Chapter 25: (She's awake.)

Yes I'm quite aware that I haven't updated my story in many months and in my defense I've been extremely busy. I'm sorry to those that started reading my story and were left in a cliff hanger for almost a year, but trust me after this chapter the good stuff starts happening in the story.

Thanks to my buddy Robsten24 I'm updating again J

The bright sun shun the next morning. It's glistening angel-like rays embraced the maroon curtains that simply hanged on the large window of the living room. The sky had strangely cleared after the devious storm that had overpowered the air and her companion the sky. The sky was a turquoise blue with faded fluffy clouds that seemed to extend for an eternity. The moment was breath taking.

Xichel struggled with an overpowering fatigue and slowly raised her head from the hard floor on which she had laid on. She extended her arm to feel around her surroundings. There was something odd she realized the instant she came into; She was drenched like always, yet there was a strange material that rained over her body. She lifted her arm to touch the softness between her fingers, it was a blanket. She took her hair off her face and opened her eyes to get a better view.

As her eyes got adjusted, she saw she was inside a strange looking house and that she had been laying on a rug with a blanket that had kept her war that night. Sudden alarm controlled her body and her fatigue seemed to dissolve away. Her heart began to beat quickly as she began to panic as she looked around. The room was dark except the rays that peeked through the window. Xichel's head became invaded with thoughts of how she had gotten there and if it was a prison like the one she had been forced to live in the boat. The terror of being in a prison once more overpowered her feelings and in response she looked for an exit to escape. She franticly located for a door, found one and tried to open it but it was locked.

Her next idea was to escape from the window but it was strangely closed in a difficult way that she didn't know how to decipher it. She violently shook the handles and screamed in complete anger like a mad man. She began to pound on the wood of the window, and as she pounded the door suddenly opened, she awkwardly stopped. An eerie silence filled the room as she saw the four teenagers and the four teenagers got a glance at her. Xichel thought quickly and grabbed the nearest object, it was a frying pan. She menacingly pointed at the other girls with the object.

"Finally you're awake!" Antionetta sighed as she looked at Xichel. Xichel carefully examined all the girls while keeping her guard. She then began to yell in her native language at them.

"What did I tell you!" Lin laughed and smiled triumphantly ignoring Xichel's gibberish.

"You said nothing!" Antionetta responded.

"Guys." Kaira shushed them and looked at back at the Native who sustained her yells as soon as she heard Antionetta and Lin speaking English. "Hello, my name is Kaira can you understand me? Can you put the pan down? "

Xichel looked from her weapon and then back at Kaira. Kaira precariously came a little closer to the girl. Xichel backed away as she became closer.

"You know I want that back right?" Antionetta suddenly stated and pointed at the pan. "I kind of need it."

"Uh…where am I?" Xichel responded in broken English. Jack had taught her some English during their time together in the boat.

"You know English?" Lin piped from behind Kaira. Xichel glanced at all the girls.

"Yes."

"Great, we all speak English too." Kaira said. "We'll be able to understand each other and explain how u came to be here."

"How did I get here?" Xichel stiffly asked keeping her guard up.

"Oh that is a long story!" Antionetta shrugged and grabbed Lin from the shoulders to push her towards Xichel. Lin toppled over and stood inches away from her. "Lin-see this here's Lin- found you on the sea. During a storm. In the water."

"I found you outside on the sea, you were floating out during a storm." Lin repeated as she quickly retraced her steps back.

Xichel remembered how she battled the waves and how they crashed on her during that storm. She remembered Something flew at her and hit her on her head, after that she didn't wake up until that day.

"How did you get out there?" Rnama asked.

"By-by giant canoe ." She answered silently.

"Canoe?" Rnama questioned.

"She's referring to a ship" Kaira rolled her eyes. Suddenly the curious teenagers began flying questions at the new and foreign girl.

"Where are you from?"

"Why were you in the water?"

"Who are you?"

The teenage girls began to question the new girl so rapidly that from the chaotic sound of all their voices chatting at the same time, Xichel launched the pan at a wall to shut them up.

"Hey! I don't go throwing you at a wall do I?" Antionetta shouted at her and dared to get so close to her she felt her breath. Xichel kept her guard.

"Who are you?" Antionetta demanded.

"Who are you?" Xichel reverted her question.

"I am Antionetta Sforza, this is my house and those are my friends." She gaily responded and flashed a sparkling smile. Xichel cocked her eyebrow from the sudden change in the girl's tone. Antionetta took this moment of distraction and held Xichel by the shoulders to bring her over to the three other girls.

"This is Lin and that's Kaira and that girl over in the corner with the smug expression on her face is Rnama." Antionetta introduced. Xichel felt a strange hospitality fill the room. She gained a little more trust in these foreign people. "Now that you know who we are, can u answer my question?"

"I am Xichel, Mexica princess." She responded.

"Princess?" Rnama was dumbfounded.

"Hey Rnama, look at Xichel." Lin whispered.

"Why?" Rnama responded.

"Because that's what a real princess looks like." Lin smiled.

"Mexica? What's that? Where is that?" Kaira asked.

"I traveled the water, a deep water. My ship was destroyed and I was shipwrecked for many suns and moons. " Xichel explained and then pointed to the direction she had arrived from. "My palace is past that water. "

"Past the water?" Rnama wore a quizzical expression on her face.

"She's foreign, she's from the new world. " Lin suddenly gasped.

"The New World? Where's that?" Rnama asked.

"Oh! The New World! Sinore Christopher Columbus traveled there. I heard its almost at the edge of the world and that there are savages there who eat people alive! " Antionetta shared. Xichel rolled her eyes.

" My people are not savage, my people are great warriors and farmers. " Xichel defended.

"Xichel is it, you're from the new world. I'm from the East, Antionetta is from Italy, Rnama from India and Kaira from the south." Lin introduced.

"That's a little weird don't you think." Rnama suddenly said.

"What's a little weird?" Antionetta asked.

"Is it that we all met here? " Lin read Rnama's mind. All teenagers kept quiet and looked at each other.

"It is a little of a coincidence " Kaira shrugged. Antionetta rubbed her head in sudden despair.

"I just hope you're not running away from the law or something Xichel because I'm already hiding Lin." Antionetta sighed. "If you're not your welcome to stay and live with us."

"I'm not running away from anything." Xichel assured.

"I trust your word, welcome to London by the way!"