Blossom
I walk out thinking that Storm is long gone but nah, he's pacing in front of the car with a phone pressed to his ear. He doesn't look pleased at all, the lines between his eyes are visible as ever.
I wonder what's upsetting him.
"Ah-aahmm", I clear my throat as I get closer to him. He glance at me then looks away.
Really? I fold my arms and frown, watching him as he keeps pacing with the phone on his ear.
"I really have to go home", I say.
He turns facing my way then gestures with his head for me to get in the car. I pout my lips folding my arms even harder.
"I'll have to call you back",
Who the hell is he talking to?
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"Yes I know, and I'll be back before you even know it",
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I'm not gonna see Maren, I'm mad at her remember?
Maren? Who's Maren?
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"What did I tell you about intervening in my love life?
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, he's got a love life? Who is this guy? But oh my, he's gorgeous, I'd do anything to be that love life.
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"I'm hanging up",
He gets in the car in a very frustrated way, he doesn't even wait for me to get in. He starts the engine and I just stand there watching if he's gonna leave without me.
He rolls down the windows and sigh, "I'm sorry, please get in the car",
I slowly open the door and get in. "Is everything alright?", I ask. He looks troubled, seems like I'm not the only one with problems.
"Yeah", he nods then starts driving from my dad's place. "Please punch in your home address and I'll take you",
Wait a second, I don't know this guy. As cute and handsome as he is, I'm not gonna give him my home address. "You'll drop me off back at the park",
"Really now?", he gasps then starts laughing. "Okay", he nods.
I pull out my phone and check my notifications. I don't have much since I don't have any friends but to my surprise, I have 10 missed calls and 6 messages and 2 voicemails.
I slap my forehead as I realise I had my phone on silent. "What?", Storm asks, his voice filled with concern. I open the first message, :Where the heck are you? I'm at your house. I don't recognize the number. I open the second one, :I'm calling you and you're not picking up? What's happening? I proceed with opening the next one, :You're scaring me, pick up your phone. I look at the number again and seriously I don't kkow it.
:It's Warren, Nori and I have been calling you. Why ain't you answering? It's now a different number and I'm guessing it's Warren's numbers and the other ones are Nori's. :Pick up Blossom, we can't protect you if we don't know where you are. What's happening? I'm now getting worried. What are they protecting me from?
:Where ever you are, make sure you're not with this guy. He's been sent to kill you. A picture is attached to the last message. It's a bit blur but isn't this-,
"What the-?", I gasp, oh my gosh. It's Storm. What the hell is going on?
"What? What's wrong?", Storm asks.
"Stop the car", I tremble. He's gonna kidnap me. "Stop this stupid car",
"My car is stupid now?", he asks with a bit of smile to show he isn't taking all this serious.
"Stop!", I grab the door handle and try to open but it's locked. I quickly remove my seat belt and I'm ready to throw myself out when he stops.
"What's going on?", he asks.
"Who the heck are you?", I'm frightened. I really don't know who this guy is. I open the door to get out but he grabs my hand. "Leave me-", his eyes are green, darker than his natural green color and flashes some brightness in them.
"Please don't hurt me", I whisper. I'm so scared, he's staring at me like he can see right through me. What if Warren is wrong? Could he really want to kill me?
He let's go of my hand and his eyes turn back to his normal green. He looks down, as if he's shy or hiding something, then says, "I'm not gonna kill you",
"What?", I'm confused, I said don't hurt me not don't kill me.
"Who's Warren?", he asks. How does he know about Warren? "Gosh, where did he find the pic he sent you?", he continues.
Are you kidding me?? I gasp. "How did you-?",
"It doesn't matter", he sighs. "I'll take you home",
He drives me home. I don't even direct him, I'm still shocked and I'm wondering if that's his power, to read minds or whatever he does, what more can he do. And why does Warren think he's gonna kill me? "Who sent you?", the last thought come out louder than I planned. I didn't really mean to voice it out.
He glances at me then, open his mouth to say something but no words comes out from his mouth. He must have decided its not worth explaining himself. And why is he taking me home? Wasn't he gonna kill me?
"I don't wanna talk about me or any of my plans here", he says. "Just don't be surprised to see me more often, there's something about you that's making me think twice on the task I'm given",
As I'm about to ask what he's talking about, he pulls over at my house. "We're here, go before Warren finds me here",
"But how-",
"Now", he cuts my words short. "I really have to go",
I drop off from his car and watch as he leaves. I'm still confused on what really happened today. This whole week is a mess, everything that's happening is so much that I don't even understand it. I found out I'm a Faerie, that the parents I know as my parents aren't really my parents, that my biological dad is some sort of witch, I suddenly have friends, or bodyguards, whatever you wanna call them. It's a lot, I don't even know if I should speak to mum-, I mean Zoya, about this whole thing. I'm stressed, confused.
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I slam my bedroom door as I walk in my room. I'm upset, frustrated that Storm won't answer any of my questions. And that fact that he reads minds, minds? That's bullshit.
I toss my Tinny body on the bed, kicking off my shoes as I lay on my stomach with my phone in hand. As I scroll through my whatsapp contacts, not necessarily looking for any messages since no one sends me any, my bedroom door flies opens.
"OH so now you just pass us without greeting?", Zoya asks, as he towers over me. I slowly get up and sit, facing her, my eyes are red but I feel I can control my powers.
"Your eyes are red sweetheart", she slowly steps back, her face changes to fright mood. "Did you take your pills?",
Oh here we go again, I roll my eyes. I don't know why dad told mum that I take pills for my eyes. And as the child that adores her parents, I agreed to mum that I'm taking pills.
"I just took them mum",
"Are you alright?", she asks. She looks a bit worried. She starts going through my drawers then pulls out my pills, a mix of different vitamins pills in a small container. I still don't get why she doesn't know these kind of pills. She toss them to me and gestures that I should take them.
"I'm alright", I nod. "And like I said, I already took the pills",
"Okay, anyway", she looks straight in my eyes and I can tell that my eyes have changed to normal. "Why are you giving me and Nate some attitude lately?",
"Aren't you supposed to be at work?", I ask.
"Its Saturday, do I work on Saturdays?",
Well, some Saturdays she goes out claiming that there's something she needs to do in the office. She's a human resource manager.
"How would I know?", I look away.
"Blossom? What's with you?", she looks a lot worried. "Did I do something?",
"Yes Zoya you did", I snap.
"Zoya?", she frowns.
"You and Nate act like you're the only ones living here in this house. You do your-", I gesture a sign of people having sex with my hands, "You do that, loud enough for everyone nearby to wake up and listen to you-",
"I didn't know I'm that loud-",
"And your boyfriend is so rude, he's the one with attitude, and you always defend him. On top of that why don't you go live in his house? Doesn't he have a house?",
My eyes change back to red. She's upsetting me and I'm not in any mood of getting mad right now, I have a lot of problems running through my head as it is.
" Well, you could always go live with your dad",
I chuckle, it's all fake, nothing she said is amusing. "I knew you don't love me as much as a mum is supposed to love her child. I don't even have siblings-",
"Enough!", she yells. She's pissed herself. "You not suppose to yell at me I'm your mother-", she scolds.
"You're not!", I yell back. If she is then that makes her a Faerie too. Cause if not, then how can I be a faerie while she isn't? Where did I get this side cause I'm pretty sure dad isn't any warlock or whatever it's called.
"I'm not what?",
"My mother",
She gasps. I'm waiting for her to reply but she doesn't say anything. Means she confirms right?
"What do you mean? Where did you hear that?", she finally voices out.
"Am I your daughter or not?", my temperature raises. I'm upset, I'm furious. She should have told me not for me to find out on my own. How could she?
"I'm not gonna answer that", she slwaly walks back, turning to face the other way and avoiding my face.
The temperature raises, I can feel my anger boiling. Who does she think she is? I should know the truth, I demand to know the truth.
"It's getting hotter and hotter in your room. I'm gonna head downstairs, join us once your eyes aren't red anymore", she says then walks out.
"Ahhhhh!", I scream, my arms feel like they're on fire. I look down at the and my hands are literally on fire. Burning a small flame from my palms.
"Huh?", I gasp. But my anger does nothing in tuning down and instead it raises. I decide to to control it. I've seen this in the movies, I can do it.
I channel the flames to grow bigger, controlling it with my hands and focusing my anger through my flames. I should have done this outside, I would have burnt something by now. And how do I turn it down? It's growing bigger.
"Blossom?", I hear Zoya call out from downstairs. I aim my bed, burning it like I'm a dragon but instead, the fire coming out from my hands. "Blossom? Sweetheart I'm coming up",
"No!", Nate yells and I assume he grabbed her from how she's screaming and yelling. "I've called the emergency line",
I twist, firing up my wardrobe, burning my whole room. Everything is now on fire, and now the fire is moving to the next room.
What have I done?
I look around and my whole room is burning. The whole house will be on fire in no time. "Mum?", I call out. "Nate?", my clothes have caught fire, but the smoke isn't blocking my breathing in any way. My whole body is literally on fire.
"Hold on baby, firefighters are on the way", Mum calls out. She sounds like she's heading outside the house. I'm screwed.
"Are you trying to kill yourself?",
I snap my head and see Storm, and I'm wondering what he's doing back here. And how did he get to my window? He's got a clothe covering his nose and mouth, I'm guessing he doesn't wanna inhale the smoke.
"We have to go, come on", he pulls out a hand and I walk through the fire to him.
"I've seen fire faeries but they don't do what you do", he raise one of his eyebrow. As I get closer to him, he takes off his t-shirt and pours water on it from the bottle he's holding. "Good thing I bought my water bottle huh", he smirks, but I'm locked on his abs, this guy has some body, gosh.
"Why-, Why do you think I'm diffe-", man, he's abs get more gorgeous as he turns and shakes the water bottle to wet the entire shirt.
"No fire Faerie walks through their own fire like that, or don't choke from all the smoke", he starts coughing, well I guess the smoke is getting to him.
He lightly beats the wet shirt on me, ending the fire on me and the fire behind me getting worse.
"I think you're all set to go", he says lightly.
I look down at myself and realise that my clothes are burnt, I'm naked. "OH my gosh", I gasp, my eyes changing to dark brown color",
He laughs, "you need to control your emotions", he grabs my hand and pulls me out the window. "And your thoughts",
He's got a robe hanging down and that's what we use to climb down. I'm still naked.
When we get down I roughly grab the wet t-shirt from him and put it on.
"Can you teach me to control my emotions?",
"No", he rolls his eyes. "But I can go think about it",
The firefighters are already here and there's a lot of people around. Storm pulls me towards the tress, hiding me from everyone.
"Storm!",
I twist my head and see Warren with Nori, they both shinning bright blue eyes. "Get away from her", Warren says and he sounds angry. I look at Storm and already his eyes have changed to a dark green color. Well, they've all drew out their powers.
"I won't let you control me", Storm says.
"I haven't even started", Warren replies.
"Blom, What are you wearing?", Nori asks, her eyes change back to normal. "And why is your house on fire?",
"I burned it, and Storm rescued me",
"Oh hell no", Warren throws up his hands in disappointment and his eyes also change back to normal. "Your eyes are brown, you like him that much?", he points at Storm. "You do know he was sent from the Faerie world to kill you?",
"What?", I gasp.
"Let me explain", Storm whispers, his eyes serious as ever and seeming a bit shy.
Here goes nothing.