Wooo! Another story.. But I'm gonna try and finish this one lol.

BTW! Will and Blaise are 15! Not 14! Ok.

Betrothed is a bad word

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"Stupid alarm," I muttered as I crawled out of bed, ready for my second day at Sky High. My brother was already up, of course, so I had to skip breakfast if I wanted him to fly me to school. I would take the bus but, my Mum wants us at school early so she can tell us something.

"Oi! Hurry up!" Will yelled through the door as he tapped his foot impatiently.

"I am," I sighed and sped up slightly. Yep, you guessed it I'm a Stronghold. Hate it sometimes, though. For example, being expected to be ready in 30 seconds! I finished brushing my hair and sauntered out the door. I was a side-kick. Don't care though, because the heroes are all full of themselves. My power is to 'phase' through things. It would be helpful but, I can't phase for very long. I checked myself in the mirror to make sure I was ok to look at, my heavy black boots still looked threatening and my red tights with short black skirt looked pretty good actually. My shirt was just a normal shirt but with a black tie. I hastily grabbed my fishnet gloves and my mp3 player and ran out to meet Will.


When I arrived at school I stuffed my things in my locker and then went to meet my Mum by the Gym. She better not have bad news, I swear. When I got there, Will was sitting in the corner smiling to himself but as soon as he spotted me, he ran over to listen to what Mum had to say.

"Good morning," she chirped and smiled at us in a very eerie manner.

"Erm, right," Will replied and I rolled my eyes.

"Tell us what you want to tell us please because I want to meet Maj," I said moodily. I'm not a morning person.

"Straight to the point, ah, ok then. Well, when you were both little, we, you father and I, made a deal with two friends of ours to join our families and we signed a contract and there's no getting out of it now so I have to tell you, but I'm not sure how to-"

"We don't have to be sold to Russians and have to be their slaves and never see our house again do we?" I asked frantically playing out my drama queen role.

"No, it's not like that at all," Mum chuckled weakly, then took a deep breath, "You're both… betrothed, that's all."

"BETROTHED? TO WHO? MY LIFE IS OVER!" I was running this through my mind as I said it, it didn't make any sense! I vaguely heard Will clarifying what betrothed meant but I was too shocked to mock him. My voice lowered dangerously and I asked,

"To. Who?"

"Well," Mum replied, "Will is betrothed to Layla actually so he should be pleased about that. I think they make a lovely couple. Don't worry about when you have to marry them either, you won't get married till you're both 17. Which I think is quite a nice age to settle down at-"

"What about Blaise, Mum?" Will asked, and I suddenly felt sick. She was stalling on purpose.

"I would never have made the arrangement if I knew what he would have turned out to be, honestly. He was such a cute little baby when we made the deal, really! I can show you pictures!-"

"Who?" I interrupted, again.

"Umm," She muttered. I scrunched my eyebrows. What had she said? Will however was staring at me with his mouth wide open in utter shock so I guessed it was either very good or very bad. I started guessing.

"Zach? Warren? Ethan? Speed? Lash?" My Mum nodded on the word Lash and my whole world crashed around me. Literally, everything went black and all I remember was this horrible falling sensation as I phased through the floor of the floating school.

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