Chapter one: Boarding school.

My alarm clock rang, it was 9:30 and my mother had big plans. Me, my mom and my sweet baby sister Annabelle, were moving. My mother had been talking about this perfect place, which I just had to see. Beautiful woods, a nice small town and not too far away from Seattle, well of course she thought it was heaven, but to be honest I knew what was going on. My family never lived at one place for more than six months. Somehow everything seemed to go bad after six months, my mother would loose her job, and she would start to get crazy, like really crazy. Always looking over her shoulder, asking me to be home early, which meant right after school, and not go with strangers. Which idiot would do that anyway?

I sighed and got up, to be honest we had already moved in, right now I lived in moving boxes and slept on a madras on the floor, not very nice. I yawned and got my clothes on, my mom told me last night, that today something big happened, something she wanted to tell me about. I walked out of my room and into our tiny bathroom, there were a toilet, a sink and a shower, that's all, and it wasn't full of room, but I had gotten used to it, my family was poor, really poor. The last guy my mom married turned out to be a real asshole, and used all of her money on gambling, he wasn't that bad, but not very nice when he had something to drink. Since I'm kind of a hot head I was close to kick his ass a couple of times, though my mom wouldn't let me. But in the end he got run over by a car, the driver was running from the police, so they never caught him.

I brushed my thick copperish brown hair, and got some water in my face. I had a light skin color, it wasn't pale but not sun brown either, my lips was my favorite feature, they were sensual and soft. My eyes were gray as the ocean, a dark and stormy ocean. Sometimes my mom jokes about me being a stormy ocean, merciless, she found it funny because it was the opposite of me, actually I loved people, and hated violence, though I could use it, I was quite good at it, though I sometimes were a bit clumsy.

I got out from the bathroom, and walked down stairs to my mother and sister, who were eating breakfast.

"Hi Melly!" Annabelle said, with her face all covered in chocolate. I couldn't help it but smile.

"Hi sweetie, you already started eating?" I asked and sat down next to her.

"Mmm, mom didn't want to wait anymore, so we just started," she said and smiled.

"Okay," I got a piece of bread and started to butter it.

"Honey.. you remember that there was something I wanted to talk with you about right?" my mom said. I looked at her and nodded.

"Okay.. it's a bit hard to say this.." she started but then she looked at Annabelle and her eyes softened, and regret showed in them.

"It's nothing.. I don't want to tell you yet, I.. I need to find a better time to tell you.." she finally said after a short break, where she had looked at Anna.

"Okay?" I said confused, but just took another bite of my bread. My mom had always been like that, wanting to tell me something but then she'd chicken out and regret she even tried to, so it wasn't the biggest deal, I had gotten used to it. Used to her weirdness.

"Mommy. Mommy look a birdie!" Anna suddenly yelled and pointed at a bird that stood outside our window.

"Yes it is, it's a crow honey," my mom said, shaked her head and smiled.

"It's a biggie!" Anna continued.

"Oh look it's leaving! It's going home in the big woods!" Anna said and pointed after it.

"It's called forest Anna, and maybe you were to loud," I said and smiled.

"Oh," was all Anna said, she seemed fixated on the bird and could keep her eyes from the forest, like she was hoping it would come back. She was so concentrated she didn't keep her eyes on her piece of bread, which hit her cheek and made her even more covered in the chocolate.

"Mommy, mommy. I want to go into the big forest!" Anna said after sometime.

"Sorry sweetie, I can't go, mommy's got work to do." She answered and looked down her paper. Work my ass.

Anna turned her head and looked at me, with those big blues of hers. I knew she wanted me to sign in. But in the end she realized I wasn't going to turn in, so she used her most feared weapon of all. She asked hundreds of questions.

"Mom, where does babies come from?" "Mom when were you born?" "Mom is the moon made of cheese?" "Mom does there live a man on the moon?" and so on, and so on. Finally my mom looked at me with her brown eyes, that screamed; "Take her, take her anywhere, I can't concentrate with all of these questions!" so I sighed.

"Anna, why don't we go together into the forest and find the birdie huh?" I said. She just looked at me, with Christmas stars in her eyes. I got up and dried the chocolate of Anna's face, after getting her in her coat and her wellingtons.

After that we walked out of the door and out into our backyard, which ran up to the forest. We walked in and walked for a bit, Anna was silent, she sucked up all of the impressions, like some sponge, but isn't that what adults call kids? Sponges.

"Melly, where's the birdie?" she demanded after her patience had run up.

"I have no idea, there's a lot of birds in the forest Anna, and I have no idea where any of them are," I answered and groaned, this was not how I'd expected to use my Saturday, walking in a muddy forest, with drops of rain running down my jacket and slipping down my back.

"What's wrong Melly? Does anything hurt?" Anna asked and looked up at me with a pair of innocent eyes.

"Nope," I said and smiled. She didn't have to suffer because I found her trip in the woods annoying. Especially since I could start unpacking right away. My mom and Anna were already done unpacking, it was only me we needed to unpack, but mom kept on delaying it. Which was annoying and weird, but as said, I were almost completely immune of her weirdness, almost.

"Let's play hide and seek!" Anna suddenly said and looked up at me, with begging eyes. I spoiled her way to much I knew that.

"Okay," I agreed and groaned even more inside, why couldn't I say no?

"You count and I'll hide," she said.

"Fine, but I'm only counting to fifty so you need to hide before that okay? And don't go to far away, and get lost." I said. She just nodded and started to run off.

I closed my eyes and counted out loud.

"One.. Two.. Three.. Four.. Five.." I said out loud, and wondered when we could go home, it wasn't that cold, but water kept running down my back and the rain water was really cold. Besides there wasn't a sound in the forest, and it scared me, where were the birds chipping and maybe some small animals rustling on the ground? I might not have been the one who were happiest in this forest, it scared me, it was so green and wet. When I looked out far, it all had a green tint. I was a city kid, I wasn't used to all this fresh air and green earth.

"Thirty-five.. Thirty-six.. Thirty-eight.. Thirty-nine.. Forty.." I kept going until I reached fifty as I said I would, and then my search began. As I walked silently and looked for Anna, I actually had fun. I found her after a few seconds, she was hiding behind a lodge, I wouldn't normally have seen her, if it wasn't because of her yellow rain coat. So I sneaked up at her, ready to give her a chock.

"BUH!" I yelled and she screamed her lungs to pieces and looked behind me, and then started laughing and ran from me.

I laughed too and yelled after her; "Hey missy! You can't run I found you, it's your turn," I laughed so hard it was difficult to run at the same time, her face had just been so funny, all scared and then sifting to finding it amusing.

She ran and looked back before she fell over something.

I ran to her, and couldn't stop laughing.

"Are.. you.. hurt?" I asked and tried to get myself together.

"Nope, I'm fine," she said and got up, she was about to run again when she looked at her right and looked chocked.

I followed her eyes.

What I saw amazed me. There, not more than twenty meters from us, stood a beautiful royal stag, it looked at us for a few minutes and we looked back, surely with two pairs of unbelieving eyes. Then it ran off, deeper into the woods, like nothing had happened. My mom had said that this wood was almost untouched by human hands, but how could we be so close to such magnificent animal and it just seemed like it didn't care at all.

"Did you see that deer?" Anna asked with her mouth open, completely amazed, just like me.

"Yeah, amazing." I mumbled. A branch cracked behind be so I turned my head fast, somehow I suddenly felt watched. But there wasn't anyone. This forest made me crazy.

When I turned my head again Anna was gone. Or that would be she had run off to find the stag. I could see a bit of her yellow raincoat far ahead. Shit.

So of course I ran after her, though I wasn't really that fast on my feet, not in these shoes at least. I hadn't seen the big piece of wood right in front of me, I were to busy to locate Anna. so when something suddenly made me trip and smack my head hard against the hard, wet and cold ground. I gasped and the light vanished from my eyes, leaving me captured in darkness. I passed out.

The thing that woke me, was Anna's pulling in my jacket, while she whined something no one would ever understand, she sobbed with panic and tried to tell me something. Slowly the light reappeared and I got up.

"Damn, what happened?" I asked and touched my forehead where something hurt like hell, seemed like I hadn't landed on the ground completely, a big rock where somewhat there where my head were, and some blood was spilled on it. Eww. And auch.

"Melly! Melly help it! It's bloody! And it's got eaten," Anna cried.

"And why is your face bloody too? Why were you sleeping on the ground?" she added, completely panicking.

"What are you talking about? I tripped and passed out," I said and felt how my cheeks heated up. Embarrassing to trip and pass out, while my sister is running off somewhere!

"The deer!" she cried and tried to pull me with her, so I got to my feet and felt a bit dizzy. I hope I haven't got a concussion.

I followed her till she stopped at something that looked like a murder scene. It was the deer, that big beautiful and royal looking stag we saw before. But now it laid on the ground, it's throat ripped open. It's big brown eyes was filled with fear. I felt so sad, looking at this mighty beast, so sad a few tears ran down my cheeks, I didn't really know if it were the hit I got before and the pain that showed now, or it really was sorrow, at any case I fell on my knees, shaking like crazy and feeling like my heart was torn into pieces. What killed it? It couldn't have been a long time ago, I could see how the heat from its open wound, damping into the air.

"Make it better!" Anna demanded and started to cry again, when she saw my tears.

"Poor thing," I whispered.

Anna's hand reached down to pat it, but I stopped her.

"You can't touch it, you don't know it it's sick or there's anything bad on it," I said, my voice broke.

A thing started to sink into my head. What killed it? And why would it's killer just leave it here? There wasn't much blood, I could see that, I mean it's throat got ripped and yet it was only a small amount of blood had gathered next to it. Why would the predator kill something and leave it? Why? I realized something quite fast. What if it got disturbed by Anna? what if it saw two more possible meals now? Me and Anna.

I looked around, but didn't see anything dangerous. My eyes somehow kept on returning to the stags chest, there wasn't anything wrong with it, but it just seemed so.. inviting. Weird huh?

My heartbeat got faster, and suddenly I couldn't help but touching the stag, it felt like, if I didn't, everything would fall to pieces, and nothing would be right. Like I had to touch it. When my had landed on the chest, a shudder ran through my veins. The feeling of having light, sweet music and life running through my veins made everything spinning to me. I felt dizzy and nauseous.

A moan got trough my lips and it felt like light was bursting out of me.

"Melly why can you touch it, when I can't?" Anna asked confused, until she realized I wasn't answering. My eyes were closed and it seemed like the stags chest got wet, and the water ran trough it all over, suddenly it's chest closed and life returned in its eyes. Anna started at the stag and me, with non believing eyes. I got the stag back to life.

Slowly the music faded from my veins and instead a cruel headache hit me. I opened my eyes, the light made me blind for a few seconds before I looked into a pair of dark brown eyes. The stag was lying down still, but it was alive, there were no open throat, or dead eyes. Life. Pure life.

I gasped when the dizziness got to me and made me pass out for the second time. Though this time was worse than before. My head was bleeding and I was awfully weak.

Darkness was softly licking itself against me, but an annoying shaking made it go farther and farther away. Until I finally opened my eyes and looked into Anna's scared blues, her blond, long, curls tickled my face.

"Let me sleep," I mumbled tired, feeling like my bed was awfully cold and wet.

"You can't sleep, don't leave me here! It's been so long, you wouldn't wake up, I couldn't leave you! It's almost dark," Anna cried, her tears hit my face.

"Why are you-" I got my answer to why she was crying, when all of the things that had happened rushed back into my head. How long had I been gone?

"What happened?" I asked confused and sat up, though a bit too fast, my head started spinning, and again I felt like throwing up.

"I don't know, you touched the deer and suddenly its wounds healed, and it got up. Then you started screaming and passed out, and I tried to wake you up, but you wouldn't it's been a long time now, I thought you died," Anna cried and buried her head on my chest, sobbing loudly. I hated myself at that moment, Anna probably got really scared. Damn you Melanie! I thought you promised to protect her!

"I'm sorry, I really am, I didn't know I scared you that much, don't worry, we'll get home right away." I said and tried to calm her down. She just nodded.

"Where's that deer by the way?" I asked, but got my answer right after. It was standing up, not too far from us, a few meters. It looked at me, curious and it seemed intelligent, way more intelligent than an animal usually does.

"It hasn't left," she said and looked back up, her noise was running.

I patted her head.

"What about we get back home now?" I asked. Oh boy, did I feel ashamed of myself.

She just nodded and followed. I could hear the sound of hooves behind me, so I looked over my shoulder, only to see the stag following us. Scary.

My head slowly started spinning again, I felt beaten, my muscles ached, and it was hard breathing. Why did I feel like this? Nothing made sense. How did I get that stag alive again? I couldn't. no one could. You can't get people back to life when they are already gone, it makes no sense. Sure they can try at the hospital, but not it the persons throat is ripped open.

It all started spinning, not just my head, but the whole forest. I could see how the darkness came from the sides and slowly blurred my sight.

Before I hit the ground, I grabbed something big and warm. I leaned myself against it, and luckily the darkness faded. I leaned up against the stag, and it didn't seem to mind. It's eyes looked more worried. Oh my god, I really were crazy, now I thought that stag looked worried.

"Melly?" Anna said frightened, she stared at me, also worried.

"I'm fine.. I just got a little dizzy." I answered and touched my forehead, there was blood on my hand when I looked at it. Shit again.

"Melly you're bleeding," Anna said, the tears in her eyes threatened to fall.

"Don't worry, it's nothing. I just fell. It's not dangerous I was just clumsy okay? Don't worry. I'll be fine. A little blood doesn't kill me." I answered and smiled. But I was worried, I hoped I didn't have a concussion, that would really suck, especially now when I told her about me being fine.

I started walking again, feeling a bit better since I could tell we weren't far from our backyard. As soon as we entered our backyard, Anna ran up to the door, crying again and jumping in my moms arms.

I followed, still with the stag as my helper. My mom stood in the door and stared at me, completely shocked and speechless.

"Hi?" I said and felt dizzy again.

"What.. who... is that?.." was all my mom could say.

"Melly saved that pretty deer, she got it back to life, there was blood from it's throat, and Melly said I couldn't touch it, but then she did, and it looked like it's fur got darker, but when it got back to life it looked normal. It wouldn't leave Melly after she passed out, and I found Melly after I found that deer, she had fallen and hit her head, so she's bleeding," Anna said, somehow she sounded proud, while those tears ran down her face.

My mom was still speechless. But luckily I passed out yet again.

When I woke up, I was lying in the sofa, I could hear my moms voice but also another woman voice from the kitchen. They were talking loud.

"When are you going to tell her? You can't keep on telling her not to unpack, and not give her a decent reason, besides you got a bigger reason to why she need to go there now. What would happen if The Pure Ones finds out about her?" the woman said.

"I don't know okay! It's tough to send her away like this, even though we would live close. I'm not feeling safe with having her around bloodsuckers, moon children and those fallen ones children." My mom answered.

"Oh come on, can't you atleast call them the right thing? Vampires, werewolves and fallen angels. I hate it when you call them like that. But you know, it's the only chance for having her in safety. I know how many times you've called saying someone's following you. Sooner or later she is going to find out, and when that day comes, there is going to be a fight, just because you wouldn't tell her in time. It's dangerous for her to stay out here anymore. Besides Drovili Academy is perfect for her. There are girls like her, magic girls, I bet she can make more friends there that on her last school." The woman said.

How cruel, how could she think I didn't have any friends? I didn't really, because it would suck if I had to move away, I made that mistake a lot of times before, and in the end I just didn't want to get my heart broken, so I just kept it at being friends at school.

"She's not even a witch like you she's more like a healer a priestess maybe. If she were a witch, she would have an affinity for one of the four elements, which she has shown none of yet." The woman added.

"I don't know what to do.. and it's not just me that want to move, when I start to feel watched over, she starts to get bad dreams. You don't know how painful it is for me, or Annabelle for that sake, Melanie screams and wakes up covered in sweat and can't stop shaking, she doesn't even remember what she dreamed. When we move to a new town, there's nothing, not at the beginning atleast. She feels it just like I do, she just wont admit it. That's why I don't know if it's a good idea to put her in that school, sure I know it's a boarding school, and they have tons of protection, but still.. I don't feel good about. I need to get that good vibe." My mom answered.

"Listen, they don't just have tons of security to keep them safe, they train Guardians there too, do you know how good this is? If they find her a Guardian, her age and female, then we wouldn't have to worry sick. Girls get along easily. All we need to do, is to tell her how things are, piece of cake." The woman said.

I couldn't stand just to lie down and listen to those two, and their obvious crazy talk, though it didn't seem that crazy now, not when I thought of what I had just done today. So I decided, that this was either, a very, very bad and stupid joke, or in fact the truth that my mom had just kept from me. I really wanted to believe the first one, though there was a little part of me, that wanted the second one to be true, it would be so exiting, I had always loved things that weren't what people thought it would be, that's why I loved watching crime series, just to guess who was the killer.. yeah, how lame can you get? But I still liked it.

I got up and walked, dizzy, into the kitchen and stared at a beautiful woman with the skin of an almond, and a pair of light brown, almost yellow looking eyes, she was beautiful, she had a dark brown hair and looked like someone from Italy or Spain. My mom started surprised at me, the woman just smiled.

"Hi Melanie, I'm Angelica and I took care of your head, some hit you've got there. I'm a doctor but also a friend of your mother.. an old friend." She said and reached her hand out.

"Hi.. nice to meet you?" I said, it sounded more like a question than the truth. I reached my hand towards her, but she didn't shake it, instead she got both her hand crossing up to her shoulders and looked at me, with eyes that wanted me to do the same. I just took a look at my mom.

"You need to do the same, it's the way we greet each other respectfully." My mom said and sighed a bit.

I got both my arms crossing at my chest and lot my right hand touch my left shoulder, and my left hand touch my right shoulder, and then we bowed at the same time. How strange it might ever sound, it felt more right, than to shake another persons hand.

"Greetings," Angelica said.

"Greeting." I answered. I couldn't help myself but to smile, it made me happy inside.

"Well, I guess we need to talk about something very important now," Angelica said and looked at my mom.

"Yes, guess so," my mom sulked.

They got me to sit at our round table, and then they both looked serious at me.

"I need to tell you something. I've been keeping the truth from you, but to my offense, it was purely for the safety of you. Anyway. I've enrolled you at a boarding school, not far from here, they.. only have children like you.. well not entirely like you, hehe 'cause you don't drink blood or turn into a giant dog when it's full moon, but what I'm trying to say is. They are not normal children, like you. So that's why they go on special schools, for people like them, and one of those schools is here, not far from town, it lies in the woods, I've seen pictures and it's very pretty. Please don't hate me.. I only did this for you," my mom said, and looked at me with teary eyes.

"So.. you're sending your daughter away? Does my opinion not even matter? Why is sending me away, a better idea? Why does it mean more safety for me?" I asked furiously.

"It's better like that, no one will try to hurt, don't you get it? I've been running from those who wanted to hurt you, not just you, but Anna and me too. But mostly you. We'll be safe if you aren't this close to us, and you'll be safe if you aren't this close to us. Besides there will be people who'll understand you there. Who'll understand your power, 'cause I don't. I can't help you with that." She answered.

"So I'm the one, making you guys in danger? Who would do that?" I asked.

"Yes, but it's mostly because they know what you are... oh.. it's hard to talk about. There are those that hunt you, because you have very sweet blood, but there are those who hunt you, because they want you to join them," my mom said.

"Who wants to make me join? Why is my blood sweeter than yours?" I asked confused, my rage had gone a bit down.

"You are One of The Pure. Which basically means, that you have Pure Blood. No one really knows why it's called pure blood, 'cause it isn't cleaner than ours.. anyway, they have magic in their blood, much more magic than I have. But they have also been hunted in all those years they've existed. Because their blood is so sweet, but not only is it sweet, it also makes the one who drinks it, stronger. So of course any blood drinking beast wanted to drink them all, so they could get stronger and win all of their powers, and make the Royal Families fall. Werewolves and shape shifters would be near The Pure Ones, because having them near, would make them stronger too. Not only does their blood make vampires and others stronger, but also a hug, a kiss or even sex would make the other person stronger. But their tears or saliva would also help. Not as much as the blood would, but still an awful lot of power. In the end they got tired of always being hunted, so they made their own little haven. A place where blood drinkers couldn't enter, werewolves could of course, since they helped keep The Pure Ones safe. That's why werewolves and blood drinkers have a hard time together. The blood drinkers are angry with the dogs, for keeping their pray safe, and the dogs are angry with the bloodsuckers, for hunting those who make them better." My mom said.

I was quiet.

"So you're telling me.. that I have Pure blood?" I asked, trying to get it all to make sense.

"Yes. And that you need to go to that school to be safe," my mom answered. Sighing of relieve since I finally got it, and didn't look that angry.

I remembered something, what was that Guardian thing? What is a Guardian?

"What's a Guardian?" I asked before I realized it.

"It's a person who keeps someone like you safe, they train very hard to be fit for any type of situation, so the person they protect is safe. They are called Guardians or Protectors. And most of them aren't older than the person they keep safe, plus they usually are of the same sex. Most of them are Dhampires, werewolves, shape sifters or angels. A Dhampir is a mix between a human and a vampire, they are very strong, fast but don't need blood. Though it's rare if you see a female Dhampir Guardian these days, they're more interested in becoming blood donors, or blood whores as most people call them. Most of the Guardian trainees are men." Angelica said.

"What do you mean by blood whore?" I asked confused.

"Well, the female Dhampires let vampires or demons drink their blood, and at the same time, they have sex, it's one of the most dirtiest things to do in our world, having sex and letting the other person drink your blood. But I hear it makes it much better that way, though no one would admit to doing it." She answered.

Wow.. their world is crazy.

"Oh," was all I could say.

"It's Sunday tomorrow, and that's when I'll drive you to Drovili Academy. There's coming a van tomorrow to take care of your things, that's why I've waited so long for you to unpack them. Anna and I'll stay a bit, and say bye to you, and then we'll drive home.. but don't worry, you can call us at anytime you want to, and you can even get back home in the weekends if you feel like it, and I'm sure you'll meet lot's of nice girls there, so don't worry. There's also a uniform. And the teachers are really nice, I've talked with them and-" I interrupted my mom.

"Uniform?" I asked. No way. It couldn't be. Right?

"Yeah.. they send one yesterday, it's really cute." She answered.

"No way.. uniform? How.. I mean.. uniforms?" I hated this, of course I needed to wear some stupid uniform, that probably looked really stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

"Wait a second, and let me get it for you, it's not as bad as you might think it is," my mom said, I could see how she livened up.

"Great.. I'm the new girl, who's not really a witch and now I'm gonna wear the dorky uniform.. I'm gonna be so popular," I mumbled annoyed.

"Don't worry, all of the girls at school like their uniforms, they can even make changes on them, and if it get too cold you can wear pants, as long as there is their mark on it, and you'll be fine. None of the girls look the same, trust me, you aren't gonna look dorky," Angelica said and smiled.

Sigh.

My mom came back down with a bag in her hands. There wasn't anything on it, it was just a normal paper bag. But then she took up what was inside it.

First it was a pair of socks, those socks that went a bit over the knee, they were a dark gray, almost black color. Second thing she got up, was a skirt, it had a red line at the bottom and a rose on the side, a beautiful rose, it looked almost real. The stalk was gray and so was the leaves and the petals was red as blood. Pretty. Third was the jacket. It was black just like the skirt, and also had that red line on it's bottom and on the bottom of the sleeves. It too had that rose, only on the chest on the different side than the skirt. There were a white shirt that followed with it.

"Take it on!" my mom said. Gosh, weren't there a pair of pantyhose in that bag too?

"Do I need to wear those socks? Can't I just use pantyhose?" I asked and looked at Angelica, she seemed to know a bit more about the rules of the school than my mom did.

"Sure," she agreed, my mom just gave her a stare. Bet she wanted to make me embarrassed by letting me wear that.

"But take it on," my mom begged.

"Fine," I mumbled and rolled my eyes. I grabbed the bag and went upstairs and got it on. I felt dizzy when I finally had it on, I was so weak.

I got back down and my mom clapped. Really not cool. But I had to agree, it did look good on me, made me get an hourglass shape. Plus it didn't make my breast look stupid or anything, it just pointed out my nice shape. Though I might not be the tallest person with my 1.59 centimeters, I were lucky with my body, great breasts and a flat stomach. But even though I might have a nice body, I still had a soft spot when it was about my height, one thing people could say to make me angry, was to talk about my height.

"So?" I asked and looked at them, it wasn't like I disliked seeing their smiling faces, though I would hate it if it were a lot of people looking at me like that.

"It looks good, just as I said." Angelica said.

My mom just nodded.

"Well, it's okay I guess," I agreed.

"Oh, that reminds me, would you mind telling your.. friend outside to go away?" my mom suddenly said. What friend?

"Sure.. what friend?" I asked.

"That stag you saved.." my mom said in a low voice, like there was someone in here, that shouldn't hear it.

"Oh.. sure.. but why?" I asked.

"The neighbors are looking," my mom replied.

So I got out, with a smile on my face, thinking about what they must think of us, people who have a royal stag in their backyard.

I couldn't see it anywhere, so I thought I might try and talk to it.

"Hey.. buddy? Come here for a sec.. damn I feel stupid talking to the air.. anyway, you need to go home.. you can't stay here.. people think we're crazy." I said out loud. As soon as I had talked the stag came running to me from up front, it had paper on its antlers. What had happened to it, it looked like a Christmas tree.

"Wow.. who did that?" I asked. Somehow it felt like it was my sister Anna. well, it made sense.

"Here, let me take that off you," I said and smiled a little.

I could almost sense its thank you. So I quickly got it off.

"There, that's better.. ehm.. now you see.. I can't keep you.. which makes good sense, where would I put you hehe.. anyway, gosh.. you can go home to your family okay? And take care of yourself," I said, and felt stupid again, I stood here, taking to a stag. Wow.. I should get locked up somewhere.

Again I could almost sense it said thank you, before it walked down to the forest, and looked back as if it reassured I meant it. I just nodded and it ran. Weird. Somehow I felt like crying. Like I had just let go of some important and dear to me.

Oh get yourself together Melanie.

I walked back in, feeling less good about myself, I just wanted to go to bed and cry myself to sleep.

"What's wrong Melanie?" my mom asked, of course she could see there was something wrong with me.

"Nothing.. I mean.. it was hard, saying goodbye to it.. it hurts, my chest. Why? Why do I feel like I've lost something, a part of me?" I answered and looked at her, I could feel how the tears ran down my cheeks. I was such a crybaby.

My mom took me in her arms, and again I passed out. I could feel how Angelica's arm took me, though I was surprised to feel how she easy as nothing got me up and brought me up the stairs to my bedroom, where she laid me in my bed.