HAUNTED PRINCE by DENIS DANIEL (uplifting books for women .TXT) 📖

thought I was through the worst part, but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning. This new change was the most dangerous, because it would prove everything. Under different circumstances this would’ve been very cool, but in my case not so much. It was just increasing to my pile of problems which were already a sacksful. What was I supposed to think about this, about myself now! Was I supposed to pretend like it was nothing? Or what?

I got out but my mind wasn’t doing a very good job of thinking things through, so I just went to roots and shoots club, and environment preservation club. The one Veronica convinced me to join. But when I got there it was obvious that the people didn’t really want me there. It was agonizing to remain there for the rest of the session but I managed. After, I left by myself to go to my car. But before I could get there I bumped into the blonde girl, it was rather chased after by the Blondie. And I have to admit she was one of the most persistent people I’d ever met in my life. No matter how many weird things she found about me she always came back.

“Where have you been? I’ve been looking everywhere for you.” She said while panting and I didn’t even notice that someone was chasing after me.

“Why?” that’s all I could get out of my mouth at that time.

“You ask why! The incident earlier.” She whispered in a duh tone as if it was obvious and somehow it was. Considering her personality she wouldn’t have given up on something like that.

“You haven’t told anyone, have you?” I asked shocked and afraid because the idea of everyone knowing about it chilled me to the bones.

“Of course not,” she mumbled quietly her face contorted to a serious expression.

“Thank you, please don’t breathe a word to anyone about it. For all I know once people hear about it god knows what they will do to me.” I whispered back.

“I know, my mouth is shut like it never happened.” She said while zipping her mouth with her fingers.

“Thank you again.” Then I left without another word, because I felt like she was starting to get too involved. ‘But it seemed like it had to happen.’ I thought as I was heading to the parking lot.

“You owe me one.” She shouted after me while leaving through the gate.

I didn’t really like the sound of that. For the short time I’d known her I knew she was going to use that favor against me someday for her own good. And I didn’t see any possibility that I was going to benefit from it, anyways what’s done is done. I was going to wait for that day.

I got in the car waiting for Ashley to come from her cheerleading routine. Yah, she joined cheerleading and I wasn’t surprised because she had everything; the body, the height, the mind. She was perfect. If she wasn’t my step sister, I would’ve considered dating her; under different circumstances of course. And don’t get me wrong, I could never gotten attracted to her, she will always be my little sister.

But when I came to think about it. It was strange how she never told me anything about boyfriends. I know those kind of things may seem a little bit private especially to siblings, but I bet Ashley would’ve told me about them. She told me almost about everything, but I’d never heard her talk about those stuffs. She never told me even about a boy she was attracted to, while I told her everything about my girlfriends. She never told me about someone chasing after her. With a body like hers, there was supposed to be plenty of guys chasing after her.

Knock, knock, I heard from the window and I turned to look. There, Ashley was standing, based on the look on her face, it’d been a while. I opened the door and waited for the scold, but I got something quite different.

“Something’s wrong. And don’t lie to me.” She was dead serious, she had the kind of look that doesn’t take things lightly.

Man I never managed to keep things from her. But this one, I wasn’t going to spit out everything just like that, so I twisted the truth a little, “I got in trouble with Bratt, this morning and he beat me up.” I could see anger flashing on her face but there was something else. She wasn’t satisfied.

“And?” she asked impatiently,

“And I talked to the Blondie. God Ash! Do I have to report everything to you?” I asked frustrated to avoid more questions.

“Not everything, just the ones you need someone to share with.” She sounded sincere.

I wanted to tell her about my healing because it was going to make it so easy for me get through it. But I didn’t want to weigh her with yet another burden of my own. I didn’t want her to start worrying too much about it, because I knew she wasn’t going to reach the same conclusion as others would. And that was going to bring her a lot of frustration. I didn’t want that.

“Hey Ash, I have a question for you.” I asked as an awkward silence passed, when we were on our way home. Also to distract her from reading my emotions.

“What is it?” she asked half minded,

“How come I never heard you mention; a boyfriend, or a crush, or a suitor, or even a stalker, or anyone at all? While I tell you about my girlfriends all the time.” I asked teasingly so that it wouldn’t sound like a sex talk.

“Maybe it’s because the one I want isn’t for me to keep.” I never knew she could talk in riddles, which was a surprise.

“What do you mean?” I asked completely clueless.

“Let’s just say, I haven’t found my prince charming yet. That’s why. Besides sophomore boys are so childish and I can’t go out with kids,” she said proudly.

“So you’d rather go out with a junior?” I asked mockingly,

“Yes, they seem grown.” She said confidently,

“But they are too old for you?” I asked holding a chuckle.

“Come on it’s just a year older. It’s not that big of a deal.” She was looking out the window as she was talking, guessing she was uncomfortable with the topic so I just dropped it.

And that gave my brain the freedom to wander back to earlier, at lunch time. The memory scared the hell out of me, how could I heal so fast?

Why was everything changing now? From everything around me, to my own body? And I had no control over either. But before I could fall even deeper we arrived home.

Since I popped up the topic about boyfriends, suddenly Ashley was unusually quiet, so I had to ask her,

“Hey, are you okay?” I asked, trying to not show any signs of worry.

“Yah, I’m just exhausted, we had lots of practice today.” She answered, but it was an obvious lie, I didn’t push it though. I knew she had a reason.

Besides I was the one who lied to her in the first place, technically, I had no right to judge her. I turned off the car and we both headed inside the house. Today we were a little late because I drove slower than other days, and mom was at the kitchen preparing dinner. You can say that was the one thing she loved doing, cooking, and not just cooking but cooking for us; she told us several times. She was a great cook, too bad I wasn’t a fan of most of her recipes.

“Hi, mom.” We both greeted at the same time, and we both chuckled at that and earned a smile from mom.

“Hi kids, how was school?” she asked excitedly.

But the last thing I wanted to think about was school. School for me was full of mysteries and a new problem popped up every day, but I had to make mom happy. That’s all I needed to do.

“It was great mom, as usual.” I replied cheery,

“Same here.” Ashley followed but she was completely dry, expressionless.

It was strange because there was always something on her face; whether it was anger, happiness, sorrow, concern, or mischief, but today her face was flat. There was nothing, and that scared me. I thought it was because of my topic on our way home. But I didn’t know it would affect her that much. It was strange and I had to know why. At least she owed me that much.

After dinner I bid mom and Ashley goodnight then I headed to my room. What I didn’t know was how much of a solitary it was going to be. Every memory came rushing in, I tossed and turned in my bed trying to get some sleep, but I couldn’t. I kept remembering about Veronica and how she shouted at me with that deathly glare on her face. Then there was the healing incident at school. What was the connection between Veronica’s condition and the others together with my healing?

Could it be possible that it was true about what people were saying? That maybe I was killing them so that I could get some sort of powers. But that didn’t make any sense because I never wanted any superpowers, if they even exist. Besides I didn’t need them anyway, I loved the normal life I had. That thought triggered some kind of fear in me I never knew I had. Then out of nowhere Veronica appeared looking at me angrily with disgust. Was this a dream? I thought, I was actually thinking, thinking inside a dream. She approached me and slapped me hard on the left cheek,

“I’m sorry Veronica. I didn’t know.” I mumbled in my dream, but she didn’t say a word, she just turned to leave, “wait” I grabbed her hand to stop her.

But she yanked it away roughly and she started to walk away again, “please wait, I can explain.” I pleaded, and this time she stopped and looked at me with disdain.

But before I could say anything she vanished and I heard someone calling me. That’s when I realized it was actually a really dream.

CHAPTER 12;

 

But either way it felt so real that it scared the hell out of me. Watching Veronica that angry at me and the way she hated me, it was unbearable. I just wanted to explain things to her, that’s all, if only she could’ve listen my side of the story.

I opened my eyes and the first thing I could see was darkness, then the bedside lamp was switched on and made me flinch a little because of the sudden brightness. When I finally came to see who woke me up, it was Ashley and she was quite worried from the look on her face,

“Having nightmares,” she commented, she was sitting on the bed beside me.

“How did you know?” I asked suspiciously,

“I saw how restless you were and I figured it was another nightmare.” She was still worried,

“Yah, but today wasn’t all that bad. At least not like seeing cold corpses of my friends and girlfriends over and over again.” I said carelessly, it didn’t bother her though because I already told