Hi everyone! Can you believe it? I had this story updated with two chapters! I feel so accomplished.
This all belongs to Shelly Crane. I just like making up my own story's about it.
Chapter 2:
When the final bell rang I made my way to my locker and quickly put my homework in my bag. When I got outside, I decided to make a quick stop to the orphanage to grab a couple of things for my project and I got something to eat. By the time I made my way towards the township library it was 5:30 and it was a thirty minute walk from the orphanage. You're probably wondering why I didn't just take me car, and I just felt like it was a good day to go outside and have a walk. I quickly made my way to the library, hoping to get the book I needed before someone else decided to get it.
After a while of walking I was finally standing by the steps of the township library. I walked past the librarian who was reading at her desk and went to the second floor to look at their reference section. I walked down isles of shelves of books and I was about to give up on finding the book when I saw it on the top shelf. I groaned and put my hands on my hips. Me being only 5'5 is not going to be able to reach that book.
A bright yellow light bulb went on in my head and I felt a smile stretch across my face. I looked around the tables of the sitting area and I saw that no one was sitting there. I stood in front of the shelf and I found a good spot to but my foot on one of the shelves and I pulled my self up. I reached up on my tippy toes and I got just feel the bottom of the book with my fingers. "Come one." I reached up a little farther and the last thing I expected happened.
I lost my balance on the shelf and I smacked my forehead on the shelf when I fell the to floor. I looked up at the shelf and I saw about fifteen books about to fall off the shelf. I rolled into a ball as I saw the first book fall, followed by another and another. After I felt the last book drop, I sat up from where I was sitting on the floor. I heard laughter behind me and I turned to see a guy with brown hair standing behind me, while trying to hide his laughter behind his hand.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Laugh it up." I mumble and went to work on gathering the books from the floor.
"I'm sorry, but that's the first time I ever saw someone do that, that wasn't in a movie." He said and came over to help my pick up the books. Once I had enough books in my arms, I went to work on setting the books back into their rightful places. "You know if you needed a book, you could have just grabbed a chair or something."
"Well I just really wanted this book." I grabbed my book from the floor and held it to my chest. I stepped around him and headed towards the stairs. I heard him walking behind me, and I felt a pounding headache start in my head. Guess I should have expected that to happen. I rubbed my forehead and I winced when I felt a sting of pain shoot through my head. I'm going to have a nice big black and blue bruise tomorrow.
"What's so special about that book anyway?" He asked me after a couple of minutes of silence.
"I need it for a project I'm doing on different cultures in different countries." I turned around and looked at him, and I mean I got a good look at him. He was tall, but I already figured that out when he helped shelf the books onto the top shelf. He had broad shoulders like he was into playing sports, but what really caught my attention were his eyes. He had bright blue eyes that made you feel safe when you were looking at them.
"Oh I remember doing that in school. I picked Mexico." He told me and took the book from my arms to look at the cover. "The Regions of Germany: A Reference Guide to History and Culture." He said reading the title.
I took the book away from him and turned back to go downstairs to check out my book. "So what grade are you in exactly?" I asked him.
"I graduated last year. I had to do that for my senior project. It was either that or researching different diseases. So I decide to do the first option." I walked up to the front desk and handed the librarian my library card.
"Oh, mines just for a stupid social studies project." I took my book and made my way back towards the stair to go to the sitting room. He walked next to my and followed me to the table I picked in the back.
"Hey social studies can't be that bad." I gave him my are-you-kidding-me look and went back to my book. "Okay maybe it is. I remember my class was watching a video and I ended up falling asleep in the back of the room."
"I haven't done that yet. Yet being the key word." I told him with a smile on my face and look back up to see him watching me. A question popped into my head and it was starting to bother me. "Why did you come to the library? You don't have a book with you."
He folded his hands in front of him and he leaned back in his chair. "My family likes to have a family get together at least once a month. I have a huge family, and after spending an hour and a half with them, you start to get tired of listening to them. I figured I would come here since I knew it would be quiet." He looked down at the table while shaking his head and laughing quietly under his breath. He glance back up at me with a smile on his face. "That's was until I found you on the floor with a pile of books falling on top of you."
I felt heat creep up my neck and I returned back to my book, hoping he didn't notice how my face turned to the color of a tomato. I felt something vibrate in my pocket making me jump, before realizing it was my cell phone. I grabbed it out of my pocket and checked to see that I had a message from Macy.
'You have been gone for a couple of hours, and it's starting to rain. Do you want me to come and get you?'
Sure enough when I looked outside, rain droplets were hitting the window hard. I groaned and shut my book, putting it in my bag with the rest of my stuff for my project.
"What's wrong?" The guy asked me. I looked up at him and I saw a look of concern of his face.
"Oh nothing. I walked here after I stopped at the orph... err home... not thinking about the weather change that was going to happen." I stood up from the table and he did the same thing.
"You want me to give you a ride?" He asked me and I didn't answer him right away. Was it a wise choice to have a guy that I just met give me a ride home, and have him find out about my being a foster child? I glanced out the window and I really didn't feel like having to wait for Macy to get here.
"Sure. That would be great." We made our way out to the front of the building, and we stood under the roof that hung over the sidewalk.
"That's my car over there." He pointed over to a nice black BMW and I felt my jaw drop. His parent must be loaded if he has a car like that. I looked up at the rain and I pulled my jacket over my head. "We'll make a run for it when I get to three." He counted down with his fingers, and when he got to three we ran across the parking lot to his car and we quickly climbed in.
"Well that was fun." I said sarcastically and pulled my jacket tighter around me. He noticed me do that and he kicked the heat on. I rubbed my hands in front of the vents and looked out the window. He pulled out of the parking lot and turned onto the main road.
"So where do you live?" He asked me after a few minutes of silence and I knew I had to tell him.
"Um ah I live in the orphanage." I said quietly and I knew he heard me.
"You're a foster kid?" He asked sounding surprised but he didn't look away from the road.
"Yeah, my parents died in a car crash when I was fifteen. They were hit by a drunk driver." I looked over at him and he glanced at me before turning back to the road.
"I'm sorry."
"I've gotten over it after a few years. After sitting in a room with other kids who had the same problem as you actually makes you a lot more comfortable than you may think." I drew a smiley face on the fogged up window.
"No one has tried to adopt you?" He asked and I knew he was just trying to learn more about me and what it's like to live in an orphanage.
"One couple did, but that was a month after the accident. I was in a really bad depression stage, and one day they saw me doing something I'm not very proud of now." I drew another picture of the window, and I noticed that he hasn't said anything. "You okay?" I looked over at him, and I saw that he had a far away look on his face.
"By something, do you mean..." He trailed off and I knew what he meant.
"Yeah, I did it for about a month and a half because I was so badly broken. I haven't been able to keep a tight relationship with people around with me because I'm afraid that if I do I'll lose them like I did my parents." I admitted for the first time in a year. The only other person I ever told this to was to Macy, and she didn't care which makes me love her even more.
"Okay, enough about me. Tell me something that's exciting about you." I said looking over at him for the first time in the last five minutes.
"What do you want to know?"
"Anything." I said tucking a leg under me.
"Well my favorite thing to do is to play the guitar."
"You like playing guitar too?" I asked him. I was surprised because he looks someone who loves playing sports, not someone who loves playing music.
"Yeah, it's one of my many passions. What about you? What's your favorite thing to do?" I noticed that we were sitting in the driveway of the orphanage.
"Ever since I was a little girl, I loved playing my guitar, playing the piano and singing. I used to write my own songs, but after the accident I couldn't really write anymore. It's reminds me too much of my mom. She was amazing." I looked at him and he had the look of understanding in his eyes.
"I know how you feel. My grandpa died when I was ten. He taught me how to play everything; from play the guitar to playing the trumpet. We don't know what he died from, but the doctors told us it was from a heart attack. I think it was something else entirely." I nodded and grabbed my bag from the floor and pulled it into my lap.
"I guess I should get going. Macy is probably wondering why I didn't answer her." I went to open the door when I felt a hand on my arm. I turned back around and looked at him with a look of confusion.
"You never told me your name."
"Oh, I'm Jailyn." I stuck my hand at to him.
"I'm Collin." He shook my hand and I smiled. I felt a jolt go through my body
The feeling felt like something I have never felt before now. It felt like ice and electricity was taking turns running through my veins. My breath seemed to be nonexistent while my eyes fluttered shut from pleasure pain of the feeling. My mind was flooded with different colors and noises that turned into different images.
I could see myself as clear as if I was looking at myself in the mirror. My hair was blowing around me from the wind and I was running along a beach. I had a bright smile on my face and I couldn't remember myself being this happy. I turned around and saw that a tall guy with brown hair was laughing as well as chasing me. Strong arms wrapped around me and the image was replaced with me lying in the grass with my head resting on the stomach of the brown haired guy. He said something that made me laugh, and I pointed up at the sky towards a cloud that made as both laugh. The next vision showed me standing on a beach in a red dress the went down to my knees, and it hugged my body in all the right places. I didn't have shoes on, and I could feel the grains of the sand going through my toes. I heard a voice behind me and I turned to see the brown haired guy walking towards me with his red shirt untucked from his black dress pants, and he was barefoot also.
The next vision showed me sitting in the car, and I was holding the hand of the brown haired boy. The look on the his face was of pleasure and delight, while on my face was confusion but also pleasure. He opened his eyes and looked at me like he understood everything that just happened, like I was everything to him. I was jolted to the present and I opened my eyes and opened my my eyes to see the dark haired boy was sitting in front of me and just like in the vision, he was smiling at me.
"It's you." He whispered. "You're the one."
He released my hands and framed both sides of my face and I felt a wave of calmness come over me.
"Breath Jailyn." I didn't realize that I was holding my breath. I took in a deep breath of air and I felt the air rush in and out frantically while I blinked. My head cleared a little but I still felt my pounding headache. I continued to look at Colin, not able to look away from his blue eyes that looked at me with such need and want.
"What just happened?" I asked when I could finally find my voice.
"Please don't freak out. Don't be scared. I promise you that there's nothing to worry about."
I felt something strange go through my head. Like something was pushing its way into my thoughts or my body somehow. I felt him. I gasped and looked up at him. He smiled, realizing what I felt.
"I can feel your heat beating, and I can feel your joy and happiness." I didn't know how I knew all of this, I just did.
I brought one of my hands to my chest and also to his to feel the beating of his heart as if it were my own. I felt his concern over me, he was worried that I was going to run when he told me everything, he felt an intense sense of longing and protection for me, but more than anything, I felt his utter joy at what was happening between us, and I had no idea what that was.
"You can feel me already." He laughed a breathy chuckle and the next words he spoke were barely above a whisper. "Wow this is absolutely incredible."
"What are you... I mean I don't understand." He chuckled and smiled.
He was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How could I have not noticed this before? He looked the same to me as before; the same sweet guy but he was so different than before, it's hard to even explain. My body was singing from happiness from being under his calming hands. I wanted to touch him, to hug him, to do whatever a normal couple would do.
He leaned over and whispered in my ear. "There will be plenty of time for that later, but now." I gasped and looked at him, realizing that he heard what I was thinking. "Don't sorry, it won't always be like this. You will learn to control it, so that I can only hear what you want me to hear." He rubbed my cheek and another wave of calmness went through me. "You know I would never hurt you right?"
I nodded and said, "Why? Why do I feel that?"
"Because you are my significant, my soul mate, and I'm yours. It usually doesn't happen when we're this young. And it hasn't been happening at all with the families in years."
"Imprinted?" I replied sounding confused. "That doesn't make sense."
"Imprinting is when we sort claim each other, almost like were stamping a seal on out souls. You're imbedded in me and I in you. And it's very rare to imprint with a human."
I gasped again and he smiled sadly. "Human? If I am human, that what does that make you exactly?"
"I'm human but I'm just not completely. We're Virtuoso, but we call ourselves Aces. We have abilities, or gifts, once we reach a certain age after we imprint."
"What kind of abilities?" I asked.
"A lot of them. Look, Jailyn, I promise I'm going to tell you everything. But first, I have to tell my father everything that just happened. He's the champion of our clan, and in other words he's the leader. He has to know what happened and then we'll talk, ok?"
"What did you mean by we call ourselves Aces?" That was starting to nag at the back off my mind.
"Me, my family, and whoever else is like us. Like you." He watched my face, waiting for me to run out of the car. He looked over my shoulder at the orphanage and I followed his gaze to see Macy standing in the doorway. "You should probably go."
"I don't want to. I mean I kind if can't." I said turning back towards him once I opened the door and tried to get out. My legs didn't want to listen to me.
"It's all so new." He said. "Our imprints don't want us to be away from each other, but I can help you by telling you to leave. Our bodies are in tune with each other. I have to take care of some things here so I want you to go inside and see your friend. I can feel you," he patted his chest, "in here, if you need me. You don't have to worry about anything." He cupped my face with his hands and we both sighed at the contact. "Get some rest because you're going to need it tomorrow."
"Now you're just trying to scare me." I smiled and opened the car door. I was instantly pelted with rain drops. "You will come and get me tomorrow right?" I asked before shutting the door.
"Yes I'll be here around ten." He informed me before I shut the door and I ran up to the front door.
"Where have you been and who was that?" I walked passed Macy into the orphanage and I heard her follow me into the kitchen. Max was standing by the counter and I walked around him to grab a bottled water out of the refrigerator.
"I was at the library and that was Collin. I met him at the library and he offered to give me a ride." I smiled at the thought of Matt.
"Well you could have texted me back you know." She sounded hurt. I turned to watch her go and stand next to Max.
"I know and I forgot to when he offered me the ride." I pulled her in for a hug. "I promise I will make it up to you tomorrow."
"Um yeah, about that." I pulled away from her and went to stand by the doorway across from her.
"What's wrong?" I leaned against the wall.
"I've actually got some bad news." She trailed off and looked down at her hands. She began playing with the string on her shirt.
"You can do it." Max said rubbing her back and she looked up at him.
"But I'm scared." She looked
"Would you just tell me already? You're killing me over here." She looked away from Max and to me. The next seven words she spoke is something I will never forget.
"I'm being adopted and I leave tomorrow."
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