Thanks for the reviews I have gotten so far and yeah the main characters name is Ara pronounced AYE-ra aye like a pirate saying aye captain. Ara gray, I trust you can say gray? Any ways here is the update woohoo!!
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Ara gray grumbled miserably as the morning sunshine poured through the windows at her mother's house. How she ended up staying there was a true, dreadful topic fit for a funeral. Rubbing the sleep out of eyes she stood and groaned loudly. She had officially outgrown her childhood bed and cursed Merlin for her numerous growth spurts that left her standing at an imposing height of 5'10. A large yawn and stretch later Ara stood hunched over the bathroom sink doing her normal morning bathroom routines all the while making strange faces in the mirror to herself.
"How very eloquent of you mrs.Gray" the mirror spoke with a highly annoying high pitched octave and was more than a bit grumpy in the mornings. Ara pulled a nasty face at the mirror
"Its miss now, remember?" she ground out bitterly.
"Oh dear me, forgive me I forgot… again, it must have been the faces you made"
"Well at least I have a face you stupid hunk of glass"
"Stupid hunk of charmed glass dear. And if you don't mind the stupid hunk of glass saying but, you look like shite."
"Thanks for the bloody bulletin, I look better than you"
"I'm a mirror"
She narrowed her eyes at the sassy mirror but didn't say another word. The hunk of glass did a point though; it was not one of Ara's finer moments in her beauty history. Her thick black hair stood up at any and every given angle, and she had purple bruising under her dark eyes. Her face was paler than usual and was pulled tight against her thinner face.
'Merlin' she thought 'I need a vacation. Yes, a nice long vacation, with no men involved, and with a spa, somewhere exotic' while dreaming up all her dream vacations and following her nose, she found her mother with one eye on a silly witch magazine, and one eye on the breakfast carefully cooking on the stove.
"Mm mother, a certain breakfast something smells delicious" the corners of her mother's mouth upturned
"Dear, that's lunch. Breakfast was five hours ago. I didn't have the heart to wake you, Merlin knows you need your sleep" startled, Ara looked at the clock hanging on the wall which read in block letters 13:00
"Bloody hell mom, when did it get so late?"
"Language" she chastised lightly "it passed when you were sleeping darling now come here, I've got a surprise for you."
Ara immediately narrowed her eyes, the last surprise she had from her mother involved strippers, a paperclip, and a toaster.
"Nothing like that." Twin streaks of red filled Cassandra's face as she read her daughters mind
"Is it a good surprise or a bad surprise, I don't like surprises." Her mother's mouth narrowed into a line
"Well it's going to be bad at first, but in time I think it will be good" realization dawned on Aras face as she twisted into one of disgust
"You're not pregnant are you?!"
"Wha- oh never mind I told you that we were...oh you little… no, I'm not pregnant and I don't plan on it anytime soon. So get that thought out of your head." The red returned with a vengeance on Cassandra's face and frustration began to build in the pit of her stomach, trust Ara to make things difficult.
"I've got some papers that you've got to see, since they involve you and such" she pushed the documents toward where Ara was standing, the young women eyed them with suspicion
"Mom I am a citizen right? I'm not some illegal immigrant alien? Because if I am ill be so pissed at you." She warned taking a tentative step forward
"No ara" her mother sighed loudly and exasperatedly. Ara reached the papers and hesitantly pulled them forward to her
"I don't understand, this is my birth certificate." she furrowed her eyebrows at her mother who had jumped up and busied herself with the tea pot
"There is nothing wrong with it is there?" worry began to fill Ara as she watched her mothers back like a hawk, she was nervous for some reason
"Look closer dear." Her voice was barely more than a whisper.
Ara ran her eyes over it, name, Ara Callidora Black, she nodded black was her mothers maiden name check, her birthday, January 19th check, father, blank no surprise there, mother. Ara gasped slightly as her vision swam before her eyes
"How long have you known?" her voice was dreamy and her face felt cold and clammy as a sweat beaded her forehead as she sunk into the kitchen chair.
"she was my best friend, she was arrested, you have to understand, I always wanted a baby but I couldn't have one, it was a favor for Bella but that doesn't mean I don't love you honey, I do, I was waiting for the right time to tell you." Her mothers, no Cassandra's, voice was constricted and watery.
"The right time?" she said incredulously "the right time was a long time ago."
Her world began to crash in and all around her chaos reined, buildings exploded with large booms that sent earthquakes through the country and flames licked the sky. Wind whipped around Aras hair and it stung her cold flesh. it was a hurricane, a tornado, a earthquake, and a tsunami that invaded her location on the globe all at the same time. hellish vultures swooped down and grabbed people and carried them off while hell hounds and trolls ravaged in the chaos. The ground opened up and the imposter was gobbled up into the dark abyss. admist all the turmoil Ara never heard a sound, just silence that screamed, deafening her ears, leaving them ringing with pain.
"Ara, oh Ara, please forgive me" her mother, scratch that, the imposter broke her out of her thoughts and she looked up at her mothers pleading, desperate eyes.
"Please, oh please, forgive me, I love you"
I love you, they were simple words really, 8 letters, 3 syllables, effortlessly it rolled off the imposters tongue but Ara could no longer reciprocate the words, never again. She glared back at the imposter who had began to cry,
"Please"
she looked so pathetic standing there looking so defeated and somewhere inside of her body ara felt the slight pull of pity, but it was quickly masked by her oncoming anger,
"No, never again"
The words were uttered with venom and malice that it was to much on the poor woman's heart. She broke down, sinking to the floor crying. Ara marched upstairs, angrily wiping away the stray tears in her eyes and swallowing the lump in her throat. She violently threw her worldly possessions inside of her suitcase. She was leaving, she, of course, had no idea where she was going, but she was going, she needed to get away from that imposter of a mother, away from life, perhaps to a pub where she could drink the rest of her pitiful bank account away, yes that sounded nice, the leaky cauldron perhaps? To noisy and crowded, the last thing she needed was running into someone she knew, namely her imposter or co workers, or worse, fans. Hogs head? Yes, private, secluded, quiet...perfect. With her destination in mind Ara stormed out of the house ignoring the imposters cries for her to come back.
TBC
Well she didn't take that very likely I don't like but yeah chapter two woot woot and finished at 1.27 in the morning oohh yeah baby. Well I hope to update soon so keep reviewing! I hope its not cheesy or anything and criticism is very appreciated PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT IM DOING RIGHT OR WRONG! I hope I'm not progressing to quite….
An explanation on ara is she changed her name to gray for her short but slightly successful music career, she didn't want to use the name black because too many people would get her confused with the black family (which she didn't know she was a part of yet) and that name was a dangerous one to have so her and her mother decided that it would be best to change it for gray being ara's favourite colour.
Tibys
