Chapter 10

Carson grabbed my hand leading me down a few steps (which I tripped over three of.)

"Wow, Ms. Sarcasm is actually clumsy." I slapped the side of his shoulder, but ended up laughing along with him.

We walked for a few minutes before Carson led me down another set of stairs. Then we stopped.

"Carson, can I open my eyes now?" I asked him, slightly eager.

"Not quite yet." Carson said. "Now we are going down, and it will feel a little shaky under you."

I didn't like the sound of this, but I trusted Carson. I held on firmly to his hand before proceeding.

"Now there's going to be a slight drop here," Carson warned me. I stepped down (much farther than comfort) and hit a wooden surface below me. I felt like I was going to fall over because the ground beneath me was so unsteady.

"A boat." I said out loud without meaning to.

"Kind of, you can take off you're blind fold now, Ella." Carson said. I felt hands reach behind my head and take off the blindfold.

The sight nearly brought me to tears.

As I had originally suspected I was on water. But instead of being on a boat, as I thought, I was on a little wooden canoe. It was dark and the water was light by overhead lights.

You couldn't see the rest of the casino's and the water was utterly calm.

I pulled Carson into a hug and I heard him chuckle. "So I take it you like it?" He said and I laughed. I noticed there was another man rowing out boat; I needed to use that as a reminder that we weren't alone.

"Carson this is so beautiful." I said trying not to cry on his shirt.

"It's not nearly as beautiful as you." Carson said, and I laughed at how corny that sounded.

"Thank you." I said, smiling like a fool.

Most people wouldn't have guessed that I was a sucker for corny moments, but Carson had figured it out.

"Ella," he whispered in my ear. "From the moment I saw you, I knew you were the one. I knew you were my soul mate." I looked over at the man rowing our boat to realize that he probably wasn't older than us.

Carson followed my gaze, and smiled. "That's Nilsson, he's a friend, don't mind him." Carson said.

"Ella, you know I'm a witch." I nodded. "But there are more than witches out there. There are vampires, werewolves, shape shifters and so much more." I stopped at this point, my mind filling with questions. But I knew Carson still had more to say. "We are all part of an organization. We call it Night World. We are a community of people, kind of like a church. We have clubs and places to hang out." He rolled up the side of his shirt and I was about to ask what he was doing but he started talking. "We know each other by these, symbols. Black flowers, like the symbol on my jeans." He pointed to black rose graphic, barley tipped with white.

"I got you this, so they know who you are." He pulled out a black bag with roses covering it, only they were white.

"Why are mine white?" I asked him.

"It represents Circle Daybreak. It used to be a witch circle, but it's for humans and vampires and all the other creatures too." He explained.

"So humans are allowed to know about it."

"That's actually one of the main rules of the Night World, never tell a human about us. But Circle Daybreak is trying to change that. They want humans and the people of Night World to live in peace and harmony."

"Why aren't they living in peace now?" I asked.

"Do you know what the Salem Witch Trials are?" He asked said sadly. I remembered hearing of them vaguely.

"Weren't they a group of crazies that thought there were witches…?" I stopped and blushed.

"It's ok. They were wrong; they never actually killed very many witches, mostly just ordinary people. But it got the people scared; scared enough to hide our existence form them. We have been in hiding ever since."

"Are there any other rules?" I asked him

"There are actually only two real rules. You heard the first one already and I've already broken the other." He said. I waited for him to elaborate.

"Never fall in love with a human." He said. Then he brought my head up to me so I was staring into his eyes. "I love you, Ella." I wanted to say something back but I couldn't form the words.

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