Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“No complaining?”
“No complaining.” He still didn’t take his eyes off of me, actually he was now smiling at me.
“Even if I want you to help me pick out dresses for three hours, go to the perfume store, try on shoes, and pet all the kittens and puppies that are in the pet shop?” I saw that he faltered for a moment, just a moment. But he recovered and the smile got even wider, albeit fake.
“Even then.”
“Yay!” I flung myself at him and hugged him tightly around the neck. “Thank you, Lex. I promise I will be good for the rest of the case. And then you can take me to do all the stuff that I want.”
“Why do I feel like I just sold my soul to the devil?” He laughed then, but it almost sounded like he was doing it satirically.
“I am not a devil. I am a little angel.” I giggled. “Speaking of, I wonder what Angel is up to without me there. I hope they’re taking care of her.”
“I am sure that they are. They know that she is your dear friend.” At that moment, Lex pulled himself away from me and rose to his full height. “Now, Talia, I am going to get back to my book. Please, do something to occupy yourself.”
“Meh. I think I will just go to sleep early.” I pulled the covers back and slid under them. “Good night, Lex.”
“Good night, Talia.” He nodded before going back to his spot near the wall. He was going to continue to read his book. Which, by the way, he could do in the dark. He had better night vision than anyone I knew. Aside from my mom and me of course. But we used magic to enhance it. His was natural.
I suddenly felt a lot more tired than I had expected to. I thought that I was going to lay there in the dark for a little while before drifting off to sleep, but that wasn’t the case at all. I closed my eyes and was instantly asleep.
Another thing that I thought was odd, was the fact that I started to have some strange dreams. Now, being who I am and seeing what I do, I am no stranger to nightmares. Lex and Rudy had needed to comfort me as a little girl when I had nightmares that I didn’t want to tell my parents about. They would tell me that I was not allowed to take over the underworld if they knew that I was having these vivid and scary nightmares about all the dead people that come to me. The two of them hid it from them and helped me to pursue my goal of leading the underworld.
This dream though, it felt less like a dream than anything that I had ever experienced before. For one thing, I suddenly found myself back home. I was seeing Reagan and Rika while they were at school. And then I jumped to see Zachary, Zander, Zayden and Zaley at the elementary school. Seeing that place was nostalgic for me. I hadn’t been there in a long time. It was part of the main school, but it was separated and out of the way of the high school that I would be attending if I was home.
I think that I was just missing my family, and eager to be getting home. That had to be it. There was literally no other reason for me to be seeing these places. And I had never actually seen the college campus that Reagan and Rika were going to. The one that I would be going to next year. I didn’t even know if what I was seeing was real or not. For all I knew, this could all just be my mind’s interpretation of the campus.
“Oh, there is Rika.” I smiled. “And it’s not just her.” Sitting with her was Ilana, Alyssa and Alexandria. They were my cousins. Not by blood of course, but still. We were raised that way. “And over there is Reagan, Rowan, Levi and Luka.” They weren’t sitting together. It was like they wanted to be in their own groups. “Who are they?” I was looking at my sister and saw her talking to a boy that I had never seen before. And there was another boy that had his arm around Alyssa’s shoulders. “I wonder if my sister and cousins are making new friends? Those guys look friendly, but we don’t know them at all. I just know that the guards would freak out if they knew what Rika was doing. I know that Lex would never let some guy hang on me like that one talking to Alyssa.
Suddenly, the dream that I was having started to swirl and change.
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Talia
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The peaceful life that I was watching my siblings have while at college started to dissolve. In its place was something that seemed a lot darker and scarier. I knew that it was just me drifting into a deeper sleep and not dreaming the things that I wanted to see anymore. In truth, this dream felt more like I was watching a movie that I had never seen before.
There was a woman that was maybe twenty or twenty-two years old. She had bright red and really curly hair. It looked short in her ponytail, but I knew that if it were stretched out, the hair would reach down to her lower back at the very least. She was pale and pretty with a splash of freckles on her nose and cheeks. Her eyes were really pretty as well, a bright green that looked like shining jewels.
She was tall, close to six feet tall or so, but she was skinny and looked very feminine. She was wearing a cute little summer dress that was white with pink flowers all over it. The strappy white sandals that she was wearing complimented it perfectly. She looked like she was ready for a date. She was standing in a parking lot overlooking a sandy beach that was bathed in darkness.
She was smiling. She was happy. There was nothing at all that seemed to be going wrong for her. I could literally feel the excitement that was buzzing inside of her chest. And the way that it buzzed even more when her phone rang. I think that she thought the person on the other end of the call was the person that she was waiting for.
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“Hey.” She answered the call excitedly. “No. I’m still waiting for her. I am so excited. I have wanted to go out with her for so long.” She seemed to be glowing a little in the moonlight and that made me suddenly think that this woman might be magical. Was she a witch? “Yeah, I will.” The girl laughed. “Oh come on. I will give you some details, but you don’t need them all. You’re my brother, for crying out loud.” She seemed to be having a good time. It was infectious. “Oh, I think she’s here, I’ll let you go.” She went to hang up the phone but said one more thing. “Yes, I will be careful. And I love you too.”
At that moment, the girl turned around. She was in the process of ending the call on her phone, but she didn’t manage to do that just yet. The person she saw surprised her.
“Hey, you’re not Ashlynn.” She was confused about something.
“Andrea! Andrea, what is going on!?” I could hear the girl’s brother yelling from the other end of the call, but I couldn’t see the person that had just arrived.
Suddenly, there was a flash of white light. It wasn’t a big flash. It was just like something that lasted for a fraction of a second and was gone. A strobe light or something like that. The moment that the light flashed in front of the girl’s eyes though, she was under some sort of trance.
“Give me that.” A man’s voice called out to her.
“OK.” She lifted her hand in a very awkward way. It was like someone was moving her body for her. Still, the arm raised enough for the man to take the phone. That was when I was able to see him clearly. He was wearing a silver robe, but it wasn’t reflecting the lights around him. That was odd.
“ANDREA!” The girl’s brother was still calling out to her. “WHAT IS HAPPENING?!” The man didn’t say anything into the phone, he just ended the call. He ignored the frantic brother and was focusing on the girl in front of him.
“Come with me.”
At that, the man started to walk away, down onto the beach. However, the moment that he moved, it was impossible for me to see him. I think that those robes, whatever they were, somehow made it harder to see him. Was it magic? Was it the material? Was it something else entirely? I didn’t know, and that was enough to anger me.
“I am coming.” The girl started to follow him now. She was moving more naturally than she had when the man took the phone from her, but she still didn’t seem to be moving of her own volition. I wondered for a moment if she was inside of her mind screaming at herself to stop. I had a feeling that she was.
The man was leading the girl all the way down to the edge of the water. I thought for a moment that he was going to go out into the ocean with her. However, at the last moment, he turned and started to walk toward the darkest part of the beach. There would be no light at all to see them by. And I could tell that it was rather late, close to ten or even later. There were not a lot of people around. Perhaps it was a weekday in this movie as well. I knew that it was Sunday when I went to sleep. Maybe that was the day that this was happening.
I knew that we were in the United States. Looking at the sighs, listening to the girl talk with her brother, I knew that we were in the US. However, I didn’t know where. Were we on the east coast or the west coast? Where would I find this place if I was really there? I didn’t know this place at all.
“We are here.” The man finally stopped at a particularly dark spot on the beach. I was able to see, but I knew that most people wouldn’t be able to. Was this girl even able to see what was happening to her? “Lay here.” The man ordered her. I didn’t have a very good feeling about this.