moonlight secrets by Caitlin Keeton aka Gaara (great reads txt) 📖

Prologue

The little girl with the raven hair was running around playing with the beautiful black birds as her mother looked over at her disproving.
“winter those birds are the devils birds!” But the little girl ignored her for now she was staring into the intense black eyes of one who was both bigger and more beautiful then the other ones that seemed to fly around him as though he were their king. It was a he she was sure of it but didn’t dare move because something was telling her if she did then he would be angry. The bird loved the way her green eyes stared at him boldly lit up with mischief as though she was constily up to something. And she was always up to something always disobeying her mothers orders to stay inside and not eat the extra sweets her mother tried so hard to hide.
“Mine” the bird hissed. The little girl jumped. Had she just heard the bird talk? She watched as it gracefully flew into the sky. She wished she could go with him to fly and to forget the world she flew over. She wouldn’t have to deal with the constant teasing of her twin brother who called her the devils daughter. With one last look up at the sky she made her way to her mother who was now yelling at her to come there at once. She decided that she had after all just imagined the bird talking

Chapter #1 the blood that is shed is not shed for you but for our soul that seeks out the secrets of life itself

I woke up to the sound of a rain splattering against the pavement. It only took me a seconded to realize I was lying flat on the ground outside and I was freezing. How had I even gotten here? I wondered but made no move to get up I was perfectly content to be here staring up at the gray sky as rain was pouring down my face. So ignored my discomfort and didn’t even bother to be scared and confused because I didn’t remember a thing that had happened last night. I suppose I had gotten myself into this mess. If I hadn’t decided to sneak out against my strict parents wishes then maybe right now I would be getting ready for school. I grimaced at the thought of school. Id rather be stuck at home then be there. And that was saying something. My mom and step dad were strict Christians and when I say that I mean the worst kind. They always tried to make me dress in turtle necks and khakis but they failed. I was very good at sewing so I made my own cloths and ignored my parents constant nagging every morning walking out the door dressed as if I was a child of the night. I sighed everyday was the same for me id walk out the door with my mother screaming at me cause I was wearing the wrong cloths and I would go to school and disobey my parents orders to come home straight after school. Instead coming home at three in the morning. They hated that they had no powers over me my step dad once tried to pick me up after school but all I had to do was slip out the back door in the gym. I once again sighed this time I sat up only to flop right back down with a groan of pain. It felt like my head had been hit with a brick a thousand times. Did I get drunk last night? I wondered I had done this before but never had I not remembered anything. Ok I thought to myself you need to get up and go to school like the good girl you are. I smirked at how far fetched I was when saying good girl and me in the same sentence. After about a hundred tries I was up Yay I thought hmm I think ill reward myself I could skip today and maybe go see Adam and his gang at the tattoo place. And then I could go to that party tonight. I wouldn’t have to go home and go through the torture called my parents maybe I can even mange to stay in Adams apartment for a week. Adam despite my moms beliefs was only a friend maybe even more like a brother. There was a time when I had disappeared for a whole month when I was fifteen just hanging out with Adam and Scar. But when I came home I felt guilty when I saw my mom so worried. So if I disappeared it was only for a week or two. I yawned and looked around. As usual everything seemed dark and eerie . The town named west mill made Stephine Myers town of forks look like it was sunny California. I hated that series but my cousins were obsessed so I had to sit through the whole movie. West Mill was in main and was surrounded by green forest and a ten minutes walk from here was the beach. It was a small town but not really unlike most small towns you had plenty places to go and things to do. Everyone knew each other here. I squinted my eyes to look at the sign. Victorian lane. I gasped what was I doing here? Victorian Lane was on a hill that was the farthest from town and was by far the creepiest place besides the grave yard but that was at the bottom of the hill. On the top stood a Victorian mansion with iron gates and looked empty but from what I heard had a family living there. I shuddered I knew gossip was nothing but lies sometimes but it was rumored to in habit vampires. I made my way down the hill as fast as I could cause I didn’t want to stick around long. My imagination was already making up things was it just me or did it feel like I was being watched. I looked up to see a black raven looking down at me as if it was waiting for me to do something. I’m almost there I told myself wondering how I could have possibly stayed here the whole night. I let out a relieved breath when I entered town and made my way to the tattoo place. I walked in only to be greeted my the sound of blaring music. I smiled when I realized it was my favorite band eluveitie. I had introduced the band to Scar who was now just as much as a fan of them as me. So whenever it was playing it meant she was working. I had known Scarlett since I was in sixth grade and she was in seventh she was a year older then me so she was now eighteen. Adam was nineteen I had a habit of hanging out with people who were older then me.
“Winter!!!!” she screeched and hugged me with a huge grin as though I were some celebrity but then she gasped in surprise.
“What did you do last night! Your parents are going to kill you!” I frowned.
“What are you talking about?” she crossed her arms and scolded. She took my hand and led me to a mirror. When I looked in the mirror I gasped. On my neck was a tattoo it had a raven with wings spread and on its claws it was clutching a chain with a heart entangled. But that wasn’t the only thing that had changed in my raven black hair there was white streaks, and my green eyes were both darker and brighter, my skin was completely pale, and my lips were dark blooded red. The most disturbing thing was I wasn’t staring in the mirror looking awkward but completely graceful. Scar was staring at me through the mirror with a shocked and worried expression. I turned around to look at her.
“I don’t remember what happened last night did I get drunk last night?” she shook her head.
“Winter you were completely sober and I was with you the whole time!” I quickly explained the events of this morning. About how I had woken up with my head hurting and not remembering anything.
“Maybe you just hit your head when you were walking home you are really clumsy.” I nodded in relief happy to have a normal excuse then something weird like I was abducted by aliens. I decided to just ignore the fact that I had went from plain looking into some sort of goddess as scar so liked to say.
“it is really cool tattoo but your parents are going to have a heart attack.” she snickered. I glared at her not wanting to be reminded.
“I don’t know what to tell them. How am I suppose to explain that I don’t remember anything?” Scar snorted and rolled her eyes
“You don’t our they will think you got drunk just say you thought it would be cool. Then they will do what they normally do yell at you and tell you that your grounded you will stomp to your room and then ignore the punishment like you always do. Then they will forget about that because you did something else wrong.” She smirked and I laughed.
“you know me well.”
“Is that winter I hear!” I heard a voice ask. I grinned and turned around and tackled Adam and gave him a bear hug.
“What’s up and what’s with the cool tattoo?” I quickly explained things to him and he came up with the same thing as Scar had and that was that I must have hit my head. We all hung out for the rest of the day and in the end I decided that I should go home.


Chapter #2 ghost are nothing but an illusion it’s the past that haunts us
I walked in the door only to be greeted with my moms arms crossed looking angry and my step father behind her smirking. He loved to see me in trouble. He had always hated me. I think it was because unlike my twin brother who resembled my mother I resembled my Native American dad who lived on the other side of town. They had always hated each other. My step father was a pastor of the church and my father was practiced the ways of the native Americans which meant he worshiped several gods. My mom used to also even though she wasn’t a Native American but when I was just one and a half years old she had meet step evil behind her and he had brain washed her into thinking that the things my father did were wrong and my mom had believed him so she had divorced my dad and decided to marry him. Not a year later Lily was born so she was fifteen now and just like my twin brother was brain washed by my step father. Making me the outcast the only one who was different.
“Where were you!!!” I looked her straight in the eye.
“Out.” then I made my way past her which only made her even more mad.
“Do not walk away when I talk to you! I worried all night about you all night I was wondering if one of your heathen friends had hurt you!” I stopped in my tracks. If there was one thing I hated was when someone said