Flames;Sparkles...

chapter two

So this is chapter 2 please tell me what you think…>>

Chapter 2

Alex woke up with the sun in her face. The pale walls of the room lit up with a now pale gold color. She groaned and turned over to see what time it was when she noticed that someone had placed an alarm clock on her bedside table. Next to it was a note; she unfolded the crisp paper;

Dear Lexie,

Stopped by the store on my way home, and thought you needed something to welcome you home.

Love Dad

She threw the note on the bed and inspected the clock. Maybe he did mean well, but better safe than sorry. It was a nice clock, she was impressed, and it was exactly what she would have chosen. It looked like the face was stuck between rose vines and the hands were scattered with butterflies. She was speechless this was now convenience store pickup, Max had it specially made for her. He just said he went to the store to… why make her feel special or sad or … 'he did lie about it.' The little voice in her head said, it wasn't filled with resent, it just stated a fact. 'Yes, he did. And I want to know why.' She spoke to her bracelet. She got out of bed and rummaged through her boxes (not that she had many) for something to wear. It looked like it was going to be a rainy day so she settled for jeans and a turtle neck top that made her look like the fairy she really was. Although she looked different when her wings were displayed she still thought she was pretty. She kept her black hair just above her shoulders, and her violet eyes changed color with her mood, it suited her hair too. Her hair wasn't entirely black it had a shine of abnormal color now and then, and when it was wet it would capture water drops and make them look like diamonds.  She loved it when humans would look at it with envy; it made her feel that she was superior to at least someone. When she was in school she had lots of friends, yes, but they never really knew who she was. They were friends with her because she could get out of trouble even before she was in it.  Pull yourself together Lexthia! This is supposed to be a new beginning.  She chastised herself and turned to her dresser to apply some lip gloss. She didn't need any make up but she loved playing with the colors and making herself look like she just walked out of a fairytale story. Today however she didn't try it, one; she didn't know what her new parents would say and two; she wanted to blend in, in that wretched school. Why did she have to go through it all again if she already graduated from myth school? She already knew the answer to that, because the humans must stay ignorant. It was a mantra that was planted into her brain since she started school but she didn't care for that rule, she only followed rules that she understood, and this one was as confusing as most of the others were. She didn't really care about telling humans her problem was why her people was afraid of them, yes they were on earth to protect the humans, and some of the highest parliament members knew about their existence , but the laws seemed to repeat the fact that humans were dangerous. Maybe they hated things they didn't understand and maybe a secret world could throw the world economy of balance, but Alex's problem was humans made fun of the myth world because they thought it didn't exist.

With her thoughts in a jumble, she rushed down the stairs and came to a stop at the kitchen table and took her seat. 'Thank you for my clock,' she told Max, 'I needed a new one.'  He smiled at her and continued to read the newspaper. 'Please don't ever marry a man that is so engrossed in a piece of paper.' she told herself and started on her breakfast. 

He watched her get out of the car and nearly ran up to her. But the look on her face stopped him from any such thing. She looked like her heart had gotten ripped out. Her black hair was a dull gray that reminded him of the ash his father used to throw him in when he didn't obey his authority. Her eyes were dark empty voids, his heart tightened at the sight. Who dears to hurt her, who dears to break what he cares for? Before he could get any more infuriated a dark shadow came over the girl. She looked up slowly as if she wasn't worried at all about the horror above her. He watched in terror as the slimy coal like darkness picked up his world and slithered away. He waited for her screams to penetrate the air but she sat calmly in the palm of that thing's claw! His ice cold skin boiled and a roar ripped through his throat! NO! She can not do this to him; did she not love him back? Did she not care about him?  He saw as the monster dropped her into a crack that had formed in the earth, he saw as she dropped and fall farther and farther down. He dived after her down, down, away from the light and the air, into a new world away from the one where she had been his, suddenly he was not just diving for her, he was holding her, her eyes a strange blue and in her hair were the most beautiful pearls, her lips were the color of young rose petals on a spring morning. His heart rejoiced when her arms enclosed around his neck and she buried her face in his chest. He hadn't realized that he had shifted to the form between two species; he was gliding, escaping the treacherous cavern trapping them. As soon as he set his feet on the ground, he hugged her to him their tears mingling together as he kissed her as tenderly as the monster inside him allowed. The feel of her mind so close to his nearly made him faint but an annoying ringing sound kept interrupting his thoughts. His eyes flew open, for a moment he was disorientated