Chapter one: Colourful sleepless night.
It was a sunny night. The sky was pitch black with twinkling star everywhere, each of them holding a specific story in which you could dream and add all kind of mystery when you were a young and romantic girl. Isabel was one of them. She has always dreamed that one day; her own perfect charming prince would come. He wouldn't be beautiful, romantic and following the entire list that every teenager girl could have for. No, he would just have been able to accept her like she was, for who she really was. The only problem was how was it possible for a human guy to accept an alien girl even if she was full of humour, comprehension and had a perfect character? Isabel laughed internally. There was the second problem! Isabel wasn't the one who could jot a long list of this kind of womanly feature.
"Come on, a thousand sheep count and there I am, still awaken as if the day has just begun" Isabel complained.
She switched on the light and took the last edition of the touristy' guide of New York. She has since a long time dreamed about visiting the city, but this time her dream would come true. She had already booked the flight ticket and there were nothing and no one, alien or not, who would stand in her way. That was her thought, twenty minutes later when she realized that she hadn't even read the first page of her book.
Isabel sat comfortably in her bed, her head full of what they had discovered about their origins seven nights ago, one week earlier. She was still under the shock and awe of seeing her birth-mother. Never had she imagined even in her foulest dream of this. Her adoptive mother, as soon as she had seen her, back 13 years ago in the orphanage, had filled her heart with love. It wasn't a surprise that she had been feeling home even on the first night in her new bed at the Evans. Her brother Maxwell wasn't so lucky. At that time, he was waking up every night, crying, screaming and asking to go back home.
The only wish Isabel had had was about having Michael with them. She has always needed him in a different way than her brother Max. Michael and hers relationship was smoother and more accepting that the one she had with Max. Of course, they were often confronting each other but it seemed like they were able to compromise time to time, at least more easily than with Max.
Isabel signed. She could remember nights when she and Michael would complain about Max or making fun of him. They could also just spend time reading or thinking about life somewhere else, sometime about where they really were from. Michael hadn't had the chance to be adopted and he was moving from foster family to foster family until one day he stopped at Hanks. Isabel knew that Michael wasn't so well there but never had she been so sure since the day Max had confessed that he used violence on him. Isabel had felt so much hate toward the human that for the first time she had wished someone else death. What had hurt the more was the fact that he didn't feel the need to confide in her. Max was ok but Maria? Why had he felt more at ease with her than with me? She had asked herself for a long time. She knew that she was possessive and having no one else than Max and Michael, it has been difficult for her to share until she realized that she could be friend with their girlfriend and even have pleasure opening, well trying to open to other.
However, before the placement of the V constellation and those dreams, never had she fantasized on Michael, neither had she ever imagined that she could have been betrayed to him in her previous life. In one simple message of less than 10 minutes, her entire life was once again being messed up by some revelations accompany with major's life threats.
Isabel didn't know what to do, how to react or even what to think about it anymore. Was she supposed to go with or against the flow? Having the responsibility of the safe of her people, could she allow herself to choose her own destiny? She understood that Max wanted to build his future with Liz and stayed as human as possible but she was also shared about this other part of her which has been awakening since Nasedo and Tess' arrival. Every bond she had built previously was upside down. On one side was her brother ready to fight anything too much alien and on the other side was Michael, looking forward for it. Tess was right in the middle. Although she was too much strange and alien due to her childhood in contact with Nasedo, she also was the realization of her life' dream: a girlfriend to whom she could be one hundred percent herself.
Lost in her thought, Isabel was playing with two of the healing yellows rocks. Her brain was still compiling all sorts of information's but it always came back to square one: her mom was just so beautiful. Without acknowledging it, she has accepted that it was a part of her which she had missed more than she has realized.
A smile boomed on her face when she compared her two moms. They both have the tendency of smiling beautifully while talking or looking at her. They both in different ways have built her need of becoming herself a mom. She could so much imagine herself with a small child.
At that very moment, that feeling overwhelmed her again. She didn't know how to explain it! It was something, something changing in her…still. She knew that something was shifting in her. She was aware that Tess has confirmed that the only way to get pregnant was the very human technique so well discussed in every girl magazine. Anyway, whatever was going on inside her during the V constellations implementation was still up! Having to run for Liz' safety, then Max' one and finally fight for themselves has taken her mind from this continuous situation. Now that things were slowing down, she took attention on the matter again.
She was terrified to talk about it. She was truly scared to know what was happening to her, now that her only explanation of it has disappeared.
Feeling slightly tired, Isabel lay down on her cosy and warm red bed, focusing on the peace inside of her relied to her mom. Her hand with the rocks on her belly, she was breathing deeply and calmly in order to calm her as much as possible. Little by little, she felt her eyelids becoming heavier and heavier and without noticing she has fallen asleep. At that very moment the healing rocks emitted their own vibrations, resonant with each other for a few seconds. The vibrations were soon converted into colours. Has she been awoken, she would have admired the purest colours, two different shades never seen on earth. After one minute, one of the rocks turned into a light baby mix of ecru and purple whereas the second one took a dark green colour and then varied from the darkest to the lighter green. The rocks did their tricks during two hours before returning to their original state.
Outside of the Evans' house, on the opposite pavement, Nasedo and a slim brown looking girl were standing still and looking amazed and scared at the same time at Isabel' window. From outside not only light was seen but alien symbols and images were playing happily in a succession of bright and silly shows…at least for aliens eyes.