind but when it comes to asking them my tongue doesn't even move. I know that dad is hiding something from me, I know that he told me only a part of the truth, he's definitely hiding something which I need to find out..by myself.
After that T.V. show I walked back to my room, I miss my old home, I miss my friends. Maybe I should talk to them...hopefully Andrew will rescue me, I'm positive that he will. I took my phone which was on the bedside table, Avery must've brought it with her. I clicked open the call log list and saw Andrew's name at the top but stopped myself from calling him. Avery has powers, she can listen to our conversation...So I'll just text him.
'Hey Andrew' I texted him. To my surprise and relief he instantly came online.
'Oh God! Cora where are you?!'
'I don't have time to explain you anything, you have to resue me'
'Rescue? Did your dad do anything? Or that Avery? Where are you? Just give me the address I'll be on my way'
My heart melted, he's such a good friend, I'm so lucky to have him.
'I don't know where I am...but I know that I'm in another country called homeland'
'Homeland? Fine, I'll just find a ticket and then bring you back. Don't worry Cora, I'll save you'
I smiled at those warm words.
'Thank you Andrew'
He sent me a smiley emoticon to which I chuckled, I then took a deep breath and collapsed on the bed, flat on my back. He'll save me...he will. I don't have to worry about anything now, I think I should enjoy my stay here, I'll be leaving this place with Andrew so I'll just have to enjoy with no worries.
"Cora?!" I heard my dad's voice..perfect timing.
"Coming dad!" I yelled as I scrambled to my feet and walked downstairs.
He stood there with a beautiful smile, I smiled back and ran in his embrace. I love dad, and I want to spend my life like this but the situation here is too much for me to handle.
"I love you too, princess, but this is how you'll have to live now" he said
Shit! I totally forgot about the telepathy thing! I should be careful.
"Yes, you should, or else everyone around you will know what are you thinking and what your next move is"
My throat went dry.
"Come on" he said as he broke the hug
"Where?" I asked
"Don't you wanna look around?"
"Look around? As in going out?" I asked a little excitedly. He chuckled and kissed on my forehead as he said
"Yes"
"Woohoo!! Let's go!" I said as I grabbed his hand and walked us out. We sat in his car, smile refused to leave my face as dad drove us to the main city. You could see malls here, restaurants and everything which humans have, I feel a little odd to not to count myself in the humans. And everyone here looked like me..as in a human, ugh! This is so confusing!
Dad stopped the car in front of a shopping mall, I looked at him and he said
"Raid the mall"
I chuckled and got down as I ran into the huge mall, I'm not the girl who tries everything and then take it, oh no, I was the girl who takes whatever she likes, even if it fits me or not. You can call me a brat..I'll give you that. I walked into the men's section, my eyes fell on the luscious hoodies waiting for me to grab them. I grabbed like 15 very much oversized hoodies, a few, like 10 pj's. Then I walked into the ladies section, I didn't find anything interesting, but the shoe corner caught my attention, I walked there and took a pair of black loafer, a pair of white loafer, a pair of black sneakers and there, I was done.
"Whoa, looks like you literally considered my words" dad said as he eyed my shopping cart.
"Yup, totally" I said proudly
"Come then, let's pay for it"
I nodded and we made our way to the cash counter, seeing my dad, everyone cleared the way, oh! He's the commander! How did I forget?!
"Keep your voice low, princess" Dad said, I bit my tongue as dad took the cart from me and handed it to the cashier.
After paying the bill, we walked, more like I dragged dad to the ice cream shop, as we entered, the waiter rushed towards us and guided us to a table.
"I'll have whatever she'll have" dad said
The waiter looked at me ,
"I'll have a chocochip ice cream with extra chocolate and chocolate syrup" I said with a smile.
The waiter..blushed?
"O-oh, sure" he stuttered and rushed away, well, that was strange.
"Too much chocolate for a day?" dad said
"What can I say? I love chocolate" I said and shrugged.
"So, back there in LA, who were those people?"
"Oh! They are my friends, there's Andrew, there's Danny, Penelope and Bailey. That diner was Bailey's dad's"
The waiter came back and kept our ice creams in front of us.
"Thank you" I said as I dug into my ice cream.
"Mmhmm..this is so yummy!" I said as I continued devouring it.
When I was finished, dad wiped my mouth with a tissue paper. No matter how many times I tried, I can never eat ice creams without smearing it on my mouth.
As dad paid the bill, we walked out,
" Anything else you wanna da Cora?" dad asked
I started thinking about it ,
"Umm..."
Just then we heard sounds of sirens, it was heading this way.
"Shit!" Dad muttered under his breath.
"Bow to your Prince! Bow to your Prince!" The guy in the car said in the Mic.
"Dad? What's happening?"I asked totally confused.
My eyes widened as all the people rushed to the side lanes and bowed down as if some God was gonna arrive.
"Bow..do not look up unless I tell you to and don't think anything" dad said
"But--"
Dad had already started bowing, this is ridiculous! I, however bowed beside dad, the ground was vibrating, and soon came the sound of a horse..? A carriage perhaps. I heard it stopping in front of us, I gulped in fear of god knows what..but I had a bad feeling about this.