The Secrets Within by S & K (interesting books to read for teens .txt) 📖

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“Ugh. I hate this. We have to lie to them about our last name, we can’t tell them what college we’re attending, we can’t tell them anything!” groaned Ariana. She brushed her hair back with her fingers with a frustrated expression and flopped onto the bed. Adrielle couldn’t help but to crack up at the fact that she was already worried about stuff like that after one date. Ariana yanked the t-shirt that Adrielle was clutching out of her hands. “You do not know how to fold laundry at all!” Adrielle rolled her eyes.


“ Umm you know how much I hate work. Back to our point, you might be sad about that, but I don’t want Liam to know anything about me at all.” Adrielle reacted. Ariana whimpered and mumbled Logan’s name as she muffled her face into the pillow.


“Liam, quit it.” Logan ordered as he watched his brother hunch over what seemed to be dead, lifeless, body. It was of an old woman, who looked as if she had lived an EXTREMELY long life.


“What...? I’m thirsty.” Liam protested. He was practically slurping the blood from the woman’s body. He felt suddenly relieved. The thirst that had been nearly killing him for days, was now leaving him. His body felt powerful again, and he felt invincible. He wiped the blood off of his mouth and went to the sink to wash his hands. Logan was tapping his fingers in the counter, annoyance spread across his face.


“You can’t just feed on them Liam. They’re humans. They are Innocent people.” Logan explained. He was watching the lady shake wildly as if she was having a seizure. Logan shifted his attention towards Liam when he began to speak again.


“She won’t remember a thing. I’ll just erase her memory.” He suggested innocently. He gave a grin that just made Logan want to shove him into a wall. The lady was still alive, but barely. Liam walked over to the limp body and jolted her back up to her feet. He held her palms steadily and looked into her eyes. His eyes began to be a swirling motion of blue as his pupils began to dilate. “YOU WILL NOT REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU. YOU NEVER MET ME. YOU FELL DOWN THE STAIRS AND YOUR CAT CLAWED AT YOU.” He told the lady. Her brown eyes changed colors almost as if it were magic. She silently nodded her head and waddled out slowly.


“I have no absolute hope for you.” Logan shook his head in absolute disbelief. Liam groaned and rolled his eyes.


“Oh chill out, I didn’t kill her. I’m not completely ruthless” he contradicted. He had an amused grin plastered on his face as he walked towards his room. Logan furrowed his eyebrows angrily and called after him


“You better stop this nonsense, you can’t just feed on people. Drink from the blood bags as I do, they aren’t that bad. As soon as the people here find out about us again, we’re screwed.” Logan’s fist were clenched together, he was doing all he could to not punch Victor in the face right then and there. He had been saving his reckless ass for centuries.


“Chill out Logan.” Liam retorted. He knew that Logan was right to some extent, but he didn’t want to restrict his life completely. He was a monster and there was no way to control it. Or so, he thought. His thoughts lingered back to Adrielle when he saw the picture of Stella hidden beneath his floorboard. Logan watched his brother attentively and began to wonder if Ariana and Adrielle knew anything about Elizabeth or Stella. He wanted revenge, and he would get it if that’s the last thing he ever did.


Ariana was finishing up the laundry and Adrielle was back on the laptop when the doorbell rang. “I got it.” said Ariana as she put the last of the clothes away and scurried towards the door. She cursed loudly as she stubbed her toe on one of Adrielle’s heels that seemed to just be lying in the middle of the hallway. When she opened the door, the officer Brown stood there awkwardly. He let out a small wave. Ariana beamed as she gestured him to come inside. She hadn’t seen a familiar face in a while and she didn’t care who it was, she was just plain happy. “Officer, what are you doing here?” asked Ariana, glad to see him. She pointed to the couch to show that he could have a seat but he remained standing. She shrugged it off and waited for his reply.


“I just wanted to give you the last of your parents things that we had kept as evidence. I’m sorry sweetie, but it’s a cold case. We have tried everything to find these people and we don’t have a single lead besides the story you told us. Either way, you are to continue staying here. It’s still not safe for you to come back...” He told her. His heart almost broke as he looked into Ariana’s warm sapphire eyes. Ariana felt her eyes get wet and struggled to hold her tears back. How could this be happening?


“Oh okay. Thank you.” replied Ariana in monotone, taking the files from his hands. She led him back towards the door and said her goodbyes. Memories began to flood back to her, and she couldn’t help herself from crying silently as she walked back to Adrielle’s room.


“Who was it?” asked Adrielle, looking up from her laptop. She noticed Ariana’s and had assumed it was Logan. Her insides filled with fury. Ariana sat down next to her showing Adrielle the files. Instantly she began to calm down a little. Ariana’s heart was filled with anguish and complete rage. It was palpable as she spoke.


“It was the officer; he came to drop off these files. It’s a cold case. They can’t find the killer and they assume they never will. We still have to stay here though….forever… Come on, let’s look at them.” Adrielle put the laptop down and sat down next to Ariana on the bed. Both of them looked at the files quietly, not saying a word to each other. None of these things were useful. They were things that didn’t even need to be kept for evidence.


After about 2 hours of looking through the files, they had found nothing interesting at all. “This is pointless. There is nothing in here.” sighed Adrielle, her heart dropped a little. Ariana was beginning to clean up the mess, when she noticed something odd about the files at the very bottom.


“Adrielle look at this.” Ariana’s heart skipped a beat, and began to race. Adrielle sensed the anxiety she had and peeked over her shoulder to see what she was gawking at.


“What is it?” Ariana shoved the papers towards Adrielle. Adrielle’s jade eyes opened wide with astonishment.


“Oh my gosh…We…we…we were adopted.” Adrielle managed to spit out. Her throat was closing in on her. Ariana was busy reading the name of her birth mother. “On the paper, who does it say was your birth mother?” Adrielle wondered.


“Alice Monroe, why?” replied, Ariana motionlessly. Her heart dropped, as she realized that she had been laid to her entire life. Everything around her began to spin and she felt as if the world was closing in on her.


“Ariana…We…we are sisters.” Adrielle hesitated. Her heart began to soar when she realized that her best friend was actually her sister.


“What?!” Ariana had a hard time taking all this in. Of course she was happy, she hadn’t been this happy since, who knows? She wiped away her tears and smiled at Adrielle.


After 10 minutes of silence, Ariana finally spoke up. “Adrielle? We’re not just sisters…we’re twins.” “But we look nothing alike.” Adrielle retorted. Weren’t twins supposed to look alike?


“Well, we are both tall, skinny, have black hair and light tan skin.” Explained Ariana. She looked at Adrielle longingly and realized they did look a lot like sisters.


“So? That’s coincidence. But, look it says here that we are fraternal twins.” Realized Adrielle. She tightened her grasp on the birth certificates as if they were her only way to prove that she had some family left.


After that being said, Adrielle pulled Ariana into a warm, affectionate, sisterly embrace. They both had tears welled up in their eyes. “I can’t believe this.” Ariana expressed.


“Neither can I!” responded Adrielle agreeably. Both of them were overwhelmed but happy to find out the truth.


It was late in the afternoon, when the two girls decided to go down to the local boutique. They were laughing and sharing memories. Ariana heard someone calling her name from behind and twirled around to see Logan running behind her. In an instant he was right in front her of. She blinked her eyes a few times to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. “Ariana! Hey!” Logan greeted her in a suave tone. It took a while for Ariana to process anything until Adrielle nudged her.


“Logan! Hey!” she retaliated. She couldn’t keep her eyes off of him. Logan eyed Ariana’s figure. She’s beautiful. He thought. From behind Logan was Liam. “Well hello there Adrielle.” He said smirking flirtatiously. He couldn’t help but to smile as he saw her emerald eyes gleam as she acknowledged Liam. Adrielle rolled her eyes. “Hi.” She responded without emotion. Her stomach began to churn and she didn’t know why but she was happy to see him, even though she hated him. That thought made it churn even more. The rest of the conversation was mostly taken over by Ariana and Logan who seemed to be enjoying themselves. Adrielle and Liam stayed quiet and tried to avoid each other’s gaze. Adrielle made a small whimper when Ariana had agreed for them to go to the brothers’ house to hang out for a bit. Ariana ignored her sigh and continued to blush idiotically in front of Logan. She wanted to kiss him right then and there.


Adrielle and Ariana were frazzled when they saw the huge house that the brothers had lived in. They walked up the steps to the Seniti house and rang the doorbell. “This house is huge!” gasped Ariana as they waited patiently for the door to open. Adrielle was impressed and mesmerized by the house but chose not to show it.


“Oh great, they’re rich and snobby.” said Adrielle, secretly wanting to run inside and explore the huge mansion.


“Adrielle. Come on, Liam can be a douche but he isn’t that bad.” Ariana opposed. She lifted her hands to knock on the door again.


“Whatever.” Adrielle ignored her plea to help her make it through this day. The door finally opened and they were greeted by Liam and Logan. Liam held a sneer on his lips as he tried not to notice how amazing they looked.


“Hey. You guys look great.” said Logan, politely. He couldn’t take his eyes of Ariana. Her hair was perfectly framing her face, and her gold earrings brought out her deep satiny blue eyes. She was wearing a violet summer dress that matched his eyes perfectly. He grinned to