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message 1: by Novin (new)

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Here's the story until now , for newcomers :
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In A Heart's Beat
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As I walked home , I felt tottaly dizzy . It was the break of dawn & it would soon be nightfall ... I couldn't even feel my feet...couln't help falling.
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Suddenly everything went dark...

I woke up to a dark wooden ceiling above my head; not drywall like I was used too. Cobwebs lines the rafters of the roof. It was like a super-creepy run down shack. Surprised, I began to sit up. As I began to sit , I felt pain all over my body . I had also a bad headache , which was normal , according to the migrane I had.
But unfortunately, this one was worse than the rest of the ones that I was used to. I was forced to lay back down because of the blinding pain.

Then, someone walked into the room, and stuck something sharp into my arm. I got one look at the amazingly pale face and violet eyes before I fell unconscious.

*

I woke up once again, only to find the pale face and violet eyes staring into my face, concern was in her eyes. Somehow, I knew it was a her.

She turned to leave, probably startled because I had stared at her for a few long seconds.

"No! Don't leave!! Please talk to me!"

She hesitated for a moment , then opened the wooden door & left.
Before leaving the room she said " OK! I'll be right back" in a deep sleepy voice.Yet it was unlikely that she would come back soon . I still felt sleepy. I was fallen into all kinds of emotion, pian, scared, and now lonely. Would that girl come back for me? Or leave me here to rot?
I slowly sat up and looked around the room, only to discover the lack of furniture and dim light coming from a lamp in the corner of the small room. After a few minutes the girl returned with a glass of water and a sandwich.
"Eat," she ordered, "You're going to be here a while," and with that, she left the room once again and left me to my lonesome.
"what had i done ? why should I be here ? " I shouted , but she had again left and there was no answer.
Let's see I fell down a short distance from our house and I woke up here...why have I been bringed here? I had nothing special...we were a completely normal family like any other family in the neighborhood.There was nothing catchy about us.My dad was'nt wealthy & My mother didn't live with us...I'm totally confused... Confused, I slowly eat the sandwich like she ordred. As the hard, brick sandwich slitherd down my throat I herd voices coming from downstairs : "What do we do with her"? said a strange voice. "I don't know, but we have to do something", said another. The first one said, "Let's put our heads together. We have to think of something and quick".
Then there was a long that made me axnoise, then the same strange voice spoke, " We must hurry and do something with the girl, before she gets suspishus."

Then very soft foot steps came slowy back up the stairs towwards me, then the door opend : He walked in the room and offered me a glass of water. I took him up on that. He laced it with hemlock. He handed it to me and said, "Here's a nice, cold glass of water", to which I replied.
" i want to know why i'm here! anyways, why are you giving me that? you already gave me something to drink, so i'm fine for now!"
I assured him by drinking from the glass that the girl had giver me before, with the sandwich .
I looked up at the man towering above her and heard another set of footsteps enter the room. I looked and saw, who must have been the most beautiful girl in the world. her perfectly shaped nose, full lips, long eyelashes, and gorgeous auburn hair made her quite a sight to behold. the man stepped aside and let the girl approach her.
"so u want to know why you're here," the girl said, her voice dripping venom.
"ya," i nearly shouted, "i do. i have no idea why im here and my parents are gonna be worried out of their minds when im not home!" i didnt know what possessed me to yell at this gorgeous girl, but something about her was familiar, and the sound of her voice made me so angry i couldnt stand it.
she just smirked at me. she grabbed my face in her hand and pulled me up so i was inches from her face. Her minty breath was so cold, the beads of sweat on my forehead immediately froze, and so did all the saliva in my mouth.

"Because I hate you! And I am going to kill you for what you did to Brad," she whispered, voice dripping with hate.

"But I don't even know who you are!" I screamed, trying to pull away from her. But that only made her hold me tighter.

"Don't remember me? Don't remember me?!" she screamed, getting higher-pitched every sentence, saliva flecking my face.

"No! Who are you!!!??"

"I am your worst nightmare Sabrid." And with that, her black eyes looked into mine, and I fell into that well of blackness.



message 2: by Novin (new)

Novin | 178 comments Mod
I fell into a deep, dark, whirling void. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. I knew that once I got back to the real world, I wouldn't be able to ever look into those black, hypnotic eyes again. Then Sabrid said, "Brad will join us in our search. After what you did to him, you deserve to be tortured until you tell us where it is."
I fell into a dream...a really bad one. It was actually a nightmare.
In the dream I saw this girl getting closer & closer to me , followed by Brad.
I Forgot to say , Brad was my oldest cousin & best friend ever. I couldn't imagine why he had been in this story.What had Brad done to me?What had i>I done to Brad??
I saw the girl turn and embrace brad, glancing back at me to smirking. then, brad began to walk away and the happy look that she once had, turned into a sinister smile. it felt like her gaze was burning me.
I woke up, and tried to sit up, but a searing pain shot through my side. the lamp in the corner was turned off and the room was pitch black. i had no idea what time it was, but i knew that my parent had to be worried sick already.
I looked around the darkness, and even though I saw nothing, I felt a presence. the feeling that someone was watching me was unbearable. I tried to get up and get to the corner with the lamp, but the pain in my side was even more intense.
all of a sudden, a light went on and I sucked in a sharp breath. . . . .
I slowly let it out, only to see it was the girl that had brought me the food. i looked down at my side and gasped as i saw that i was covered in blood.
the girl noticed where i was looking and said, "anissa, the girl that came down earlier, did a number on u after u fainted."
"why am i here," i asked in a raspy voise.
"because im going to kill u," said a voice from the doorway and it was the stunningly beautiful girl again.
"why are you doing this to me? what have i done?" i cried, reduced to a pitiful state.
the other girl smirked. turning to the one that had brought me the food, she said, "tell her, enwyn."

So confused and angry I pulled away from the tray of food. My only way out of this miss way to pead, " Please let me go,I have no idea what you talking about. Once I don't come home everyone will be searching for me, And I don't think you want that kind of trouble."

My head was spining, Hopeing that my plead/theart was going to work on her. Then the other girl stared at her with scared eyes. Then she slwoly leand toward me again.
"im sorry," she said. i just stared at her, as she grabbed me by the hair and pulled me closer to Anissa. anissa pushed away the girls hand and grabbed me by the hair, she pulled me up so i was on my feet. my side was searing with an unbearable pain, but i knew not to say anything.
she looked at me, her black eyes stared into my green ones. it felt as though she wasnt only looking into my eyes but boring into my sole with her empty, lifeless eyes. "u still cant figure out why you're here," she said letting go of my hair and letting me collapse to the ground. she turned and gave me her back as she continued speaking, "brad was the best thing that had ever happened to me. he wasnt only my lover, he was my only friend, my companion, my soul mate, if you will. he was your cousin, and your brother's best friend. when you told your brother the horrid lie when brad turned the whole class against you. the lie that brad had killed his uncle, your father. your brother was so enraged that he drove his car off that cliff with both of them inside, leading them both to an untimely death. you took away my only friend!" she turned around and knelt down so that we were face to face. "an eye for an eye wont suffice now. i wont kill your friend because you killed mine, because your friend has done nothing to me. i will however take great pleasure in taking your life, to avenge the life of my best friend."
with that she motioned to the other girl and left, but the other girl didnt leave, she approached me slowly. . .
"Wait!You've taken the wrong person!"I said with a voice full of astonishment of the foolish story she had just told."What're you talking about? Brad killed my father? My bro killed himself and Brad both?" I laughed . A srprised one! "My father is alive & he's just waiting for me at home & Stan - my bro - is having his exams at Yale ! And 'bout Brad , he had killed no one , and no one killed him!!We were just planning a beach camping this weekend , together!" I paused . "As for you : you , actually your ppl , have certainly took the wrong person !"
I took a long breath .
"Remember , anyone who has a cousin named Brad , isn't the one who took your friend! There are so many Brads in this city , and most of them might have cousins! " I looked straight in her cold , mean , and ofcourse beautiful eyes : " YOU ARE MENTAL ANNISA! This is funny!!really funny! "
"Hey ! wait wait! "I said . " Yesterday you just told me "Brad will join us in our search. After what you did to him, you deserve to be tortured until you tell us where it is."

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message 3: by Gunjari (new)

Gunjari (irajnug) "So don't you see! This is all a mistake, wrong girl, I am telling you all I know and the truth. Why won't you belive me?"
The girl that was still in the room turned her back on me then spoke," You could be lieing." I had no choice I had to make her belive, so I slowly walked infront of her and looked into her sad eyes. " Look me in the eyes and tell me that I am lieing!" She did look into my eyes then she sighed heavily. i thought that she had finally seen the truth, and would let me go, but in the next instant she grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me vigorously.
"you wicked girl, you should be dead not him! he comes to haunt me, but i can only look upon him from afar because he is but a frail spectre, a mere shadow of who he was! the only way to let him rest is to take the life from you, so that he may go in peace, and leave me... forever..." and with that, her face went pale white and she collapsed, sobbing. "i must free him of his earthly bonds and give him peace, even if it means i can never see him again until we unite once more when i die!"
the boy who had come earlier looked away and exited the same door anissa did. i looked around the room and decided that i had to get away from anissa, she was competely mental.
the throbbing in my side had gotten a little better and i decided that i'd wait an hour, then try to escape. since there were no windows, i'd have to leave thru the only door. . . .
i took off my shoes and made for the door. even though enwyn was still in the room, her back was turned, and i figured that she was crying. i had just placed my hand on the doorknob, when she whipped around. she had been crying, but it only made her face more beautiful if anything.
"you must be confused," she murmured, gently leading me back to bed.
"you bet! your sister feeds me this crazy story, and all of the supposed DEAD people in it i've seen in the past week!" i replied, angry now.
"let me explain," she said, soothingly running her hand up and down the wound on my side. "you see, we, as you may have guessed, are not humans."
i stared at her. "you have got to be kidding. and i thought that you were the only sane person here."
she shook her head, regretfully. "look at your wound, if you want proof," she said.
i looked. it was gone.

i tried to put all this together, coming here, the 3 unusual people, the unknown wound that magically disappeared.
"wait, if you're not human, then what r u?" i asked staring at enwyn.
enwyn sighed and sat beside me on the bed, "my whole family possesses unsual powers, i have the power to heal, my brother, the man that came in earlier, can read minds, however my sister, anissa, doesnt know her power yet. it has cause her grief, and i think she has the power to sudduce and mislead. brad was her lover, ad she's told u. he dissapeared a little while back. she has chased after the person that caused him to dissapear. making up fake stories to see if she can get a confession."
"why does she have me then?" i asked, "all of my friends and family r still in my li-" i paused, then turned to enwyn, "last year, one of my really close friends disappeared without a trace and they still cant find him, but his name wasnt brad and he wasnt my cousin."

enwyn shook her head again. "i'm afraid that she beleives that she finally has the right person, as in you. i think that she will kill you as soon as one of us aren't supervising her or you. every day she grows farther and farther from us, and we used to be able to convince her to let each person that she captured go. but no more. she does not listen to reason, and worst of all, my brother cannot read her mind anymore." she looked troubled.
"can't read her mind? how can that happen?" i inquired.
"it can happen... if a person loses their mind. then, there is no mind to read." she looked up when i snorted. "you may find it silly. but it is in actuallity very serious. now, when my brother tries to delve into her thoughts, he only seed jumbles of disturbing images and words. some times, and these are the worst times, he cannot see anything at all. just a dark, endless void..." her voice trailed off, and her face was very troubled.

I just sat there forzen and confused. With so many qustions running through my mind...... who is this brad that she is talking about? Why do they think I killed him? Is this girl on my side? I must get out of here.
I slowly meet her eyes,they were dark and depressing, then I slowly asked one of my qustions.........

" Do YOU trust me? Do YOU belive me?"

"Actually , as far as Anissa has gone crazy , I can't trust her anymore, though I have no idea 'bout you and your family ..."
"OKEY! you said your bro can read minds. Can't he read mine???"

enwyn was confused. "why would he need to?"
"to prove that i didn't kill anyone!"
enwyn stroked her chin thoughtfully. "yes, that is a very clever idea. you are smarter than i thouht." she still looked troubled though. "but i am not sure if anissa will beleive him. she seems too swallowed up in her own fantasy these days." she added, ruefully.

" We have to at least try! It might be the only way to prove that am inasent." I stared at her hard till she would speak. She looked really focesed. " hey bro! come in here! she wants you to listen to her." Then the boy came into the room, If i wans't held here i would think that he was cute. " Read my mind, and if i am right, then i will help you find the real one." I said. Then the boy slowly leand toward me.........




message 4: by Novin (new)

Novin | 178 comments Mod
my face grew red. why was i thinking about kissing him at this time, of all times?
the boy put both hands on my head, and pressed his ear there. i was practically smothered, and meanwhile my heart was thumping wildly. then i realized that he could be reading my thoughts about kissing him. i blushed redder, if possible.
"control your emotions," he said, with a playful glint in his eyes, "i am trying to find the right thought."
it was a peculiar feeling, rather like someone was moving a metal detector around in my head. but not entirely unpleasant, either. suddenly he tensed up, and drew away from me sharply. he stared at me, with a look full of fear and hatred.
"you are the killer! it is there, in your mind! i saw it all... you are the reason my sister is like this! why?! why did you do it?!" he said, his eyes filling up with tears.
"calm down, erran," said enwyn, consolingly rubbing his back. "are you sure that she is the one?"
"yes, i saw it. but one thing doesn't make sense..." he answered, looking confused. "the memory is very out of place. it starts, and ends, abruptly. and there are no other connected memories... it's almost as if..." then he looked sheepish. "i'm sorry. i think that i judged you too hastily. i am most certain that you are not, in fact, the killer."
"what? but if you saw the memory... but how... I don't even remember it! what?!" i was totally confused. the guy saw this memory, when i could not remember it? "please explain!" i said.
"i beleive that the killer planted this memory inside your head, so that when your mind was read it would seem as if you are the killer. but he or she did it very poorly, and once i got over my emotion i saw that it was indeed, not your memory. but this is news. the only person that would be able to do that kind of thing would have to have powers, like us!" he said.
"you see, we always thought that we were the only ones of our kind. now it seems other wise" said enwyn. "we must talk with mom and dad. come" she said, gesturing towards me, "you are one of us now."

He looked deeply into my eyes, his eyes dialated and it seemed as tho he was in a trance. then all of a sudden he snapped back and looked and enwyn. he wispered something in her ear and took her into the hall, as tho he was shy to talk in front of me. i heard the conversation faintly....
*
"when i looked into her mind, i saw that she was with brad when he was killed. she apparently does not remember this. the killer must have taken all memories of brad out of her brain, and transplanted memories of killing brad," whispered erran.
"this is serious" said enwyn.
"the question is, what should we do? the more i delve, the more questions come up than answers!" said erran
"should we tell her?" inquired enwyn.
"she'll find out anyways, when we all discuss it with mom and dad," said erran.
"don't worry, i can hear you guys anyways," i said, coming out into the hall. the others jumped. erran looked uneasy.
"there's something more, right?" i said, reading his expression. "there's something that you found, in my brain, that you don't want to tell me?"
erran turned away. "let's talk this through with my parents," he said. "we need to figure this out," and he started descending the stairs.
"why won't you tell me?" i implored, but to no avail. i let it drop. i knew that i would find out anyways.
once we had reached the first floor, i met the parents. the mom was stunningly beautiful, with silver hair that reached the floor and golden eyes. her name was kemma, and her personality was slightly detatched. the dad was tall shadowing the mother, he had dark hair and semmed very tensed when he saw me. i took deep slow breathes and tried to focus.then the woman reached toward me and in a stunning voice , she said hello & appologized for her daughter's recent insanity .
She looked sad , but her voice was beyond everything, when she speaked , it was like she was singing a lullaby ...





message 5: by Novin (new)

Novin | 178 comments Mod
erran explained the situation to his parents, once he was done, his parents sighed and said "sit down, all of you. we hoped that you'd never have to find this out, but we must explain because you are the only people who can fix this."
The three of us st down and looked at kemma, "you may think that the five of us are the only ones with these strange powers, but your father's brother has them, too. the four of us, erran, enwyn, keith, and i, we use our powers wisely. like anissa, he didnt choose the right path and decided to use his power wrongly. i didnt think his self hatred escalated to that he would kill. i see now that i was sadly mistaken. he can as you thought remove and replace memories."
"how'd you know that they were talking about that?" i asked her.
she chuckled lightly and said, "im sorry, i failed to tell you my power. my particles separate and i become invisible and free to go anywhere. keith here has the ability to walk through solid things, like walls and floors. he can also sometimes sense the future, but only vaugely."
"so how are we going to get to the bottom of this?" i asked, afraid of the answer i knew would come.
"we must go confront keith's brother, who's name is brian. but it will not be easy," she sighed.
"he has such ridiculous ideas," added keith. "you see, he lives in a castle surrounded by a moat and guarded by armed soldiers in russia. he controls them with his power. he is in the lap of luxury, and has the most hi-tech protection system in the world."
"does anyone know about him and his castle?" i asked. "i mean, wouldn't some people notice if there was this castle and this person living in it with soldiers?"
"of course they notice," erran answered, "but they never remember that they noticed."
"that's crazy! so no one even no that he's there!" i exclaimed, "will we?"
"if we defeat him, everyone will regain their memories and forget the false ones."
"im ready to go," i said, "r u?"
"yes," said kemma.
"yup," erran said.
keith nodded his head.
everyone looked at enwyn, and she said, "what happens if we dont win?"
"we wont have to find out. we are going to defeat my brother," keith said calmly, shocking everyone with his bluntness.
"then im in," enwyn said, smiling at her father.
"good," kemma said clapping her hands, "we leave at sundown."
After are little meeting, ran to the bathroom to clean up my wound on my side, daping it with cold water and soap. when i was finished i retured to my prison cell and stared to collet my things on the floor, ready to go at sundown. I was scared and a bit nervous, it would take a while for all the info to sink into my head, then the door opend and in came annissa.
"you think that you are leaving without me?" she said, creeping closer and with a quiet malice in her voice. i was frozen. she held up her hand, ready to rake her sharp nails accross my face. i cringed, and tried to move but i couldn't.
suddenly she dropped her hand, realizing something. she leaned in close. she pouted.
"why are you leaving me?" she whimpered. "don't go! i'll be all alone." she grabbed my hand.
i remembered vaguely that her power was to influence people. i had to fight it!
"no!" i said decisively. "i'm going!"
i got up and started marching towards the door with my stuff. Anissa whirled around and raced after me, tackling me with surprising force for a girl so frail. her face inches from mine, she grinned, showing sharp teeth.
"please?" she said, acting hurt again, although her grip did not loosen. "please? don't leave me all alone!"
i was starting to lose it. i could feel myself about to say "of course! i'll stay for you!"
but before i could the door burst open and i was flung to the other side of the room. my savior tussled with annissa, finally managing to drag her out of the room and into hers. i heard her door slam. then he came back in, and i saw that it was Erran.
"sorry she got out of her room." he said. he helped me up. "are you okay?"
i held onto his hand, not wanting to let go. it was strangely comforting. looking into his eyes to reply, i suddenly lost my voice. instead i hugged him, since i couldn't speak. why did my brain shut down whenever i looked at him?
we stood there for some time, in that same position. then he tilted my chin up.
"you're welcome," he said.
then he was gone.
i just stood there. then i gathered my things, and went down the stairs to join the others. halfway down i remembered to breathe.
I took deep breaths not to gain attention when i reached everyone and fortunately i was calm then. Kemma , Keith , Enwyn & ofcourse Erran were already there , waiting for me to join . I could here Anissa crying in her room , I was just 'bout to go to her room & stay with her , but then i realized i was being tricked again.let her cry , untill she dies!! i told myself & then I went to stand near Erran , we made a circle.
"How are we supposed to leave?" I wondered.
In her soft voice , said Kemma " that's up to keith. We've just gotta keep eachothers hands tightly"
And i was gald to get Erran's hand.He squeezed my hand tighlty, when we began to move he leaned close to my ear and said" Don't worry, i won't let anthing happen to you." When he pulled away he was smiling at my now red cheeks.
then kemma, keith and erran started concentrating really hard. i guessed that they were combining their powers. i looked on as a whirlwind enveloped our tight circle, and then we were moving really fast through the roof and into the sky. i looked at erran only to see nothing. frightened, i almost screamed before i realized that we were all invisible. then we started moving west faster than humanly possible. in what could only have been seconds we crossed the pacific ocean, half of asia, and landed in a field in what i guessed must be russia. we landed surprisingly soft after traveling so fast.
Keith looked very serious. "since kemma, erran, and i have powers, we can block our minds from my brother's illusions. but you don't have any, so you must stick to erran at all times so that he can keep your thoughts in check. do you understand? you must not leave him."
i wasn't complaining.
"Why did we just land in the middle of nowhere?" i asked. "will we have to walk far?"
Keith's face was grim. "it seems as if my brother's powers have taken an immediate effect. show her, erran."
erran grinned and clasped my hand. immediatly, i saw that we were in fact standing a few hundred yards from an extravagant castle. "woah..." i said. it was a huge stone number, complete with the turrets and the moat. i could see armed gaurds patrolling the battlements.
"i have made it so that we are invisible, but we can still see eachother," said kemma. "although being invisible isn't going to help us that much against my borther-in-law's other protections" she added darkly.
i shuddered, trying not to imagine the possibilites.
we advanced towards the castle briskly, stopping at the moat. the drawbridge was up.
"now what?" i asked.
erran grinned. "you don't think that a mere moat can stop us?"
i blushed. why do i say the most stupidest things?
keith said, "on three, i will use my powers to let us sink into the ground. then we will walk underground until we come into the dungeons. i do not know what to expect in there, so we will have to be very careful when we walk in, understand? also, we have to keep holding hands for my powers to reach all of us. otherwise, you'll be stuck in the ground and will most likely suffocate before we can find you again."
i gulped. "okay..." i said.




message 6: by Novin (new)

Novin | 178 comments Mod
"1...2...3!" said keith. we sank into the ground and started off at a brisk pace. a few steps forward and i heard water above us, and realized that we were walking right under the moat. all was dark.
finally, we came to a stone wall. cautiously, we stepped through.
we came out in a dungeon. a weak light came from a lone flickering bulb overhead. we walked lightly. as i passed the cells, i saw that they were empty. would we end up in there? i wondered. i gripped erran's hand more tightly.
Erran smiled at me in response, then let the others go ahead a little so that it was me and him in the back, holding hands. " you know, your very breave for a human." i looked at him confused, i as terrifed. "No, acutally i am scared to death, i just put on a brave face, looks like it wroks on you." He lowerd his face to mine, i could smell his sweet breath on my face oh how much i wanted to kiss him. then he said" I will protect you, no matter what no matter who. you are safe with me, just pease don't leave my side." Then he leaned away and counited to walk with the other's till we say a big think door.suddenly, everything around me started to flicker, like a dvd that got scratched. "what's going on?!" i shreiked. then erran pulled me close in a full hug. everything went back to normal. i looked at him, my face going red. "...explain?" i said.
"well, the nearer we get to him, the more the force of his illusions grow. it doesn't affect us, but it does to you. before, holding your hand was enough to ward off the illusions. but now..." he paused. "hmm... i think this will suffice." his hug loosened a little, so now only one of his arms were around my waist. "it's easier to walk this way."
i smiled up at him. "thank you."
Wow! It felt great. what was his feeling about this?did he like me?I thought.and i blushed again as i remembered that he could read my toughts.
we walked down the thickly carpeted extravagent hall. his hand was burning a hole through my pants... i leaned against his side. he smiled at me.
"i need to remember that i'm on a dangerous mission to combat a guy with superhuman powers" i reminded myself. "this is no time to think about romance!"
But i coud't help but look into his perfect face and eye's.
we ascended higher into the castle. maids and butlers rushed passed accasionally. sometimes you could get a peek through an open door and veiw an expensive room.
finally we reached the largest room of all. kemma lifted the invisibility spell. "it will not help us anymore." she said. then enwyn knocked firmly on the door...
"come in!" said an annoyed voice. "i know who you are!"
slowly enwyn opened the door and we walked inside...
as i walked inside-in errans hug- i couldn't help gasping; the room was charming & really big...you couldn't see the end from the entrance & in the middle sat a hansome , midleageed man , dressed in expensive clothing. His eye's were gree , although you would think they were gold in some ways , matching his charming gold hair. He smiled , a nice one & stood up to greet us. I was charmed by his gentleman manner...
This was definitely not the man who had destroyed my memory , I could always feel things right , when i looked into a person's eye , no matter who he was , what powers he had , i knew if he was guilty or not & i was sure this man wasn't.
erran frowned when he heard my thoughts. "are you sure?" he whispered. i nodded. i was quite certain.
"well, there's no use in asking, now that we're here," he shrugged. "i mean, it's not like we can just walk out again since we've already walked into his office."
quickly i relayed my feilings to kemma, keith, and enwyn. they shrugged. "we'll still ask," said enwyn. "just to be safe."
I can't think og anything to add, someone add something, and please don't delete the story it's really good.
We all took a step forward, me preparing for the worst. Then the tall man stood up and spoke. " HELLO! My dear friends! How are all of you?" He said this while looking carefully at all of us, then he spooted me."Ah, you. Now I see why you are all here. I was hopeing for a friendly vist, but this dosen't look friendly." All while he was saying this he was glareing right at me. Then he took a step towards me and touched my chick , his skin was soft , it didn't hurt anymore , he looked into my eyes - & at that moment I could see his innocence , I could feel it , he really liked to stay with us , with his family- and then he said :" Great choice , Erran , you've nicely grown up , since i last saw you , really charming , you've got, boy !And a nice girlfriend you've found!She's somehow one of us , with her power of feeling , that's great! " every one seemed astonished.They murmured good things with themselves & erran said "I knew it!"in a way that just i could hear...,"NO!" I thought with ma self,"He is innocent, someone else must've done this"& Erran read my thought, he looked at me , his look was sure , of me , of his uncle.
I knew two things now: first , I had the power to feel the right feelings , and i was astonished by that.second , we had to look for some other person , this time with help of Kadyn, erran's uncle.
after a while, everything was cleared out. we knew that kadyn was innocent. which means that someone else had planted those memories in my head... and that someone was also probably the murderer of anissa's dead lover. only... who could it be?
one thing was for sure: i was actually one of them! i had a power, which gave me instinctive feelings. i no longer felt inferior to the rest of the family. apparently, you didn't have to look dashingly beautiful or have violet eyes to have a power... it was a big mystery, really. i wondered how many people i talked to every day really had magical powers, and didn't even know it? and how could I happen to have them, when nobody else (to my knowledge, at least) in my family had them?

we were back at erran's house, and kadyn had come with us. annissa was holed up in her room, as usual. she really creeped me out...
even though kadyn had called me erran's 'girlfriend' during the meeting, he hadn't done anything to correct him. does that mean that he accepted me? one could only guess...
that night, during dinner, erran stared at me accross the table. he had been acting a little off the whole afternoon, but i guess that he was just tired. after dinner, he stopped me in the kitchen, where i was washing the dishes.
"meet me in the yard at midnight," he whispered. then he was gone.
i frowned. this was not like him...

...that night i crept into the yard. erran was already there.
"what do you need?" i whispered.
suddenly he grabbed me, and stuffed a rag in my mouth, so i couldn't scream. i was caught by surprise. WHAT WAS GOING ON?!
quickly, before i could react, he bound my arms and legs, rendering me completely immobile. then, he carried me roughly into the house, and stuffed me in the crawl space under the stairs. he leaned in close, leering at me.
"there. now you won't trouble me, with your newfound power," said erran. except, the voice wasn't errans. it was... annissa's?
suddenly, before my eyes, erran morphed into annissa. she laughed menacingly.
i was confused. annissa had the power to control people's emotions... not change shape. and why would i bother her with my new power?
it made sense why erran was acting wierd though. annissa had probably tied the REAL erran up in her room, and gone masquerading as him the whole evening.
annissa laughed again, then walked out and slammed the door shut, but not before saying, "sweet dreams. they might find you in a few weeks. by then you'll be DEAD!"
i shuddered. so this was how it was all going to end, was it?
i slept fitfully that night. i was in a really uncomfortable position, and there was nothing i could do about it.



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the next morning, my throat was parched and i was dying for some breakfast. it didn't take long for them to realize that i was gone. many pairs of feet thundered up and down the stairs, and at least once or twice walked right by the crawl space. i could tell that enwyn was almost hysterical. meanwhile, erran's voice got more and more panicked, finally turning into a dead monotone. not one of them checked the crawl space. i tried to wriggle and make some noise, but only managed to get more uncomfortable. i heard something pop in my back. that couldn't be good...
I was asleep for the next three or four hours , the next thing i remember was annissa tied to a bed , asleep & erran's worried , sick eyes looking at me , I couldn't see & speak clearly , but i tried to say:wh...wha'...hap...en...ed??
Erran said: "we were so worried! thank god that you came too!"
"what... happened?" i asked again. it was difficult to keep my eyes open.
"we were looking for you... and finally we interrogated annissa. i thought that it was strange when she sent me out to get her medicine from the next town yesterday, because usually she doesn't need it till the end of the month. by the time i got back, past midnight, i didn't see anything amiss. then this morning you were gone and when we sat her down, she started crying but finally said that we might look under the stairs... and we found you, but you had passed out from lack of food..." he looked agonized.
"water," i croaked. he quickly took the glass from the bedside table and tilted it to my lips. i drank greedily. after that i felt much better, and a few bowls of nourishing soup later i fell into a contented sleep. when i woke up, i felt much better. i saw that they had moved me out of annissa's room and into my old one- the one i shared with enwyn.
i felt so energized! i must have slept for a really long time. quickly, i got out of bed and headed down the stairs. as i turned at the landing, i bumped into erran coming up, probably to check on me.
he smiled. "you're all right!"
i beamed. "good as new!"
he stared at me. then his hand went instinctively up to place a wayward strand of hair behind my ear. suddenly, he was hugging me. "i thought we'd lost you," he murmered into my ear.
"i couldn't imagine... what i would do... if you, if you..." his voice broke.
"Come on , Erran! I wasn't going anywhere..." i paused for a moment , and then added: "with you close." He looked into my eyes , with his wet , nice eyes , hold my head between his marble hands & suddenly, right there , down the stairs , he put his lips on mine , brushing them over my lips.





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