Lost Souls by Abbie Davis (best beach reads of all time txt) 📖

once. I exhaled as I took a seat under a tree and faced the water. It was peaceful for once. No one was trying to hunt me down and I felt like a regular kid. I smiled happily as that was all I wanted now. To be normal and not someone people thought that was evil and suppose to be on the wrong side.

“You ruined her favorite shirt with that Dr. Pepper,”Linus said sitting beside me,”But she had that coming to her.”

“Yeah,”I said not even paying attention.

“What is it Maxy,”He said making me face him.

“Nothing Linus,”I said looking out at the water.

“Liar,”He said doing it again,”I know you Max Artemis Walker. Now what is wrong or I will do it.”

“It’s nothing really.”

“You have three seconds to tell me or I will.”

“I’m being honest Linus.”

“Three.”

“If you dare do it.”

“Two. Then get it out before I hit one.”

“I’m being honest Linus. I’m fine.”

He looked at me before standing up and walking off. I watched him as he left me there. He knows me and I know him. He knows what is the matter with me but he knows I don’t want to talk about it. Life is just so hard right now. Trying to be the perfect little girl for my dad. Trying to show him that I don’t need his help anymore. It is all too hard for me.

“You alright baby girl?”I heard a voice say.

“Why would you care?”I asked holding my knees now.

“For I am your father and I care for you,”I heard my dad said sitting beside me,”Now are you alright or not.”

“What do you think?”

“I think a little girl is taken on the world a little bit too much at a time.”

“You got that by just looking at me?”

“I got that because I watched how you handle that. Max what is wrong and don’t lie to me.”

“You should know,”I said turning away from him.

“Is it from the things people believe you are to be,”He said looking out at the water,”For you thinking that you have to stand up to those thoughts. That you have to prove something to everyone.”

“Yep that one.”

“That’s not all of it is it.”

“That day.”

“I knew that one was there. What is it really?”

“I don’t want to talk about it,”I said looking out at the water again.

“Max you have to talk about it sooner or later,”He said letting me lean on him,”It might help if you get it off your chest that way.”

I nodded and kept my mouth shut. He exhaled as I let a tear roll down my cheek. I closed my eyes as I cried for the first time since I been here. He held me as I let out everything. I could hear their voices in my head as I had led them into that one. I was the one that...Maybe I should explain what had happen.

I was eight years old at the time. My dad was on this mission and that left me, Linus, and Nathan with the guards. We were at my mother’s where I was sadly a princess to everyone. We were in a circle as it was just another day. I looked around as I got this bad feeling about something. I stood up and went to Alex to see if he knew what was going on.

“Ali,”I said as he got down on my level,”I don’t feel so well right now.”

“It’s alright Max,”He said rubbing my arm,”Tell me about the feeling.”

“I just got one and I don’t like where it’s going,”I said looking around,”What’s going to happen?”

“I’ll let you know when I find out,”He said as I nodded my head.

I went back to the circle as there were also five other people that I knew. There was Mackenzie Summer, Alicia Night, Jason King, Mason Jacks, and Maria Fulford. We were a close little group and that was nice. Well, soon after I sat down the alarms went off and Alex rushed me to get everyone to the secret room where they couldn’t get us.

We all ran as fast as we could but when we reached the door so did they. I looked at my friends and took out my knife. I stood in front of them wanting to keep them safe. I stood tall as I fought one but he was taller than me and sadly being short was a waste of time. He picked me up as his men grabbed my five other friends and walked off with them.

That day I lost them but also that’s not the day I was talking about. When I found them again they were strapped up to tables. We were now thirteen and I had allows wanted to get them back. I unhooked them and tried to bring them back. But when I did they attacked me and I had to whip them off the map. I froze them and I couldn’t figure out how I did that. It was my fault that had happen to them in the first place. I was the one who did it to them all those years ago.

“I just wanted to help,”I cried into my dad’s chest,”But all I did was make it worst.”

“I know you feel that,”He whispered into my ear,”But you had to do that to save them and us. Max it’s not your fault and you know that.”

“But I should have told them about the feeling sooner,”I cried as I felt a change in arms,”I let them get kidnapped. I let them get frozen like that. It’s my doing and I can’t undo it.”

“Then figure it out,”I heard Linus said as I looked up to meet his face,”For you are good at fixing things.”

I looked at him as he held me close and I heard my dad laugh at me. I closed my eyes as I heard their voices in my head. I had to fix that but how. How as I suppose to undo something I didn’t know I could do? Why does this always happen to me? I looked at Linus as he smiled down at me. At least I still got him. 

Chapter 4

~John Walker~

 

I left the two right there and went to see if I can figure it out. She cried that day for her closest friends were in deep ice. She can control more than just darkness I learned that day. I lite a little bit of fire in my hand as I went to the basement where I had put the five kids in the ice. Where her past was hidden from the world.

Max was a good girl. She had always wanted to save everyone and keep up with everything. She was bright but got in her own way. Max looked like her mother the most and was like her mother, but she had something that neither of us gave her. She had a good heart and saw the bad times as evil but saw the good times as the past. She was complicated that way. I don’t know if that was for me or for herself.

“Elizabeth,”I said to the door and it opened for me.

I used her mother’s name for passwords and she has figured that out. But this room has two locks. I walked a little ways till another door showed up. It was black with golden wings on it. I had it made that way to help her figure it out when she knew what had to happen to save her friends.

“Max, Daddy’s angel,”I said as the wings opened up.

She was the one thing that I loved more than her mother. I just never could say that to her mother’s face or I could die. As soon as I took one step in you could see the times Max wanted to hide from the world. Her black eyes shone as she destroyed a city to get the monster down. The time she and Nathan fought over what to do and failed both ways.

Everytime she had messed up and wanted to hide it from everyone. But she did learned how to do it better the next time. I went to the middle as the five stood frozen with pure black eyes. I let the fire dance around but the ice put it out. Strange magic is at play here but how it undo it was the real question.

I looked as I saw that the kids here have aged with Max. I saw that each even looked like they wanted to fight against the will that drove them to fight her. It was like looking into the past of a hurt girl.

“Don’t trust Nathan,”I heard Jason of them say in my head.

They did that for it was like they were trying to warn her about him. I looked at them as you could see the look of fear in their eyes. They had watched her get ready to hurt them to save everything. But she was too loyal to do that. So she wanted another way out and that’s what she got. It kept them alive but she doesn’t know how she did it. Max was lost after this happen to her friends. Nathan was her way back to the normal world. I just wished I got that he meant to hurt her like that before he did.

“No not hurt,”Maria said,”He wanted to make sure she would be alright. To know that what happens she would still be with him.”

I looked at the ice block and wonder how they still knew about all of that. I turned to see that it was right in front of them. I watched the horror on her face as he was told to leave the room. As his father turned to her. I had to look away as I felt the pain for letting her go back out after she said that she shouldn’t.

“It’s my fault,”I said as I looked at her hidden times,”I did it to you.”

 

~Max~

 

I looked at Linus as I had cleaned up from my little cry fest. I looked at him as we both walked out of my room and down to training. I looked around and saw that not many people were here. I smiled as I hate it when it’s pack full and I have to do my advanced training. I went out to the middle and took a stance as Mickel stood in front of me.

Mickel was my trainer. He was like my dad and I mean that he was his little brother. Uncle Mickel had taught me things that my dad couldn’t for he was busy. We been doing this for years now actually.

“Ready Bug,”He said as I nodded,”Now I want you to focus on getting me to the ground but try to think about other ways to do it.”

I nodded and put in my head different way to do it. I faced him as I nodded my head to let him know that I was ready. He charge at me and I put my hands out. He blew away from me as I went wide eyed. How did I do that? I put them down as he gave me the ok. I looked at my hands as I could see the wind swirling around my fingers. Then I thought about that day with the ice