Blossom
Cold breeze heats my face lightly as I jog my way up the hill. I've got my huge wireless earphones blocking my hearing with some loud pop music. I don't want any distractions since I'm going through all emotions. I've got my pink tight jogging pants on, with a matching pink tank top, and white running sneakers. My water bottle is attached with a belt on my waist and I'm not stopping till I reach the top of this hill.
"You're a faerie. But you aren't fully formed faerie since you're mixed with witches blood", the thought hits my mind in a cruel painful way, causing me headache and frustration.
As I reach the top of the hill my legs are begging for me to stop, I ignore it and jog further, heading to the nearby park. It's a bit quiet around and the only people that seem to be up and those jogging. I get to the park and stop, grabbing the bottle of water from waist to end the dryness from my throat.
"You're a faerie. But you aren't fully formed faerie since you're mixed with witches blood", the thought strikes again. I can't take it anymore, I need more information and more answers to the all the questions I've got.
I sit on the ground under a huge tree. My legs hurt so bad so I guess if I stretch I could feel better.
"If it isn't the spoiled childish little barbie", I twist my head to face Parris, the meanest girl I've ever known. She's with Alec and I wonder why since I don't see Thando anywhere around. Could be also be her puppet?
"Hey, don't ignore me", she kicks me under my lef foot to get my attention.
Breathe, I tell myself. I don't want my eyes turning red on Parris, yes she upsets me but I can't risk it by losing my control over my emotions.
"Dear Blossom", she keeps kicking my foot. "Do you always jog in the morning?",
"Do you always walk your friend's boyfriend in the morning?", I snap. I'm pissed.
"Oh no you didn't", she rolls her eyes. "Get her on her feet Alec, I wanna slap her face so she'll know the kind of girl I am", she threatens. Alec stares at me for a while, I feel my body heating up and I know my eyes are slowly changing to red, so I face down. "Alec, now", Parris yells. Alec grabs me roughly, pulling me up forcefully.
"Gosh you're heating up", Alec says as he let's go of me. I'm now on my feet and facing down. I feel my hands burning, as I look at them I notice they've change color, my skin is orange like the color of fire.
"Now, why don't you face me and say what you said", Parris orders.
I can't control the heat from inside of me any longer. I try breathing but it's not working.
"Hey!", Parris pushes me but I don't dare face her. "Hey!",
"I wouldn't do that if I were you",
I'm not about to look up since I don't know if it's safe to or not, but the voice didn't sound anything like Warren or Nori, so definitely I'm not gonna risk it.
"Who the fuck are you?", Alec snaps, sounds like he's moving towards whoever just joined us.
"Oh, maybe barbie dearest has her own playboy",
I feel my hair burning, I'm surprised I'm not sweating. Then suddenly I feel a pair of hands covering my hands. "Hey", it's him. It's the guy of my dreams. The same exact face I blackout to, his the vision guy. How is he here?
"They didn't tell me how beautiful you are", he murmurs as he stare straight at my eyes. I'm still burning but his hands seem to contain the fire that should burst out of my palms. "Red suits you", he smiles.
"I'm not done-", Parris throws her hand to slap the dream guy but he turns quickly grabbing it. "Leave me alone you-", she fights to get herself released from dream guy's hand but he's too strong.
"You bustard!", Alec yells throwing a fist at dream guy. But man he's too quick, he throws Parris at Alec and they both fall to the ground.
"Let's go", he pulls my hand and leads the way to a car that's parked not too far. It's a black sporty mustang. I've never seen one up this close and here I am, the dream guy pulling me towards it.
"Youve called war apon you Mr", Parris yells.
Dream guy opens the passanger door of the mustang and gestures for me to climb in, and I do. He walks around and occupies the driver's seat. "You seem to have calm down", he says with a smile. I check my reflection from the rear view mirror and notice that my eyes are back to normal.
"Who are you?", I ask as he starts the engine, pulling out of the parking lot.
"Storm",
Storm? Never heard of this name before.
"What do you want from me?", I ask.
"What?", he frowns, glancing at me than facing the road. "I just helped you from those monster humans and now I want something from you?",
"Why did you help me, I had everything under control",
"Nope, you were gonna burn them to death if I didn't show up in time", he says.
"Storm?",
"Yeah, that's my name", he says.
"I've never seen you around, where you from?", I ask.
"Em-", he chokes. "I'm from a place far", I stare, confused. "It's a-",
My phone rings. I pull it out from my arm patch and check the caller ID. It's my father, or step father, I don't really know.
"Excuse me I have to take this", I say to Storm and he nods.
"Hello",
I don't even know how to ask. Given what Nori told me about being a Faerie, I'm not so sure how to act towards the father I tjought was or is my father.
"Baby girl, how are you?", he greets. He sounds a bit excited for my liking.
"I'm alright dad", I say and Storm chokes, coughing out lightly. I glance at him with a questioning look and he looks away, shrugging his shoulders.
"I need to see you, what you busy with?", he asks. Usually when dad wanta to see me is because he's got something to tell me which I don't think I'd like. The last time he called me was to tell me that he's moving to another sections of this town, just to be far from mum. I needed him by that time, mum was busy being a child busy running around Nate.
"What's going on?", I ask.
"Come to my house please, I'll tell you", he says then murmurs something on the side. Something within the lines of "I'll be right there, or not right now",
"I'll be there", I hang up then face Storm.
"As much as I wanna hang and listen to you choke over telling me where you're from, I have to go",
"I can take you to his house", he says. I don't like how he's becoming so nice.
"Alright, is it okay if I type the directions on your GPS?", I ask.
"Yeah it's cool",
...
I haven't been at my dad's in a while. He has extended the house and it looks pretty. Mum always says that the only person that keeps a house looking good is a woman, that's why there's so much furniture around at mum's.
"I'll wait for you", Storm says. I barely know this guy, no stretch that, I don't know him at all and here he is waiting at my dad's. Shit, what if he's a kidnapping phycho, but I wouldn't be here would I? No, what if he's a seriel killer who's trying to be friends with me before he kills me, shit that could be true.
"No its fine, I'll head home myself", I say trying to sound brave. His eyebrows rise in a questioning way but I ignore it and step out of his car.
I walk in dad's yard not daring to look back, as I get closer to the door it opens.
"Baby girl", he smiles, then his eyes move from my face landing somewhere behind me. "Who's that?",
I look back and damn, Storm is out leaning on the side of the car and facing our way. He's sucking on a lollipop, wait, where did he get it?
"That's no one", I reply. "We gonna talk here?",
Dad rolls his eyes then leads the way inside the house. When we get to the livingroom there's a yound lady sitting there looking comfortable as ever.
"What's this?", I turn to dad. He better explain why he called me here if there's a lady on his couch who looks like she's been living here for a long time.
"Sit down please",
I take a seat on the couch facing the young lady, dad takes a seat right next to her. "This is Tracy and we getting married",
I gasp. That's too damn straight forward. Now I regret sitting in front of them, I must look like a fool.
Growing up I was a happy little girl, mum and dad were always in love, from what they showed me. Every summer we'd take trips to where ever mum suggests and dad never argued with that.
Then a few years back, 4 years ago, I came back from school to find them fighting like crazy. Dad was yelling at mum, something that never happened. I don't know why but I went straight to where the argument was happening, which was in their bedroom and a man was in mum and dad's bed. He looked frightened and confused. I didn't know what to do but I knew it was the end of my parent's marriage. I screamed, my eyes blue which scared my parents. It wasn't the first time I knew about what I could do but it was the first time my parents saw me. As I screamed a loud thunder striked outside, clouds closing to their darkest color. Just as tears rushed down my eyes, it started raining like crazy outside. The guy in my parent's bed jumped running out naked. That was my first and last time seeing him. Dad kept staring at me then outside and back at me. As I snobed, thunder striked. Mum didn't catch up on the fact that what was happening outside is what's happening to me. "You're gonna separate ain't you?", I yelled. Dad didn't say anything, but mum nodded. Since that day I blamed her for dad leaving. Maybe if she said no, dad wouldn't have left.
"Blossom?", dad whispers. "Baby girl, you okay?",
"Is it that serious for you to get married to her?", I ask. "You just settled your divorce", I look all over the place, trying to hide my emotion. This is just sad, I just found out that he might not be my real dad and now he's getting married to this woman I know nothing of, he's gonna move on with life and build up a new family, with-",
"She's pregnant Blom, she's gonna have my baby, your sibling",
What? She's pregnant? Something I was afraid he'd say. Now what?
"Oh wow", Tracy gasps. I'm staring at dad with so much emotion, I never thought dad would move on this quickly. He'll forget about me and-, "How does she do that?",
Do what? I look at Tracy, she looks like she just saw a real unicorn pony.
"What?", I ask.
Dad's looking all over. That's what he does when avoiding to speak about something.
"Your eyes", she points at my face. "Your eyes were blue not too long ago. A deep blue color",
Not too long ago? Means they're back to normal now. "Blue? That's not true, I've got golden brown eyes", I say.
"I saw them, they were blue, they changed right in front of me",
I laugh, "That's ridiculous",
Tracy turns to dad and he shrugs his shoulders. I guess dad is still on my side after all. Tracy gets up and head to the direction of what I think is the bedroom. I'd need some time alone I'd I were her as well.
"Dad, where was I born?", I ask. I need to know if he's really my dad, could be Nori is messing with my head. Maybe I have some kind of eye disease and it's always a coincidence for the weather to change with my mood.
"Why are you asking?", he gets up, heading to the kitchen and I get up to follow him. If I didn't know any better I'd say he's running from the question.
"What's wrong with me asking, I wanna know. Since you'll be having a baby and all, makes me think to ask about my childhood",
"Oh", he breathes.
"What's wrong daddy?",
"I only got to know you when you were 6 months", he replies, looking everywhere except for me.
I guess it's something I've been waiting to hear. "Ask your mother about more details",
"I will",
"You're not upset", dad says.
"I am", I frown at him.
"No you're not, your eyes would be red if you were", he say. Well, apparently he can see right through me. Dad always noticed everything about me, mum only found out recently that my eyes change color. She used to say that my eyes change to red after crying alot, she said everyone goes through that.