Yet again.. Not mine. Well, maybe a few of the charries are mine, but not the ones from the BJT stories!
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Love'n'Hugs
Chapter 8- The Big Day
Allearian and Tearin, along with their parents and friends, walked up to the doors that led to the room where the Birthright Ceremony was to take place. Alley stopped at the door and looked at it nervously. Daemonar walked up to her and gave her a rea.ssuring hug.
"Hey, don't worry about it. Everything will be fine, Alley." He said.
Alley hugged him back. "I know it will be, but that doesn't make me feel any better about it." Daemonar pulled away from the hug and smiled at her. She smiled back and went over to the door where she took Tearin's hand.
"We'll be in the sitting room when you two get out. Don't fret about anything kids, you'll be just fine." Karla said as they opened the door and walked in.
The room was completely dark except for a lighted area around a pedestal and a medium size area around it. Alley leaned over and whispered to Tearin.
"It smells like Jasmine in here." She said with a smile.
"Not to me. It smells like Cinnamon." He whispered back.
Alley leaned and whispered to her father. "Papa, what does it smell like in here to you? To me it smells like Jasmine and to Tearin it smells like Cinnamon."
"To me it smells like your mother's perfume." He said, smiling. "You have your favourite smell to make feel more relaxed." He told her.
Tearin leaned over to Jaenelle and whispered. "Mama, what do you smell?"
Jaenelle leaned down and said with a smile, "Your father's cologne." Then she stood up again. "Come on you two, Papa has to stay here now and you two come with me."
They each hugged Daemon and then took Jaenelle's hand and walked into the circle up to the pedestal.
A few hours later they walked into the sitting room, Tearin with a huge smile on his face and Alley with a semi-confussed look on her face. Daemon and Jaenelle both looked slightly worried over at Alley.
"So? How did it go?" Lilian asked, not being able to wait any longer.
Tearin
held out an uncut Red Jewel. "I'm a Red, like Papa."
Everyone
congratulated him and then turned to Alley.
"Alley, what's the matter heartling? Why do you look so sad?" Saetan asked her, rather concerned that she wasn't ecstatic about her day.
"I didn't get one." She said quietly. She hadn't said anything about it to her parents and while Daemon looked at his daughter, Jaenelle looked heartbroken for her.
Daemon hugged her. "It's okay sweetheart. That doesn't mean anything at all."
Alley pulled away and looked at everyone. "No, you don't understand. I didn't get One..." She brought in a black velvet back and turned it upside down and out came three uncut Jewels. A Red, Grey and Ebon-Grey. "I kinda got three." she said quietly. Everyone stared at her with shock.
Jaenelle kneeled down in front of her daughter. "Oh Alley, why are you upset about that? Why would you be upset that you got three?"
"Because Tearin only got one. And everyone else only gets one. What does that make me?" She asked.
"Very lucky?" Tearin offered, walking up to his sister.
"It makes me a freak. That's what it does." She said, nearly in tears. Jaenelle embraced her daughter in a hug.
"It does not make you a freak. When I had my Birthright Ceremony, I received every Jewel, uncut, and 13 Black Jewels. Does that make me a freak as well?"
Alley looked at her mother. "No. You're Witch. You are suppose to have all those. I'm not. I'm just Alley."
"You are my daughter, and that gives you the right to hold all those Jewels. You are also the daughter of you father, which makes you that much more special and that much more entitled to hold all three Jewels."
Tearin wrapped his arms around Alley. "Don't worry Alley. I'm not upset that you got three and I only got one. I'm happy."
"You suck at lying Tearin. I can read you like a book."
Tearin blushed. "Okay, maybe I Am a little jealous, but I'd rather be jealous of you then anyone else. You're my sister, I'm suppose to be jealous of you, and over-protective." Everyone laughed at that little bout of truth.
