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Chapter Nine: Chloe on Sugar

Chloe's POV:

I felt someone's lips on mine and I instantly knew it was Derek, we broke the kiss much to my despair.

"Morning love," he said with a smile. "Time for breakfast, it's almost 9:30 a.m."

Then he picks me up bridal style and told me what's for breakfast. "For breakfast we are having double chocolate chips pancakes which has made everyone even more happy with all the excitement that had happened yesterday."

He was right yesterday had been a happening day for couples; Simon and Celia had hooked up, so had Rae and Jason. Derek and I had come to an understanding as mates and Logan had proposed to Bella so now they were fiancés. He carried me into the dining room then set me in front a plate piled full of brown pancakes, some people would say that racist but they really were brown!

They were double chocolate I knew what sugar did to me but I didn't care, I doused the pancakes with sweetened syrup, icing sugar, bananas, strawberries, and extra chocolate chips! I dug in, practically inhaling them but with each mouthful I savoured every taste, they were delicious! I knew people were staring at me, various faces of disgust, amusement, wonder, and even curiosity.

"Um okay while Chloe continues to uh, eat," Iris started speaking and so I paused eating wanting to respect her. "How about around 11:00 a.m. we all go swimming?"

People were cheerful at that thought and it was another gorgeous day so we could open the retractable roof therefore I can try to get a tan. Ha! Like that's going to happen, I'm as white as a vamp, even Helios has more colour than me!

When everyone had agreed and broken off into smaller conversations, I resumed being a pig and being on a sugar rush! After breakfast I zoomed out of the room already revealing in the rush of artificial sugar, Derek was trailing after me trying to keep up with me which was a shock since the situation is usually reversed. Simon was just out of the way from my path of destruction, he too was gawking at me with wide eyes.

"Whoa, Chloe and the Chocolate Factory," he shook his head then ventured up to Celia's room, I followed him into her bedroom then jump into her abundance of pillows.

"It's Cece and the Pillow Factory!" I scream then burst into a fit of giggles; Celia glared at me then started to stand but Derek came to my defence.

"Celia don't do anything to her, she's not thinking straight," Derek held his hands in front of him, that's when I got mad, I wasn't drunk so why was he saying that like I was?

I stomped out of her over pillowed room then into my just a few doors down; after slamming the door behind me I flop onto my bed fuming at my boyfriend for saying that crap. I hear a knock at my door and throw my alarm clock at it, smashing the alarm clock but only denting the door. It opens anyway to expose Derek looking gloomy then he sees the shattered clock and smiles.

"What did the clock ever do to you?" his cocky grin wasn't amusing right now, I turn and pick the hidden bat from underneath my bed which I keep there just in case I raise a few dead people and find them crawling all over me in the middle of the night.

I lift the bat at him then he backs away from me. "Chloe don't do something you might regret later, I didn't mean it, I swear!"

I don't believe him one bit so I start chasing after him with the bat, we run downstairs and pass through the living room

I could hear Logan cheering along with Bella. "Woo! Go Chloe!"

I kept on hunting Derek until a strong pair of arms wrapped themselves around me and held me to the chest they were adjoined to. Derek was panting and I squirmed, kicked, and punched my captor with no avail actually I hurt myself more than him.

"Now Chloe don't do anything rash," I looked up into Noah's smiling black eyes and then I calmed down. "See not everything has to be resolved with violence."

"You sound like a monk!" I giggled and they father and son chuckled along with me.

"Thanks dad," Derek said to his father. "I owe you one."

"You called me dad," Noah was wide eyed and I swear to god there were some tears in there too.

Derek shrugged nonchalantly. "Well yeah because that's what you are but I can't call you that around my other dad cause then he'd get confused too. I've already started calling Iris mom so why not do it with you too since you guys are my biological parents."

"Derek it's ok if you want to call Noah dad as well," Kit walked into the room with a small but kind of sad smile on his face. "Like you said he is your actual dad and besides I have a lot of family now too."

I needed to get out of here and let the two fathers have a talk with Derek. "Uh Noah, can I be let down now?"

He mumbled a sorry then set me on my feet, I gave Derek a quick peck and told him to come and find me once he was done, I ran upstairs to Tori's room. I found her writing on her window sill.

"Hey what you writing?" I ask her and I come to sit beside her.

"It's a new song I've been working on," she looked at me. "Chloe, haven't you notice how everyone expect for me has a partner to share their love with?"

"Yeah I actually have but you're not alone you know," I added. "Dante, my aunt, Jacinda and Circe don't have people to love," I stated a bit matter-of-factly.

"You're right but they still seem happy," Tori looked really depressed right now and I could sense she wasn't telling me everything.

"Hey is there something else you want to tell me?" I continued in a bit of a rush. "But you don't if you don't want to, if you want to keep it to yourself that's fine with me. I'm just tying to-"

"Chloe," she cut me off with a tiny smirk on her face. "It's okay and I've wanted to tell someone for a while now but I just haven't found the guts to tell anyone else."

I let out a breath of air which I had been holding in, in anticipation for an outburst from her. "Okay but I'm serious Tori if you don't want to tell me certain parts of your story that's all right with me."

"Thanks but I want you to know because I know that you can keep a secret and I don't want anyone else to know about this right now," I nodded then she launched into her story about a guy that she had met when she was thirteen.

"His name was Bryce and he was a two years older than me so he would be about eighteen right now, he and I hit it off immediately but I didn't think it would amount to anything because of the age difference."

Tori's POV:

I told Chloe about Bryce and my relationship, I had only been in middle school when I met him and he was already a sophomore. Of course if any girl is asked out by an older guy it just screams that he's using you but Bryce was different, he actually loved me.

"We dated until about half way through my freshman year and then things just worsened," I looked at her and she had wide eyes that had started to fill with anger. "He had gotten his licence at the beginning of the year and was taking me out for pizza and a movie. We were jamming to a song in his car when the light turned green so he started to drive forward then..."

I trailed off not wanting to remember the next part of my tragedy; I could feel the hot, stinging tears in my closed eyes. I also felt Chloe's arms wrap around my shoulders, comforting me and I knew that she wouldn't make me go on if I didn't want to but I needed to tell her.

"A-a c-car cam-e at us from the left and sm-smashed into Bryce's side of the car," the tears were rolling down my face like a waterfall now and I was sobbing. "I was flung into the window suffering a concussion, a broken arm, burn to my face, and a bruised chest from the seatbelt but that was nothing compared to the state Bryce was in."

"We both had been wearing our seat belts but those had been proven fruitless to help Bryce, he was in critical condition, extremely critical condition. I got to see him after two days of being in the hospital, Chloe it was horrible, he was hooked up to all the tubes and wires. One was stuffed down his throat to keep him breathing; he too had face burns and various small wounds with a large one on his head."

"Life's a bitch to me, the only time I've ever fallen in love and he's taken away from me," I spat livid now that Bryce was gone because of a silly little car crash, he shouldn't have died, he had so much ahead of him. "He died a few days later due to complications and his weakened body succumbing to the injuries. Chloe I miss him so much and his being dead is partly why I'm such a bitch."

"Oh Tori!" Chloe hugged me long and hard while I ruined her shirt crying into it. "I'm so sorry, I didn't know that about you and it's just – aw!"

I let out a wet laugh at her stumbling for words, she understood why I didn't want her telling anyone about this and we both reached a new view of one another which brought us closer as friends and even sisters.

"Ugh look at me," I went over to the mirror on my small vanity. "I look like a drenched racoon!"

We giggled, and then looked at the time; shit it's almost 11:00 a.m. we hurry to put on our swim suits, I really liked Chloe's purple bikini but mine could top hers any day. My simple black retro bikini was from American Eagle and I had bought it when I had been with Simon, he had started to squabble with me about it being too skanky, I won in the end.

"Tori I love your swim suit!" Chloe came back into my room since she had gone to hers to get changed.

"Thanks I adore yours too," I replied.

Chloe was taller than before and had filled out in the breast area; I had started to notice the significant changes in Chloe a few weeks ago when we were still in New York, at first it was only a slight alter in personality and attitude. But since we had come to Washington those changes had speed up greatly before it was only small mental changes but they had become more physical over time. It was starting to scare me actually and I don't think Chloe was as aware of the changes happening to her as I was.

I shook the thought off this wasn't a time to worry about Chloe; it was a time for fun. "Ready to go?" I asked her she nodded and we headed out.

Chloe's POV:

We ventured out to the pool wearing our sundresses that covered our bathing suits; I was glad that Tori trusted me enough to talk about such personal issues with me. When we reached the pool house we could already see people swimming including Derek, once he saw me he jumped out of the pool and I had to look away from his dreamlike chest and abs. I was beet red when he finally came over and kissed my cheek.

"Hello Chloe," he said with a sexy grin on his face, he knew that he was hot and he was flaunting it.

"Hi and honey two can play at this game," I give him a triumphant smile then proceed to slip the sundress off my body revealing the bikini underneath. I walked over to the pool then jumping in; cool water cascaded around me and I started swimming toward the edge of the pool. I broke to the surface scaring Derek and Tori, I laughed at them.

We swam for about 4 hours enjoying the beautiful day and just goofing around we all had a great time. After drying ourselves off and just lazed around all of us water logged, nobody wanted to make dinner so we ordered Greek food. It was actually really yummy, I who have never really tasted Greek food.

Once dinner was done and all the dishes clean we had a movie marathon down in the home theatre, watching the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Circe didn't like some of the characters but found Jack Sparrow hilarious which all of us found her hilarious.

"Mommy I wanna go see the next movie!" I stared at Circe, which was the first time I heard her speak good English instead of baby talk.

"Maybe sweet heart if your woman enough," Helios challenges his daughter then she rolled up her sleeves and showed her fists to Helios, he backed down immediately. We could only double over with laughter.

After that it was about ten o'clock at night but none of us were really tired aside from Circe who was currently being put to bed. I ventured into the recording studio, picked up one of the guitars and started playing around with some chords, a song trying to form within my head.

"Hey," a voice said and I jumped that was followed by a tinkling laughter; I looked up from the guitar and saw Celia leaning on the door frame. "What you working on?"

"A song or at least a forming song, I'm still trying to organize my thoughts," I replied she walked over and looked at what I had. "I know it's cheesy but it just started forming in my head and I had to write it down."

"Ah I see how about I help?" she asked and I nodded. "I usually try to keep it hidden as well but I can sing too, my mom and aunt can both sing very well and pass it down to their children even Chase is pretty good."

"Really?" I question Bella had a wonderful voice and I was wondering if Derek had one like it as well.

"Yeah I bet you even Derek can sing but just won't admit to it or thinks he's not good enough," she shrugged and then heard her name being called. "That has to be Simon; I'm sorry how about we work on some songs tomorrow?"

"Sure I'd like that," she says bye as she takes off to find her boyfriend; I stayed in the studio a little longer playing some piano.

I've never really have told anyone but playing music was the only thing that really helped me after my mother's death, the music was my medicine. I sighed flipping off the lights in the studio and I walked upstairs finding that most of the people had gone to bed I waved to Simon, Celia, Rae, Jason, and Tori who were watching TV. I continued upstairs and to the library but not before changing into my pyjamas, I don't know why I was drawn to the library but I was.

I sensed something here. A ghost. "Who's there?"

A giggle sounded to my left and I twirled to see a small girl sitting in the corner. I approach her slowly, not wanting to scare her before I had the chance to speak with her. She stands and walks over to the couch waving me over to sit with her, I comply; she had strawberry blonde hair and wide sapphire eyes.

"Who are you?" I ask the mystery girl, she looks up at me with a toothy smile.

"I am you," she says. What, how can she be me? Sensing my confusion she adds. "I am the younger version of you."

"WHAT!" I yelled but she waves her hands up and down telling me to keep it down. "Why are you here? How can you be here?"

"Because that's how the Otherworld works, meaning the land of the dead," she starts. "I'm here to warn you about the impending dangers ahead, a lot of ghosts don't like you and others want you and your power."

"Why it's not like I wanted this power!" I was starting to get angry, I didn't want to be a necromancer I'd rather have any other power than a necromancer.

Younger me shushes me, does it make sense that I find that weird? "The ghosts that don't like you want you dead, just like they want any other necromancer dead. Ghosts want necromancer to feel what's it's like to be a dead even though, one day the said necromancer will be too."

She shrugs; it amazes me how she knows so much about the 'Otherworld' as she puts it and about things that want to kill me. Wow that's a comforting thought.

"But that's not why I'm here, they're mere ghosts that can't touch you, there's something else lurking in the shadows of the Otherworld waiting for you to be weak and vulnerable so it can strike. It's using the ghosts that either want you dead or just want you, to build power, the Darkness has the power to touch and harm you. You must surround yourself with the ones that care about you so you'll be protected and you have to search for the other person the Darkness is after," she told me and from the seriousness in her eyes I believed her and trusted her.

Why shouldn't I? She was the younger version of me yet with a vast knowledge of the ghost world and the Darkness that is after me and another person. "Who is this person? Do I know her or him?"

"I can't tell you who she is but you have met her before, many years ago," she answered and I knew it was one of those ghost rule things, Liz had told me before about how she wasn't allowed to tell me a lot about the Otherworld. "Chloe, don't let yourself succumb to the Darkness no matter what, you have to be strong."

But you can't stop this monster by yourself; you and the other girl will have to work together to get rid of the Darkness once and for all," and with that she disappeared. Damn it! Why did she have to do that and leave me with such little information about finding this person?

Ugh I'll think about it tomorrow when I'm not so tired, with that I head toward my room where my bed was waiting for me to hop in so it could embrace me with warm hugs. But before I could welcome my soothing bed I detour to Derek's room where he was already sleeping, I give him a good night kiss on his forehead and then trudge to my room.

I fall into dreamless sleep for the second night in a row.

A/N:

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