“Why am I just learning about this supposed mountain trip?” she asked and Arya sighed turning to her mom while throwing her arms upwards in the air.
“Mom, we go for school trips every year; why are you freaking out because I’m telling you a night before?” Arya asked not understanding why her mom was acting so worked up.“You go for school trips every year and this year, it’s some freaky mountain? And you are telling few hours to the trip? You must be kidding me?!” her mom yelled as she walked towards the table and grabbed her phone.“I’m calling your school authorities. They must be crazy to think I’ll let my daughter go some mountain in the same of some stupid school trip” she muttered while Arya’s mouth dropped agape. She quickly rushed towards her mom collecting the phone from her and ending the call.“Mom, what are you doing?” she asked while her mom turned to her with a frown on her face.“Give me my phone Arya” her mom replied firmly.“Mom, are you trying to embarrass me in front of the whole school? It’s just a mountain trip for goodness sake!” Arya yelled as both mother and child stared at each other without saying anything. Arya watched her mom adjust her clothes before swallowing her saliva.“You won’t be going for that trip Arya” her mom said and an incredulous look appeared on Arya’s face.“Mom, what did you say?” Arya asked.“I just said; that you aren’t going for this school trip. Go and sleep” her mom replied and attempted to walk away but Arya was quick to block her way.“I won’t listen to you. you can’t just decide that” Arya said her veins bulging through her forehead.“I looked forward to this school trip for so long and yet you are telling me I can’t go?” Arya asked shaking her head.“I won’t listen to you. I don’t care if I have to jump through my window and run away from home but I am going to go for that school trip” Arya revealed and her mom stared at her; her eyes wide with shock.“You would rather jump through the window or run away from home to disobey me Arya?” her mom asked and Arya swallowed her saliva.“Mom! I looked forward to this school trip so much; why won’t you let me go?” Arya asked in reply.“You would disobey your mother because of a school trip” her mom said again while Arya swallowed her saliva.“Mom, I need to go for this school trip. Everyone else is going and besides, I’ve never gone up the mountain before. This is a chance to see how it looks like” Arya said trying to convince her mom.“And in the first place, I’m yet to understand what this argument is about” Arya said.“I have gone to the mountains before and it is dangerous. You won’t be going for this trip Arya. I am not joking” her mom repeated sounding even more firm.“Mom, I have to go for this school trip. If the mountains were dangerous, the school wouldn’t have chosen that location in the first place. Besides, it’s Mount Mollejo, it’s place where everyone goes to take pictures and skate during winter. I don’t still understand why you are claiming it’s dangerous” Arya replied while her mom pursed her lips.“I won’t be changing my mind about this trip Arya, you won’t be going” her mom said and Arya scoffed.“It’s not my fault that you met with a mishap when you went visiting in the mountains. Why are you tying me down with some mistakes you made? I’m sure you were careless and that is why something happened to you” Arya muttered but her mom could clearly hear everything she had said. Arya turned to see her mom staring at her with pained eyes, she instantly wished she could take her words back.“Arya!” someone yelled and Arya sighed softly before turning to her Dad.“Dad, will you talk to Mom instead? She won’t let me go for the school trip” Arya complained while her mom swallowed her saliva and wiped down the lone tears that had slipped down her eyes in that moment.“Do as you wish” she muttered before hurrying up the stairs.“Thank you mom” Arya hollered after her turning to see a frown on her Dad’s face.“Is this how we raised you up? You talk to your mother like that? To use her past experiences against her; Arya?” her Dad asked while Arya swallowed her saliva.“I’m sorry Dad. I didn’t mean to talk to her like that. It’s all her fault for trying to stop me from going for the school trip” Arya replied trying to defend her actions.“It’s her fault? Arya can you hear yourself?” her dad asked his voice a top notch higher.“You insulted your mom and it’s suddenly her fault?” her dad asked again scoffing.“When did you start thinking like this Arya?” he asked again while Arya swallowed her saliva.“Dad, it’s not that serious” Arya replied but seeing the change of faces of her Dad, she wished she never spoke.“Not that serious Arya?” her dad asked while nodding his head.“I want you to ask yourself; if there has been anything you wanted in your entire life or anywhere you wanted to go that your mom didn’t give you or didn’t allow you to go” her dad and Arya froze.“Just this one time, and yet you insulted her and made fun of her” her Dad added sighing softly.“We are keeping you away from a damned destiny but you are running to it” he muttered as Arya sighed.“Dad….” She started but her dad was quick to cut her off.“You can do as wish Arya. No one will say a thing” he said interrupting her before walking up the stairs without another word.Arya rubbed her forehead while leaning on one of the seating room chairs sighing softly. She needed no one to tell her she had messed up big time. She and her parents had barely had an argument in years, they always gave in to her no matter what it was.The last time this kind of argument happened was when Arya wanted to wear a sleeveless dress for her school Christmas party and her mom disallowed her because she thought her breast were on display. They had a little argument but after persuasion, she agreed.And even when Arya thought about it, it wasn’t an argument, it was plainly her mom not liking her dress and that was all. Arya placed her head in her palms wondering why she had blown up at her mom like that without thinking.Anytime she asked, she had gotten it, they gave her, they gave in to her and this one time that her mom said no, she wouldn’t take it; after all they had never said no to her before. Remembering her parents faces when they walked to their rooms’ Arya wanted to rewind the time and speak to them properly.She snapped her fingers turning off the lights while climbing the stairs and walking towards her own room. The silence of the house seems to even choke her more as she pushed the door of her room open and she stepped inside turning in the lock before flying towards her bed.She scrolled through her phone and sent Eileen a message. That was the only person who could help me amend her relationship with her parents. After a few minutes that Eileen hadn’t replied; Arya quickly came to the conclusion that she was busy playing games with John because on no account would Eileen ignore her messages and Eileen never slept as early as nine pm; it was always the latter.Arya turned uncomfortably on her bed feeling bad and horrible with her emotions all over the places. Her words came rushing back to her and Arya palmed herself on the forehead.“It’s not my fault that you met with a mishap when you went visiting in the mountains. Why are you tying me down with some mistakes you made? I’m sure you were careless and that is why something happened to you”Arya mentally slapped herself again recalling those words. What had she been thinking? Recalling all their family trips and world tours; they had never gone on a mountain before, they had even gone binge flying and water skating in high waterfalls but never the mountains. The thought that something horrible might have happened to her mom on the mountain before further increased the guilt that she was stifling inside her. And then she had blamed the older woman for whatever misfortune had happened to her.“Arya; what were you thinking?” Arya whispered to herself rolling her eyes for the hundredth time.Turning on the bed, she decided to apologize to both of her parents the next morning, without even realizing it, she gave in to the god of sleep.By the time Arya woke up the next morning, she was quick to rehearse her apology in her head while stepping out of her room. She jogged down the stairs with a smile on her face but much to her shock; the dining room and the seating room was empty. Her eyes flew to the digital clock on the wall and it read few minutes’ past 9am in the morning, her parents were early risers and most of the time as early as 6 in the morning, they would be up.She quickly jogged back up the stairs and knocked on their doors. Receiving no reply, she swallowed her saliva and pushed the door open. The sight of the empty room and well laid bed brought Arya to a pause.Her parents had left the house without a word to her.The realization reeled back and hit Arya in the face. She slowly closed the door and walked to her room plopping on the bed and staring into space. It had never, never happened before. her parents were busy people; her Dad worked in one of the biggest hospitals in Denmark and was also one of t
The journey to Mount Mollejo took approximately five hours; if you removed all the time wasted while trying to pick up snacks and drinks from the supermarket. Arya yawned lightly as soon as the students started getting off the bus. She had always been excited about travelling. Her Instagram stories would be full of the nice environment while she travelled but because of the mentally tasking events that had taken place before’ Arya couldn’t even bring herself to do anything. Not to mention that Brad almost got left behind while searching for his camera and had to get into another bus entirely.Arya lifted her bag over her shoulders and stared at Brad’s bag before trying to lift it.“Babe, I’m so sorry” a very familiar voice drifted into Arya’s ears as the weight on his shoulder disappeared. A small smile fitted across Arya’s face while laughing at herself. It was already a lot of work trying to carry her own bag but Brad had lifted both hers and his very easily. She followed him out of
Arya was sure that anger and irritation had mixed up in her blood because she almost couldn’t describe what she was feeling. While the other gathered around for the bonfire; she refused to join them and decided to go for a walk in the woods instead.Her parents, Eileen and then Brad.What the hell was wrong with all of them? Why did they all have to choose one day to infuriate her or turn their backs on her? They could have easily picked different days so that on every day they choose to go bonkers she would have a backup and someone to talk to.She checked her phone for the hundredth time and there were zero missed calls from her parents. She had sent them both a messages earlier apologizing for going against their wishes and saying mean things to them. They had gotten to Mount Mollejo and seeing the serene; she thinks she’s going to have a very good time. She asked them to call her back and even attached a picture of her and her tent.And that was over five hours before and Arya was
By the time Arya opened her eyes, meeting the familiar room décor and warm feeling, she realized that she was in her room and relief washed through her before she froze again. Memories of the previous night rushed into her head and Arya managed to seat on the bed praying that whatever might have happened was a dream. Just as she was thinking, there was knock on her room door.“Come in” Arya muttered quietly. The door opened and her mother let herself in with her dad behind her.“Hey baby girl” her mom started walking to her to hug her but Arya was quick to shrink away from her freezing her mother in place.“Who are you? Where have you hidden my mom?” Arya shot at her mom and seeing the hurt flash through her mother’s eyes, she swallowed her saliva and turned to her Dad.“Dad, something weird really happened yesterday. Something really weird” Arya started darting glances at her mom.“Things weird as you seeing humans morph into wolves and wolves morphing into humans right?” Her Dad ask
Arya didn’t know when she slept off but when she woke up, there was Eileen seating at the edge of her bed.“Are you feeling alright?” Eileen asked quietly and Arya stared at her confused.“How did you know I was at home Eileen?” Arya asked not wanting to believe the thought that swept across her mind.“Because, I as well, I am a wolf” Eileen replied quietly.“I am a werewolf specifically to protect you” Eileen added.Arya stared at Eileen as if she had grown three heads. She chuckled while trying to seat up on her bed.“So you knew about this all long?” Arya asked and Eileen nodded her head.“Yes, I did” Eileen replied.“That was why you went all freaky when I decided to go for the mountain trip. You even had a big fight with me because of it” Arya pointed out but silence was served as an answer for her.“I don’t even know who to trust again. You who I took as my best friend kept such a huge secret from me” Arya said and Eileen chuckled.“Like you would have believed me if I told you
Alston brows pulled together lightly while listening to what the chief priestess had just said. He had never heard of such child of destiny; how did she appear in the pack?“Why don’t you explain this to me well Nagi? I do not understand what you are saying” Alston said quietly his words bringing silence to the pack that had gathered at the hall.“A child that has been destined to bring woes to our lands? A child destined to be blessed with dark witches’ power greater than we have ever seen? What is that child?” Alston asked again.“Years ago, the former chief priestess committed an abomination, no one knew how she did it or what she did to make it happen but a prophecy came from other priestess that the child the chief priestess was carrying was that child of destiny” Nagi replied bowing her head as she spoke.“If the prophecy came out then, shouldn’t she have been arrested?” Alston asked his brows furrowed twice as before.“The chief priestess was the strongest priestess that the we
“Ready to go back to school?” Arya smiled slightly watching her mom set the table. It had been a week since she last went to school. After everything that had happened and Eileen explaining everything to her, Arya had decided to go back to her normal life before the incident. She couldn’t continue staying cooped up at home doing nothing. Besides as along as Eileen was with her, she was going to be fine so after much deliberation, she decided to go back to school.“Not excited, I feel way too normal for a school day” Arya replied and her mom nodded at her.“I know. Things are not the same anymore Arya, things are different for you now” her mom replied and Arya nodded.“I guess so” Arya replied shaking her head and stretching to pick a pancake.In reality, for some reason she was anxious and nervous to go back to school. She had no idea why but she knew that her mom was right, she had all of sudden realized that her life was not what it seems to be.“Eileen is here” her mom said and Ary
“You look so distracted” Eileen said searing her fries with ketchup. Arya grabbed her soda and took a gulp without replying Eileen.“Is this about Angry Bird being your Protector?” Eileen asked and Arya finally raised her head to meet Eileen.“Eileen I feel…...” Arya started to reply but Eileen cut her in half.“Terrible. Guilty” Eileen finished for her and Arya stared at Eileen stunned for a moment and nodded her head.“What should I do?” Arya asked and Eileen smiled slightly.“Nothing Arya, there’s nothing you can do about that. What has happened has happened Arya. The only thing you could have done was rewind the time and make sure you never went to that mountain trip” Eileen replied.“And unfortunately we are not time travellers and neither do we have that ability to time travel” Eileen added and Arya swallowed her saliva.“Arya; nothing has changed except that the clan will of course be sending people after you, that’s why we are here in the first place. To protect you; it’s our