On a normal day, where for a little while it all seemed fine and quiet. Alice woke up on her bed, she sat on the bed and looked around. Then she sighed, like disappointed it was another day. She was no longer a vampire, Jasmine made sure of that.
"Sweetheart I'm going to work but there's breakfast and don't forget your lunch box" Mark said and when Alice heard a door banged she knew he was off.
Hawaii came up from under the sheets and hugged Alice from behind. He was naked, as so was Alice. "Good morning..." he growled softly.
"Morning" She replied looking at him as if he was the cutest thing she's ever seen. Then she kissed him and crawled out of bed "Time to leave"
"Argh! I don't want to go" He said trying to pull Alice back on bed, but she found her way out of his arms.
"It may look like you have no choice mister. I have classes, unlike you an old vampire I need to graduate and go to college..."
"College is boring"
She asked, intrigued "How would you know?"
"I've done colleges"
"No way..."
"I have been a student multiple years, many centuries and it's never fun"
He giggled and smiled, then stood up naked and moved closer to Alice trying to woo her with his charms. "Come on, shower?"
"No we are going to be late Hawaii, go get inside the shower right now and I'll follow you after. Go, go..." she pushed him to the bathroom and closed the door.
The romance was going on very well between these two, they were inseparable like before. But neither them nor Nina and others knew what Nazar's team was planning or what Lunara was planning, but in all those scenarios Amiya was always left out in important matters they discussed because she locked herself inside her house. Desperately trying to find her mother and talk to her.
Ever since Amiya visited the witch realm and saw her mother. Things never remained the same with her, she went back again and again for an audience with her mother and all she had to do was fall asleep and she was on another world totally different from hers.
As she walked through the streets in the witch realm , she looked around the place as if she was seeing it for the first time. There were dragons flying above her head and she looked up to see them, breathing fire into thin air as they stretch their wings."
The guards of Lunara castle were stretched from all sides of the mansion and they wore armors with swords.
"State your purpose visitor" One of the guards shouted at her.
"I'm a regular guest of the Queen, please let me pass"
The guards asked for confirmation and when they had it, they opened the door for Amiya to get inside and she walked straight to where Lunara was sitting as she was followed behind by loyal servants.
"Miya? I must say it's an honor for me to be frequently visited by you these days" said Lunara putting down her tea.
"I'm only here for my mother. I want you to release her you said there was something I could do"
"Did I?"
"Yes so tell me what do you want"
Lunara motioned for her to sit and she hesitated at first, but then went along with it and they sat across each other.
"When Nazar killed me with his army of vampires and witches who he collected for over a century, I disappeared into a deep end. I died and for over thousand years I was just in darkness, there was nothing but just numb"
"He killed you?" Amiya asked.
"Yes he did, after I sacrificed that bitch he called his true love"
"Rasheed?"
"Don't mention her name around me, I may vomit"
Lunara stood up, looking around and touching some fairy flowers and then she continued "After a while I had a chance out of the darkness and then I created this...my own world. The world where witches who transition to the other side can never feel darkness, but only light and life. And magic and fun, and I did all this by myself"
"Get to the point where I can save my mother"
"Your mother is beyond saving, she died and there's no way you can bring her back but...Gladys acts like an anchor to this world and your world"
"My granny?"
"Yes, find her and she will tell you how you can get your mother back. She's a bridge, perhaps there might still be a way to pass through"
"Why can't I see my mother? She never turns her back to me when we speak"
A horn blew, time was up for Amiya and she couldn't continue to be there anymore. She hang on to Lunara's arm.
"Don't dismiss me please...I need to talk to her"
"Honey your time is up! You are not dead yet, you can't be here" Lunara said to her.
Amiya found herself back to her bed, she opened her eyes and was pissed for not finishing what she wanted to accomplish. She grunted and got up. Picked up her bag and barged outside of the house.
Luckily Nina and Regina were getting out the car with the aim of talking to her but she seemed in such a hurry.
"We came to talk but...you seem like you are going somewhere" said Nina looking at her but Amiya was avoiding eye contact with them.
"I'm kind of occupied right now but later..." Amiya said as she walked to her car.
"Where you going?"
"To school, I have work. I'll see you guys later"
Amiya got inside the car and she drove away leaving Regina and Nina stranded looking at each other. Regina was holding the pendant that Antonio gave it to her, Rasheeda's pendant.
"School? When does Amiya care so much about school?" Nina argued, then she grabbed her attention to Regina.
"So not like her..."
"You think she might be hiding something from us?"
"It's possible, but we'll figure it out"
They went back to Nina's car and drove to school, the main aim of registering to Warlington High was to get close to Alice and warn her but at that moment Alice already knew everything about herself and she was doing pretty well after Jasmine purified her back to being normal as she couldn't be a vampire while she was already a supernatural. She may have have had vampire instincts but that was all Lunara's plans to delay Nazar from getting what he wanted and she succeeded in slowing him down, for a bit at least.
She was hanging out with Hawaii on the backyard of the school smoking marijuana and making jokes, like normal couple who have normal lives. But even themselves knew that they were far from being normal.
"They make a cute couple don't they?" said Antonio leaning on a wall which had drawings of artists. Nina turned back and saw him, she didn't run or feel afraid for the first time in over nine hundred years. He saved her from the wolves so she did expect for him to make an entrance anytime soon.
"Antonio!"
"Ninarivera..."
"I heard you've been busy, collaborating with Regina and Hawaii to take out your brothers witches before you left them all alone..."
"I did come back but I was too late Nazar had already done his worst"
Nina walked closer to him "You lied to me about Nazar, telling me he was just jealous of his young brother's wife. And then he took the wife for himself and then betrayed her, while all that time he was your brother"
"Mi amore, we are ancient. We can twist our tales from now and then"
"What do you want Antonio? Do you still want to kill me...?"
"Oh my love..."
"Don't do that! Don't my love me out of this, I know you Antonio I've lived with you. You are no different from your brother, you are not the good guy here so cut me some slack"
"I know! I know I'm not the good guy and I'm not pretending to be"
"Really? Didn't you just give Regina a pendant belonging to your brother's true love so that she can bring her back?"
"Well yes I did"
"Why? You could just let him awake his werewolf gene and have him kill all of us. I know what happened between you two, and that you betrayed him so I know you will do anything to make amends with him. You tricked us and went on to do the sacrifice behind our backs, I can easily see you doing it all over again" Nina explained herself to him and then she walked away, but he held her hand.
"I have a plan" He said.
"I don't trust you..." She pushed him away.
"We can go back in time and fix all of it. Listen Nina, it all starts with the princess of Athens why does she make all her descendants look like her. I think there's something more and I want to find out"
"Why are you so interested in this?"
"Because..." He said but struggled to find next words. Hawaii saw them from where he was standing with Alice and he made his way to them just in case Nina was in trouble. Antonio took one look at Hawaii and then he grabbed his attention to Nina "He wants to kill you to punish me, he knows I'm in love with you" and then he vanished.
Hawaii arrived at the place while Alice followed him behind. He asked Nina "Are you okay, did he hurt you?"
"No"
"That son of a bitch! Why did he run then? Such a coward"
Alice asked Nina "What did he want?"
"He said Nazar is out to kill me"
Hawaii intervened "Well we are the ones who are going to kill him. Alice and I have come up with something..."
"A plan?"
"Yes, good one" Alice replied to Nina and then Hawaii looked around and said "Not here, come with us"
They walked to Nina's car while Regina joined them and together they fled the scene. But as they left, Simon was hiding behind a closed door eavesdropping everything from them. He was in football shorts and nothing on top as he left his abs for display, his long black hair fell backward and they were in motion because of the wind.
He took out his phone and dialed Miraj. But it went to voicemail, Miraj was busy working for Nazar out of town clearing woods and finding werewolves for him who were forced to join his course. Simon recorded his message "Hey Miraj, I know you are busy but I think you should know this. That guy Hawaii says he has a plan to stop the sacrifice. I haven't found it yet but call me back" he said and hung up.
From a far he saw Amiya getting out of her car, and he smiled. His plans had just come a step closer because he knew how much the witch liked him so he ran to her.
"Hey, Miya..." He called out running to her. Amiya froze for seconds, she didn't expect in million times for Simon to call her out or even knowing her name.
"Hey" Simon greeted her and Amiya shyly replied with her eyes down, she was so taken by him. "I,,.I don't see you at class" He said.
"I know...I've been just very occupied"
"With what?"
"Just...matters and...life"
"Oh! I thought you were going to say a relationship"
"Why would you think that?"
"I mean you do have a boyfriend right?" Simon teased her with a smile and Amiya couldn't stop herself from giggling.
"I don't have one"
"That means I can ask you on a date?"
"Me?" Amiya was shocked by that, and Simon was all smiling and he replied "Yes, you"