One
-NEVAEH'S POV-
My name is Nevaeh LeCrane, I live in the strange little town of Ashville, my family moved here shortly after mine and my twin, Havana's 16th birthday. We have 2 little siblings the adventurous, but annoying 3 year old brother, Dameon, and our bratty 15 year old sister Vaden. Then we have our parents who work all the time, my mother Vanessa, who is a yoga instructor, and our father, Erwin, who is almost always away for business. He has stayed away on business ever since our brother Mason's accident. I have red hair like my father and blue eyes, my hair comes down passed my waist. But to contrast me and Havana being identical twins, she has blonde hair that touches her shoulders and the same blue eyes. When we moved here, Havana and I enrolled into Ashville Private School, rather than the public school, our father decided to spend to much money on tuition to go here.
On our first day, we had the same first period in a musty cold class, that could resemble an a graveyard, the teacher seem to fit the room, Ms. Havington, a 58- year old lady who reaked of death and perfume. There was no creepier classroom, so I thought I may end up dying in here, the scent burnt my nose hairs. I sat down in an empty desk with the books I was handed.
I handled this class everyday for 2 weeks until one day, I woke up from my Havington nap (what I call my naps in her class), as I wake up I look in the doorway. There stands the hottest guy I have ever seen, shoulder- length ash black hair, blue eyes, dressed in a black, that brings out his chiseled arms and abs, my jaw drops. He looks RIGHT AT ME, and I turn my head, thinking oh my graciousness.
My friend Zariah looks at me and laughs and nudges my arm, "He is F-I-N-E with a repeat. And he is coming to sit over here at our table." I look up only to realize that she was telling the truth. She squeels, "OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!! Mr. Fine is coming over." I turn to face the table as he sits right in front of me. I close my eyes as I smell the deep, but amazing smell that was radiating off of him.
I look up and he says with a deeper russian accent, "Hey what's your name? I'm Harrin." He looks up at me with deep exploring eyes and I feel a deep burn in my chest, wanting to stare in his blackened eyes, but I turn away.
I gain the confidence to speak and I say, "Nevaeh, my name is Nevaeh LeCrane, and this is my best friend Zariah," Z smiles and I look at Havana, "and this is my twin sister Havana." Havana waves and smiles, showing her cute dimples that guys always fell for.
She giggles, "Hi Harrin," she plays with her hair, and I just scoff and he looks at me questioningly. The teacher is walking around the classroom, checking for the students that are dumb enough to pull their phones out. I pull my phone out and text Zariah saying, he is cute. Not even ten minutes later I get a response it said, "You know you can't handle that not after what happened to Mason." My chest hurt and the memories and guilt came rushing back thinking of the liquor on his breathe and the hot, burning, twisting metal that slowly dug into my leg. I start crying and feel the heat gather in my cheeks.
"Nevi!! NEVAEH!! NEVAEH LYNN LECRANE!! Answer me please!!" I feel my shoulder being violently shaken and someone yelling my name. I snap back to the reality that Im in a cold classroom and not in Mason's burning wreck. With my sister screaming in my face. I suddenly became the point of view and the new mental case. A feel a long leg nudge mine under the table. I look up to meet soft but curious blue eyes, but I look away feeling like a fool and obviously not being able to handle myself in a classroom of students my age and to make it even better Mrs. Havington catches sight of my phone. She looks away and doesn't do anything. A quick breeze of relief came over me.
The bell rings, I gather my things and walk out the door headed to Advanced Calculus with Mr. Popateleski, or as he allows us to call him, Mr. Pop. I catch sight of the class room and I walk in to him smiling and handing me a slip of paper. When I get done with Mr. Pop I make my way to the very back where my table is and I sit down putting my ear buds in. About ten minutes later theres a knock on the door, that I could hear only because my music was transitioning. I look up to see the gorgeous and darkened, Harrin, and my breathes catches. He sees me and turns his head and continues to talk to Mr. Pop to wear I can't hear, then he turns and heads to the back of the class and he sits beside me. I catch the scent of his cologne and I embrace it. I open my laptop to see 26 emails, all from my sister, telling me that she saw that his schedule said that he had Advanced Cal with me and she asked where he sat? Had I talked to him? What did he do? What did I do? I replied and said " Nothing is going on between me and him so worry about your class and I'll manage to struggle and ignore through mine." He chuckled quietly.
He was the one to break our long unending period of silence but saying, "Your sister seems a bit enthused with questions about someone who has this class with you. So you aren't gonna answer her?" He had been reading over my shoulder and now he would find out who we were talking about. I blushed and tried to hide it by quickly closing everything and acting normal. But he sat turned sideways, with his elbow on the table and propped up against his arm. "So who is so interesting and dreamy as your note said earlier? Who is this damned Mr. Fine?" That's when a new email popped, and the bad thing is my computer popped my notifications up automatically. Havana sounded annoyed, but like a five- year old in a candy shop in the email, it said 'Nevaeh Lynn, I know you are ignoring me and I want to know why, unless Harrin is sitting by you. Then it would make sense that you don't want him to see or find out that he is Mr. Fine. THat would be embarassing. HeHe :)' He chuckled and the sound had embraced me and my heart fluttered. Oh shit I was falling for the new boy. He made it obvious he was looking and then turned away before I apologize. Suddenly the bell rang and I didn't see him for the rest of the day. I wondered how an innocent message could make someone just disappear and seem like he fell off the earth because I didn't see him for about a month. It kind of made me wonder, but eventually I just let it go because if he wasn't dead he would show his ass sooner or later.
Two
When school ended, I had to wait on Havana to make- up a test for her English class. I'm not in the same English class as her she is in the common core one, I could say the dumb one, but I don't want to be a bitch. Unlike her I got bumped up into the Senior English because I doubled up on my english classes last year. When I got to my car I found a weird note taped to my window, I grabbed it and admired the perfect handwriting, with harsh smudges because of the rain, it said...
We need to talk, something....come alone, that sounds creepy as fuck, I know, but it's......please it's important, you and Hannah, may be in danger but she may be safe, but... what I know... you need to come ASAP!!! Come to the old burned shack if you get this and actually believe me...
Harrin
Harrin needed to talk to me, but this paper got destroyed by the rain. But he has alot to learn and somehow I am in danger. I start feeling my nerves start burning and my head starts spinning, I got in my car and drove off toward the old shack that burned down last year after my big brother's car accident, that I survived. How on earth I survived I have no idea but I did. When I got there I didn't see anyone so I got out of my car and walked over to the spot where Mason's car had blown up. The trees in that spot were permanantly scorched and metal from the car had been left in place, now becoming part of the tree. I fought back tears because if I had kept fighting with him about giving me the keys, maybe he would've eventually given in and given them to me. I wasn't drunk that night only him and his friends, but he hit me when I asked to have the keys because he was in no condition to drive. I stood there frozen and unable to move, until I felt my legs go weak and I just knew I was going to fall down this steep hill into the culvert of trees and rocks, my mind continued to swirl and I fell. A quick set of hands grabbed me and I screamed as I felt the burning, ripping flesh being torn from my body in the flashback. I grabbed my leg.
Harrin sounded scared as he called out my name to get me to wake up, "Nevaeh, What's wrong? What is happening?" I kept screaming in pain and I hit the ground as he crouched beside me stretching me out, trying to calm me so he could find out what was going on. He said, "Nevaeh what is it?" He saw my phone laying in the grass and he called Havana, all I could hear was Harrin trying to explain what was happening. He lifted my pants leg and put it back down when he saw the scar that ran from my hip to my mid- calf. "Why is she holding her leg? It doesn't look she would've fallen and injured it." Then he hung up and he pulled me close to him, speaking softly "It's not real. I'ts a dream. Come back to me Nevaeh. Please Nevaeh, I beg you." I start feeling the pain going away in my leg and I look up to see Harrin holding my to him. He looks at me with worried eyes and says, "What happened? I heard a car pull up, so I figured I'd give you time to come in by yourself, and when you didn't I came out and you were standing by the culvurt screaming and you almost fell in." His blue eyes seemed to look into my soul as if to find a damaged piece. I laid my head on his chest and sobbed.
"This place is where my brother..." I look down and a few seconds pass till I sit up. Harrin looks at me, as if to say go on. "..died 2 years ago, when he drove drunk and hit an 18- wheeler, the diesal driver tried to swerve and get out of the way but he ran over my brother car, which twisted the car and send sharp pieces of metal piercing my leg. But my brother had been stabbed in the stomach, so he couldve gotten out, but...," fights to catch my breathe, "the bar that ran through his chest was jammed and twisted in the steering wheel. I just had a door and the metal piping from the back of the truck in my leg. I managed to get out because the door fell off and it knocked me in the culvert, and Mason was still trapped in the car when it exploded, along with his 2 friends, Riley and Cage. The boys from the picture in the hallway. When I landed, I blacked out and I woke up in ICU."
He looked at me shocked and spoke curiously, " So this scar on your calf is the only one you have?" He sat in the same place looking at me as I stood up to shake the dirt off my pants. I raked the leaves out of my long red hair and put it in a bun.
"No, it is one of many. I have five scars from the wreck that night. Four of which were fatal and had to be tended to quickly. The one on my chest and back from where the short piece of metal case piping went through me, and where the car door got lodged in my leg it hit my femoral artery." I looked down at my feet. "I died that night but...." Harrin had stopped my words when he stood up and kissed me. I kiss him back as he wraps his arms around me and I feel the burning of the passion between us. He puts me back down and looks at me.
"All that matters is the present, you can't go back and change your brothers decision to drive. But you are alive and that is all that matters. Live life while you still breathe." I smile and nod my head and he kisses me again. He pulls me closer to him and wraps his arms around me.
"Is that supposed to be a genie-like life lesson? You kissed me," gasps and I stare at him absolutely surprised.
He stares into my eyes and I can feel the rumble in his chest as he laughs. "Yes I did." I look at him trying to get my composure to ask him what I needed to know, the real real reason he called me here. He looks at me then backs away when he sees my face. He sees that I mean business. He straights his hair and shirt, his smile disapearing into the darkened spirit I saw in class. After a minute of silence he says, "You are probably wondering what I asked you to come out here for. Right?" I nod. "Okay well, my family are hunters and we saw a list that has many peoples name on it. Most of which are deceased, they died from unnatural causes, and you are on that list. Not your sister anymore so I think is cleared." He hands me the list.
Hayden Malcom
Olivia Harell
Rose Ashley
Kevin Ashley
Blake Ashley
Regan Mann
Sabrina Mann
Vatima Hallees
Havana LeCrane
Nevaeh LeCrane
Devyn Gregory
I look stunned and manage to stutter a few words, "Oh shit, what do we do? I'm gonna die, but why?" My brain screams to loud and I cover my ears.
Three
Harrin grabs my hands and uncovers me ears, I look up at him. He says, "You are believed to be a....umm well I can try to explain it, but you have to listen even if you don't believe me. Okay?" I nod in agreement and sit down. "Okay well you may believe that in this world there are just humans, but there isn't. There are fallen angels who turned and fell from heaven, ending up here. Like me there good ones called the Elite, who are fallen angels that try to help people, or there is the Corrupted, who kill the Elite, and feed off humans." I stare at him in shock. "The people are this list are thought to be Elites." I stare at him with gaping eyes and before I can say anything he says, "Yes even you. That is why you are in danger and if you are a Nephilim then you are putting your family in danger every second you spend with them. It's scary but it is very important for their safety, as well as your own." I finally regain the strength to be able to breathe and I just look at him kind of astonished, but curious at the same time.
" So you mean to tell me I am an evil creature that fell from heaven. I think I would've known had I once been in heaven," I say harshly. He looks at me and stands up, turning away. "Where are you going?" He walks toward his car and right before he gets to he turns around and looks deep into my eyes. I can see the pain and heavy burden that lays on his heart now that he had to tell me that.
He looks down and breathes in deeply saying, "No you are not evil, you could've made a bad choice. Thats how I fell. Or sometimes you don't even have to have been in heaven. You could've had a parent that was an angel that impregnated your mother, but then the angel would have fallen." He looks up at with pain buried deep in him, like he had a secret, and speaks almost silently, "I'm scared for you because now the corrupted know you exist they will not hesitate to kill you. They have to much reason to believe that you are nephilim. You need training if you are going to survive and the superiors have to know about you." I jump at the thought of presenting myself before his superiors. "But you can't stay with your family anymore, that is what is most important right now.
I think of Havana, Dameon, and Vaden and what they would think. But I would do it if it kept them safe from all things unhuman in this world. I can't be with them because then they can be used to get to me and that is not a good thing ever.
Harrin says, "My brother can watch over your Havana, he is 18, he is an elite but chooses not to accept the status. He is a real good guard and is very trustworthy." I look at him and nod. He climbs in his car and I climb in with him. He drives off to his house so I can meet who will be protecting my twin, basically my other half. We get to his house and I see a young boy with red hair playing on the porch, and Harrin says, "Thats Leon, he is 4." That is when I see a small girl with soft red curls that touch that barely touch her shoulders, when another little girl with dark brown hair steps out, not much bigger than the others. "The redhead is Lynzi, and the other is Raven, there is a fourth twin but I don't see her. She has red hair like Laynie and Leon. Her name is Lynzi." I smile and step out of the car with Harrin and he is instantly knocked to the ground by the three on the porch. He laughs and rolls with them when Raven stands up and looks at me.
Raven softly says, "Hi I'm Raven momma named me that because my hair is darker than my brothers and sisters." I smile at her and bend down looking at her, ignoring Harrin, Laynie, and Leon in the background.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Raven, My name is Nevaeh. I'm a friend of your brothers." I say nicely as she grabs my hair a looks at it.
"Nevaeh let's go meet the rest of my family." He walks in the house as the kids follow and they line up in front of their mother and father with 9 other kids. He turns to them and says, "Guys I would like you to meet my friend Nevaeh, her and I have almost every class together" They say their hellos and Harrin stands beside me and says "This is my mother Saphrina, my father Rheese, my older brother Vann, his wife Farron, and 11- month old daughter Anastasia, my 18-year old brother Ethan, who will cover your sister, and his fraternal twin Arin, 14 year old boy is Errick," I smile not trying to look bored as they all stare at me when we come to a strange and silent young girl. He says, "This quiet one is Tihana she is 16, it mean she who is without words, Thadeus is 7, and of course you know the quadruplets Leon, Laynie, Raven and Lynzi who doesn't seem to be here. Then there is me and 6- month old girl Chrys, it stands for Chrysanthemum. Thats my huge family."
" That's 11 biological kids and a daughter- in law, and a grandbaby" I say surprised. "Are they all yours?" I ask. Saphrina shakes her head to say that not all are hers and I can see the sadness in her eyes.
"Hold on." She tells Ethan and Arin to go take the little ones and go play. Rheese grabs Chrys and takes her to the kitchen to feed her and Saphrina turns back around to offer a seat on the couch. Harrin and I sit down as she starts speaking, "Arin, Ethan, Tihana, and Thadeus are not my biological children. We adopted them. Rheese and I have had Arin and Ethan since they were 5 months old. Their names were Thevan and Thamarai, they were born into a gypsy camp when their parents had them they dropped them in a town and left to travel with the caravans. But Tihana and Thadeus we have had for about 9 months so it's different for Tihana, so she won't speak. Tihana had been raising her brothers for 5 years when their parents threw them out, there was another boy but he got to sick he died when Tihana was 12, Thad was 3, but Rajeev was 9. The cold got him and he became ill and it hurt Tihana to have to abandon him so Thad and her didn't get what he had. Tihana has had a hard life and we wish for it never to be like that for her again." I suddenly feel so sad for these kids, but then I remember that they are in a very safe environment. Saphrina gets up and walks out on the porch to check on the little ones. As the night progresses I start telling Harrin how I need to get some sleep so after everyone is settled down we head to the room and lay down. Harrin kisses me as I slowly drift unconcious.
Four
The next morning, I wake up and he is looking down at me smiling, "Good Morning Princessa,' he leans down and kisses my lips. This is gonna be a great day because I get to wake up in his arms and he is the first face I see, and I smile really big. But at the same time think to myself did I really stay the night with the hottest guy at our school, if not the hottest in the world.
We head downstairs where we are greeted with a nice bacon and egg breakfast. Saphrina is smiling at us as we come down the stairs. I see all of the kids around a very large table, with Vann feeding Anastasia and Rheese is feeding Chrys. Raven and Lynzi because Raven spilt milk on Lynzi's new blue dress.
Harrin sits down and I take the seat beside him and Leon runs up and gets in his lap while Laynie comes up to me.
"Good Morning, you look like a princess." She says softly with her small curls tucked behind her ears with a headband that matches are green dress. I look at her and see so much resemblance to Harrin. I look at her and say "you look like the princess, babydoll." She smiles big. But just when she smiles my phone rang and I jump to grab it. It's my mom on the phone and she sounds really distressed and it scares me. Harrin must be able to tell by my face that something is wrong because he is staring right at me.
-HARRINS POV-
I go to take a bite out of my breakfast when I see Nevaeh's face, she looks worried about something. I don't like to see her sad, it makes me hurt to see her so distraught. So i turn to her and rub her arm and she gets up and runs.
I'm chasing her but dang is this girl fast. She wont tell me what is wrong and I am scared for her. Did something happen? Is she hurt by something I did? What made her run from me?
So I decide to follow her and she is running up the road.
I scream, "NEVAEH!"
Five
-NEVAEH'S POV-
Looks back and sees Harrin following me and he is hollering my name but I need to get home.
I round my street and run in the house and see mom in the floor crying and I panic, "Mom what happened?" I become frantic because she holding Havana's jacket. I freaked out and wondered what happened when she told me, "Your sister is gone, she disappeared." I feel the burn in my eyes as i feel my heart being ripped out. I scream, " Why?" Mom looks at me as the door opens and I see Harrin.
He looks and says, "What happened?" I glare at him. I love him but why does he have to be here. I almost growl at him, " None of y...." I break down and all I see is black. I lose all my senses except I can hear frantic cries, but I can't make my mouth work. All I manage to do is scream, " HAVANA!!!" I feel someone jump under me. Harrin must be holding me.
-HARRIN'S POV-
I hear her scream and it causes me to jump. THen the next work cleared everything up for me. She screamed her twin sister's name. But WHY? I shake her and softly ask, "Baby what about her? Where is she?" She crumbles in my arms and this is killing me watch her like this. What is going on? I am scared. Mrs. LeCrane speaks softly, " They took her to get back at us. Please she is only human." This scares me beyond anything else.
If "they" is the corrupted then why did they take Havana, Nevaeh told me she was human unlike her and her mom. This makes no sense to me. I ease Nevaeh onto the floor and stand up. Vanessa gets up and walks into the other room with me. She hands me a note....
We took youngest elite in thought you would give elders location.
So you want youngest back alive then comply if not we change her
and eat her. But we feast your audience. SO WE KILL HER???
RYKER, you nyghtmere
I laugh when I first see how horrible his grammar was. But then I think to myself and I then look at Vanessa. "She isn't the youngest is she?" She shakes her head. That only means that... my heart stops. NEVAEH. I run to the kitchen and she is gone. But left in her place was a a piece of old dirty paper that said 'want twin, meet at shack.... know where' I then run back into the living room and hold up the note. "Vanessa we have an issue!"
TO BE UPDATED
(A/N Sorry for not updating, I haven't has the time, nor the enthusiasm I had when I started. Hope to get it updated soon.)
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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 20.01.2015
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