Sorry I didn't post last night, but I was working so hard on Love Comes in a Striped Suit that it drained me. So here's the next chapter. It's Kiera's first lesson with Bella and she has to go to school and face her friends for the first time since she died. That can't be fun.

Anyway I hope you enjoy. As I've mentioned before I have been drawing portraits of these characters on Deviant Art. If you check them out, please leave me a comment to let me know if you like them or not. I always tend to think of my stories like movies and so when I thought about drawing each character I thought about an actor or actress who could fill that roll, so if they look like someone it's because I used someone to take inspiration from. Coming with random features without a model is way harder than it seems.

Anyway Enjoy and Review.

Loves,

Lace

"Remember Kier, you can't tell anyone that you're deader than a doornail." Gwen said as they walked to school.

"No kidding Gwen. I thought I'd spill the beans to everyone." She said and rolled her eyes. Gwen looked at her sister and huffed.

"You know what I mean Kier, it's serious and you know how mom went through that crazy time when we were little."

"I know, but I'm not Mom. I'll be fine." Kiera said and grimaced when she spotted Bobby walking towards them. She took a deep breath and held it as he looked at her in awe.

"Kiera, you're alive." Bobby said when he saw Kiera and Gwen walking down the street to their schools.

"No, I died, but I decided to come back and haunt you because I want revenge and I thought I might as well go to school too." Kiera said sarcastically and felt her sister elbow her in the ribs.

"Of course she is." Gwen hissed at him. "Where's your brother?" Bobby looked at Gwen and was a little confused on why she was so angry with him. He didn't do anything that night.

"He had a nightmare so bad after that he grabbed some stuff and left for California early." He said and Kiera just nodded.

"Serves him right, sorry Bobby but it does. No means no and I said I didn't want to into the water."

"Yeah well, that was pretty mean holding your breath for that long. You scared everyone." He shot back, but Kiera just nodded.

"Kiera, hey Kiera!" Tristan called from behind her. Kiera turned to see him running up and Bobby slinked away, not wanting to be blasted again by Gwen.

"Hey Tris." Kiera said.

"I'll see you this afternoon Kier, for our new lessons." Gwen said. She was actually looking forward to seeing her sister try to do magic for the first time. She knew enough to make her feel a little superior to her older sister and couldn't wait to show her.

"See ya Gwenny." Kiera said. Tristan waved to Gwen as she walked by before he turned to Kiera.

"Have a good weekend?" He asked as they started to walk to the high school.

"It was...eventful." She said. Tristan raised an eyebrow at that, but didn't really know what to say.

"What happened? I thought you would have called me yesterday since you're parents were going out of town." He said and he had hoped that she would have, maybe he would have finally gotten a chance to show her how he felt about her.

"Well Gwen set me up on a date." Kiera said.

"Oh?" Tristan tried to not let his anger come through, but he knew when Kiera looked at him that he was busted a little.

"What's the matter with you?" She asked.

"Nothing, was it fun?" He asked tightly and his heart nearly sang when she groaned.

"It was awful Tris, you should have been there, seriously. He found out that I drew and he wanted me to draw him, him. Then on top of that we went out to the lake and Gwen and Bobby jumped in, but I didn't want to and he pushed me in and kept dunking me. He..." Kiera had been on such a roll she almost told Tristan the truth and had to stop herself right in the middle of her sentence to gather her thoughts together.

"He what Kier?" He said through his teeth, beyond angry at the guy that Kiera went on a date with.

"He dunked me until I just held my breath and he thought I kicked the bucket." Kiera said and smiled.

"Really?" Tristan asked. He'd known Kiera all of her life and they'd gone swimming a thousand times up at the lake, but she could never hold her breath for longer than thirty seconds.

"Yeah, they were so scared that they took off running, the only bad part is that I scared Gwenny too." Kiera said and frowned.

"Well just as long as the creep never comes around again." Tristan said. He would have to figure out someway to get the guy away from Kiera.

"That's the funny part, Bobby said that he had a nightmare and now he's moved away." Kiera said and frowned a bit. She knew somewhere in the pit of her stomach that her father was involved in it, but she didn't know how.

"Oh, that's too bad." Tristan said and wanted to sing out loud.

"Needless to say I won't be dating for a while." Kiera said. Tristan stopped and looked at her and Kiera stopped to turn around.

"Something wrong Tris?"

"Why wouldn't you date anymore?" He asked. Kiera looked at her best friend and smiled. Cause she was dead was the first thing that rolled in her mind but she dismissed it.

"Why would I need to date when I've got you as my friend?" She said and gave him a hug. He shivered a little, she was really cold.

"Geez Kier, you have the AC blasted all the way up last night or what?" He asked. Kiera remembered all those years ago when her mother had died and she and her sister had noticed how cold she was all of the time. She couldn't hide that fact, but she could shrug it off. People had poor circulation right?

"I guess so." She said in a laugh.

"So what's this lesson that Gwenny was talking about?" He asked.

"Oh it's something that I've started with her and my Aunt Bella. It's about family history and stuff." Kiera said shrugging it off. "Interesting stuff actually. I'll be going Mondays after school with her."

"What about your ballet?"

"I can talk to my dance instructor and just take my lessons on a different day." Kiera said and shrugged. She was actually really looking forward to learning how to control her new powers just like her parents and aunt. It was going to be a lot of fun.

"What are you smiling at?" Tristan asked.

"Just looking forward to this afternoon." Kiera said and winked at him. Tristan smiled as they headed up the stairs to their first class.

"I think I'm gonna be sick." Kiera said and just knew that her face was green. Gwen couldn't help it, she started laughing as Kiera couldn't stop flipping in the air. At first she had almost stomped her foot when Kiera rose without any problems, but controlling yourself in the air was harder than it looked.

"Just relax Kier, you need to find a balance in yourself and you'll stop flipping."

"If..I...don't find...this blanace...soon...I'm gonna...throw up." Kiera said between her flips. She hadn't stopped in over five minutes now and her aunt just sighed, rising up into the air and caught Kiera by her arm before she flipped again. Kiera had no idea her aunt was so strong until she felt Bella grip her arm in a lock and kept her from going around again.

"Now gently start to think about heading down." She said. Kiera nodded and tried to think slowly, but sh was so anxious about getting back down to the solid earth that she fell nearly ten feet before her aunt caught her again. "I said gently." Bella urged. Kiera finished the rest of the way and sat down, her entire body weaving on the couch.

"I feel like my entire head is spinning." She muttered as she weaved.

"You look like it too." Gwen said and laughed.

"Shut up, you can't do much better."

"I've never flipped a hundred times before."

"Cause you can't get off the ground for more than a foot."

"Oh yeah?" Gwen said, with her sister here she wanted to prove that she could do everything that Kiera could. "Watch this." She said and concentrated on rising up in the air. For the first time she was able to rise without getting angry and she was in the middle of the air instead of just hovering.

"Excellent Gwen." Bella said. She knew that all it took was a little competition for Gwen to fully concentrate. That's all it had ever taken for her and B too.

"It's a good start, for both of you and we'll keep working on it. Kiera, you need to find your balance and Gwen," Bella said turning to look at her little niece in the air. "You need to control your emotions, but so far so good."