Alright guys, this is Cleo. I actually would just update every week, but these are just so easy to make.
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Cleo had once liked love.
She'd never really wanted a boyfriend up until a certain period of time, but she'd always like the idea of falling in love, getting married and spending her life with someone who loved her back.
She gave it up after she met the Kanes.
Even before she actually met them. When she read the book, she'd given up her smidgen hope. She'd chosen books over love and chose Thoth instead of Hathor.
And she doesn't wish she could take it back.
She'd told Jaz and Alyssa everything. They'd been sitting in the library when Sadie Kane had come in, her combat boots clicking against the marble floor.
"Jaz, I'm going to the Hall of Judgment to have a few choice words to Anubis." Cleo cringed as she said the gods' name. Alyssa noticed. "You and Carter are in charge, classes are cut short." She didn't even look at the healer. Her caramel and blue hair whipped around as she summoned a portal. Sand flew around, stinging them in the eye.
Jaz frowned. "Are you sure that's the best-" but their mentor was gone already. The cheerleader sighed. "Idea," she mumbled.
Alyssa scowled. "Honestly, why is Anubis so damn important. He's a god. He shouldn't be in love with her." Cleo winced at that. This time Jaz noticed.
The healer looked closely at Cleo before asking "What's wrong Cleo?"
The brunette sighed. She mumbled something too low for the others to hear. Alyssa looked a bit angry. "What?" she asked, sounding irritated.
"Anubis," the Brazilian said softly. Her hazel eyes looked away from the other girls. She sometimes teared up just thinking about him. Them.
Alyssa didn't seem to understand, but Jaz had a sympathetic look on her face. "Oh, Cleo" the older girl sighed. She knew Jaz was in the same boat as her. Gods, they all were.
Alyssa saw Jaz's face and her eyes widened. "Oh, not you too!" she said exasperated. "Is this the 'I hate Sadie' circle?"
"Think so," Jaz said.
"Cleo, why didn't you tell me you liked Anubis?" Alyssa put her arm around Cleo. She didn't say anything at first, but then sighed.
"I didn't think much of him at first. I mean, another crush, right? But he's more than a pretty face. He talked to me, once."
The other two magicians looked surprised. "When?" they asked.
Cleo told them about her life back in Brazil. Her hard-working, yet rich father, and her mother that came from nothing. She talked about her sisters, all six of them: Abbey, Beatrice, Delilah, Evangeline, Felicity and Gabriella, and how they'd all been so beautiful, yet so different.
Cleo, on the other hand, had never been the most beautiful, or outgoing, or flirtatious. She'd been the smart and quirky one, with the darkest hair. Her mother was always proud of her, but as proud as she was of Abbey, the oldest and best looking. Abbey always tried to help her with makeup, and was nice to Cleo, but she still never felt like she was ever attended to.
When she was seven, her grandmother had died. They'd had the funeral in a more bearable winter in Rio, where they moved to. It was the first time she saw him.
He looked older, maybe fifteen, Abbey's age. He obviously didn't belong in anyone's family. He had dark hair, black as midnight. His suit was just as black. His skin was paler than paper. His eyes were the only thing that looked in place-a warm brown color.
She looked at him the whole time, watching what he'd do. Sometimes he was chanting, sometimes he was messing around with something. He never looked at her, or even acknowledged her. But she stared back at him, wondering who he was. She never found out.
Until her grandfather's not too long ago. She'd been twelve then, and noticed the boy again. This time she felt different. Her heart leapt out of her chest when she saw him. His dark hair, pale complexion (Which she'd come to adore) and his soft, brown eyes.
After everyone had left the ceremony, her grandfather's casket remained. She walked up to him, and smiled sadly, before kissing his cheek and murmured "I know you can't hear me. But I love you."
"Oh, he can hear you," a voice stated. She nearly jumped out of her skin, and made a stifled scream. She turned to face the boy. His eyes were even more beautiful up close.
"W-what do you mean?" she'd asked protectively. Nothing went past her when it came to her family.
The boy smiled a bit. I made her feel very mixed up. "I mean, he'll be fine. Death isn't something to be afraid of. Trust me."
His devilish smile didn't make her less weary of him, but she did hear truth in his voice. Like he knew death.
"Are you gonna take care of him, or something?" she asked carefully. She didn't want him to disappoint her.
He shrugged, and rolled up his sleeves. She noticed that his black bow tie was undone, as if he were leaving right here and now. Finally he answered. "Sort of."
Cleo walked straight up to him, feeling fearless at the moment. She knew her adrenaline would run thin any minute, so she made it fast. "Then you better make sure you take very good care of him. Because if you don't, I will track you down and you will be sorry. Don't do anything that will hurt him." By the end her voice wavered a bit.
He didn't back down. "Got it, Cleo." He smiled.
She stared wide eyed. How did he know her name? She looked back up, but he was gone. She shook her head and blushed a bit. Her heart was racing, but in a good way. She turned back and joined her family.
"And you're sure he was Anubis?" Alyssa asked her when she was done.
The brunette nodded. "Absolutely. I was even more sure after I read the Kane's' books. Anubis was in every one."
Jaz frowned. Sadie still wasn't back, fortunately for them. "And you gave up that path of Hathor because of Sadie?"
Cleo dropped her head. "He loved her, it was plain to see. I couldn't do anything about it. I doubt he ever thinks of me anyways. I'm just somebody he used to know. Like, a ghost."
The other two looked at each other. Cleo sighed. "Look, maybe I wish I would've done something. But I'm not a diviner. I didn't know this was going to happen."
Around the time she finished, the portal opened again. The very same Kane stepped out, muttering under her breath. She was smiling none the less.
And of course, Cleo's heart dropped into her chest. She stared at the open book. She thought about Thoth, her new patron. Books were easier to obtain than looks, and honestly, Cleo wasn't about to change herself to get a god she wasn't even supposed to have.
Sure, Cleo liked love. But she hated heartbreak even more.
It was just too bad that's what she was left with.
Flame me now Sanubis shippers.
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As always,
~Donnatella-r
