Light in Darkness by Tammy (motivational books for students .TXT) 📖

Johnny asked as I approached the counter.
“Just a rough day is all.”
“That can’t be it. You look like you’ve been crying and I don’t think you take crying as something to do whenever you feel like it.” He said and I nodded.
“I have but that’s not important.”
“All right, what do you want?”
“You know what I want, I order it any time I cry or am having a wonderful time.” I said and he nodded.
“All right, we’ll make this one the house today.”
“Thank you.” I smiled grateful as he handed me one with the little straw I like to drink out of so I didn’t stain my teeth. I started to leave and ran into Leo. I tried to push the tears away and talk about him right off the bat. “Hey Leo, what’s up?”
“Hey nothing much.” He said and then frowned. I knew I couldn’t keep the subject on him for to long, he was too much like a brother to me. “What’s up with you?”
“Oh nothing really.” I lied.
“Don’t lie; you know that something is up.”
“I’ve just had a rough day is all.”
“Tell me about it. What happened to make it rough?”
“Oskan and I… we…” I trailed off choking on my tears and his concern grew.
“You and Oskan what?”
“We had a fight and we.. we”
“Take your time.”
“We well he broke up with me. He said he’ll have my stuff by the afternoon.” I said crying more.
“That little.. when is he going to stop ruining people’s relationships? I should go do something right now.”
“No you can’t I haven’t finished. It was weird his eyes were black and I don’t know what evil thing was in him but something was.” I said still sobbing.
“Alright, here come here.” He said and I got closer and he wrapped an arm around me. With his other hand he pulled out a phone and dialed a number. “Aqua is crying. Good I’ve got your attention. I know you hate me but I need you to come to the on campus coffee shop and comfort your sister while I sort Oskan out for what he did.” He said. “Because of what he did to her not anything else.” He paused and then explained what I had explained. Before I knew it I was being handed to Elle and Leo was leaving.
“Aqua listen I am so sorry. We will find out what demon got into him. You know that he loves you and wouldn’t do this on his own right?” She asked and I nodded. She calmed me and when I was done crying I took a sip of my now cold tea.
“Okay since I’m done crying can I get this heated up?” I asked her and she nodded. She took my tea to be heated up. I realized that the tears were I was crying were of desperation to be with my love. So I took out a bottle and put a few (using a handy dandy spell to get them off of my face) in a bottle. When she came back I felt better. I took a big drink of my tea and stood up. “Okay come on, if I stay here and don’t move around I’ll cry even more. I don’t think either of us wants that.”
“No we don’t. Come on we can go into town and buy new shoes if you want.” She said and I smiled. Deep down I still felt terrible but I wanted to push it down. She was going through a break up to. So maybe we could get through them together.
“Okay. You want some to?”
“Well there are some flats I had my eyes on.” She said and I nodded.
“Yeah I need some new flats to. There are some with a cute little bow on them.” I told her. We left campus and went to a human shoe store. We both looked around for about an hour and then both ended up buying three pairs of shoes instead of the original one pair. One of mine was navy blue flats and one was a pair of nude pumps. The other was a pair of sparkly pumps in silver. Hers were all flats of course in different colors. One was brown, the other navy, and the others white. We left the store happy and entered a craft store. I bought things to make feather earrings with while she proceeded to buy lace to trim the white flats with. When we got home she went to work on her shoes while I went to work on my earrings. When she was done I had about fifteen pairs of earrings done. I gave her some of course and we were trying them on when I heard a knock at the door.
“I’ve got it.” I said hopping up.
“You sure?” She asked and I nodded. I answered the door to see Oskan standing there with normal eyes, well as normal as they could be when one was bruised black and blue.
“Hello Oskan.”
“Hello. Listen I am so sorry. I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. Some black thing was in me. It must have been taking over. I have no memory of even doing any of the things Leo told me I did. The last thing I remember was you requesting a tear or something. Then after that it was being punched in the face by Leo and then me demanding an explanation.” He poured out everything all at once and I was overwhelmed and started crying again. Besides the being overwhelmed part I wasn’t sure why I was crying. I guess from relieve. “Aqua, shh shhh, it’s going to be okay. Listen I’m back and if you can find it in your heart to take me back please do it. I can understand if you don’t but I do love you.” He said hugging me and I fell into his shoulder.
“I thought that the evil inside you might last forever but I didn’t know. I thought it would be leave but I had no way of knowing. You said you didn’t love me as much as you thought and that I was in the way of your success.” I sobbed into his shoulder and he held me.
“All of that was the evil lying. I love you more than anyone. Aqua please understand that.” He said and could see tears welling up in his eyes as well. He pulled out a bottle and placed the tears inside using a spell. “Here you can even have the tears you wanted.” He said putting the bottle in my pocket.

“I didn’t know how long it would last. Or if you would ever return. I just know that I can’t live without you. It hurt so badly. I need you to hold me.” I looked up and he kissed my forehead before smiling.
“I would never leave you under my own will. And I will hold you as long as you need me to.” He told me and I felt the tears dry as they stopped flowing. When I calmed down I stood on my toes and kissed him quickly. I pulled out of his arms and went back to my sister who was awkwardly sitting there. However not as awkwardly as I thought she would be.
“That is so sweet! Wish I had someone like that.” She said and I felt my eyebrows rise. That’s what I told her before Oskan came. “What? Oh, Leo, I don’t count him because if he was like that I would be with him right now.”
“Okay sure.” Then wanting a change in subject before she argued with me I complimented her. “The red feathers look really good on you, mixed with the gold they really compliment you skin’s undertones.” I told her and she smiled.
“Thank you.”
“Your welcome.” I told her and then felt Oskan grab an earring that was dangling from my ear.
“I noticed you had some new earrings. Did you buy some?” He asked and I turned with a bragging smile.
“No, actually I made these and Elle dressed up her new shoes. And yes I also have new shoes. I also love bragging rights if you couldn’t tell.”
“Well then, may I see these shoes?” He said and I couldn’t tell if he thought that they would be bad or good.
“You sure can.” Elle said pulling up her shoes and he looked slightly surprised.
“Nice work Elle I’m sure others would like to see them.” He said winking at me and I knew where he was going and played along.
“Yeah maybe others at a party. Actually isn’t there a party this Saturday?” I asked Oskan and he nodded.
“Yes remember we were invited and allowed a plus one each?”
“Oh that’s right you should come Elle. Be my plus one.”
“Welllll….”
“Well nothing you have the shoes, I know you have the dress and you have a party animal inside you. You’ve got everything you need.”
“Well I can’t say no to the party animal inside me.”’
“YES! That a girl, and when we go in the morning to buy a rug we’ll pick up some eyeliner.”
“Okay, Aqua don’t get ahead of yourself though. I’m not letting you go full out on my makeup and stuff. If we’re going to a party I’m going to dance. Which means I’m going to sweat, makeup and sweat don’t go together. “
“That’s okay the humans have this great stuff and I know a spell but we can use the spray. You just spray it on your makeup and it lasts for hours. It’s called a makeup sealer or something like that.” I explained to her groan.
“Fine but no black smokey eye, if I’m going to wear white we can’t do black.”
“I know, that’s why we’re doing silver. It will also go with your silver jewelry.”
“Fine but I’m going to eat dinner now if you don’t mind.”
“Alright.” We all left for dinner and then went our separate ways home. The rest of the week went lovely and by Saturday I was hoping up and down with excitement.
Chapter 10: More Evil and the party
“Come on Elle we need to get up.” I said shaking my sister before giving up on that and just ripping off her blanket.
“Aqua! Fifteen, twenty minutes and I will be ready to get ready. I just need a little more sleep.”
“No Elle, it’s already nine thirty.”
“Fine I’m up anyway.” She said pulling herself up and walking to her closet.
“Good, don’t dress too nice. Shopping is just a ponytail thing.”
“Okay now get out so that I can change will you?”
“On it!” I said and since I was already up I went and grabbed my cash and pulled on my shoes. During my anticipation for her to get up I had gotten dressed and did all those morning activities already. Twenty minutes later I was already by the door as she walked out of her bedroom.
“Alright let’s get the rug and eyeliner and then I will let you get to work.” She said and I grinned. We left and as soon as we were at the magick rug store I saw the perfect blanket for my chair even if we were only there for a rug. I pulled Elle in and pulled it down. On one side there were beautiful flames enchanted to look real. The other side had waves again enchanted to look real and moving. They met in the middle to make a yin and yang sign. The crazy part was that on the flame side it was hot and the water side was cold. But when they met in the middle for the yin and yang it