Some moments feel fake.
Even if you were alive in them once, they feel like a faint memory now.
For Ella, this was the description of her life.
She was a princess living a life of pride. She was ruling the world on her tips. She could have anything just by a mere gesture of hand.
She had servants that were there every moment to serve her. She had a bodyguard who would protect her with their life.
She had everything a mind could think of but now that life was nothing more than an illusion.
She wondered if she was one living that living that life. Sometimes it all feels like she is hallucinating those moments.
Maybe she was living in a dream. Maybe she crossed a parallel universe she had fallen into after some accident or maybe that life never existed at all.
Something had to be there. Some explanation that could convince her that it was real.
Even after months of living this life. The life where she always had a painless purse and an empty stomach, she was unable to believe that it had happened.
Ella was standing at a corner of the school grounds. The winter was taking the initial breaths. The weather was calm, unlike the thunder in her brain. Standing there, in a state that made her disgusted enough to kill herself, it wasn't hard to believe that she had crashed to the ground. She has hit the rock bottom
Things have become different now. The things that required her interest weren't the exclusive bag she had to buy before it was gone or the limited edition shoe she knew was about to launch. It was whether she would be able to eat with her stomach full or not.
The life of a princess has fallen into a life of poverty
A few months ago Ella was the spoiled daughter of the most famous lawyer of the states. David Harrison.
Ella had so many friends, almost too many. Her finger digits couldn't hold the count. She was the most popular girl in the law school. She was cherished by every single person, if not due to her character then by money. Everyone used to treat her as a Princess but that love took its last breaths with the death of her father. They were killed to be exact, both, her father and the love. With her father the money that made her famous was gone too, taking her friends or fake friends to the dump.
For Ella, her father, he was her everything. She had never seen her mother. She died long ago and she has no memories of her. Despite not having a mother she never felt her absence much because her father was both a mother and a father to her. He had been taking care of her like she was the most precious gem to him.
Her father was a man everyone fears. He hadn't touched a gun to hurt anyone because the law was enough to make people pee in their pants. He was a terrifyingly successful lawyer. No lawyer had been born till this day that could beat him.
David Harrison has never lost a case in his life and this success was the reason why he is dead.
Ella has her theories and she is almost sure who killed her father three months ago. She has always been remarkable in her studies but now she didn't need the law degree only to become a lawyer, she needed it to finish her father's work and hang his murderers to death.
She had a burning passion. A desire that could burn them all alive.
The last year of the law school was closing its edges. The nights were becoming restless as her sleeping hours were dropped on the cascade. Only a few months were left. Just some mere weeks and after it, she would have the power and a position to begin the planning on her revenge.
Ella was staring at the students, having fun with their friends. She remembers these faces. They used to beg her to hang up with her but now she knows, it was the money that they liked because as a person, there weren't many people who would like her.
She had a sick attitude.
She has been trying her very best to control it but she was helpless. This attitude has made her lose many jobs and left her with a box-size convenience store. She was poor and broke, and all the words that were once cringed at her could be used to describe her to illustrate her state. The store was paying the bare minimum and since the finals were coming, she couldn't have a second job. So, she was stuck.
Ella didn't have money to buy food from the cafeteria and that was why she decided to let herself breathe for some moments when her tummy was only filled with air. She had cup noodles in the morning and begged her belly to stop asking for more. She couldn't sit in class when her stomach was growling from hunger.
There were still five minutes till the next lecture. There was no way she could just go into the class and hear people spitting nonsense about her. So, she had no choice but to stand there and look at those happy faces while she was dying from those smiles.
"Hey" Someone called. The voice melted her with it. It was warm and rich, sending delightful shivers down her body. She turned around to look and then she froze for a moment. "Do you know where Mr. Witacker's class is?" She didn't hear what he was saying because she was only looking at him. This guy, he was dangerously handsome. His face was carved like perfection. His hair was black, eyes the color of ash, encircled by an intense black ring. His stare was so sharp and so terrifying. There was a mark on his left eye, tearing his brow. He was impossibly handsome. His look was similar to a gangster and just then she realized whom she was staring at.
It was indeed a gangster.
She has seen this face. The confirmation left her in shock and unknowingly she fell a step back. Ella swallowed the air hard because she was standing in front of Alex Willard, also known as Hawk. He was a member of the club. Eclipse.
Ella didn't know it because his identity was something they showed on the Internet but it was because she had seen his face in her house so many times. Her father was a public lawyer against Eclipse. And his father's involvement with this club was the exact reason why he was dead.
Ella became unable to move, frozen on the spot because one of the murderers of her father was standing in front of her
"Hey, where have you gone?" That voice came to her again and she jerked her head. She didn't know what to do. She started to panic, thinking of an escape but she was incapacitated to locate one. Maybe she should call the police but a good reason for not doing it was that she had no evidence.
She knew his identity but she could not prove it. After all, all the data her father and Daniel had collected was stolen.
"Hey, Blue head, I am asking you something" Her brain stopped thinking about everything all at once. A wave of anger ignited in her body out of nowhere. She was not a bluehead. Her hair was the deepest and most beautiful shade of blue just like her eyes. The color that reminiscent of the ocean under the night sky. Something so captivating that required a sense of awe to see its beauty and not many people could see how perfect it was on her. After a while of trying not to take offense, she realized that her hair was exposed and the black hood was gone "Oh, yeah. I- I know" She said, adjusting the hood back and covering her hair. Only if she had money, she would have changed her hair to black or brown or something that does not make her the center of attention everywhere she goes.
"Can you tell me where it is?" his voice sounded commanding and she wasn't sure of the outcome of her silence.
"Yeah" She nodded her head fast and by some funny miracle it was the same class that Ella had just now "You can follow me," Alex nodded his head, adjusted the bag over his shoulder and started to walk behind her and she moved straight without looking back. He was silent, following her and his deep breaths reached her ears, and just then she realized that there were a hell a lot of other things she should be thinking about.
She should do something. If not the police she should at least call Danial and tell him about seeing Hawk. He was the only person whom she could trust.
Danial was someone special to her. He was the only one in this world that was left for her but he had gone to another state and she had failed to contact him for a months now.
She had a lot of things to talk about but the class was already here and Alex was still behind her.
Ella stopped her brain from thinking and walked in. She nodded her head so that he could know they were in the right room. She felt his gaze at her, he was already looking at her
"Thank you, Princess" Alex said, she spun around and looked at him with wide eyes. Everyone used to call her by this name but it was rare. The chance of it was zero and a new student from a different school was calling her that was impossible.
Alex could not know this name because he had never met Ella. She stood still, staring at him and he gave her a half-lip smile. It was a wrecked smirk that made her fall a step back.
Alex walked away to take an empty seat and by the same funny miracle, there was just one free place in the class and it was; behind Alex
"What the hell is happening?" She muttered under her breath, got no answer, stood there for a moment and students were staring at her. Ella got her steps straight and just walked to that place.
Alex wasn't looking at her now. Even though she couldn't stop staring at him for a second, he was never staring back. Probably because of the Twins. They were sitting on his sides and talking with him "So, you have finally given Veritas Law School a thought huh?" It was Jake, the one with light brown hair, green eyes, and a small face. Alex didn't say anything "Are you here on a mission or something?" the other twin said. It was an extremely rare mutation, the twins had different eyes. Joe had silver hair and black eyes.
Jake looked at him with a burning gaze "Stop with that, Bro. I am just kidding" Joe has already been a little sarcastic and probably that was what he was doing there.
Ella was not interested in their talk but there were thoughts knocking her mind.
By the look, Alex doesn't seem like a person who likes to be social or have many friends and only one explanation was left.
Alex knows the Twins.
And by that little conversation, she believed that this was related to Eclipse, and other than that the twins have always been mysterious to her.
They never tried to engage with Ella. Not even in her ruling era when everyone bowed to her, they stayed feet apart.
The questions were storming her head. Do the twins have some sort of connection with The Eclipse?
Have they always known Ella was David's daughter and that's why they never came near her? If that's true then she was in the worst scenario possible.
Three murderers from the club that killed her father and she was sitting behind them all.